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Yolo supervisors add replacement‑well exemption to temporary moratorium on new agricultural wells
Summary
The board amended an urgency moratorium to allow streamlined permits for certain ‘like‑for‑like’ replacement agricultural wells while maintaining a pause on new wells; staff and the Yolo Subbasin Groundwater Agency will monitor pumping capacity and convene a monthly working group.
The Yolo County Board of Supervisors voted Nov. 4 to amend an existing temporary moratorium on new agricultural well permits by adding a replacement‑well exemption intended to let property owners replace failing wells without going through the more extensive hardship process.
County environmental health director April Meneghetti told the board the exemption is aimed at allowing a “more streamlined permitting process” for wells that meet specific criteria: the replacement must serve the same farmed area, have the same or smaller casing diameter and similar or lower pumping capacity, and the old well must be destroyed or abandoned under permit. “The goal is to maintain status quo…
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