#11 – Interesting, KAMPA explaining how some sort of a disconnect with the grant processing between the LDPCSD and the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) occurred – but he has no idea what it could be?

Perhaps I can be of assistance?  (You’ve heard this before?  What?  I’m a broken record?  Fixated and/or obsessed? – Geez, what can I say?  There will be much, much, more detailed information on that later — Lol)

EXPLICIT PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

PETE KAMPA was VERY FAMILIAR with water license 11395 restrictions due to starting his infamous water career at the LDPCSD approximately 20 years ago.  Even back then he actively advocated and participated in the expansion of water service outside the MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT PLACE OF USE (MIDPOU) per WL 11395 which MID holds as approved by the STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD (SWRCB).

MAJOR PROBLEM

The problem with continuing water service expansion outside the MIDPOU was the necessity of an “alternate source of water” to replace the MERCED RIVER WATER wrongfully leaving the POU.  This “replacement” is called GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION FOR SURFACE MERCED RIVER WATER TRANSFER (“surface water transfer” because Merced River Water is impounded behind the New Exchequer Dam creating Lake Mc Clure from where our DISTRICT has ALWAYS PUMPED ITS WATER FOR TREATMENT AND DISTRIBUTION TO THE SUBDIVISION).  There was only one groundwater well (Ranchito Drive #1) prior to Kampa’s return (in fact, developed right around the first time KAMPA was employed here, 1993) that was replacing the river water being diverted.  But KAMPA needed a much larger source if he was going to resume expanding district water service to land developers outside the MIDPOU – he needed it 20 years ago – just as he needs it today.  (Incidentally, Ranchito #1 failed during Kampa’s subsequent rampant well drilling efforts, something like 13+ bad wells if I recall correctly.)

DEVIOUS SOLUTION

Through a board orchestrated CLOSED RECRUITMENT PROCESS FOR GM, PETE KAMPA (and his KAMPA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS LLC aka KAMPACS – created approximately 8 months earlier) was returned to the LDPCSD in October 2014 appointed GM (without ANY employment background checks) and provided access to over ONE MILLION DOLLARS saved during the four years after our District’s near bankruptcy.  We were told KAMPA was here to save our drought stricken community.

BAIT & SWITCH

What our district actually needed was a responsible and honest GM who would use those funds to repair and replace failing equipment in our surface water treatment plant infrastructure while keeping it on track with its primary and intended purpose – serving the MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS OF THE LAKE DON PEDRO OWNERS ASSOCIATION RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION – NOT EXPANDING SERVICE ELSEWHERE! 

What we received however, was a “former employee “RINGER” with a POU axe to grind” who burned through our finances to leverage government grants to finally develop his illusive “alternate source of water” which he could then sell to land developers outside our district POU.   (IMPORTANT POINT:  Our District public funds were used to leverage those grants which developed the additional groundwater wells – not the land developers who were going to receive that SPECIAL BENEFIT WATER SERVICE.) 

BAIT & SWITCH PART II

KAMPA & KOMPANY essentially used the cover of AN EXISTING EMERGENCY DROUGHT to conceal the creation of this ALTERNATE SOURCE for further outside MIDPOU expansion, a far cry from assisting existing customers through sustained drought as he assured the those providing the grant funds.  

BIG ETHICAL QUESTION

The fact our DISTRICT HAS NO LEGAL DUTY OR MORAL OBLIGATION TO SERVE ANY WATER, MUCH LESS OUR RECENTLY DEVELOPED EMERGENCY DROUGHT WATER is a very BIG CLUE deserving of close scrutiny by authorities.  It is a scam that has continued for almost 40 years with the innocent legally entitled users of MERCED RIVER WATER in the subdivision (who are also MANDATORY CUSTOMERS OF THE LDPCSD due to property ownership and are prohibited from drilling their own private water wells) financially supporting this SPECIAL BENEFIT TO THIRD PARTY LAND DEVELOPERS OUTSIDE THE LEGAL 11395 POU.

INTENT

There is no doubt KAMPA & KOMPANY clearly intended to use the new groundwater well production to expand outside MIDPOU water service and is evidenced by KAMPA’s two failed attempts to abolish RESOLUTION 2013-4 which PROHIBITS continuing such water service.  (Good work by those Directors who refused to continue the K&K scam.)

“KAMPA-GANDA” (KAMPA propaganda)

Even the LDPCSD website link to RESOLUTION 2013-4 (among others) has never worked and is classic KAMPA KRAPA by providing a nonworking link to requested information.  IF EVER QUESTIONED ABOUT THE MATTER KAMPA can scratch his head in bewilderment while responding he had in fact provided a link to that information on the website – “gosh, there must be some sort of disconnect?” he’ll mummer.   (Same as with his postings of incorrect and obsolete maps on our public agency website – or using otherwise legitimate entities like the CSDA (California Special District Association) to run interference for his devious plans with apparent co-operation (hopefully unwittingly).   Typical KAMPA PROPAGANDA (KAMPA-GANDA? Lol) intended to thwart that dangerous unrelenting adversary always stalking right on his heels – the truth.)

“EXQUISITE CRAFTSMANSHIP, EH?”

KAMPA is a professional at parsing words and misdirection – not unlike a con artist in a dark alley outside a casino selling Rolex watches for emergency bus fare home.

KAMPA PREDICAMENT

KAMPA’s intention to violate GRANT RESTRICTIONS through use of publicly funded groundwater wells in creation of that alternate source, with which to provide further water service outside the POU, is painfully obvious.  Equally obvious is his current predicament and inability to comment on ANYTHING which might remotely evidence his knowledge of those grant conditions or the restrictions regarding MIDPOU service, both of which could theoretically pose significant legal difficulties.

“ANOTHER REPETITION PLEASE”

Think about this – rather than using that generous GRANT MONEY to focus on the primary infrastructure repairs and replacements for our surface water treatment plant (did you know it was specifically constructed to serve the subdivision? lol) KAMPA sought to reconfigure it into a GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION FACILITY to circumvent restrictions in the water license.

Further KAMPA was totally prepared to sell this touted “DROUGHT EMERGENCY GROUNDWATER” (ostensibly for existing customer use) to his longtime LAND DEVELOPER acquaintances outside the POU he worked with 20 years ago.   Such outright deceit and betrayal of public agency customers should not be forgotten and I will continue repeating these facts for as long as PETE KAMPA remains the LDPCSD GM. He is not deserving of such a trusted responsibility.

NOTICE KAMPA “TELLS” WHILE DISCUSSING PARTICULAR SUBJECTS IN VIDEO CLIPS?  (Body language)

So while still here as our general manager, KAMPA will always scratch and shake his head, roll his eyes, and wave his arms about in pretend confusion as to WHAT THE  DISCONNECT WITH THE USDA COULD POSSIBLY BE. 

Kampa’s deceit, in essence, is no different than a con artist in an alley telling a police officer he truly believed the watch he sold for $100 was a genuine Rolex.

My best to you and yours, Lew

Yup.  This word for word stuff gets time consuming but I still hope there are people and/or entities out there who genuinely care about the decades of fraud being continued against the interests of the innocent property owners of the Lake Don Pedro Owners Association residential subdivision. You know, when people do things for an honest, above-board lawful purpose, and in the correct manner – there is no reason to conceal facts and information – much less juggle financial numbers.   Yet when underhanded activities have taken place those involved must cover their past with even more unethical activity.  “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive”?  The Lake Don Pedro Community Services District is a public agency supported with public funds and customers have a right to that information, pure and simple.  I am sick and tired of disingenuous individuals utilizing public resources in continued concealment of their past (and continued) special interest betrayal of this district and its legal customers.

My best to you and yours, Lew

My best to you and yours, Lew

8K. The “K” stands for KEEP – so I would not confuse this file with the other saved backups.  I had to split up one BIG FILE into two smaller ones due to the enhanced aggravation of working with too much information at a time.

No doubt much of it operator error since I still have a tendency to issue conflicting commands with accidental movements of this new mouse with the side button (forward-backward I think-don’t use it except for accident).

Anyway, part two, aka, #8K.    Tah-Dah!

Sure am glad I don’t repeat myself much.

This month’s agenda packet didn’t look or feel right.

Heck, the packet wasn’t even stapled together like Syndie always does in the LDPCSD office.  You know?  Those huge heavy commercial staples for multi-paged documents?  Keeps the pages together when turned multiple times, if someone cares to read and study the material.  Mine fell apart very quickly.  Maybe the stapler was broken?  Who knows?

Was this another PETE KAMPA, KAMPA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS, LLC, OR KAMPACS production?

Is this what KAMPA referred to when he said the presentation was in “pieces”.

That forced me to consider how many “OFFICIAL RECORDS” of the LDPCSD have been corrupted with “DRAFTS”, “PROPOSED REVISIONS”, UPDATES, REVISED REPLACEMENTS, outright FABRICATED SUBSTITUTIONS, etc. and processed through other governmental departments, agencies, offices, etc?   MO with ETDs?

an

M.O.

(Modus operandi or Method of Operation)

with

E.T.Ds

”EVIL TWIN DOCUMENTS”

Imagine all those ETDs “making the circuit” as if legitimately constructed and approved by appropriate authorities (Facilitated through a presumption that information furnished by other governmental entities is authentic?)  A massive fraud perpetrated for decades against entitled MERCED RIVER WATER using customers of the LAKE DON PEDRO subdivision with ETDs – especially those bogus District water service maps real estate and land development interests drooled over.

GOSH!  How easy would it be for such unethical individuals to later “replace” particularly damaging or uncomplimentary sections of agenda packets that were originally presented “in pieces” with other “ETD pieces” having the same page numbers?

Just a thought, for anyone who cared to think about it in conjunction with the LDPCSD’s multi-exampled history of utilizing such ETDs and KAMPA’s undeniable past of misrepresenting LDPCSD information to other government departments/agencies.

Sure am glad I don’t repeat myself much.

Seems my agenda requests were not the only items ignored by KAMPA.  Guess he just forgot to mention to the board a claim against the LDPCSD by PG&E for damages to its facilities in the amount of $16,886.26?

It was in KAMPA’s GM Report if someone cared to read it, but no discussion was permitted during the meeting.

Remember a while back when CSD was digging up pipelines at the treatment plant?  Found lines they had no idea why they were there or where they went?  Also exposed a high voltage conduit that was full of water?

Then that STATE MANDATED project was immediately stopped for safety reasons resulting in a MAJOR PG&E emergency call-out of many trucks and personnel?

Well, PG&E wants reimbursement for the repair costs to their underground facilities that were (damaged at some time) while under control of the LDPCSD.

Of course Kampa will likely just turn it over to our insurance carrier.  Kampa can actually hide a lot of his “mischief” with and behind the resources of our public agency along with his own for-profit limited liability company, KAMPA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS, LLC, aka  KAMPACS.

I doubt KAMPA will be able to ignore PG&E and put them off like he does customers who ask legitimate questions that are never answered.

Serious questions about his performance, fiduciary duty and loyalty to the district and the majority of “legal customers” since being returned to the district.

Returned to where he began his infamous water career in 1993.

Returned through a highly unethical board orchestrated closed recruitment process for GM.  A process that insured KAMPA would be GM and then authorized to leverage our million dollar savings in order to expand outside PLACE OF USE water service through a GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM created with public funds and government grant money.

Grant money that was intended to benefit existing LDPCSD customers during a severe drought and specifically noted- NOT FOR EXPANSION OF WATER SERVICE.

Wonder if the UC Merced researchers could expand their project to include how special interest land development corruption has detrimentally influenced the LDPCSD for decades?

How these interests have obstructed the district’s prime directive of serving MERCED RIVER WATER from LAKE Mc CLURE to domestic home sites in the subdivision.

Or how public fund use can be diverted from intended beneficiaries to those special interests?

What about the health effects on those legally entitled to Merced River Water use under WL11395 who are prohibited from drilling their own private water wells yet as MANDATORY CUSTOMERS OF THE LDPCSD BY WAY OF PROPERTY OWNERSHIP IN THE SUBDIVISION are forced to subsidize outside PLACE OF USE water service through a GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM utilizing expensive ground wells developed with public funds?

Government grants that could have repaired and replaced our failing primary surface water treatment plant infrastructure instead of expanding KAMPA’s required groundwater “alternate source” that he could then later sell outside the legal Place of Use?

KAMPA planned on selling our newly produced emergency groundwater to land developers not otherwise entitled to water service by the District under water license 11395.  That’s our “SNEAKY PETE” KAMPA!

At the risk of repeating myself – My best to you and yours, Lew 🙂

HELLO FELLOW MUSHROOMS!

Topic of capping abandoned groundwater wells.   LINK TO:    CALIFORNIA GROUND WELL INFORMATION

Some 411 on the capping of groundwater wells in California.  I tried to print 12 pages that I thought were particularly interesting but my printer protested at some of the diagrams, -wasted ink and paper, but check it out online, rather interesting.

ALMOST FAINTED BECAUSE OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS

This well capping situation reminds me of my last knee surgery years ago which was classified as an emergency.  I knew it was serious but never how serious until over and I was almost done with the physical rehabilitation.  Following the removal of a “plug” (scab at the incision site) there remained an open “canal or channel” running from the outside of my knee all the way into the center of the knee capsule.  These canals are evidently usually healed internally and not connected with the exterior “plug” scab.

Sometime later I was moving things in the garage (summer wearing cutoffs) when I felt what I thought was perspiration running down my right shin.  Continuing my work without looking I instinctively just wiped it away.  A short while later I again, without much concern, wiped something liquid  from my shin but this time glanced at the palm of my hand.  Didn’t appear to be sweat.  No, it was not urine thank you.  Almost caused such a reaction later, but no, urine is not involved in this story.  lol

I slowly rubbed the liquid between my thumb and index finger and noticed it felt like oil and was indeed actually lubricating the friction of rubbing my thumb and finger pads together.  I smelled it but it wasn’t motor oil or transmission fluid.  No smell as I recall.   I was puzzled and looked down at my shin and observed a very small trickle of something running down to the top of my white sports sock which was saturated and stained a light yellow.   Not good.

WHAT THE HELL?

The liquid was only below my knee and not above but I was still oblivious as to what it was or where I picked it up.  I then looked at my surgery knee and while balancing on the other leg, retracted my leg up and back towards my butt and this yellow liquid squirted right out of my knee as if shot from a “super soaker” water gun!

I FREAKED!

When I extended my leg and straightened it out to put my body weight back on it, my knee made a sucking gurgling sound as air was sucked back into the area of the knee capsule which had just “squirted”  synovial fluid which is an odorless yellow light oil which  the human body produces to lubricate joints.  (By the way, the body keeps producing this lubricant even if constantly loosing it from an open wound – kind of a built in safety feature to keep us moving while injured during an emergency.  Oh yeah, it was totally painless too.)

I FRACK ‘n KID YOU NOT!

Thought I was going to faint.  What the hell is this?  Infection?  Puss?  What’s happening?  (Yeah, I’m getting hungry too.) Sat down and held a towel to my knee.  Talked myself out of some light panic dizziness and while sitting on the garage floor leaned over to carefully examine my knee.  While slowing bending my knee up – sliding my foot inward on the floor towards my body, there she goes again…. SQUIRT!  And I mean squirted out some distance away from my body.  Oh boy!  Dizzy again.

MADE SOME PANICKED TELEPHONE CALLS

Ultimately (and quite fortunately) a former Vietnam Veteran field medic agreed to take a look at my “Squirt Knee”.  After examination, he sterilized and bandaged my knee and commented he had never seen anything like it before suggesting I see my surgeon ASAP.   (Did not have to repeat that suggestion!)  The following “emergency surgery” closed the canal, cleaned out a bunch of “gunk” (technical surgeon lingo -lol)  and I have not had a problem since – other than the prognosis of an eventual total knee replacement which I hope to avoid.

WHY EMERGENCY?  The reason the surgery was an emergency is obvious to me now, but back then I just thought it was a peculiar injury and interesting situation.  (I could really freak people out who asked about the bandages by bending my knee in demonstration. Even with the bandages on – muffled sounding “farts” could quite easily be heard beneath.  Gross huh?  (Soup probably not on the menu tonight for me either.)  I was working on a comic routine where I would ask my knee simple questions and then force apparent responses out by bending the knee back to…..OK, enough.  lol

As the surgeon explained to me later, if only one germ or bacteria entered the interior knee capsule through that canal (during the sucking gurgling sound when my knee was answering comically staged and proposed questions to horrified onlookers) and found that perfect breeding environment for establishing a colony I would have developed an internal knee infection and my leg would have been subsequently amputated just above the knee.  I can understand why he did not advise of that possibility (telling me instead to just keep his bandages on until the surgery) because I would have been on the telephone ordering a giant sanitized plastic air bubble in which to reside until the surgery could be performed!  I would have been terrified.  

 ANYWAY – THE POINT?

See the connection to the capping of abandoned ground wells?  Without a “plug” (cap) on the exposed above ground well opening (where the motor would normally be installed) outside contaminants have a direct entry point to the water source below through the well pipe casing.

“WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST SAY THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU *&^%$#@  MORON! 

I CAN’T EAT MY DINNER NOW!”

HEAR THAT?  SOUNDS LIKE AN ECHO?

There also exists the “attractive nuisance” for children exploring and becoming trapped in unsealed abandoned wells.  Wonder how many insects, lizards, gophers, rabbits, dogs, cats, etc have dropped below into a water supply and eventually decomposed  …..????  Yuk!

BAD FARMER!  BAD FARMER!

Here’s something that will shock you.  (Surprise surprise?)   I was once told by an experienced instructor/farmer that some individuals in the past were known to pull the well pump motor and pour concentrated chemicals directly into the aquifer below, reinstall the pump motor, and after waiting a while, pump the “underground mixed” solution through normal irrigation lines to the land.  Can you imagine that?

Same lame old time process of disposing of garbage into a stream or river to get it out of your immediate area – it doesn’t magically disappear but only becomes a problem for others in another area.  Air pollution….?  What about the EPAs Deep drilled  TOXIC WELLS?  (Drill a deep hole in the ground and PRESTO!  All that above ground nasty toxic stuff magically disappears!  Until it resurfaces decades later.)

Anyway, that’s tonight’s deviation!  Need to find something tolerable for dinner.    🙂

My best to you and yours, Lew

#6 And pushing forward.   WES BARTON, once again points out some pretty significant discrepancies in the Treasurer’s Report.  I wonder if customers will ever be provided the answers to these legitimate questions?  Oh sure, there’s a comment period alright that apparently goes nowhere because the issues are not placed on the agenda for discussion by the board and public.  Hummm, who controls that agenda process again?   Righhhhhhh………the General Manager who is also the Board Treasurer and the Board President who assisted in making sure only Pete Kampa and his Kampa Community Solutions, llc management company WOULD BE the GM.  (Have I mentioned that before?)

Just started the upload for this addition of the LEW’S VIEW Blah Blah Blah” but am unsure which camera recorded the video so it could take a long time. A very long time. So— ???

Resume the vegetation attack!!!

“To the weed slayer Fat Man!”

Supposedly more rain coming too… so— if I’m going to spray what has already been cut before it’s watered again (with more beautiful precipitation – not complaining at all), and starts growing like crazy again, I should, I really should…….”right now” stop typi

lol : )

My best to you and yours, Lew

                 NOT SURE …. BUT I THINK IT IS TIME FOR MORE WEED EATING

I was getting ready for another assault on hillside weeds when I realized something …. which was immediately followed by a horrible thought of potential “future accidents” regarding our paperwork with Pete Kampa at the helm of the LDPCSD.

Listen to this and see if the same thought hits you….

<INSERT VIDEO CLIP>

We know how motions and approvals work – what is stated in the motion is what is approved…..

Where does the motion qualify what exactly was approved?

The FINAL REPORT PRESENTED at the meeting is to be COMPLETELY REPLACED with the report in the agenda packet right?  – where is this condition stated or acknowledged in the approval motion?

Sure, we know what happened, but anyone reading the audit approval motion would not.  Should not that motion have been stated something to the effect:

“Subject to corrections discussed during the annual audit approval meeting”?

See what I mean?  Technically the current written board approval of that matter is devoid of one tiny but crucial condition –

that it be COMPLETELY REPLACED!

What if another “accident happens” and the wrong AUDIT REPORT is filed with governmental regulatory agencies?  How would we know?  How would they know?  If another agency ever indeed had a reason to double check the information presented, their only confirmation would be the approved motion (with the missing condition), whereas, if the motion stated something like “subject to corrections…..” that agency would HAVE A CLUE there was more to the story than a simple audit approval by the board of directors.  That agency could then request other information such as Meeting Minutes, audio recordings, etc. IF THEY STILL EXISTED – if not?  Well, that agency would have cause for a more detailed investigation of he apparent mystery.

Personally I would like to see and be furnished a copy of the FINAL AUDIT the Board actually approves.  Perhaps a one agenda item Special Meeting could be scheduled for just that purpose?  In and out – no fuss.  Copies of the report to be approved and filed available for all customers who want a copy.

Heck, it wouldn’t even be necessary for “Auditor John” to appear unless he wanted to, because after all, tires and fuel are expensive.  🙂

My best to you and yours, Lew

WES BARTON continued  his OUTSTANDING JOB OF REPRESENTING THE FINANCIAL INTERESTS of LAKE DON PEDRO COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT “MANDATORY CUSTOMERS” in the Lake Don Pedro Owners Association residential subdivision.

OK, let’s see if I correctly understand this mess?

The Final Audit was ultimately approved by the Board of Directors BUT CONDITIONED UPON COMPLETE REPLACEMENT with the one our Board Secretary distributed to the board and public?  The Secretary’s report was contained in the traditional monthly meeting agenda packet?  This Final Report replacement  was required because the final bound audit report from “Auditor John” (never  stated his last name during the audit presentation nor was his name located in the audit report) which was presented to the Board of Directors for approval contained different figures, one constituting a $443,000 difference?  This was a result of how Kampa capitalized the groundwater wells?

The auditor suggested the report error was likely a simple mistake occurring in HIS OFFICE when an employee accidentally had bound (as the Final Report) what in reality was a draft report prepared some time ago?   The Final Report presented by the auditor was issued November 18th, 2016 and presented to the LDPCSD BOARD on February 22, 2016 for approval?

Wes Barton has been asking questions for about a year with no response from Peter Kampa who is the management company president and our LDPCSD General Manager AND Board Treasurer Pete Kampa? Barton’s questions regarded substantial differences with the monthly board meeting financial disclosures presented by Kampa?  Barton has repeatedly stated at meetings that the errors involved how Kampa was reporting the government grant funding used to construct the groundwater wells?  Kampa refused to answer these questions eventually citing that the information had been forwarded to the auditor for report formation?

The LDPCSD SURFACE WATER TREATMENT PLANT was originally constructed and intended to serve properties inside the Lake Don Pedro subdivision?  The California Public Utilities Commission approval paperwork for the transfer of facilities and assets to the LDPCSD in 1980 had been changed and placed in district records?  The original MARIPOSA COUNTY LOCAL AGENCY FORMATION COMMISSION (LAFCo) DISTRICT FORMATION MAP OF 1980 was “lost” and replacement maps containing additional information as to where MERCED RIVER WATER service could be furnished were created by the LDPCSD and provided to a variety of other county, state and federal agencies? Rather than furnishing a requested reproduction of the 1980 formation map (original engiineer’s survey exists), KAMPA proposed, and the board approved, a “multi-map” project for over $10,000 in remaining  district funds?

The LDPCSD pumps MERCED RIVER WATER impounded at Lake McClure under authority of THE MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT (MID) which holds water license 11395 issued by the STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD (SWRCB) which regulates MERCED RIVER WATER diversion and use?  The license clearly identifies the PLACE OF USE for MERCED RIVER WATER?

GROUNDWATER WELLS in this area are extremely expensive and unreliable as a permanent source of water in this foothill fractured rock geologic environment?  Subdivision property owners are legally prohibited from drilling their own groundwater wells and are essentially MANDATORY CUSTOMERS OF THE LAKE DON PEDRO COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT?  They represent approximately 99% of the LDPCSD customer base?  There is no prohibition for drilling private groundwater wells for properties OUTSIDE THE MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT PLACE OF  USE (MIDPOU) regulations (outside the subdivision)?

The GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM used by the LDPCSD permits circumvention of explicit MERCED RIVER WATER PLACE OF USE restrictions (water license 11395) by  permitting water service to properties OUTSIDE the PLACE OF USE?  This is done by REPLACING every unit of MERCED RIVER WATER (that would otherwise be illegally leaving the permitted area) with GROUNDWATER pumped from groundwater wells?  Prior to Kampa’s return to the LDPCSD in 2014, the LDPCSD only had one groundwater well (RANCHITO DRIVE WELL #1) that was used to replace MERCED RIVER WATER diverted for the existing 36 properties Outside Place of Use receiving water service from the LDPCSD?

Pete Kampa was employed by the LDPCSD approximately 20 years ago during 1993-1997?  Kampa during that time was very familiar with rules and regulations concerning MERCED RIVER WATER use?  Kampa supported and advocated further expansion of water service outside the MIDPOU?  Approximately 10,000 acres of further service?  Kampa worked with some of the same properties 20 years ago which still require a GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM water service for their properties outside the MIDPOU?

Kampa worked closely with the auditor in the production of this audit report by furnishing the information on capitalization of the new groundwater wells and the public grant funds used to construct them?   On the meeting approval date (three months after the report had been issued by the auditor) a discrepancy between numbers in differing reports is addressed by LDPCSD DIRECTOR RUSS WARREN who happened to compare figures in the Final BOUND Report with the report contained in the agenda packet which is presented to the public as well?

There are no LDPCSD policies which establish or provide guidance for this decades old GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM?  Kampa and the board of directors have never answered the question as to why 99% of the legally entitled MERCED RIVER WATER using “mandatory customers of the subdivision” (due to property ownership in subdivision) should be required to pay for a special benefit GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM they do not need?  There has been no accounting through the decades to determine just how much this GWSP actually costs the entitled users who receive no benefit yet pay the costs?

KAMPA & KOMPANY (term for those who support Pete Kampa’s further expansion plans OUTSIDE THE MIDPOU) twice attempted to have the Board of Directors ABOLISH RESOLUTION 2013-4 but failed to do so?   Kampa has in writing on several occasions misrepresented the LDPCSD’s position on this special benefit water service water service and/or the facts which surround the GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM to county, state and federal agencies?  Kampa continues to misrepresent the legal area of service for MERCED RIVER WATER with obsolete and incorrect maps on the LDPCSD website and has refused to correct the matter?

The GOVERNMENT GRANTS used by Kampa to construct the groundwater wells necessary to establish an “alternate source of water” with which to create the GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM NEEDED FOR FURTHER OUTSIDE MIDPOU WATER SERVICE EXPANSION, were INTENDED TO BE USED FOR EXISTING CUSTOMERS DURING SEVERE DROUGHT CONDITIONS and NOT FOR NEW SERVICE WATER CONNECTIONS?  Kampa was clearly advised of this specific requirement PRIOR to receiving the funds?

Although very generous government grant funds were made available to the LDPCSD, our primary surface water treatment plant infrastructure was completely ignored as Kampa pursued his GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM  for OUTSIDE PLACE OF USE properties?  An excellent example of this COMPLETE IGNORANCE OF CRITICAL SYSTEMS (that COULD HAVE BEEN REPAIRED/REPLACED WITH THESE GENEROUS GRANT FUNDS WHEN MADE AVAILABLE), were the two water filters whose “emergency repair” costs only a month ago were approximately $300,00?

Pete Kampa (prior to his second LDPCSD GM appointment in 2014) was very familiar with OUTSIDE PLACE OF USE difficulties as he had previously worked for the district between 1993-1997?   Confidential board information was relayed to Kampa prior to public announcement of the GM vacancy to permit the lead time necessary to prepare a “contract ready for signature” at the next monthly board meeting?   Kampa achieved his second GM status through a board orchestrated CLOSED RECRUITMENT PROCESS in October 2014 which guaranteed that he, and his Kampa Community Solutions llc management company, would be the only applicant possible and thus ultimate GM appointee?  There was no semblance of a traditional employment background check made of Pete Kampa or his limited liability company prior to appointment?  No research or investigation into  is past LDPCSD employment or reason for subsequent resignation in 1997?

This is is only some of the factual history – I have undoubtedly failed to recall other important facts.  (This really is a long complicated history.)

Final last question-

Do you believe the FINAL AUDIT REPORT was a simple mistake?

Well looks like another beautiful foothill day!   Hear them flourishing within the moist soil beneath the bright sunshine?   Yup, need to continue the weed eating/spraying progress completed yesterday.  I sure am sore, but it feels and looks so good.

My best to you and yours, Lew