CALIFORNIA / TULARE COUNTY
Monson
- Population (2020)
- 152
- Water cut
- June 2014
- Cause
- groundwater
- Where
- 36.49°N, 119.34°W
What happened, and when
Every dated water event the register holds for Monson, newest first, each with the sources that document it.
- Restored
Restored
A $2.1 million emergency community well, storage tank and distribution system, funded by the state and USDA, began delivering compliant water to about 35 homes, owned and operated by the neighbouring Sultana Community Services District.
- Ran dryon the card
Ran dry: what happened
Monson's roughly 35 homes relied on shallow private wells, which failed one by one from June 2014 as drought pumping lowered the water table; more than a dozen had gone dry by August 2015. Families hauled water in drums from Orosi, Cutler and Dinuba, ran hoses from neighbours' wells, and relied on county bottled-water deliveries and nonprofit-installed tanks refilled by truck. The wells that still produced carried the county's highest nitrate levels.
- California State Water Resources Control Board: Creation of the Monson water system and managerial consolidation (February 12, 2018)
- Visalia Times-Delta (reprint hosted by Self-Help Enterprises): County, nonprofit work to help communities with failed wells (August 15, 2015)
- Circle of Blue: After dry wells, relief for some California families (August 25, 2015)
- KVPR: State funding to give drought-laden Tulare County community clean water (January 24, 2017)