Everyone seems to be wondering how the Russians obtained information that was handed over to Wikileaks….did some of it actually come from the Democrat Caucus Server controlled by the Pakistani Awan family which was apparently paid much more money than other comparable IT employees working for the Democrat Party? (Millions of dollars for what? Blackmail due to what was discovered on that server? Was it later sold?)
And who was in charge of that server? Our California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (oh yeah, and his current Deputy California Attorney General who was also in Washington DC at the time!) Co-incidence?
Folks, just imagine….all this was going on within the DNC and Democrat Caucus in Washington DC (that was actively covered up to prevent any public understanding as to how serious the information theft was) all the while the DEMOCRAT PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIST LEFT continued to “MAKE UP EVIL STORIES” connecting PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP with the alleged Russian backed release of information they claim was damaging to Hillary Clinton during the election. (Funny. HRC has enough damaging information “baggage of her own doing” without any assistance from the Russians or anyone else!)
I’m sorry, but I honestly believe the most dangerous organized enemy of our UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, has been, and still is, THE HI-JACKED DEMOCRAT PARTY, aka, the new DEMOCRAT PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIST LEFT!
(Of course without millions of “low information” (and easily deceived) voters that keep them in office the DPSL could never get away with such despicable criminal behavior. Gosh, perhaps that’s just another reason for the DPSL to encourage and advance such massive uncontrolled illegal immigration into this country by people who will vote for ANY PARTY who provides more services at NO COST!)
The DPSL PROFESSIONAL DISINFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA focuses on blaming, and framing, innocent others to cover their own duplicitous betrayal of America and all her legal citizens which simultaneously obstructs the legitimate progress being made in cleaning up the decades of their continuing corruption.
They will do ANYTHING TO DISTRACT AND CONCEAL THEIR NEFARIOUS ACTIVITIES! –prohibit free speech challenging DPSL activities at all levels of American education, from elementary school to state universities! They encourage assaults on those who disagree rather than a logical debate. Why? Because many of their positions are completely illogical when investigated! They even encourage massive illegal immigration into this country which clearly injures all legal American citizens and their vested, entitled interests as LEGAL CITIZENS!
There’s an easy way to identify most of these folks fortunately – if some activity or policy is clearly detrimental to the LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZEN (regardless of any particular individual difference – as our population diversity is what makes us even stronger) ,,, if the activity is obviously against the interests of our country and her LEGAL CITIZENS…..you can likely bet, money, marbles or chalk it originated from the darkness of the DEMOCRAT PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIST LEFT!
YES INDEED….there are many other “links” in the above articles. Check them out as I believe all this will slowly start coming together to paint a pretty clear picture as to the lengths these ANTI-AMERICA activists (often clad in RED WHITE and BLUE as camouflage) will go to destroy this country!
Now that integrity and honor has been returned to the US ATTORNEY GENERAL’s OFFICE (WILLIAM BARR) I believe we will be hearing much more about this, and many other, absolute betrayals to our USA and her LEGAL CITIZENS in the near future. I will continue to pray for such ILLUMINATION because just as Liz Wheeler’s segment title on OANN
Honestly do not know what to believe regarding this last meeting as I think we have all been “systematically conditioned” to expect the unexpected – which is of course, a very difficult environment to navigate when it comes to responsible planning for the future.
Traditional values of “right and wrong”, “legal vs illegal”, “ethical vs unethical”, (all orbiting the concept of an individual possessing some form of a “moral compass” derived from “proper upbringing”), has incrementally been replaced with an “anything goes” policy by those claiming to have a better system. However, this proclaimed “better system” completely ignores the legally entitled citizens in favor of extremely expensive special benefits/opportunities to a host of others who demand the same rights and privileges without the corresponding allegiance, obligation and dedication to the actual providers of such costly “giveaways”.
WHO PROVIDES THIS WEALTH OF BLESSINGS?
THE AMERICAN CITIZEN!
The citizens of America WERE NEVER INTENDED TO BLINDLY SERVE THEIR GOVERNMENT!
Government was created to protect and serve THEIR INTERESTS!
When government “gives away anything” it is actually giving away that which belongs to all American Citizens who have earned and accumulated such wealth through generations of hard work, sacrifice and devotion to THEIR COUNTRY THAT SERVES THEM. (Yes of course, bad things have happened in the past, but such evil is not accepted as the operating policy for the future. We have learned extremely painful lessons from the past and Americans generally strive for the values of truth, honor and justice for everyone, regardless of our diversity – which makes US even stronger.)
Corruption of the Lake Don Pedro Community Services District is a microcosm of the disease sweeping across America and if radical change is not implemented immediately (as our current President is attempting to do – despite the traditional and disingenuous activities of the DEMOCRAT, PROGRESSIVE, SOCIALIST LEFT) the FREEDOMS and OPPORTUNITIES American Citizens have cherished and valued (yet have been taken for granted as though they exist on their own accord) will be lost forever and all the “late on the scene”, “after the fact”, retrospective – even heartfelt sobbing apologies with promises to do better next time will be absolutely useless because there will be no “next time”.
Victims of fatal traps are incapable of accepting apologies after the fact as they will simply no longer exist.
APRIL 15, 2019 LDPCSD BODM (Started to just write the report, then decided audio/video better idea (so viewers could “hear” the nuances of the presentations. This was the original beginning I forgot to include when I decided to go with the video. Ooops! LOL)
Director Emery Ross not present.
Pledge.
PUBLIC COMMENT: Service
line replacement questions by public member.
Stated his double check valve became clogged and was leaking, apparently
due to debris in water line. Not a big
concern as he was able to clear it, but questioned how is water measured with
the on/off of pressure with air gaps…does air get measured as actual water
usage? Short answer, yes. Readings have been higher than they should
be. Worked has already stopped in that
area. Customer was impressed that when the
construction company was forced to remove a rock wall to reach the project
site, when completed,the rock wall was replaced. Felt the work was good
quality. A director commented that the air pressure would still register less
than the same volume of water passing through the meter.
President’s report:
Wanted to “plant a seed” with the board in regards to the LDPCSD
rate/fee increase and suggested the Board of Directors proceed with a new rate
study to determine how much of a rate increase.
Discussion focused on doing a RATE INCREASE. Regardless if the LDPCSD received more grant
money or not, President Johnson said project work had to be done so a rate
increase would be necessary. Looking at
long term repairs, etc. Johnson said the
LDPCD could not even afford the 25% the district would have to come up with as
an annual premium in order to secure the rest of the grant money (if
application for grant was approved). Johnson
stated as the auditor had reported/suggested, the district needed a rate
increase to cover existing liabilities.
Johnson said he realized the idea of a rate increase was not popular,
but they’ve been there before and it had to be done. Johnson characterized the financial situation
and needed repairs as whether the district was going to play “offensive ball”
or “defensive ball”? Johnson emphasized
a number of times that the board needed to address the situation and gather
their own thoughts but repeatedly advised he was in favor of a “rate study” and
corresponding rate increase. Johnson gave the examples of the old Ranchito
Well – $40,000, barge: $60,000 – there’s
a $100,000 –getting the pumps at the lake fixed (our primary intake pumps at
Lake McClure that have been used since the formation of the LDPCSD to supply
water to the subdivision and other areas.
Valves needed to be fixed….that’s a couple of hundred thousand dollars…..
that’s $300,000…. And that’s 30% of what we have saved right now. Johnson posed: what else is going to break here that they
will have to react to? A rate increase
is something the board might HAVE TO DO for the future. When discussion as to how much of an increase
would be necessary, Syndie Marchesiello, Board Secretary, cautioned President
Johnson that such discussion was outside the noticed agenda and should be
placed on the next meeting agenda for consideration and discussion.
Johnson thanked Syndie for keeping the board on track but it
was something he had been thinking about for a while and wanted to bring up but
agreed the next meeting would be fine.
LEW RESPONSE TO THE ABOVE:
GM and HIS BOARD still have not answered pertinent/legitimate questions
from years ago…..refuse to place items on the agenda for discussion – yet continue
deceptions while planning to victimize customers even further with another rate
increase!
WHO PLACED THE LDPCSD IN THIS PRECARIOUS SITUATION WHILE
PURSUING A SPECIAL BENEFIT SUBSIDIZED GROUNDWATER PROGRAM FOR LAFCO ANNEXATIONS
FINANCED WITH PUBLIC FUNDS AND GRANT MONEY RATHER THAN REPAIRING OUR PRIMARY
INFRASTRUCTURE WITH THE FIRST ROUND OF GRANTS AND PERFECT OPPORTUNITY WITH A
LOWER LAKE LEVEL FOR THE WORK?
ALL INTENTIONALLY DONE SO AS TO OBTAIN THE NECESSARY “ALTERNATE
SOURCE GROUNDWATER PRODUCTION” FOR LAFCO ANNEXATIONS (WITHOUT AGREEING THERE
WILL BE NO MORE EXPANSION OF SUBSIDIZED WATER SERVICE OUTSIDE THE SUBDIVISION
TO LAND DEVELOPERS OUR DISTRICT HAS NO LEGAL DUTY OR MORAL OBLIGATION TO
PROVIDE WATER WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY PLACING THE DISTRICT IN THE PRECARIOUS POSITION
OF HAVING TO RAISE RATES/FEES TO DO WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE IN THE FIRST
PLACE — RATHER THAN FOCUSING DISTRICT BUSINESS ON OUTSIDE INTERESTS OF PETE
KAMPA FROM 20 YEARS AGO WHEN FIRST EMPLOYED WITH THE LDPCSD AND BUSY SETTING UP
THESE ANNEXATIONS WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE BOARD AT THE TIME.)
DISTRICT LIABILITY WAS INTENTIONALLY INCREASED WITH THE
RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF POST RETIREMENT MEDICAL BENEFITS THAT A PRIOR BOARD HAD
ABOLISHED SEVERAL YEARS EARLIER. HOW DID
THE ORIGINAL RANCHITO WELL #1 BECOME INOPERATIVE FOR SO LONG? HOW DID THE BARGE GET DISMANTLED AND MADE COMPLETELY
INOPERATIVE AFTER TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON ENGINEERING AND PLANNING HAD
ALREADY BEEN SPENT FOR A DIFFERENT ABANDONED CONCEPT? WHO
HAS REPEATEDLY LIED TO THE BOARD AND PUBLIC (without accountability) ABOUT HIS
COMMUNICATIONS WITH DIFFERENT OFFICIALS REGARDING FAILURE TO ABIDE BY THE DOLLAR
GENERAL WATER SERVICE CONTRACT THE GM HIMSELF NEGOTIATED? OR WHETHER THE POU MAP INFORMATION THE
GM/BOARD SUBMITTED TO THE STATE WATER BOARD WAS ACCURATE AND CORRECT?
GM KAMPA REPORT: Kampa stated the majority of his “exercise” the last
month.
AH HECK! Let’s go audio/video so viewers can hear
everything…..
Yes indeed, three BIG beautiful 1:500,000 scale Nevada maps resting comfortably (and neatly) on hooks in a corner for easy access when researching a particular area within that state (Nevada has 17 counties). Since the maps were so large, placing them on a table top (even if I could find an available clean table – or floor space….lol) was too cumbersome and obviously risked damage to the paper media.
Solution: cutting long pieces of a redwood fence plank (sanding to avoid splinters), attaching the map to the “holder stick” with staples, and then placing the redwood holder on wall hooks. This permits easy rearrangement (which map will be “on top” for viewing) – or even a multi-map viewing opportunity with a side by side comparison.
Attaching the maps to long pieces of cut/sanded redwood sticks and hanging on wall hooks solved the viewing difficulty with such large detailed USGS maps. Mirror frame “hat hooks” provided an important clue to the realization that my “dream of a final home” was flawed.
Sometimes I will be looking at a particular map in conjunction with Google Earth images on the tablet but if curiosity arises about mineral composition (for example) I can simply rearrange the map order on the hooks by bringing the geologic map forward for viewing (below). The system will work for any map, of any state.
The geologic map is extremely interesting but also required bringing out some of my old college geography and geology text books just to understand what information was being conveyed. (Pretty technical descriptions but very interesting.)
THE “FINAL HOME DREAM” WAS ONLY AN ILLUSION
Although my Father’s military service required many relocations within, and outside the United States while growing up as a “military dependent” , I apparently got the whole meaning of “home” wrong and replaced it with a whimsical quality of my own, that being finality. Seems all those years of dreaming of a “final home” where I would never have to move again and learn yet another foreign environment along with the customs of the people living there, was a fallacy of logic and likely a financially unsustainable one in this ANYTHING GOES, FREE FOR ALL, over regulated and taxed current state of Califusion. Stuff happens, yeah?
Yup, the actual truth of the matter had bombarded me for decades while packing and unpacking from place to place…..wishing, even praying, that the repetitious cycle of moving and endless flow of “goodbyes and nice to meet you” introductions would eventually cease, yet I was oblivious to the reality, totally missed the undeniable truth of the matter –
home is where you hang your hat –
and that can be anywhere, for any length of time, and at any age.
Well, the weeds are conspiring again – must get outside and battle against their goal of total domination. Hope you all have a great weekend.
Who knows? But on March 23, 2019 at 1943 hours I sent a request to the LDPCSD for Public Information with a copy of that request sent simultaneously to another address to prove it was actually sent. I requested this information because board room meeting statements by current General Manager/Treasurer PETER J. KAMPA confirmed such correspondence existed – that he had emailed officials at the SWRCB (State Water Resources Control Board) many times.
Remember the statements by members of the BOARD OF DIRECTORS when it was suggested that Kampa contact the SWRCB to find out what the delay was on the Merced Irrigation District Water License 11395 Place of Use investigation regarding the FAKE POU MAP KAMPA AND HIS BOARD HAD PRODUCED to FINALLY ANSWER the MERCED RIVER WATER USE question for the the Lake Don Pedro area “ONCE AND FOR ALL”?
(Still have difficulty understanding how the LDPCSD Board of Directors could seriously believe they had the power and authority to produce a map that would supersede the legitimate WL11395 POU Map on file with the SWRCB as to where Merced River water could legally be diverted and consumed.)
HERE IS THE REQUEST I SENT THE LDPCSD OFFICE:
“During the March 18, 2019 LDPCSD monthly board meeting directors questioned current GM – TREASURER PETER KAMPA about the status of the NOTICE OF VIOLATION by the SWRCB (regarding the submitted POU MAP Pete Kampa had produced through another CSDA member/affiliate CAD COMPANY in MODESTO, CA). Kampa stated he did not know. VP Hankemeier asked if the district could send a letter to the state asking why we had not heard anything yet? KAMPA stated he sends them emails all the time. This response occurred at approximately 52’47” into the meeting. This is a formal public information request for all those emails GM KAMPA stated he has sent to the SWRCB in regards to the water license 11395 map issue which apparently continues unresolved as of yet. Please notify when copies of these emails are ready for payment and pickup. Thank you, Lew Richardson LDPCSD Customer for almost 30 years and former LDPCSD 4 year term Director.”
OFFICE RESPONSE ON MARCH 25, 2018 @ 0939hrs:
Lew, Your request has been received and is being processed. Regards, Syndie Marchesiello Office Manager / Board Secretary
Who knows? Maybe Pete Kampa has indeed been sending many emails to “COVERT OPERATIVES” at the SWRCB? Perhaps that is how the attempted “quiet June 2018 closure” of an active NOTICE OF VIOLATION investigation almost occurred? And based on what? MORE FALSE INFORMATION BY PETER J KAMPA. After all, such communications surely are not legal and therefore would have to be “concealed from the public” – just like so much of “Pete Kampa’s special interest LDPCSD activities” taking place behind the scenes. Reason? His obvious devotion to prior (and highly suspicious) LAFCO ANNEXATIONS INTO THE DISTRICT BOUNDARIES he set up 20 years earlier?
After a trip to the transfer station we stopped by the office just before lunch to pay the water bill and check on that PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUEST from last month.
Office Manager/Board Secretary Syndie Marchesiello advised she would check with the GM today. Who knows? Maybe there are some emails with information Kampa didn’t want to be public yet? Perhaps he just forgot considering his busy schedule with his other SPECIAL DISTRICT MANAGEMENT CONTRACTS? Maybe his duties as an almost 20 year DIRECTOR WITH THE CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION (CSDA) complicated his schedule and he just didn’t have the time to forward all those email communications with SWRCB officials?
Then again, maybe they just don’t exist, like the 15 emails he stated he had sent to Dollar General officials?
CLASSIC CHARACTERISTICS
OF THE DEMOCRAT,
PROGRESSIVE,
SOCIALIST LEFT
yeah?
Chronic excuses for failure to perform required duties; disinformation and concealment of truth; forcing an already victimized and ignored mandatory customer base to pay more for less service and quality of water while subsidizing an extremely expensive special benefit GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM for owners of LAFCO ANNEXED PROPERTY OUTSIDE THE WATER LICENSE Place of Use for Merced River water……, this and much more, ALL DUE TO A MULTI-DECADE PLAN OF INTENTIONAL, and very expensive, special interest management sabotage and misappropriation of a CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICT’S FUNDS AND RESOURCES – all hi-jacked to private third party land development/real estate special interests.
ANYWAY, as a “refresher”, below is a portion of the March 18th board discussion which illuminated another ASSERTED FACT by PETE KAMPA (that he had communicated with the SWRCB many times already – but felt any further communication “might make them mad”)
No shame at all.
WEEDS! WEEDS! WEEDS!
every where you look, eh? lol
My best to you and yours, Lew
PS: Who knows if this is the correct Government Code Section cited for the CLOSED SESSION on Monday (since previously questioned erroneous citations were NEVER EXPLAINED and only causally acknowledged), but this is what they’re using:
Government Code Section 54957:
Government Code – GOV
TITLE 5. LOCAL AGENCIES [50001 – 57550]
DIVISION 2. CITIES, COUNTIES, AND OTHER AGENCIES [53000 – 55821]
PART 1. POWERS AND DUTIES COMMON TO CITIES, COUNTIES, AND OTHER AGENCIES [53000 – 54999.7]
CHAPTER 9. Meetings [54950 – 54963]
54957.
(a) This
chapter shall not be construed to prevent the legislative body of a
local agency from holding closed sessions with the Governor, Attorney
General, district attorney, agency counsel, sheriff, or chief of police,
or their respective deputies, or a security consultant or a security
operations manager, on matters posing a threat to the security of public
buildings, a threat to the security of essential public services,
including water, drinking water,
wastewater treatment, natural gas service, and electric service,
or a threat to the public’s right of access to public services or public
facilities.
(b) (1) Subject to
paragraph (2), this chapter shall not be construed to prevent the
legislative body of a local agency from holding closed sessions during a
regular or special meeting to consider the appointment, employment,
evaluation of performance, discipline, or dismissal of a public employee
or to hear complaints or charges brought against the employee by
another person or employee unless the employee requests a public
session.
(2) As a condition to holding
a closed session on
specific complaints or charges brought against an employee by
another person or employee, the employee shall be given written notice
of his or her right to have the complaints or charges heard in an open
session rather than a closed session, which notice shall be delivered to
the employee personally or by mail at least 24 hours before the time
for holding the session. If notice is not given, any disciplinary or
other action taken by the legislative body against the employee based on
the specific complaints or charges in the closed session shall be null
and void.
(3) The legislative body
also may exclude from the public or closed meeting, during the
examination of a witness, any or all other witnesses in the matter being
investigated by the legislative body.
(4) For the purposes of this subdivision, the term “employee” shall include an officer or an independent contractor who functions as an officer or an employee but shall not include any elected official, member of a legislative body or other independent contractors. This subdivision shall not limit local officials’ ability to hold closed session meetings pursuant to Sections 1461, 32106, and 32155 of the Health and Safety Code or Sections 37606 and 37624.3 of the Government Code. Closed sessions held pursuant to this subdivision shall not include discussion or action on proposed compensation except for a reduction of compensation that results from the imposition of discipline.(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 11, Sec. 1. (AB 246) Effective January 1, 2014.)
beginning in October of 2014, under direction of PETER J KAMPA, [a previously employed LDPCSD rogue employee (1994-1997) who was/is also a sitting Director for the powerful
CSDA (CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION)]
initiated a systematic multi-year criminal plan to illegally change the legitimate June 1978 State Water License 11395 Place of Use Official map on file with the SWRCB (State Water Resources Control Board) for Merced River water use in the Lake Don Pedro area.
Kampa resigned from the LDPCSD in 1997 but was returned in October 2014
through an unethical “closed recruitment process” and was subsequently
appointed GM/Treasurer without even a rudimentary employment background
check which would have revealed his prior unethical annexation
activities at the LDPCSD which apparently resulted in that first
employment tour resignation.
This elaborate KAMPA/BOARD/CSDA/ et al plan was necessary in order to provide PROHIBITED WATER SERVICE for stalled land development projects on LAFCO (Local Agency Formation Commission) ANNEXED properties (clearly outside the water license permitted area of service) which Pete Kampa himself had been quietly setting up in the mid 1990s without board direction or approval.
Since 2014 KAMPA (with assistance from many others) simultaneously also misrepresented his intended TWO USES for state and federal EMERGENCY DROUGHT GRANT FUNDS, those being:
1) To develop a massive “ALTERNATE SOURCE WATER” – using that grant funded GROUNDWATER PRODUCTION to maintain water license compliance (every unit of Merced River water that leaves the legal subdivision for outside LAFCO ANNEXATIONS must be replaced with an equal or greater amount of groundwater), and
2) Providing even further OUTSIDE WL11395 Place of Use service to many other LAFCO ANNEXATIONS including a proposed 900 acre residential subdivision which LAFCO, the LDPCSD and Kampa had all managed to keep secret for over 20 years until only a few months before KAMPA’s “unethical return” in 2014 when LAFCO quietly updated their policies manual in a “semi-closed” public meeting.)
SO, FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, PETE KAMPA WAS A DISHONEST FORMER SPECIAL INTEREST LDPCSD EMPLOYEE WHO WAS SPECIFICALLY RETURNED BY THE 2014 LDPCSD BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO MERELY CONTINUE HIS DISHONEST ATTEMPTS OF SECURING WATER SERVICE FOR ANNEXATIONS HE PERSONALLY SET UP WHILE THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPEATEDLY REFUSED MANY PUBLIC REQUESTS TO SIMPLY CONFIRM THE VALIDITY OF THEIR ACTIONS WITH THE SWRCB REGARDING WATER LICENSE 11395 RESTRICTIONS.
Worse yet? Pete Kampa through his almost 20 years with the CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION has cultivated a sophisticated support defensive system within state departments, agencies, associations, government officials, politicians, etc.
Exactly how such “Califusion Corruption” operates….
outside the law with ONLY the appearance of legality.
“When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don’t deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I’m innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don’t own a gun. Now they’ve come for the first amendment, and I can’t say anything at all.” -Tim Freeman
OK, I admit to being suspicious of what could theoretically develop after reading these two articles by Editor Greg Little of the Mariposa Gazette (April 5th, 2019 Edition under News) about subdivision connected issues. Perhaps good. Maybe bad. Unfortunately, I’ve been conditioned to the later. Again, I am cognizant of my inherent distrust and bias, (you know) “the fool me once shame on you, fool me twice (or three four, five times, etc.) shame on me”, but thought the below articles interesting and wanted to share (especially the second one regarding subdivisions).
Yes, a very unfortunate financial situation for current homeowners around the golf course* (I would be furious also – that is quite a jump in fees), however, those of us who were present at the time and witnessed the “massive residential development” in the Lake Don Pedro subdivision around that golf course, might argue this was to be anticipated, in fact, PROBABLY EVEN EXPECTED with such uncontrolled “SPECULATIVE AND MODEL HOME” construction which was specifically prohibited in subdivision CC&Rs. (Land development was to be done by the lot owner (or through his contractor) with the owner ultimately occupying the residence—– thus avoiding EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED around the golf course…. construction of many “high-end homes” with many of them remaining vacant for years due to lack of sales.)
Without “resident owners” to cover the costs of that extremely complicated and expensive waste water disposal facility (with the pumping of “you know what” uphill not being the most efficient type of operation) funds have always been lacking to properly maintain the facility. Then there was the land fill processing of leachate, the liquid from rain/snow fall that percolates through the landfill material and is collected in basins (so as not to pollute, creeks, groundwater, etc.), but when basins are filled to capacity due to excessive precipitation, the excess liquid (varies in toxicity depending upon the material it flows through) was trucked out in tankers and disposed of at the Lake Don Pedro waste water facility. Unknown if this program continues or whether it had anything to do with the County of Mariposa replacing key components of the system years ago.)
* Before I get too far ahead…I have
always wondered about the real estate disclosures, if any, regarding this
aspect of home ownership in the subdivision around the golf course. (Lots that could not support an onsite septic
disposal system typical of other properties due to an inadequate percolation area
for waste water and/or extremely steep rocky geography aka, those “difficult to
develop properties” which may have a
desirable view or location, but are much more expensive to properly develop. (Individual driveways and septic systems.) Were prospective purchasers clearly advised of
the “sewer system issue” and the anticipated HIGH COSTS involved in maintaining
it PRIOR TO OBLIGATING THEMSELVES (THROUGH PROPERTY/HOME PURCHASE) to this increasingly
expensive reality?
Or, was it like the MARIPOSA COUNTY LAFCO POLICY OF ANNEXATION into the LAKE DON PEDRO CSD water service boundary which very quietly required THOUSANDS OF LEGAL SUBDIVISION WATER ENTITLED USERS (the “deep pocket”) TO SUBSIDIZE A SPECIAL BENEFIT GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM FOR THOSE PROPERTY OWNERS NOT ENTITLED TO TRADITIONAL MERCED RIVER WATER SERVICE FROM LAKE McCLUR AS DESIGNED, INTENDED and CONSTRUCTED?
Sorry, but it occurs to me the root of both problems was in how the Mariposa County Planning Department and LAFCO (Local Agency Formation Commission) were apparently working with the original Sierra Highlands Water Company officials; special interest land developers and real estate interests years before the LDPCSD was formed by ignoring their own operating regulations , State Water Law, SRA Fire Safe Roadway Standards, the primary characteristics of a SPECIAL DISTRICT which THEORETICALLY made it a desirable option for providing services in a rural area, etc.
Essentially throwing thousands of property owners in an established existing CALIFORNIA SUBDIVISON MAP ACT approved residential subdivision under the “BUS OF LAND DEVELOPER GREED” and the ANTICIPATED INCREASE in a TAX REVENUE STREAM”.
Pretty harsh, yeah? I wish someone could explain it to me in another way that was less accusatory in “doing the wrong thing” but when available public documents are withheld from public inspection it does not instill much confidence for another, shall we say, ethically palatable interpretation.
I was certainly never advised that owning my Lake Don Pedro LDPOA property in the subdivision also meant a lifetime of paying for a special benefit groundwater substitution service for property owners outside the WL11395 approved subdivision.
Paying for a special benefit water service for properties CLEARLY NOT HELD TO THE SAME REGULATIONS AND OBLIGATIONS of a CID (Common Interest Development), POA (Property Owners Association) subdivision that are also governed under the California Civil Code Section known as the DAVIS STIRLING Act? That doesn’t seem fair, does it?
Seems every single property owner within the nonprofit LDPOA subdivision (with the exception of owners in Tuolumne Unit 1 who are not “MANDATORY CUSTOMERS” of the LDPCSD – which itself is also a nonprofit organization) has been betrayed by their own local government entities to the benefit of private “for profit motivated” outside developers. Counties benefit though land developments that can be taxed without the corresponding liability of having to provide water service for the projects – with all those expenses just being passed on to the unsuspecting MR WECs (Merced River Water Entitled Customers) of the LDP subdivision!
BACK TO THE GOLF COURSE AREA – PLUS
Yes
indeed, had existing regulations been followed and enforced at the time, with emphasis
on subdivision CC&Rs (Covenants, Codes and Restrictions) governing how land
development could legally proceed within the subdivision, (and not completely ignored by a pro-real
estate “HI-JACKED anything goes” Lake Don Pedro Owners Association (LDPOA) Board
of Directors), this terrible financial situation for the home owners around the
golf course would likely never have materialized.
Hum, come
to think of it, IF the LDPOA had protected its land owners who were also MANDATORY
LDPCSD CUSTOMERS by defending their MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMER status
from EXPLOITATION BY PRIVATE THIRD PARTY LAND OWNERS, our water rates and fees
would be much less due to a far less complicated and unethical system of water
deliveries to LAFCO ANNEXATIONS outside the water license place of use.
But how was such a corrupt LDPOA board of directors put in the position of ignoring established regulations specifically designed to prevent EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED?
All orchestrated by local real estate profit motivated interests lead by the Bay Area (late on the scene) Deerwood Corporation which had purchased several hundred properties (many at auctions for much less than they were worth because owners were fleeing a subdivision and local government which had betrayed their dream of foothill residency) providing DEERWOOD with the votes required to put anyone on that board – including a real estate business owner who had lost their broker’s license due to intervention by the California Department of Real Estate for unethical financial practices. Wonderful.
Yup, there were proposed competing subdivisions all around the existing water entitled Lake Don Pedro subdivision yet concerned LDP subdivision owners had no viable recourse with the exception of potentially losing everything they owned seeking justice in a legal gamble against the “government’s own activities” through a local Superior Court.
Hens appealing within a Fox controlled environment?
(The Jim and Marion Dean case is a perfect example of already VICTIMIZED PROPERTY OWNERS BEING FURTHER VICTIMIZED BY THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT! Approximately ½ million dollars of their “golden years retirement fund” lost in merely attempting to compel the State of California and the County of Mariposa to simply follow their own established regulations regarding those extremely dangerous and substandard ”developer convenience roads” constructed to reach multiple properties to avoid the added expense of individual and compliant SRA (State Responsibility Area) FIRE SAFE approved driveways for “difficult to develop properties”. All because of “late on the scene” NON EXCLUSIVE ROADWAY EASEMENTS filed with the county decades earlier, HOWEVER, and this is the important part, AFTER THE SUBDIVISION HAD BEEN APPROVED PER THE CALIFORNIA SUBDIVISION MAP ACT BY BOTH COUNTIES!)
CONSIDER this, subdivision CC&Rs were created to PREVENT THE EASILY FORESEEABLE FUTURE NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF UNCONTROLLED DEVELOPMENT around the golf course which resulted in this financial nightmare of a waste water treatment plant with high operating costs. Same with the LAFCO expansion of LDPCSD water service boundaries for the purpose of serving water to the continuing LAFCO ANNEXATIONS into a SPECIAL DISTRICT THAT LAFCO NOT ONLY CREATED, but that it had known since before LAFCO formed the LDPCSD, IT COULD NOT LEGALLY PROVIDE THE ONLY WATER SOURCE IT POSSESSED PER WATER LICENSE 11395!
LAFCO RESOLUTION 76-4…. ADEQUATE WATER/SEWER SERVICES AVAILABLE ON FACE OF APPLICATION FOR ANNEXATION TO EVEN BE CONSIDERED FOR ANNEXATION APPROVAL? What happened to that logical operating rule between 1976 and 2019?
Want to talk about a perfect example of being set up for failure? Enter the Special District by the name of LDPCSD.
Those involved with such massive deceptions through the decades should be embarrassed for their direct responsibility in creating such easily predictable negative circumstances, ahhhhh, but they are not embarrassed at all because it is all part of an incremental “behind the scenes” orchestrated plan to achieve goals that could not be OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR UNDERSTANDING, DISCUSSION AND POTENTIAL REJECTION FOR VIOLATING LAW!
The focus was NEVER on what was best for the existing subdivision community, its property owners (TAXPAYERS!), much less the residents who would eventually invest everything they had in calling this area home, but rather, on “cutting corners” FOR FAST PROFITS BEFORE THE “VICTIM PROPERTY OWNERS REALIZE THEY HAVE BEEN HAD”!
So here we
are.
Those responsible
for such unnecessary financial hardships on their neighbors will spout such exculpatory
nonsense as:
“We did what we thought best for the community”
“No one could have predicted the current situation”
“Arguing about past decisions is not productive”
“Those against development will always complain about progress”, etc.
NICE TRY. Much of this is a result of clearly foreseeable consequences from INTENTIONAL VIOLATION OF EXISTING LAW, REGULATIONS, and POLICIES!
Same situation as Mariposa County LAFCO continuing to ANNEX PROPERTIES OUTSIDE THE LDPCSD water license legal Place of Use for Merced River water which was always pumped from Lake McClure – not from PETE KAMPA’s $400,000-$600,000 groundwater wells developed with state and federal grant funds.
Groundwater which must have contaminants such as arsenic removed, monitored and reported to the state – all increasing the costs above the planned service MR WECs (Merced River Water Entitled Customers) of the Lake Don Pedro subdivision should receive per water license 11395.
What about the ADVERTISED and INTENDED, but CLEARLY LOST BENEFITS, of having a SPECIAL DISTRICT water service operation in the first place? (Limited service, particular group of customers, geographically defined service area, with the service costing consumers only that which is required to provide the service.)
Do you find it just a coincidence that such betrayal of a SPECIAL DISTRICT and IT’S CUSTOMERS is being perpetrated by a LDPCSD GM/TREASURER who is simultaneously an influential director with the
CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION (CSDA)
for approximately 20 years, Psst…..the same amount of time he has intentionally MISREPRESENTED THE WATER RESTRICTIONS IN MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT WATER LICENSE 11395 to other state water departments, agencies, politicians, and the public?
Why would
a California Special Districts Association director be involved with such CONTRADICTORY
ACTIVITIES of a SPECIAL DISTRICT he had been “managing” since 2014?
Simple, to
continue a special benefit, subsidized groundwater replacement program for LAFCO
ANNEXATIONS he personally set up 20 years earlier when beginning his infamous California
water career and operating as a rogue LDPCSD employee far outside the scope and
performance of his duties at the time, aka, without board knowledge or approval.
Yup, FORESEEABLE NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES RESULTING FROM UNCONTROLLED DEVELOPMENT and intentional violation of existing, established rules, regulations and law.
This is
what the DEMOCRAT, PROGRESSIVE, SOCIALIST, LEFT in the current STATE OF
CONFUSION has provided to the innocent victimized Lake Don Pedro subdivision
property owners. That’s the bad
news. The good news is it does not have
to remain so corrupt.
Forget about what is RIGHT and what is DEMOCRAT, PROGRESSIVE, SOCIALIST, and LEFT.
Focus on what is RIGHT and WRONG during the next election and MAKE CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBLE AND ACCOUNTABLE TO HER LEGAL TAX PAYING CITIZENS ONCE AGAIN!
OK, I distrust Pete Kampa and for
good reason, but the following post, even though perhaps tainted with my own acknowledged
potential bias, still just doesn’t seem right – especially for a community
services district which has had a massive water loss for decades while simultaneously
continuing a war over who has a right to water service per Merced Irrigation
District water license 11395 besides the Lake Don Pedro residential subdivision
and golf course area.
True, I do not trust anything Kampa has done with this district because of what I have observed him (and his supportive Board of Defectors) accomplish without a hint of accountability. Increasing costs everywhere possible, returning Post Retirement Medical Benefits; placing Barge in non operational status; budgeting $35,000 for creation of a “FAKE WL11395 POU MAP” as defense for wrongful activities with the intent to ultimately replace the legitimate POU MAP ON FILE in Sacramento, etc.
Since DAY ONE! Kampa was an unethically returned former rogue employee with an influential 20 year history with the powerful CSDA (California Special Districts Association), who with others, have greatly assisted in the further exploitation of this “facade of a PUBLIC AGENCY”, in other words, we’ve been essentially “privatized” by cheats who can apparently violate the law with impunity because some of the officials in charge of enforcing the law ARE ALSO APPARENTLY SUPPORTIVE OF THIS CONTINUING FRAUD.
Thank you Democrat, Progressive, Socialist, Left activists for destroying a public agency and continuing the FRAUD AGAINST THE MR WECs of the Lake Don Pedro subdivision while continuing your “REDISTRIBUTION of water service” to those not provided such by law.
EVERY SINGLE DIRECTOR SINCE 2014 has failed one simple COMMON SENSE REQUEST:
Contact the SWRCB about what you and your GM were doing regarding the water license 11395 POU for Merced River Water.
Wouldn’t even make a simple telephone call to request the official map on file with the SWRCB – all because they were going to once again attempt to illegally change that POU MAP but this time utilizing the services of a sitting CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICT BOARD DIRECTOR (CSDA)_ OF APPROX 20 years to complete the fraud!
I am a stupid man. Why in the world would the “Board of Directors” possibly want a legitimate POU MAP from Sacramento that would contradict exactly what they were/are doing?
Perhaps they believe holding their hands over their eyes, ears, and mouths while out loud repeating the chant “NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH….we can’t hear you” would actually work to confuse and mislead the public as to their individual duplicity in following an individual with a VERY CLEAR AND DOCUMENTED 20 year history of intentionally misrepresenting the Merced Irrigation District (MID) Outside Place of Use Merced River water issue per water license 11395 .
Yes indeed, utilizing the name and resources of the LDPCSD [A SPECIAL DISTRICT] and government grants to develop an “alternate source water” ($400,000 – $600,000 groundwater wells) with which to:
1) circumvent the water license restrictions on water service outside the subdivision by
2) maintaining “water license compliance” with a GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM paid for by the thousands of subdivision property owners who do not require “GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION FOR MERCED RIVER WATER TRANSFERS OUTSIDE THE SUBDIVISION”, so they could
3) sell more groundwater LAFCO ANNEXATION property owners outside the subdivision who did not want to drill their own private groundwater wells for their own projects!
(There are other reasons for this continuing fraud as well: assisting in the “cover up” that this entire criminal enterprise was orchestrated between county LAFCOS and the previous owners, engineers, and general manager of the Sierra Highlands Water Company some ten years prior to the LAFCOs forming the Lake Don Pedro CSD in August 1980 to essentially
“launder Merced River water” through that district for LAFCO APPROVED LAND DEVELOPMENTS OUTSIDE THE LICENSE PERMITTED PLACE OF USE. Absolutely devious!
Did a little research on the founders of LAFCO and its control of special districts IN THIS STATE OF CONFUSION with their SPHERES of INFLUENCE (SOI -where services are likely to be provided in the future) …. Based on the Cortese-Knox-Hertzburg legislation. (Probably not necessary to point out the fact all were DEMOCRATS.)
Let’s see….LAFCOs were formed in 1963 and in 1969 the CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION (CSDA) was formed to assist communities with the rapidly developing……… let’s call it the “special district concept” of:
limited services, to a defined group of people, in a designated geographical area, for only the costs necessary in providing that limited service.
Wild yeah? Every single one of those SPECIAL DISTRICT characteristics was completely destroyed by the very organization (MARIPOSA COUNTY LAFCO and to a lessor degree Tuolumne County LAFCO) which formed the LDPCSD Special District to supposedly continue the (legal) water service to the WL11395 entitled residential subdivision.
Ahhhh, but there’s the catch! The LIMITED WATER SERVICE, to the SUBDIVISION POPULATION, WITHIN THE SUBDIVISION BOUNDARIES, for ONLY THE COST IN PROVIDING THAT LIMITED SERVICE…..was completely ignored and changed by these LAFCOs in order to provide…
UNLIMITED WATER SERVICE, TO ANYONE HOLDING LAFCO ANNEXED PROPERTY, ANYWHERE WITHIN THE SOI THAT LAFCOS DEVELOPED, FOR ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY REQUIRED TO SUPPLY THE WATER OUTSIDE THE LEGAL USE AREA! (Oh yeah…..and paid for by the MR WECS (Merced River Water Entitled Customers) of the Lake Don Pedro subdivision!
(Paragraph colors meant to accurately reflect political party dominance of issue – lol)
WHAT A FRIGG’N FOOTHILL WATER SCAM FOR DECADES!
Can you even begin to imagine the thousands of prospective home builders who (through the last four decades) simply gave up and sold their Lake Don Pedro Owners Association (LDPOA) property at a loss (remember the large property auctions?) due to the corruption of this area by special interest exploiters virtually immune from prosecution for wrongful acts because they were essentially enabled by the local county political establishment exercising STATE AUTHORITY AND POWER UNDER the title of LAFCO ORGANIZATION AND REORGANIZATION?
Just a small step away from “STATE RE-DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES” yes?
I’ve been meaning to take a drive over there for a while now when I heard the LDPCSD would be working in the Caracol Circle area which overlooks the golf course. Prime “view lots” of the golf course and valley. I was interested because years ago that specific area had experienced some DEERWOOD CORPORATION development with two homes not quite “up to par” with state fire regulations due to a substandard roadway which was quickly constructed (many were) to access multiple properties for residential development without the trouble and expense of constructing individual FIRE SAFE DRIVEWAYS as the State of California required in SRA (State Responsibility Area) FIRE SAFE regulations passed in 1991.
Yes, that’s right, the legislature passed those fire safe minimum roadway standards 12 years before Thomas Porter (RIP) and his DEERWOOD LAND DEVELOPMENT and MORTGAGE CORPORATION began carving up our EXISTING CALIFORNIA SUBDIVISION MAP ACT approved/established residential subdivision with substandard DEVELOPER CONVENIENCE ROADWAYS (specifically for “difficult to develop properties”) with some roads violating up to six separate minimum roadway standards in this designated HIGH FIRE SEVERITY ZONE – all these regulations specifically enacted to prevent loss of life and property due to wild fire based on experience in foothill residential environments.
Recall that my friends Jim and Marion Dean who lived on Alamo Drive (“REMEMBER THE ALAMO FRAUD!”) lost approximately ½ million dollars of their “golden years retirement fund” in a failed attempt to get the County of Mariposa and the State of California to obey their own existing regulations and laws! (Actually, the Mariposa County Superior Court Judge who ruled against them later lost his own house to fire and the road to that residence was very similar to the Dean road complaint in that it also had a “hairpin” turn difficult for fire equipment to navigate.) BELOW
Always wondered: Would the judge have ruled differently had his house burned prior to hearing and supporting these extremely dangerous land developer “convenience roads” in the Lake Don Pedro high fire severity zone?
The Deans lost their money attempting to compel the government to only enforce its own rules and died with such worries all because of the insatiable greed of others without the slightest concern for the people who will traverse such dangerous roadways in the future. Absolutely shameful – but perfectly acceptable by the DEMOCRAT, PROGRESSIVE, SOCIALIST, LEFT controlling, and destroying, this once proud and prosperous state.
When the Department of “JUST US” (other states call it the Department of Justice) refused to act on my 85 page complaint regarding PETE KAMPA and his supporters’ activities, Attorney General Xavier Becerra, (through his “Just Us” DOJ), suggested I obtain a lawyer to represent my concerns about the obvious corruption of the LDPCSD. (Creating a “fake POU map” demonstrates pretty obvious intent to violate State Water Law – especially when orchestrated by a 20 year director on the CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION with “hands-on experience” in setting up the LAFCO ANNEXED beneficiaries of such continuing fraud!)
WOW! I should risk my financial security with expensive attorney fees to investigate PUBLIC AGENCY CORRUPTION that the DOJ is supposed to investigate with our TAX DOLLARS?
Imagine, I sure didn’t have to look very far for an example of what happens to good people and their money in a special interest land development corrupted environment! County of Mariposa and State of California both ignored their own rules and regulations that were specifically created to protect life and property. What does that tell you about their concern for the “average citizen”?
And for what? Greed! An increased tax revenue stream for allowing potential “great views” with code violating and existing extremely dangerous substandard roads within a CALIFORNIA SUBDIVISION MAP ACT approved residential subdivision. In Califusion, a citizen cannot count on law enforcement if it contradicts the DEMOCRAT, PROGRESSIVE, SOCIALIST, LEFT movement.
Yesterday, when I first saw how the roadways around the Caracol Circle area were cut up for the lateral replacement project (actually the work itself looked pretty to me, but that is not the issue) I immediately thought to myself…..
there is NO WAY EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE OLD LINES/METER BOXES WERE LEAKING! (Recall when I asked in a meeting about maintenance records of which pipes had the most “band aid” repair couplings and how Kampa was going to choose which lines to replace? Yet the answers could be summed up with……….crickets! lol )
Of course we know from the meeting audio a couple of months ago (representative from the construction company acknowledged the fact) that some of the lines were indeed running to vacant homes and unimproved properties, HOWEVER, it sure looked to me like the far majority of the work around Caracol Circle/Hernandez Drive was primarily performed for vacant lots – many of which are considered “difficult to develop properties” due to steep rock faces, hillsides with driveway/septic system issues. (That’s why in that area you will see “SEWER” metal cap markers on the street, because an onsite private septic system will not work in such rocky steep slopes.
Was this “leaking lateral replacement” actually intended to be some sort of increased selling point for these difficult to develop properties around the golf course? Strange, there was even a pile of real estate signs on the side of the road near the work!
Since a slight “hold up” on FURTHER EXPANSION OF LAFCO ANNEXATION WATER SERVICE OUTSIDE WL 11395 POU because of the “ALMOST QUIETLY CLOSED SWRCB POU INVESTIGATION” – did Kampa simply use more public funds to essentially “throw a bone” to real estate interests attempting to sell “difficult to develop properties around the golf course”? Can’t you hear it? Listen…carefully… “…..and all of the properties in this area have brand new water piping and service infrastructure recently installed in anticipation of the booming sales market of these beautiful view lots around the golf course……notice over here…….”
[PERHAPS I SHOULD REITERATE MY TOTAL DISTRUST FOR PETER J KAMPA, HIS SUPPORTERS, AND THEIR COMBINED ACTIVITIES THAT PERPETUATE THE FRAUD AGAINST MR WECS. OK. Yes, I ACKNOWLEDGE MY DOUBT OF ANYTHING BEING SINCERE AND FOR THE PUBLIC’S BENEFIT REGARDING “ANYTHING KAMPA & KOMPANY” ok. moving on.]
Is this why Kampa refused to answer specific questions about this project such as, how many NON LEAKING LINES ARE ACTUALLY BEING REPLACED? (Could it be that the water loss IS NOT FROM LATERAL LEAKS as KAMPA originally claimed while applying for grants? But since the grants were obtained to replace “leaking laterals” Kampa believes this also means “any laterals….anywhere that might leak later?” A “must spend all the money now, because we are going to be asking MR WECs for a lot more very soon?”
Kampa and his “board of defectors” have told the public that money is in short supply for projects designed to stop our massive water loss,(LAFCO ANNEXATION GROUNDWATER WELLS WERE THE PRIORITY DURING THE EMERGENCY DROUGHT WHEN THE TREATMENT PLANT AND INFRASTRUCTURE WAS IGNORED IN FAVOR OF LAFCO EXPANSIONS) and another PROPOSITION 218 will be required to again raise the rates and fees for MR WECS (MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS), so those necessary projects can be completed and the massive water loss stopped. Oh really?
If this is true, why doesn’t the LDPCSD state in POLICY: THERE WILL BE NO MORE WATER SERVICE OUTSIDE THE LEGAL WL11395 LDP SUBDIVISION USING GRANT FUNDED GROUNDWATER WELLS INTENDED FOR DROUGHT RELIEF ONLY?
THOSE EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE GROUNDWATER WELLS ARE BEING USED FOR THE EXACT PURPOSE WHICH KAMPA & KOMPANY REPEATEDLY SAID THEY WOULD NOT BE UTILIZED…..FOR THE BENEFIT OF LAFCO ANNEXATIONS AND MAINTAINING LICENSE COMPLIANCE DUE TO WATER SERVICE TO THOSE LAFCO ANNEXATIONS!
WHY? Because KAMPA & KOMPANY have thousands of acres they want to provide FURTHER groundwater substitution to get around the water license…..BUT WHY SHOULD MR WECS (Merced River Water Entitled Customers) of the subdivision pay for something they do not need? Frankly, I miss being served quality lake water instead of a blended product that had to have arsenic and other contaminants removed.
NEED MORE MONEY?
Does spending precious funds on replacing water lines that don’t leak seem right to you? I would imagine the argument to do such a thing was, since others in the area are leaking, replace them all in that area since equipment already there.
However, as most would also probably agree, it is the repetitious on/off of water valves that cause the movement in pipes, so without the perpetual and immediate ON/OFF of water pressure (no household or irrigation…just vacant lots with no meters) would it be surprising those lines were no leaking?
Of course there is road traffic as well, like around the waste water facility where those large tankers were going in delivering leachate from the land fill for disposal at the waste water plant. Such heavy traffic loads can stress water lines under the ground….heck probably even stressed the Ranchito Bridge that later washed out in that vicinity March of 2018.
I just think it looks very suspicious (especially by someone who has so clearly misrepresented facts in the past), our system losing so much treated and raw water yet replacing non leaking service lines. (Consider, if there was such an area of massive leaking pipes Kampa & Kompany would have been waving them around as evidence countering the argument of “wink and nod utility thefts for decades”.
Wonder if any new water services are also being installed for these developer convenience roads all over the subdivision on the Mariposa side? Or outside the water license POU? Recall commercial cattle rancher Director Emery Ross questioning whether his “private water line” OUTSIDE THE MIDPOU would be affected?
Well, this photo stuff isn’t going to work…is taking WAY TOO MUCH SPACE……let’s throw them into a video!
Roadway has been cut up in many locations (however, must say the work looks good, but as always, sometimes third parties are involved with the dark side of LDPCSD business due to no fault of their own. They repair/replace stuff, KAMPA & KOMPANY hired them to repair/replace stuff, simple as that.
My best to you and yours, Lew
PS: “EXPLAIN IT ALL WITH ONLY ONE PHOTO” contest —
RESULT OF HIGH WIND AND/OR POOR PLACEMENT? Never-the-less, you know what always flows downhill, yeah?
Good morning! I must get outside today and continue work on this season’s fire breaks (wild grass and weed control – as I can hear them growing and giggling downhill as I type. Lol), however, before I decorate and cover myself in green stained splattered liquid chlorophyll and pieces of slaughtered vegetation, (smells like victory yeah?) wanted to make a quick point. (I know, I can hear that united gasp of disbelief as well – “Blah, blah, blah Lew” doing ANYTHING quickly? Lol)
Folks, while carefully considering the fact patterns of both the FOUR DECADES OF INTENTIONAL VIOLATION OF WATER LICENSE 11395 to provide water services OUTSIDE CLEAR MERCED RIVER WATER service restrictions for land developments on LAFCO ANNEXATIONS, many of which PETER KAMPA set up himself between 1994-1997,
in combination with –
the massive amount of FALSE INFORMATION the DEMOCRAT, PROGRESSIVE, SOCIALIST, LEFT ACTIVISTS have pushed for the last two years in opposition to PRESIDENT TRUMP’s “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” program for change, consider these American values for a moment:
TRUTH, HONOR and JUSTICE.
Then ask yourself…IF Democrat, Progressive, Socialist, Left agendas are so beneficial to LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS, why must outrageous absolute lies, incorrect/known false information, and a coordinated public deception at all levels of US GOVERNMENT, be repeatedly utilized to propose, pass, implement, and finally execute UN-AMERICAN VALUES/POLICIES to the OBVIOUS DETRIMENT OF LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS already overtaxed, under-represented, and often completely ignored?
Just a thought – well, it is time to begin the slaughter, seasonal slaughter.
(That means “Foothill weeds”. Probably should have such “clarification disclaimers” occasionally to protect from duplicitous DPSL activists reporting that I am threatening the “human weeds” in the Lake Don Pedro politically landscaped garden. Lol)
HEY! Just realized something writing the above “disclaimer of violence” (lol)….the paranoid DPSL and their fanatical anti-gun stance…???..(chuckle)…..why are they so afraid of responsible people having guns? Well, perhaps, it is because they know they have lied to their fellow Americans for years while actively undermining the very legal processes that define us as FREE! They have permitted criminals to remain in the country for decades as well……Guess I’d be worried too if I had deceived and cheated not only my law abiding neighbors for years, but the masses of people they play like chess pieces as well. Tyrants don’t care much for rights and freedoms – and guns? Out of the question!
Well, everyone have an enjoyable, productive, fun, whatever you desire, safe weekend!
My best to you and yours, Lew
Psssst! Even you DPSL types! lol There’s always hope you too will one day recognize you are being played. That’s no insult because it has happened to me and many, many others before our “WAKE UP CALL” which can come at anytime in life.
My current opinions (which could change like a windsock in a storm if factual evidence supported such change) did not form willy nilly but have been cultivated based on decades of education. observation and experience. (Yeah, that old person type stuff rears it’s ugly head again, lol)
Your personal experiences and background may be different for sure, however, that does not negate the possibility of your also being deceived, manipulated and diverted from truth and fact. All in furtherance of a proposed “new government” that IS NOT in your best interest, “bait” must always be appetizing for “ANY TRAP” (And just like a rat is incapable of participating in a “POST SPRUNG TRAP” interview, it will be TOO LATE for American Citizens to escape the FATAL PLAN of DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY AND OUR FREEDOMS!)
Obviously there are different “baits” for different “traps”, and the “traps” will vary based on the intended “victims” to be “controlled”, or completely “eradicated” right?
Bait Trap Victim Control Eradicate Purpose
Cheese Mouse Mouse Yes Yes Health/Safety
Now, fill in other variables for the above column titles yourself.
QUESTION: Would you use cheese to trap a population of college graduates with very expensive educational loans they can not pay?
NO. More likely a plan to forgive, or have someone else pay those loans would sound pretty good, yeah? But what did those financially suffering graduates ACTUALLY TRADE in exchange for such a POLITICAL CAMPAIGN PROMISE – most of which are never fulfilled (That is of course until PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP)
So what did they trade? A vote for something not likely to occur while a now proven positive course to solve such problems – (Make American Great Again – economy, good paying jobs for American Citizens, blah, blah, blah…..) is ignored, even vilified as the reason for their plight. <SNAP!>
POINT: When you marginalize or divide people into easily identifiable and recognizable groups – the various types of bait will increase correspondingly. The DPSL can’t bait all political traps with clear ANTI-AMERICAN, or ANTI-UNITIED STATES of AMERICA cheese, because the intended victims cross all identifiable boundaries…..everyone has “special interests” in their own lives….so, in order to increase the effectiveness of any trap you must first identify your victim and tune the bait to attract that specific individual, or group of individuals. aka, PROMISE EVERYTHING, give nothing, then come back and accuse the “evil other side” from preventing you plan of giving everybody everything! And just repeat the cycle at every election. And do it again, and again, and again, to the point the victims believe it is the other victims eradicating their family!
Malcolm X understood this and proactively challenged the system. That’s why commercials of his work are run on OAN. One America News.
The fact he was considered a radical Black Activist at the time doesn’t matter in regards to, or respect for, the validity and truth of his arguments and observations of what the DEMOCRAT party was doing to his community.
Most people get fooled at one time or another. Nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about (I was a Democrat once too. The DNC was all over college/university campuses registering voters right out of academia – which is quite different from real life. I do not recall a single GOP recruiter on campus. Support the party of my parents? lol
[Look what TRUMP HAS DONE IN JUST THAT ONE ISSUE: FREEDOM OF SPEECH ON AN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL CAMPUS! I thought that had been settle in the 1960’s? THE DPSL ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TO AMERICAN FREEDOMS!
ALL Long term planning my friends. Just like Kampa and his LAFCO ANNEXATIONS to a SPECIAL DISTRICT, and returning as a California SPECIAL DISTRICT Board Director with his own SPECIAL DISTRICT management company, WITH influential government contacts all over the state, country indeed world with his European background …..NESTLES and McCloud? etc…)
…nothing to be embarrassed about….because such DPSL activities are supported and led by highly educated, trained and motivated anti-American operatives, however, they also exhibit an easily OBSERVABLE CHARACTERISTIC which is a good clue as to their actual agenda: DISHONESTY.
Yup, usually considered a BIG CLUE to integrity and actual behind the scenes (non viewable area by public regarding political process) wrongful activities.
And that’s the tricky part because it often takes much time to identify and appreciate the intricate duplicity of their nefarious agendas – just like Kampa returning 20 years later to finish his slumbering annexation plans of MASSIVE SUBSIDIZED PRIVATE PROFIT WITH PUBLIC FUNDS.
CONSIDER the co-ordination required between State Departments to SUBSTITUTE
THE OFFICIAL 1978 Place of Use MAP for Merced River Water per Water License 11395 (held by the Merced Irrigation District) on file with the State Water Board for the last 40 years, with a
“FAKE” DIGITAL PLACE OF USE MAP (Developed through a highly suspicious LDPCSD Board approved $35,000 digital mapping project to “answer the water license place of use question for the LDPCSD once and for all”???. A map used to not only conceal existing illegal diversion and use, but to permit further expansion of such prohibited use for LAFCO (Local Agency Formation Commission) ANNEXATIONS Pete Kampa set up as a rogue employee 20 years earlier! And so, so much more.
(IN THE ABOVE LIMITED CASE – PARAGRAPH COLORS ARE POLITICALLY CORRECT – lol)
ONE OTHER THING…..Seriously, what’s it going to harm? Why not take a look at OAN (ONE AMERICA NEWS) and learn from our beautifully diverse history as a FREE REPUBLICAN FORM OF DEMOCRACY and consider why we have been FREE all this time? Remember that Canadian Free Press motto from the last post? “Because without America, there is no free world”.
If you haven’t read this yet, and are feeling exceptionally brave at the prospect of better understanding what has happened to this once great state –(once “state of the art” highway systems) – take a glimpse at the past record of the HIGHEST LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER IN THE STATE – aka,
