Well Registration & Inventory Program
Well Registration, in it’s most basic form, is the process of collecting well information for groundwater management analysis purposes. The Mid-Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency (MKGSA) would like to have this information to know where and what groundwater aquifer water is being pulled from. It’s important for the MKGSA, who is tasked with groundwater management to work with the most accurate and current data. Without the correct data, the MKGSA will be forced to make educated guesses and remain more conservative with our groundwater management decisions. The data collected on wells allows the Kaweah technical teams and Advisory Committee to better understand the groundwater system below our feet. This allows MKGSA to tailor projects and management actions to best manage groundwater in a way that avoids undesirable results and State intervention.
All information and data gathered for the Well Registration Process is intended for Kaweah use only and will not be available to the public at large.
Attention Farmers, Ranchers, Dairymen and Industrial Partners! On May 12, 2025, the Mid-Kaweah GSA Board passed the Mandatory Well Registration Policy. This policy requires all groundwater extraction wells within MKGSA to be registered by October 31, 2026.
| Well Type | Registration Required | Good Standing Applies |
| Agricultual Wells | Yes | Yes |
| Industrial Wells | Yes | Yes |
| Domestic Well (<2 AF/Year) | Yes | No |
| Destroyed/ Decommissioned Wells | No | No |
After October 31, 2026, any well that has not completed registration will be out of compliance with this Well Registration Policy and the Emergency Ordinance to Establish Extraction Limitations (Emergency Ordinance). Any parcel or operator that fails to comply with the Well Registration Policy shall be subject to the following restrictions:
- Ineligibility for Tiered Water
- Loss of Program Access
- Other Allocation Resctrictions
- Fees and Liens
Please read the official policy document for more details.
Fast Track Process
This Fast Track Process minimizes landowner time burden and improves data accuracy since the documents requested from Tulare County, Well Drillers or Consultants are official documents (ex. Well Completion Reports, Well Drillers Log).
If you would like to utilize this service, please give us a call! (559) 686-3425
For assistance with registering wells, please contact Mid-Kaweah GSA staff to schedule an appointment! Please call or email to schedule a time!
→ Phone: (559) 686-3425
→ Email: midkaweah@gmail.com
- Each well entry takes about 5 – 15 minutes depending on how much information is known of the well
- If you have more than 10 wells, we recommend you make an appointment so we can proceed with a fast track registration process.
- It is recommended to read the Kaweah Subbasin Well Registration App User Guide.
If you don’t have your Well Completion Report, you can try to find it at these sites:
Well Registration Office Hours
Frequently Asked Questions
A: Yes, we appreciate any wells even if it is inactive, abandoned or without hook ups.
Q: What if I don’t know my exact well depth or well screen depths?
A: We would appreciate your best estimate or if you could mark No or Unknown.
Q: Is there a fee to register?
A: No, the Well Registration application is free.
Q: Will my information be public?
A: Individual well owner data is kept confidential and will only be used only groundwater management planning.
Q: What do I do if I submitted something wrong?
A: Contact the Mid-Kaweah GSA staff, and we will correct the mistakes made.
Well Inventory
The Mid-Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency (MKGSA) submitted the 2024 Second Amended Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) in November 2024. Subsequently, the SWRCB canceled the Kaweah Subbasin Probationary Hearing. The MKGSA GSP described the Well Inventory Program as a program to collect more accurate data on the number and use type of wells in the MKGSA. Currently, MKGSA uses the best available data from the Department of Water Resources (DWR) who sources their information from County records. DWR has a database with all wells drilled in the State of California, but the data has not been regularly updated. The database doesn’t take into account wells have gone dry, been destroyed, been converted to different uses, and paved over. The Kaweah GSAs agreed to use the DWR data for the development of the 2024 Second Amended GSPs, but vowed to collect more accurate data for future analysis.
For analysis purposes, we will manually collect data in the field followed by a Well Registration process in the future. MKGSA in partnership with the Tulare Irrigation District (TID) will be conducting in-the-field groundwater well surveys in the coming weeks. The Well Inventory Program will be cataloging visible wells to improve our understanding of local groundwater wells.
Our goal is to ensure we are using the best available data to manage groundwater.