Stanislaus County supervisors adopted a well mitigation and management plan Tuesday for the groundwater underlying most of the northern part of the county.
County government has jurisdiction over the eastern and western unincorporated areas that are not within irrigation districts — about 22% of the groundwater basin.
Modesto, Oakdale, Riverbank, Waterford, Modesto Irrigation District and Oakdale Irrigation District are the other members of the Stanislaus and Tuolumne Rivers Groundwater Basin Association, which is expected to comply with the state’s groundwater mandates…