Sorry. Never realized the link to that SWRCB ORDER wasn’t working – likely a result of a late night posting marathon. lol.
Naturally it turned out to be an 11 page order from the STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD so this morning I had to first print all those pages, scan them into a file, create a blog page, insert the SWRCB pages into that page, and re-post…. oh yeah, and make an excuse for screwing up when they were first presented! lol
Anyway, the point of posting that specific order was to emphasize the incorrect information contained on page 7 where it states: “Currently, LDPCSD does not have an alternate source of water.” BUT OF COURSE WE DID! And it was called the Ranchito Drive remedy well!
PAGE 7 of 11:
True, it was only one groundwater well that was used to supply “replacement water” for the MERCED RIVER WATER that was wrongfully leaving the permitted service area of the Lake Don Pedro subdivision (according to water license 11395 and the water agreement with the MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT who holds that water license), but it was an ALTERNATE SOURCE OF WATER never-the-less.
The statement to the SWRCB should have been qualified with a word like “adequate“, “sufficient“, or even “appropriate” to make the sentence factually correct, such as:
Currently, LDPCSD does not have an ADEQUATE alternate source of water.
Of course, by using such a qualifier in the request, a resulting reasonable question from the SWRCB might have been something like:
After 36 years of operation, why was no ADEQUATE ALTERNATE SOURCE OF WATER pursued by the LDPCSD?
But as we all know now, such a question from the SWRCB would have brought up all the illegal water service connections installed outside the MID POU into the discussion – something MID and the LDPCSD certainly wanted to avoid – because having only one groundwater well was an ADEQUATE ALTERNATE SOURCE OF WATER FOR THE SPECIFIC PURPOSE AS A REMEDY TO PAST VIOLATIONS OF THE WATER LICENSE!
Asking the STATE for a special URGENCY ORDER when not following existing regulations already would not be a good starting point – right?
Anyway, sorry about the inoperable link.
My best to you and yours, Lew
