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operated a stream gage on Poso Creek from 1959 to 1985, recording an average annual flow of 39 cubic feet per second (1.1 m/s). The greatest flow was 6,700 cubic feet per second (190 m/s) on
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As a primarily rain fed stream, Poso Creek flows only seasonally (November to May) in its upper reaches, while the lower part is an
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a few miles downstream. Most of the lower creek flows through artificial channels beginning north of Wasco. Its mouth is on the
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Below the oil fields the creek emerges to the intensively farmed
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980:Rivers of Southern California
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960:Central Valley Project
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618:South Fork Kings River
613:North Fork Kings River
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878:South Fork Kern River
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653:Rodgers Crossing Dam
389:Luxilis occidentalis
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914:White River
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707:Horse Creek
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347:and by the
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234:119°37′34″W
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210:Tulare Lake
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149:118°39′12″W
129:Kern County
89:Kern County
25:Posey Creek
945:Kern River
929:Categories
909:Mill Creek
873:Rock Creek
868:Poso Creek
853:Lake Evans
790:Kern River
742:Tule River
655:(proposed)
495:2014-10-01
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395:References
374:wash. The
353:Kern River
337:Highway 99
318:Glennville
287:Poso Creek
277:Basin size
231:35°43′05″N
206:Kern River
146:35°48′14″N
79:California
22:Poso Creek
858:Lake Webb
848:Kern Lake
372:ephemeral
333:McFarland
208:south of
504:cite web
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60:Location
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314:Posey
194:mouth
189:Mouth
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