<sorry, link to fire update didn’t work – easy to find anyway right?>

LAKE DON PEDRO COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT

b July 17 2017 Monthly Board Meeting-

Transparency Award?

Oh please. Only another attempt at concealing what KAMPA & KOMPANY have been quietly doing since Oct 2014, which is – deceiving the MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS  <MR WECs>  of the LDP Subdivision while expanding a GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM for land developers outside the legal Place of Use for MERCED RIVER WATER. Those who receive a special benefit should pay for that special benefit – not the innocent property owners of the residential subdivision.

Pete Kampa apparently incorrectly documented the name of that California Special Districts Association (CSDA) representative who  presented the TRANSPARENCY AWARD during the July 17th, 2017 LDPCSD Board meeting.  Having had limited experience with umlauts in a German language class I took many years ago, I decided to check why the name sounded so much different than had been reported in Pete Kampa’s written GM report.  Sure enough, Pete left out the umlaut over the “e” in Wadle’.  (Sounds like Whadley with the umlaut.)  I was able to confirm this by looking Mr. Wadle’ up on the CSDA website — the below links are OK, but be careful, one of the other sites identified on a CSDA search is marked as “hacked”.

<CSDA WEBSITE>

<CSDA STAFF>

My best to you and yours, Lew

Was working on the next LDPCSD meeting report and took a break to look out the window…..

<CALFIRE DETWILER UPDATE>

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(a) July 17 2017 LDPCSD meeting. Back to the continuing saga of the Lake Don Pedro Community Services District. Let’s see, what’s in this offering? Misrepresented district information to customers, public and other government entities, fire hydrant status in a designated high fire severity zone, how much arsenic removal is going on with the groundwater, and of course, the infamous TRANSPARENCY AWARD provided to a victim special district. A Transparency Award which will actually be used more as camouflage for the continued deceit of innocent property owners in the Lake Don Pedro subdivision who have been subsidizing a special benefit water service for decades. Yup, I truly wonder sometimes how this nation has survived thus far considering some of the characters who claim to be serving the public good. Rather, they are serving themselves with public goods! Very disheartening.

My best to you and yours, Lew

1120 hours: 

Yes, I know, the utility pole is rather distracting – but heck, it’s there!  (Sometimes such view “obstructions” can come in handy in locating specific areas or objects in an image)

How much is smoke?  Could any of it be just clouds? Again, I don’t know, but from here it doesn’t look good.  If containment is 65% I would suspicion much of the remaining 35% is represented in this image.

BELOW: Turkey Vulture fly by —  just right of utility pole transformer yesterday —

— see?  Real helpful sometimes eh?  lol (Actually missed the shot with the tanker aircraft in the background)

65% !

as of July 25th, 2017 @ 0715hrs

<CALFIRE DETWILER UPDATE TUES JULY 25 2017>

[Again, looks can be deceiving from a distance, but the horizon sure looks much better than yesterday! Lew]

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Saw the smoke column earlier – (some friends fishing at Lake McSwain also advised of the continuing multiple flights overhead to the area)  doesn’t look good from here but rather than speculate – check out this website that Mariposa County District II Supervisor Merlin Jones and his wife Mimi Jones started a while back.  These folks live in that very area.

<MARIPOSA COUNTY DIST2 WEBSITE UPDATE >

<CALFIRE INCIDENT UPDATE July 24 2017>

<CALFIRE 7/23/2017 UPDATE>

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Forgot I shot this yesterday….156 interval images @ 1 minute apart looking towards Hunters Valley Mountain as the smoke was drifting to the south.

Flipping through the 156 on the computer I noticed the below.  Can you see an aircraft in each of the below images?

(BELOW) Birds or that flight of several helicopters from Castle ?

Just the ones I could see because there was a heck of a lot more air traffic than that!!!

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Sat July 22nd, 2017 approx 1600hrs:  Looking towards Hunters Valley Mountain (above left of date stamp)

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Approx 1600hrs /apparently a smoke column NE (between 60-70 degrees)  in background over white house (Hunters Valley Mountain is to the right outside  image)

SAT, July 22nd, 2017 @ 1550hrs

Looking towards Merced, CA 

(BELOW)

LOOKING TOWARDS MARIPOSA, CA

(BELOW)

CALFIRE UPDATE 1330 hrs

1546HRS:

30% was fantastic news and judging by the increased visibility in this area (although hardly representative of what may be going on miles away) I am apprehensively (such fires have many twists and turns) optimistic that percentage (30%) will increase with the next official CALFIRE update.  Let’s pray it does.  Thank you all for your service.

CALFIRE: DETWILER 30% Contained

FRIDAY 7/21/2017 @ 1100hrs:  CALFIRE/KCRA CH3 reports: 58 homes destroyed, 11 homes damaged, 60 other structures lost, 15% containment with 74,083 acres burned.

<CALFIRE INCIDENT REPORT >

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