GUSTINE — The Gustine City Council on March 17 approved a revised and restated Memorandum of Agreement among the Delta‑Mendota Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Agencies, updating the city’s role in regional groundwater management as part of a basin‑wide governance transition.
The item was approved on the council’s consent calendar.
Gustine is one of several Groundwater Sustainability Agencies within the Delta‑Mendota Subbasin, a critically overdrafted groundwater basin regulated under California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. In 2024, the agencies adopted a single Groundwater Sustainability Plan to coordinate compliance across the basin…