Wow! This is so much easier (in some respects) doing individual posts rather than editing a long running page (Years 2020 & 2019), but for the last year I have held tight to the dream some honest employee in State Government might have the authority to intervene in this outrageous criminal conspiracy spanning decades that was ALMOST SUCCESSFUL with the planned substitution of a DIGITAL FAKE MID POU MAP with the real one (1978) on file with the State Water Board in Sacramento.
When Pete Kampa explained the State of California was requiring a digital format for responding to their NOTICE OF VIOLATION – it certainly didn’t sound right and opened the door to disinformation being commingled with legitimate materials. Can you imagine how screwed up the State Water Board must be when they submit to the public that the Merced River flows through Sutter County up north?
Did any of you check out last meetings agenda packet? (Have you requested to be added to the list?)
Geez….the Agenda Packet below sure took some time to post …forgot how to upload/download a pdf file! lol seriously! I can’t take a break from this stuff without having to retrain. Anyway, one of the points I want to stress is the fact the District and other local government entities have not been honest with the mandatory MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS (MR WECS) of the Lake Don Pedro subdivision who have paid the lion’s share of costs of operation since formation in August 1980. Unfortunately, much of those costs were focused on violating the water license to provide water to developers wanting to create other subdivisions adjacent to ours – while we paid for their planning, development and extra costs for their “specially blended water” which we must now consume also instead of the quality Merced River water in the lake! (They must receive groundwater substitution but don’t want to pay for their own groundwater well, whereas in the subdivision we generally can’t have private groundwater wells where CSD is available and are thus MANDATORY CUSTOMERS who have no choice but to pay and pay without district answers to legitimate festering questions lingering for years!
LAFCO ANNEXED PROPERTIES have a choice develop their own well and develop. Or don’t.
Problem is, many real estate folks told prospective owners of such property they had a right to water and would receive such water service in the future. WRONG! Buyer Beware!
Worse yet, the original developers of the subdivision and water company also manipulated land prices and sales with promises of future water and they remained our engineers for over 50 years until only recently leaving during the State Water Board Notice of Violation – and the three separate attempts to close the investigation with further FALSE INFORMATION provided by Pete Kampa and his agents in deceit. (Did you know Pete Kampa is a 20 year board director for the CSDA? California Special Districts Association in Sacramento which is an enormously powerful lobbying organization for special districts like ours? oh, you knew that huh? lol)
Employees at the LDPCSD (many inherited from Boise Cascade) also intentionally violated regulations to supply their friends and associates holding property outside the subdivision who were assured they could get water……eventually. Sure, there were some who wanted water so they could live here but many were grandiose plans for other subdivisions just to make money while the lowly LDP subdivision property owners paid for their expensive groundwater substitution. What a scam!
Imagine, it has taken 5 years just to get our current Board of Defectors to recognize the legal PLACE OF USE for MERCED RIVER WATER per that very clear language contained in water license 11395 held by the Merced Irrigation District (MID) and the equally clear conditions in the water agreement with the MID.
CHECK OUT the Blackwater Draft Preliminary Engineering Report (July 2020) on page 233 where the MID WATER AGREEMENT – highlighted in yellow – requires monthly reporting.
Why has our traditional MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT OUTSIDE PLACE OF USE report (which satisfied the MID reporting requirements) not been returned to the monthly board packet? (Kampa removed it soon after his hi-jacking of our district thanks to the board of do nothing defectors who would not ask one simple question: WHERE IS THE LEGAL MERCED RIVER WATER PLACE OF USE BOUNDARY PER LICENSE RESTRICTIONS?)
Heck they gave Kampa $35,000 for a digital mapping program to answer that question but what did we get for that money? An incorrect fabricated map produced by yet another CSDA affiliate which suggested contacting the MID for place of use information. LOL
MID was working with Kampa because his water service to LAFCO ANNEXATIONS helped them too. They advocated for some of those annexations so they could snag the water rights the property held with a promise of future water service! Essentially forcing the LDPCSD to pay for their added water right benefit. Think about that,.
The water license is held by the MID. They are responsible for making sure restrictions are not violated, yet there they are making water right deals left and right and passing on the “payment” to a district operating under their license which couldn’t possibly provide water to LAFCO ANNEXATIONS outside the subdivision. Full circle. MR WECS has been betrayed by every single entity involved with this fraud of a CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICT.
Look what entity created the LDPCSD….the LDPOA! When did you ever hear of our association using any of its substantial revenue or legal influence to protect their own property owners within the subdivision who are mandatory customers of a rogue special district?
What about their water rights in the future?
They are the only owners the California Public Utility Commission recognized as legally entitled to that lake water.
So?
Then why all the lies, deceit, and misdirection? Why misuse of the initial EMERGENCY DROUGHT GRANT FUNDING to develop extremely expensive and unreliable groundwater wells by Pete Kampa and his board when those funds (and relaxed permitting process) was the perfect opportunity to start development of the McClure Deep Water Project which has been on the books since the 1990s?
Simple answer, providing water to the legally entitled subdivision owners was LESS IMPORTANT than creating an ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF WATER to mix with our quality Merced River water so it could circumvent water license restrictions and be served outside the legal POU of the SUBDIVISION to LAFCO (Local Agency Formation Commission)) ANNEXED PROPERTIES Pete Kampa set up between 1994-1997.
Kampa was unethically brought back to the LDPCSD to finish the MAJOR DEVELOPMENT PLANS he assisted in setting up 20 years earlier by providing a water service with which to develop – all to be paid for by MR WECs of the legal subdivision for perpetuity.
REM?
THEY DIDN’T WANT OUR SUBDIVISION LAND WITH WATER
ONLY OUR SUBDIVISION WATER ON THEIR LAND
I digress….anyway, below is the agenda packet for the last meeting so you can double check my scans and read for the entire context.
Sorry, but this is clearly meant to mislead the reader……
Those fines were one of the last things I voted on as a director when leaving my 2010-2014 term. Originally Kampa and his supporters wanted $500 to $1000 fines, I objected and suggested the lower amounts that were ultimately approved. Apparently I wasn’t the only one fearful of even a $250 fine for using what “they said” was “too much water” while simultaneously selling our emergency drought groundwater to properties outside the subdivision – our customers used 50% of what they normally would and many lost valuable landscaping.
Notice the difference in description contained in the below Tuolumne County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan report regarding our LDPCSD groundwater wells? (Thanks for the honesty Tuolumne County!)
Well, I’ve spent waaaaaaay too much time on this but will no doubt return many times as there is much misleading information. You know, it’s rather like an incremental relay race. Every year they push just a little further, lay back (or resign) until the next individual incrementally pushes the scam a little further – all the while steadfastly refusing to acknowledge their negligent and wrongful activities of the past.
Cheats and liars who betrayed neighbors
Think they’re so smart, safe, and clever
Refusing to admit when caught with what done
But those who read know them much better
My best to you and yours, Lew
