Farmers within portions of the Tule and Tulare Lake subbasins will have one month to register their wells or be charged a $150 monthly penalty. The Tri-County Water Authority Board of Directors unanimously approved imposing a monthly penalty to those with unregistered wells during its Jan. 23 meeting. The fee will affect non-domestic well owners beginning March 1. It will be assigned per landowner, not per well. … Tri-County has lands in both the Tule and Tulare Lake subbasins, covering the southern portions of Kings and Tulare counties. Both subbasins were placed on probation by the state Water Resources Control Board under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, SGMA, which aims to have local entities bring overpumped aquifers into balance by 2040.

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