The North Kings Groundwater Sustainability Agency in Fresno County is making a final push to register about 1,000 remaining wells within its boundaries by the end of January.

The GSA’s board recently voted to extend the well registration deadline to Friday, Jan. 30, giving well owners more time to avoid paying a $100-per-well late fee. Late fees go into effect starting Feb. 1.

North Kings’ board first passed a mandatory registration policy in April 2025, requiring that about 7,000 wells, whether agricultural, domestic, industrial, school district or providing water for public water systems, be registered with the GSA.

6,000 Well Registered Thus Far

Since then, landowners have registered about 6,000 wells, including more than 3,000 domestic wells and 2,100 agricultural wells. An accurate well registry will help GSA managers fill in “data gaps” as they begin implementing actions in the area’s groundwater management plan, which was approved by the Department of Water Resources in 2023.

“If you rely on a well for your water supply, you also rely on the long-term availability of that water supply,” North Kings GSA executive officer Kassy Chauhan said in a video message to landowners.

“For years the greater Fresno area has extracted and used more groundwater than we are able to replenish. These tools and programs are designed to help address that overdraft so that we have that shared water source available long into the future and we can meet our sustainability goals.”

North Kings GSA is one of seven GSAs in the Kings subbasin, which stretches across Fresno County, bordered by the San Joaquin River on the north to the Tulare County line on the south.

More information is at northkingsgsa.org/wellregistration/ or by calling (559) 693-5119.

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