PART (f) Well, trying something different to speed things up a bit while maintaining the essence of the meeting.  Some interesting information regarding the groundwater arsenic problem our district now must deal with for perpetuity.  Seems to me KAMPA should have considered and calculated that issue into project development since he was personally aware of it 20 years ago when working here the first time.  But of course KAMPA & KOMPANY were in such a big rush to complete everything and get those wells working something had to suffer for expediency. Why not primary surface water treatment plant equipment and our safety?

Kampa seems to never provide the whole story – only his spin.  Same as when he first came aboard–the second time that is in 2014 – ….behind the scene agreements; closed recruitment process; submitted a contract price for his services; dug himself into our operations; made significant expensive changes; proposed many great sounding projects; and once comfortable with his parasitic designed  environment (like a tick on a dog) increased his price for all the “extra work” necessary.

Yup, just like the wells.  QUICK!  QUICk!  QUICK!  You are going to run out of water; the community will be lost, but I can save you if you only let me!   Hurry!  Advertise this in all available media,…tell the world!  Kampa is going to save Lake Don Pedro!   Quick, give me more authority and access to all your savings to get things done quickly since environmental review regulations have been suspended due to the critical time issue…….we need to get the ground wells online ASAP!

However, once the project was locked in and everybody and their brother misled as to the actual motive for publicly funded groundwater wells and the wells ready to produce – up jump the two infamous attempts to rescind the 2013 prohibition on further outside place of use properties.  Why?  So they could start selling (what they told us was) our newly developed EMERGENCY WATER SOURCE!

Double whammy!  Screwed the 99% of legal customers twice with the same deceit. [1- LIED: groundwater wells were always intended for Outside MIDPOU land developers, and,  2- EVEN IN AN ACTIVE EMERGENCY DROUGHT (rationale for well development) they were going to sell that newly developed “emergency water” to Outside MIDPOU land developers anyway!  Sure seems like despicable conduct by neighbors who claim to represent the best interests of the legal customers in this Community Services District.]

Yup, KAMPA & THIRD PARTY LAND DEVELOPERS WANTING SUBSIDIZED CHEAP WATER were in a hurry to get it flowing because (as we know from past LDPCSD shady deals) once the water deliveries start and people become dependent on it – you can’t stop the flow.   They FINALLY OBTAINED ENOUGH “ALTERNATE SOURCE WATER” to begin expanding that special benefit water service even further outside the MIDPOU.  Exactly what KAMPA tried 20 years ago when expanding District service but could not obtain the water – so he returned to the scene of the crime to complete the job.

And now?  OH NO!  There’s arsenic in the water?  Golly gee – POOR PETE KAMPA was so busying saving us he forgot all about that darn arsenic in the water stuff  – gosh darn it!  (along with mandatory compliance reporting to MID; signed certificates of district solvency; service area map boundaries, and past misrepresentations to government entities, etc….)

But have no fear!  All is not lost.  Take a deep breath and relax because PETE KAMPA & KAMPA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS LLC, and those supporting the betrayal and hi-jacking of our surface water treatment plant, have, once again, delivered us from impending disaster and provided the wonderful people of Lake Don Pedro the answer to yet another KAMPA CREATED PROBLEM …………(this one is KLASSIC KAMPA)—

WITH ENOUGH MONEY WE CAN DO ALMOST ANYTHING!

(phew!  and I was worried?)

Oh?  Anything?  Like constructing a paper “water empire” with public funds then dumping the perpetual maintenance, reporting, repair, and replacement costs on the financial backs of property owners in the subdivision who do not require a GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM because they are LEGAL USERS OF MERCED RIVER WATER?   KAMPA & KOMPANY figured no one would ever realize the depths of their scam during the emergency drought….I mean after all, they WERE SAVING THE COMMUNITY FROM CERTAIN DOOM!  (I don’t know about the rest of you, but I made some major changes/additions in my property and lifestyle in preparation for the worse case scenario based on what Kampa was spewing to cover what was really up.)

We need emergency groundwater wells in case the lake dries up!  Technically, had our system been maintained, I believe a very good argument could be made that we would have simply struggled through as we had in the past when it appeared Lake McClure might dry up.  Kampa again misrepresented that fact by saying the possibility of that happening had never been considered by the district before.  Absolute rubbish! I have a copy of the petition filed by the LDPOA in the 1990s (somewhere around here….I’ll check later, maybe – but I’m sure it’s here) because of concerns water for environmental purposes would restrict or eliminate their available water.  It’s a frigg’n cycle.  Drought.  Flood.   Drought.   Flood.    Capture in flood, wisely use in drought.

So we jump into their “alternate source water” for emergencies argument, but what is the result?  Due to groundwater arsenic in all the wells, that “emergency water” may not be safe for consumption without sufficient lake water to dilute the arsenic to a safe level.   POP!  Goes the Weasel!  Wa…aait   a minute ….isn’t the groundwater for when there is no lake water?  …..right?

OH WELL….here’s the offering…

Hope you all have an enjoyable and safe weekend.   UPS just delivered another “transplant” so once this (f) is uploaded and posted…..I will be involved with another “procedure” with bare feet firmly planted on cold tile (discharge of potentially harmful static electricity so I don’t shock my CPU to death!  lol – wish me luck!)       My best to you and yours, Lew