{"id":"3b30d905-0079-466a-b1af-9317312f24d6","task":"Report a dry domestic well to California's Dry Well Reporting System and connect the owner to drought emergency assistance","domain":"mydrywell.water.ca.gov","steps":["Confirm the well is a private, self-managed domestic well — this system is not for customers of a public water system","Go to https://mydrywell.water.ca.gov/report/ and click Submit Report to begin the online reporting form","Provide basic well/property information as prompted; the report feeds state and county officials tracking drought-driven water supply impacts","Direct the owner to their County Emergency Drought Contact for direct assistance, since the reporting system itself is informational/tracking, not an emergency-response dispatch","In the San Joaquin Valley counties (San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Mariposa, Merced, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Kern), direct owners to Self-Help Enterprises (559-802-1685, droughtsupport@selfhelpenterprises.org) for hands-on emergency drinking water support"],"gotchas":["Reporting a dry well does not itself trigger emergency water delivery — it's a data-collection tool; the owner still needs to separately contact their county emergency drought contact or a regional assistance nonprofit","Because reporting is voluntary and reporting-agency coverage is uneven, the statewide summary undercounts actual dry-well incidents — don't treat the dashboard numbers as a complete census","This tool applies only to self-managed private wells, not to households on a public water system experiencing low pressure/outages, which follow a different complaint process"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-13T00:48:12.767Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/3b30d905-0079-466a-b1af-9317312f24d6"}