Please read the following contract which was used to prepare the report for establishing the LDPCSD Sphere of Influence (SOI) – which is more commonly recognized as “where future water service is likely to occur” (but supposedly based on the specific circumstances of that area). Appreciate that with all the detail in preparing the contract, along with the extremely detailed SOI report that followed, there was no discussion regarding the
MERCED RIVER WATER Place of Use RESTRICTIONS
CONTAINED IN WL11395!
Where in this meticulous process of expanding water service does LAFCO address how the LDPCSD
could LEGALLY PROVIDE ADEQUATE WATER for LAFCO ANNEXED PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS
OUTSIDE THE WATER LICENSE PLACE OF USE UNDER WHICH the DISTRICT had operated since formation by that very LAFCO in 1980!
How could Mariposa County LAFCO NOT HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THOSE
CLEAR RESTRICTIONS AS DISCUSSED IN THE CPUC (California Public Utilities Commission) approval for the transfer of facilities and assets from Sierra Highlands Water Company to the newly formed LDPCSD in January 1981?
RECALL? The new LDPCSD was not to assume any liability for all those prior line extension agreements Sierra had made with other property owners outside the subdivision -that was Sierra’s responsibility, not the customers of the new public agency district.
Also, contrary to what current GM/Treasurer Pete Kampa said months ago, owners of property in the subdivision (MR WECs) certainly DO HAVE A RIGHT TO WATER SERVICE IN THE FUTURE AT ANY TIME UPON DEMAND because they are the entitled Merced River Water users per 11395. That is precisely why the term “STANDBY FEE” was changed in the 1990s policies to “STANDBY/AVAILABILITY FEE or CONNECTION CHARGE” because “STANDBY” means “READY TO GO UPON REQUEST FOR WATER SERVICE”. That’s why every lot in the subdivision (except Unit T-1 on the other side of Lake Don Pedro (Don Pedro Reservoir) because that proposed and abandoned residential/golf resort was mistakenly planning on obtaining water from the reservoir) had a meter box installed on, or very near to the property to be served. Part of the original infrastructure for the subdivision. That’s why as soon as these local special interests got their hands on District operations they began expanding service outside the subdivision with all those main line extensions. That’s why our LDPCSD records are filled with incorrect information – such as that fabricated paragraph of the CPUC decision expanding service outside what was actually approved. All the while the poor old MR WECs of the subdivision have been paying for this deception and will continue to do so for as long as they own their Lake Don Pedro property unless this madness can be stopped! It’s obvious the current representation on the Board of Directors since 2014 has had absolutely no interest in obtaining the truth about the water license and prefer to simply nod with approval anything current GM/Treasurer Pete Kampa wishes to do. Which of course included using that board approved $35,000 digital mapping project to create yet another “more high priced” fraudulent WL11395 POU Map in an effort to conceal and support Kampa’s wrongful activities!
And people wonder why we are a “disadvantaged community”? Anyway, detailed contract for the future LDPCSD SOI Report.
