Opinion: Madera County groundwater situation is shown to be dire
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) made the County of Madera responsible for groundwater management for the more than 200,000 acres that are not part of an irrigation or water district (the “white areas”) in Madera County. Like many regions in the Central Valley, Madera County is heavily groundwater dependent. … [T]he Madera County Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) has been implementing a range of aggressive management actions to reduce water use, implement projects to increase supply, and take additional measures to track groundwater use …
-Written by Rob Poythress, chair of the Madera County Board of Supervisors. Supervisors Leticia Gonzalez, David Rogers, Brett Frazier and Tom Wheeler contributed to this story.