“Plant Manager Kampa stated that he agreed with the criteria set forth in the letter, referring to reimbursement of any costs incurred by the District to provide well water.”

 

ANY COSTS.  This is unreal because I have always maintained those properties which would receive the “special benefit of water service” [that they otherwise could not obtain under the water license which the LDPCSD operates] SHOULD PAY FOR THOSE BENEFITS.  What is so difficult about that?  Simple and fair to all.  To do otherwise would be like charging all properties in the subdivision for maintaining the sewer treatment plant despite the fact the far majority of properties were required to install their own on-site disposal system.

Stay tuned – that White Elephant of a sewer system on Ranchito Drive (constructed because a developer needed a better system for all the spec/model homes being built in violation of LDPOA CC&Rs)  might possibly become part of the LDPCSD a lot sooner than you think because KAMPA & Corporation are experts in the field and “know how to take care of business”.   Heck, nothing to worry about.  We will just pay increased rates, taxes and fees for their added profit margin.   Strange.  Are we really a  nonprofit public agency when those managing and directing our future do so to increase their, and their affiliates, profit margins?   I mean LDPCSD appears to be transforming into a money maker for everyone else.

What happened in the past is unfortunate (especially if a property were misrepresented as having “normal access” to service) but it should not become an operating policy of the District to continue to expand these “special benefit services” with our new EMERGENCY SOURCE ground well production while expecting the legally entitled consumers of Merced River Water to pay the bill.

I brought up years ago the possibility of having a Special Benefit Zone of service where all properties receiving that “special benefit of water service” divided equally the total cost of such provision between all properties receiving the water.

OH NO!  That’s much TOO EXPENSIVE.   Much easier (and less noticeable and subject to protest) to quietly spread those costs among the legal 99%.

SAME METHOD OF OPERATION

Here’s something interesting regarding another property annexed AFTER LDPCSD HAVING TO CONSTRUCT THE RANCHITO WELL BECAUSE OF LICENSE POU VIOLATIONS.

The LDPCSD Annexation Resolution 94-1, (Similar to the property mentioned above in T-Corners Land Limited” Resolution 94-3)  was also approved by Mariposa County LAFCo (Local Agency Formation Commission) with these routine statements in the paperwork:

“WHEREAS, a proposal for the Lake Don Pedro Community Services District Annexation No. 94-1, was heretofore filed with the Executive Officer of the Local Agency Formation Commission and said Executive Officer has examined said proposal and determined its sufficiency; and……”

#7: “Finds that the District will be able to provide adequate water service to the 20.1 acre portion of the territory.”

“Ed Johnson, Executive Officer of the LAFCo of Mariposa County on the 28th day of March, 1995.”

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FEB 2, 2016: LEW HERE AGAIN.  Now my question WAS AND STILL IS:

How did Mr. Ed Johnson, the Executive Officer of the LAFCo, come to the decision the DISTRICT could legally provide adequate water service to this 20.1 acre property?

EXACTLY WHO PROVIDED THIS INFORMATION TO LAFCo?

When still on the LDPCSD Board and tracking down what happened back then with all these annexations, many  of which made little sense, I asked some folks in Mariposa County government why they believed the LDPCSD could  serve water to those numerous outside MID POU properties when L11395 clearly prohibited the service.   I was advised because representatives from the LDPCSD advised the water could be supplied.

SEE WHAT I MEAN FOLKS?  HALF TRUTHS BY REPS OF THE LDPCSD?

The LDPCSD was required to put in the 1992 Ranchito Well because of violations and suddenly another frenzied flood of proposed annexations by land developers, speculators and some who said they only wanted water for residential purposes were filed. So in one respect since the district was indeed currently serving outside MID POU properties with the “RANCHITO VIOLATION REMEDY WELL” LDPCSD “representatives” could cross their fingers and magically extend the ground well substitution remedy to further proposed properties for annexation and future water service.

I’m sorry, but I believe that was intentionally misleading information to LAFCo considering the language of L11395 and the MID POU agreement and mandatory monthly compliance reporting.  Not mentioning the SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES regarding water service to those properties in order to gain approval for district boundary expansion was deceitful.  Gee, kind-of sounds like when the recent State Water Board Order recited that the LDPCSD had no alternate water source huh?

This as we all know by now, equates to even further dependence upon ground water production in this drought prone Sierra Nevada foothill fractured rock geology.

I know……blah, blah, blah, …sorry, but it didn’t make much sense back then and twenty years of turmoil has not ripened this ill conceived plan into anything more palatable.

Naturally the 99% of legal MERCED RIVER WATER consumers are picking up the bills with no idea about what is going on, and believe me, those bills added up through the years with attorney and litigation fees, research/investigation, engineering reports, etc.

So half-truths were used to get annexations approved, the county didn’t confirm or validate assurances of service through other sources such as the Merced Irrigation District; State Water Board, LDPCSD attorney, etc., a quick remedy for past violations of a water license is used to further expand district service on an approved map representing an enormous water service empire that is actually built on reams of government paperwork processed through untold other government departments and agencies and it is all based on self-serving half-truths from an LDPCSD representative? 

Has PETE KAMPA also returned to the LDPCSD to tie up some loose ends of his

WATER CAREER THAT STARTED HERE?

(why does this stuff always turn into a line in a poem?  lol)

PRESTO! We dutifully pay our bills but unintentionally support a subsidized water benefit program for private party profit and we have a monumental rate/fee increase on the horizon?

What was once an inconvenience from normal operations of a surface water treatment plant will become LDPCSD policy and that little “foot in the door*” will become more like a SWAT team battering ram.

*”Foot in the door” refers to persistent/aggressive old time door to door salespeople.  Upon realizing the resident who answered the door was about to close the door in their face, the salesperson would place their foot between the door and jam preventing door closure while quickly making their final sales pitch.