“THAT’S NOT SO BAD. IN _____________________ WE WERE PAYING……$$$$”

Well I guess the good news is it probably won’t bother the newcomers to this area who are likely already thrilled with the lower cost of living compared to city life. Perhaps that’s part of the County’s timing gimmick of attempting to hand off another development failure whose ultimate outcome of substantial expense was clearly foreseeable by those who took the time to understand what was actually being “sold to the LDPCSD MANDATORY CUSTOMERS”….a BIG financial problem.

Another classic “bait and switch” while taxpayers pay more and more and receive less and less – that’s the traditional cost for unrestrained government and unaccountable officials.

The original agreement involved …..

too bad Mariposa County Planning/LAFCO records of all this Don Pedro area development have been prohibited from pubic review for well over one year now ….as it would be helpful to review and see exactly how such a regulatory failure occurred. I recall exactly when all these public county annexation records were withheld from further public review……when it was discovered that there was an alleged 20+ year old LAFCO [LocaL Agency Formation Commission] ANNEXATION of property along the shores of Lake McClure into the Lake Don Pedro Community Services District (LDPCSD) in 1995 (crooked PETER KAMPA strikes again) for a “slumbering 900ac proposed residential subdivision” that was completely hidden from public view (even from directors on the board at the time who had asked about a rumor of a major development across from the LDPCSD administration office!) for over TWO DECADES HIDDEN FROM THE PUBIC? (Or was the annexation just “manufactured as completed” upon Peter Kampa’s return to the LDPCSD to finish the annexation corruption by finally furnishing the groundwater necessary for developments he assisted in planning 20 years earlier before being caught resulting in a quick resignation?)

…. a sewage treatment facility on the golf course THAT WAS WITHIN the water license PLACE OF USE for Merced River water.

WHY ARE PUBLIC RECORDS BEING CONCEALED FROM THE PUBLIC?

Anyway, public records have been concealed by the County regarding this proposed subdivision annexation into the LDPCSD along with many others that defied not only logic and the law, but LAFCO’s own governing regulations on how such annexations into existing special districts would be processed! LAFCO RESOLUTION 76-4…… also still concealed from the public – essentially stated without the availability of water/septic for the development clearly identified in the annexation application, such annexation would not even be considered by LAFCO! Ahhh, but what happened? Some annexations didn’t even mention the project name or property location in the paperwork but were approved! Even stated there was no duty to advise the public of the annexation process! WHAT?????

The County doesn’t obey their own operating regulations but now wants to simply push the tremendous negative financial effects caused by their own irresponsibility on the innocent, AND ALREADY VICTIMIZED and over taxed, MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS of the Lake Don Pedro subdivision! I’d say this is all a bunch of bullshit, but actually, it’s human waste going back many years.

ORBITS AROUND THE SAME SIMPLE UNDENIABLE FACT

So much of this can be traced to one clear fact…. local governments were intent upon continuing their annexations into the LDPCSD regardless of the mounting violations of CALIFORNIA STATE WATER LICENSE 11395 (held by the MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT) which restricts Merced River water use (impounded and pumped from Lake McClure) to the Lake Don Pedro residential subdivision and golf course.

Why? So vast areas of rural foothill drought prone property could be developed and taxed by the county while passing the financial costs for the necessary water service to the unsuspecting owners of LDP subdivision property. (LAFCOs also set it up so that these LDP Property owners would ALSO BE MANDATORY CUSTOMERS OF THE LDPCSD WHILE LAFCOS EXPLOITED WATER LICENSE 11395 TO THEIR BENEFIT.

Think about how devious that was…….What property owner in the subdivision would have ever imagined they would be subsidizing brand new subdivision developments many miles away through extremely expensive groundwater wells developed through the intentional misrepresentation of LDPCSD area service maps (and other information) to state and federal granting authorities during an emergency drought (thanks again to crooked Peter Kampa and his CSDA…..CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICT ASSOCIATION for re-configuring our former SURFACE WATER TREATMENT PLANT into a SUBSIDIZED GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION FACILITY FOR LAFCO ANNEXATIONS INTO THE LDPCSD!)

SHOULDN’T MID PROTECT 11395?

You would think the Merced Irrigation District would protect it’s own license right? Wrong. They have encouraged such violation for decades by ignoring what they also created in their desire to secure as many water rights to that Merced River water as possible. Heck, they even worked out deals where they received the proposed LAFCO annexed property’s water rights in exchange for the promise that the LDPCSD would provide water service in the future for the property development KNOWING FULL WELL PROVIDING MERCED RIVER WATER OUTSIDE THE SUBDIVISION/GOLF COURSE WOULD VIOLATE EXTREMELY CLEAR PLACE OF USE (POU) RESTRICTIONS IN THEIR OWN FRIGG’N LICENSE! Want to talk about duplicity and betrayal of legal duties and responsibilities of their own organization and shareholders?

COUNTY WOULDN’T HAVE TO FUND WATER WELLS – MANDATORY CUSTOMERS OF THEIR LDPCSD WOULD!

Tuolumne and Mariposa counties would clearly benefit from this deal through taxable developments while MID quietly picked up more water rights (of course the Piney Creek ISLAND OF PROPOSED SERVICE never even had the water rights to give MID but was annexed by Mariposa County LAFCO anyway – as an island of potential future water service? Islands of service? Supposedly that is something to be avoided by LAFCOs. Yup, real estate, land developers, contractors, engineers, blah blah blah…. everyone making money and doing business while the Lake Don Pedro subdivision property owner paid for all the added costs in developing water services for properties the district had no legal duty or moral obligation to provide SQUAT! Yeah, an old worn out story right? Welcome to GOV CORRUPTION 101. lol

CRAP! I have things to do….. anyway, as FINALLY recognized by the District and County in this agenda (when on the LDPCSD board years ago I told our LDPCSD attorney that the new facility was OUTSIDE THE POU – THE ATTORNEY DID NOT EVEN KNOW!) ….this new sewer treatment facility is OUTSIDE THE MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT PLACE OF USE FOR MERCED RIVER WATER and therefore, must be provided expensive GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION for operation in order to circumvent the water use restrictions in MID’s WL11395. (The original disposal system was on the golf course and within the Place of Use for Merced River water – a completely different situation.)

SO?…..expensive groundwater from government grant funded ground wells….. that were SPECIFICALLY DEVELOPED TO PRODUCE POTABLE WATER FOR DOMESTIC HUMAN CONSUMPTION DURING AN EMERGENCY DROUGHT is being used to process sewage outside the Place of Use. Thank you Mariposa County for the opportunity to accept yet another financial nightmare due to county officials failing to obey their own department regulations and state water law.

My best to you and yours, Lew