Program Eligibility
Here is a summary of eligibility requirements needed to participate:
Must be a landowner with a domestic well located within the MCGSA boundaries.
Property must have a domestic well that went dry after 1/1/2026 or is on the Self-Help Enterprises interim water assistance list (with a dry domestic well due to declining groundwater levels that occurred after the 1/1/2020 cutoff).
Property owner must have owned property for a minimum of one year.
Dwelling unit must be considered “habitable.”
Madera County GSA Locator
Address
Parcel / APN
Program Process
Complete and sign application and submit a $100 application and assessment fee. If the well qualifies for mitigation, the application and assessment fee will be reimbursed as an eligible mitigation cost. Checks can be made out and mailed to:
Madera County GSAs
200 West Fourth Street
Madera, CA 93637.
MCGSA or its agent will conduct a well assessment. Well assessments will be scheduled for the second or fourth Wednesday of every month.
If approved, landowner will solicit three (3) bids – at least two (2) bids must be from the MCGSA pre-approved well driller list. MCGSA will approve one of the bids and authorize work to begin.
MCGSA will advance the landowner up to $35,000 in eligible mitigation costs on a schedule set by MCGSA. At completion, the landowner must provide sufficient documentations to support the amount advanced and landowner must return any advanced funds to MCGSA that were not used (as specified in landowner agreement).
Record of mitigation is filed on the deed.
