Once again, sounds reasonable at first until you understand what was actually happening back then. Outside MIDPOU expansion advocates like PETE KAMPA (remember he was here the first time between 1994-1997 before heading off to McCloud CSD up north to broker a water bottling deal with the NESTLES Corporation that former California State Attorney General Gerry Brown considered unfair to the people of McCloud and demanded it be revised. For an excellent investigation and potential explanation as to the variables which permitted such an unfair contract to be essentially forced on the people of McCloud, check out the following: THESIS by KERRY TOPEL.
(Honestly, after reading that I could easily imagine a movie based on the McCloud story as there are many important lessons to be learned.)
ANYWAY, so back in 1990’s there was a lot of “annexation resolution” shuffling back and forth between LAFCO and the LDPCSD involving requests, revisions and approvals subject to terms and conditions that were not apparently followed.
LAFCO and LDPCSD ANNEXATION RESOLUTIONS
For example, the Lake Shore Ranch proposed 900ac residential subdivision across the street from the Board of Directors meeting room-
where even a director at that time requested information about a rumored adjacent subdivision –
took a 3-1/2 year “annexation process break” then just apparently started up where it left off earlier! (Gee, wonder what complying/regulating laws that little “musical chair annexation” maneuver was intended to avoid? (“Ah- ooo, can’t do that right now, but wait a bit because we are working on a change – just hang on a bit longer……” {hee hee hee- sinister laugh.)
Yes the Lake Shore Ranch subdivision resolution seems to have been “resurrected from failure” multiple times with apparent support from various Mariposa County officials, both appointed and elected. Recall there were attempts to annex it into the boundary many years before the district was formed by LAFCO. Likely the sort of water agreements and extensions of service the CPUC (California Public Utilities Commission) referenced in its January 1981 approval for the transfer of facilities and assets from SIERRA HIGHLANDS WATER COMPANY to the newly formed LDPCSD. Such “deals” were the liabilities of SIERRA HIGHLANDS and were not to become the obligations to the new district and its customers in the approved subdivision – UNLESS specifically mentioned as was the SOLOMON and other agreements.
This legal decision was unacceptable to those real estates interests dedicated to expanding that limited water service by a community services district far beyond what was legally designed and permitted. Immediately, this district began expanding with line extensions and new connections and spreading the costs for that expansion on the MR WECs of the new Lake Don Pedro Community Services District. Forcing those mandatory Merced River water entitled LDPCSD customers of the former Sierra Highlands subdivision to pay for extended water services outside the subdivision which was the POU for the water license. All subdivision properties are subject to far more restrictive regulations than OUTSIDE POU properties. (NOTE: I have talked with owners who have said they were merely asked if they wanted to put in their own groundwater well for +/- $10,000 (at that time) or just be annexed into the LDPCSD and receive water service. Hell, what what most people do with such options? The problem is, the people making those deals were KNOWINGLY VIOLATING THE REGULATIONS of a public agency they were supposed to be representing. This is how we ended up with a bunch of properties annexed into the district but have private domestic wells. They can vote in our elections but are not “true stakeholders” of the LDPCSD or water license entitled subdivision. Terribly unfair all the way around, but that’s what happens without responsible management. If the interests outside the subdivision wanting water pooled their resources years ago they could have pursued their own various projects. No doubt some sort of “special benefit” GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION SERVICE ZONE” could have been established with private groundwater wells providing all necessary outside POU service. NO? Not fair for those receiving a special benefit to pay for that special benefit?
But wait a sec, what was that other thing……something about……?
Oh yeah,
HOW COULD A DIRECTOR ON A BOARD REQUESTING AND APPROVING VARIOUS ANNEXATION RESOLUTIONS INTO THE LDPCSD SERVICE DISTRICT-
(that were still OUTSIDE THE PLACE OF USE (POU) OF THE WATER LICENSE FOR MERCED RIVER WATER SERVICE – AND THEREFORE HAD TO BE PROVIDED EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE GROUNDWATER WHICH THE LDPCSD DID NOT HAVE)
– NOT BE AWARE and ADVISED BY PETE KAMPA THAT THERE WAS INDEED A PROPOSED 900 ACRE SUBDIVISION ACROSS THE STREET CALLED LAKE SHORE RANCH THAT KAMPA WAS PERSONALLY INVOLVED?
APPARENTLY PETE KAMPA WAS KEEPING AN “ANNEXATION SECRET” FROM THE BOARD, which confirms the suspected reason Kampa was required to write a letter of apology for misrepresenting district plans of annexation to the planning department of Tuolumne County before suddenly resigning and heading off north to McCloud where his management techniques also caused community disruption.
I must get away from this computer
There are other things I must do
Only stopped to post a quick document
But you know your blah, blah, blah Lew!
lol
So ANYWAY, here’s another study “avalanche offering” of how even in 1995 during Kampa’s first tour of employment, there’s this active effort to keep customers from knowing what their public agency CSD officials were actually doing in greatly expanding district water service and a future water demand far beyond what we could legally provide under the water license. Think about all the public resources dedicated to the purpose of bringing these outside POU properties into the district for future GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION SERVICE, yet KAMPA & KOMPANY want to charge MR WECs for notice as to what’s being wrongfully pursued and accomplished with their money?
NOTE: DON’T CONFUSE, SALLY PUNTE (County Supervisor and LDPCSD Director) and
LARRY PUNTE (LDPCSD Director)
OH YEAH, notice the second name of the directors approving this charge for meeting notice? Punte? That is not Sally Punte, but rather her husband Larry Punte who served on the LDPCSD Board of Directors from 1992-1995. Sally Punte was the Mariposa County District II Supervisor for this area between the years 1988 – 1992, and was later the LDPCSD Board President who signed the July 10, 2008 water agreement with the Merced Irrigation District. That was the agreement where an obviously incorrect “Fake POU Map” was attached to the agreement with a disclaimer as to accuracy by the LDPCSD attorney.
Larry Punte started as director on December 3, 1993
and evidently voted to hire PETE KAMPA on December 8th, 1993 with KAMPA starting work in January 1994:
This is quite interesting and raises a number of other questions that will be addressed later when a chronological analysis is completed studying the approval path between the county and the LDPCSD with of some of these questionable annexation resolutions.
This is very troublesome. (ABOVE MAP APPROVED IN JULY 2008) Those massive additions to the POU Boundary are obvious to ANYONE REMOTELY FAMILIAR WITH WATER LICENSE 11395 or who may have made a cursory comparison to the legitimate June 15, 1978 SWRCB approved POU map.
Sorry for the sloppy presentations above but I already had those “marked up copies” lying around so might as well use them.
DATES OF CONFLICTING POU MAPS
WAIT A SECOND!
WHAT WAS THE DATE OF THE MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT POU MAP THAT WAS HANDED TO ME BY AN MID MANAGER while I was still a director?….hang on…….. Yup, I thought so…the MBK 2008 – but what month? 
Ahhhh, there it is in the bottom right hand corner… but hard to see – let’s zoom in shall we?
Ah, July 2008 – the official POU MAP for WL11395 by the MID ENGINEERING FIRM
This is the same firm PETE KAMPA stated provided the legal WL11395 POU for his $35,000 digital mapping project because the SWRCB required a digital map in response to their Sept 28, 2017 Notice of Violation, which frankly doesn’t sound right to me because one would think ANY LEGITIMATE government document or evidence would be accepted. {EMPHASIS ON LEGITIMATE – because as good ‘ol Pete Kampa has proven once again – digital information can be intentionally corrupted as easily as paper and pen, and Kampa certainly appears to be an expert at both forms of customer/public/government deception.
The CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION is indeed_________________ to have such ________________ directors on their board for almost 20 years.}
What’s the point right?
Would an original paper birth certificate be refused if not on a thumb drive? Or the paper map I was provided during escrow of my property purchase rejected if not on a CD? Kampa said a digital map was REQUIRED BY THE SWRCB, ok, we’ll see.
Let’s take a look at what that $35,000 digital mapping project produced in response to what Board President Danny Johnson characterized as a request for the
“FINAL ANSWER
TO THE LDPCSD POU MAP QUESTION
ONCE AND FOR ALL”.
Ready? Here’s what Pete Kampa and his “yes nodding board of defectors” presented to the public and the state water board in defense of a notice of violations regarding the water rights of license 11395.
A very expensive map (and unknown length and cost of a continuing service contract for updates and miscellaneous services) that fails to identify the
legitimate PLACE OF USE BOUNDARY for MERCED RIVER WATER per water license 11395.
WL11395 is not even mentioned!
This map PETE KAMPA and HIS BOARD OF DEFECTORS paid to have created to answer the question as to where Merced River water could legally be used under water license 11395 in this area, only directs a viewer to the Merced Irrigation District which Kampa states supplied the factual basis information for this
KK BM
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[KAMPA KRAPA BULLSHIT MAPA]
lol
California CAD Solutions was paid to produce a map illustrating the Place of Use for Merced River Water per WL11395
yet the map only directs a viewer to the MID!
Another CLASSIC KAMPA FULL CIRCLE OF EXPENSIVE AND MEANINGLESS SUBTERFUGE TO CONCEAL THE FACT HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN QUITE DISHONEST WHEN IT COMES TO CLEAR WATER LICENSE RESTRICTIONS IN 11395!
ANOTHER PERFECT EXAMPLE
OF THE FINE WORK IN GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY PERFORMED
by CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICT ASSOCIATION (CSDA) 20 year BOARD DIRECTOR
PETER J. KAMPA
with the undying support of his
“BOBBLE HEADED YES NODDING BOARD OF DEFECTORS”
BUT THEY ARE CERTAINLY NOT ALONE IN THIS EXPANSIVE MISREPRESENTATION OF FACT AND APPARENTLY POSSESS CRUCIAL “IN HOUSE SUPPORT” EVEN AT THE STATE LEVEL.
SO WHAT ABOUT THE SUBSEQUENT and CONTINUED MISREPORTING OF FACT BY THE SWRCB AFTER SUCH AN EXCELLENT Sept 28 2017 NOTICE OF VIOLATION INVESTIGATION –
is that a result of internal SWRCB support for PETE KAMPA and his activities?
(Counties of violation are still incorrectly posted on the SWRCB water right complaints website chart as STANISLAUS and SUTTER, instead of TUOLUMNE and MARIPOSA, despite an April advisement (complaint) and assurance it had been corrected – perhaps it does legitimately take more than 4 months to correct such posted information? I don’t know, but it doesn’t seem right.)
Is the continued display of such OBVIOUS INCORRECT INFORMATION the work of internal “DEEP STATE ACTIVISTS” pushing some personal and/or liberal “water for all agenda” while simultaneously demonstrating a complete disregard for their paid responsibility of enforcing established California water law?
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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Why would ANY Merced Irrigation District official (exercising a modicum of due diligence) sign a water agreement involving their extremely valuable water license when an obviously incorrect map produced the month before was attached?
REM? The LDPCSD purchased a GIS Plotter and started cranking out “fake maps” left and right and interjecting them into the information stream? Some labeled proposed, others not. At least this was labeled proposed and the attorney wrote a disclaimer as to accuracy, but seriously……..is this how a “wink and nod” is conducted?
Was the JULY 2008 MID OFFICIAL POU MAP simply an “insurance policy reaction” by the MID to demonstrate they were still familiar with the legitimate POU boundary of their license?
Or did the LDPCSD slip their June 2008 “FAKE POU MAP” into that July 10, 2008 agreement just before the MID MAP was plotted later that month?
WHO KNOWS WITHOUT THE FACTS?
BUT IT CERTAINLY DOES NOT PASS THE SMELL TEST!
How could MID officials possibly have been unaware of the
MAJOR DIFFERENCES in the POU BOUNDARY as presented in that LDPCSD JUNE 2008 POU map?
? ? ?
I’ve got to get away – any mistakes fixed in time
She’s been a real trooper – with legitimate whine
Tells me when the hens need out – tells me when they need in
Tells me now it’s time to go out – and appreciate the less smoky wind.
MUCH BETTER LOOKING SOUTHEAST
My best to you and yours, Lew
