title: Kern River Slough
text: # Kern River Slough
  
  Kern River Slough was the distributary of the Kern River running south from the vicinity of Bakersfield to Kern Lake near Arvin, in Kern County, California.
  
  This former body of water of the Tulare Lake Basin in the San Joaquin Valley, is now dry from agricultural diversion of its waters.
  
  