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Board delays decision on new groundwater monitoring fees after members raise equity concerns
Summary
The Monterey County Board of Supervisors continued discussion on a proposed county groundwater monitoring program and fee schedule on July 8 after members raised equity concerns about billing smaller domestic well owners the same way as large users.
Monterey County supervisors on July 8 continued consideration of a proposed county-wide groundwater monitoring program (GMP) regulatory fee structure after several board members raised questions about equity and how small domestic (de minimis) well owners would be assessed.
Staff described the program as an expansion of decades of county groundwater-monitoring work. The proposed fees would be billed by subbasin and by well, and include a one-time well registration fee for wells not currently documented in county/state databases, an annual well-registration maintenance fee, an annual extraction-reporting fee for wells extracting more than the state's de minimis threshold (about 2 acre-feet per year), groundwater-level…
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