{"id":316588,"date":"2026-05-15T03:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316588\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T03:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:27:11","slug":"motorized-watercraft-restricted-on-part-of-kings-river-amid-dangerous-flows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316588\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorized watercraft restricted on part of Kings River amid dangerous flows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Tulare County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said on Thursday that a portion of the Kings River, north of Kern County, will be closed to motorized watercraft until further notice due to dangerous water levels and flow.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said an assessment of the river showed numerous hazards, including sand bars, tree trunks, logs, and wood debris just below the surface of the water in several areas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: Tulare County Sheriff's Office\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b8373485-c691-4942-8f29-91a7aa79546d-K4.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Tulare County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>These hazards are unseen in the water, which create danger for any motorized watercraft such as boats or jet skis.<\/p>\n<p>The river remains open to swimming or floating despite the temporary restriction on motorized watercraft.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: Tulare County Sheriff's Office\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/81a93e70-72e1-4e8c-97ab-4697baaa48ed-K3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Tulare County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Officials advise the use of a personal flotation device when in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>TCSO Marine Enforcement Unit will be enforcing the motorized watercraft restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Tulare County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said on Thursday that a portion of the Kings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-316588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}