After several rounds of musical chairs in front of a standing-room only audience, a groundwater agency that had been blamed for putting Kings County into probationary status with the state was reconstituted and launched anew Monday night. “Tonight’s the night we come together,” said Kings County Supervisor Doug Verboon, who, along with his fellow supervisors and the vice mayor of Hanford make up the new six-member board of the Mid-Kings River Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA). … Without a new plan to consider, the Water Board placed the region on probation, which means water managers have a year to write a new plan. Meanwhile, growers were supposed to meter and register wells at $300 each and pay $20-per-acre-foot pumped. Those requirements have been delayed pending the outcome of a lawsuit against the state by the Kings County Farm Bureau. 

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