Mendocino County BOS looks to regulate private extraction, sale of groundwater
After a long back-and-forth on Tuesday afternoon, all but one Mendocino County supervisor approved a draft of a water hauling ordinance created by concerned community members. The ordinance draft will move on to the planning commission for review, despite lingering questions around how to fund it. Board Chair Ted Williams voted against the ordinance because of those concerns. The ordinance’s purpose is to protect the county’s groundwater resources by regulating the sale and transport of groundwater from private wells.