Another LAME Presentation containing an unrelated example of trickery and play with words utilizing a “spontaneous verse” recorded very quickly without much thought.  (Later I added an audible “drumstick introduction marker” for this experimental “Uncle Lewie” layered self sing along.   Can you correctly answer the question regarding this LAME recording?  Intrigued?)

Yup, just a little playful demonstration of how some easily observable facts about a situation can be used to intentionally confuse an issue, misrepresent the actual facts of the matter and encourage reliance on that information.  Unfortunately, this formula is often utilized to the detriment of others – in whatever form of loss, injury or damage, financial, emotional, legal, etc…

The other night I found that file on the recorder and wondered what the heck it was – forgot all about it but when I listened to it couldn’t help but laugh as I vividly recalled the very early morning circumstances.

Strange, I knew the nanosecond that tune and words were exiting my mouth if I didn’t record it right then I would never remember it correctly and for once the recorder was conveniently in sight on the bathroom counter.  Perfect!  Right on the way to the throne! I wanted to use the verse in some fashion …but didn’t know for what exactly at the time but later thought about this sing along verse repeated in layered parts like in “Row Row Your Boat”.

(Hey – I’m serious about the forgetting stuff.  Haven’t you ever thought about something and said to yourself – “quick!  Write it down so you don’t forget!”  But by the time you find a writing instrument and paper – POOF!  The thought, idea, memory, whatever IS GONE!

There you stand with pen in hand

Without a word to relay,

“Darn it all I seriously wonder

Will I ever be ready some day?”

That run to the throne

Was my “ready one day”

Thanks to handy recorder

There’s now a “verse test” to take!

lol

(Perfect example! I would have never remembered the above developing rhyme but fingers were already on the keyboard!)

Yes, for some reason sure reminds me how unrelated open acreage properties in an Assessor Parcel Map overlay might  appear to blend perfectly with an establish fifty year old Common Interest Development in the form of a Property Owners Association residential subdivision, regulated under the  DAVIS-STIRLING ACT found in the California Civil Code, and governed by a Board of Directors with annual assessments, violation committees, and property development controlled through CC&Rs (Covenants, Codes and Restrictions) that run with property title in the over 3,000 subdivision lots.  Point being – just because something may at first blush appear to be the same and perhaps look like it belongs – that does not in itself  equate to being legally identical in substance or having the same obligations, responsibilities, and/or entitlements.

Do professional Cons in dark allies near casinos, bus stations, airports, etc., really sell solid gold watches at a fraction of their APPARENT WORTH to “Marks”?

(“Marks” – those targeted as scam victims – generally using some phony baloney sob story of hardship which is forcing the Con to part with the extremely valuable object for very little money due to emergency…….  A story which assists the “Mark” into actually believing they are “in a way” helping the Con although their inner voice is screaming not to get involved – but is there a bit of “larceny of the heart”going on there too?  They (ultimate victim) know better – “but what a deal!” – Ahhhh, but you can’t cheat an honest person…  If the Mark was exchanging very little money for something believed to be much more valuable – but due to the Con’s professed desire and need for quick cash (bus fare, airplane ticket, taxi to hospital where partner was giving birth to an alien life form from another planet, whatever…. was there also a bit of dishonesty involved with the Mark as well by “taking advantage” of the Con’s emergency circumstances in needing fast cash?)

Or do Cons use fancy looking, cheap fake, “knockoffs” as the item of interest for the “Mark” ?

When such activities are intentionally orchestrated by two or more people to induce action, or inaction, by others (especially large groups of people) to their detriment – perhaps a crime is also being committed?

Well, I never seem to learn a final lesson with Jalapenos.  What am I eating right now?  Pizza topped with sliced Jalapenos.  Good Heavens.  Better leave the recorder on the bathroom counter tonight.

My best to you and yours, Lew

PS:  Raining last night and couldn’t see a thing for the special Lunar Eclipse/Super Moon/Blood Moon/Wolf Moon/Lew’s Lounge Moon (I made the last one up – lol), yep, couldn’t see a frigg’n thing…..  but tonight?

How did you folks weather the storm last night?  PHEW!  The winds were howling here. (Progressively worse it seems.)  I was recording a “LAME project” and later discovered I could still hear the wind outside in playback.

Once again the relentless strong wind  that typically assaults the southeast  side of the house compelled a quick decision as to how best protect that homemade shade cloth awning  I created that took hours of hand stitched reinforced seams for the various support lines.   (I swear by that 550 7 strand nylon paracord! Fantastic stuff for all sorts of projects!  – Cut a small piece – remove the individual strands – they are great for sewing with a large needle.   I had a post on this, guess it’s still here somewhere?)

So I’m standing in the pouring rain and howling wind with basically two options:

allow the large shade cloth I had sewn together and installed over the back deck to continue billowing and “popping” like a parachute due to the oscillating gusts and take a chance they would survive, or, quickly detach the lines from the multiple posts supporting them over the deck to stop that parachute effect which clearly had the potential of snapping off posts or breaking the “wood spacers” keeping the shade cloths fully open and, well, properly spaced.

(That was my greatest concern, because although I had taken precautions of securing the wooden slats to the cloth – if they snapped under the pressure of the billowing parachute, those broken pieces could be propelled about by the wind representing a potential for serious damage or personal injury.  As is traditionally pointed out in such high velocity wind environments, it is not the speed or force of the wind that will harm you, but rather, all the debris being hurled at you!    For instance, one of those 1” x 2” x 8’ shade cloth support posts, if broken, could be released and actually launched towards the great room glass slider like an arrow from that “popping parachute 550 cord bow” and could severely damage that glass door – not to mention what it could do to the dumb ass standing there in a storm scratching his head trying to figure out what to do!   Lol)

I kid you not!  Felt like a star “action character” in one of those old black and white Sinbad the sailor type movies depicting the high sea perils ancient mariners faced.

(Minus the chiseled six-pack stomach; glistening rippling muscles; long flowing hair….blah, blah, blah)

There I was – pitch of night in the middle of a tremendous storm with ghost like howling winds (probably caused by some pissed off witch or evil spirit of some sort – certainly not climate change – lol) desperately attempting to save my redwood decked land based ship from certain destruction by cutting loose the varied sails and yardarm rope rigging to prevent the snapping of wooden masts and support structures…..

(like a 30 year old Leland Cypress tree trunk last night!)

and the ultimate capsizing and sinking of my vessel….. 

“Cut the sails! 

Save the masts and ship!  

Cut the sails – let ’em go!”

(Makes your heart race with the imagined excitement yeah?  Lol)

OK, good plan.   Just simply climb a ladder in the dark during a severe wind/rain storm with a sharp knife in hand

(no, not held securely between my clinched teeth like a pirate climbing over the side of an adversary’s ship – lol)

and stretch out my cutting arm as far as I could in order to reach the nylon cords dancing above my head – wildly flipping and flapping about in the gusty wind – rather scary in itself.

(Know how in some of the old “fright films” a situation like this takes a dark turn by mysterious evil forces?……”Stretching out as far as he could with outreached arm, the razor sharp knife trembled in hand as the wind wildly whipped and snapped a loose end of 550 7 strand rot resistant Desert Storm (fantastic inventory of colors and combinations) nylon paracord (Paracordplanet)  – which inexplicably wrapped around the knife handle in his out stretched hand snapping it away from him and whipping and slashing the now wind controlled air born razor by a wet nylon cord like a possessed flying demon slashing, cutting, nicking bone and ….YIKES!  Knew I  had a restless night, but, phew.  Anyway, a bit scary up a ladder at night, in a storm, high winds, with a sharp knife……blah, blah, blah)

ANYWAY, exercising extreme caution I successfully eliminated the “parachute effect” without injury or further risk of property damage.   Sure was some mess though.

(Used a knife to cut the support 550 lines because due to their being wet and knots pulled tight under tension of the wind there was no way to untie them safely while standing on a wet ladder.)

No biggie considering the other possibilities.  Certainly much easier dealing with storm debris clean up than having to extricate oneself from being impaled by a 1”x2”x 8’ shade cloth support post.   (Or a loose end of 550 paracord wrapping itself around my neck in an evil “spirit wind” and while fighting the ever increasing tightening hold of the garotte around my neck…slip and fall off the deck with the other end of the cord becoming entangled and essentially hangi…….YIKES!  Oh, remember why I didn’t sleep too well, howling wind, worry, and too many Jalapenos and chips last night.)

My best to you and yours, Lew

PS:  Well, a cursory inspection revealed three leaning Cypress trees and one with a trunk completely snapped off a couple of feet off the ground.   That will be a challenge in removal because I’ll need the assistance of an extension ladder to reach branches “wind tangled” in the canopy.   This loss was right next to the one that fell during a storm a few years ago damaging a garden shed roof.  (The shed actually kept it from going all the way down to the ground.)

That row of trees reminds me of a smile that incrementally looses another tooth (figure the space made available by the missing tree permits more wind to enter and essentially work on the next loose tooth a little harder!  Formula:  Rocky shallow rooted trees + water saturated ground + strong winds = Lumberjack Lew) Rather depressing after almost thirty years of raising and caring for these trees, but I must strive to be positive…(right?) ..maybe that old expression of “growth through destruction” will apply?  You know, … not realizing and appreciating concealed “positive aspects” of what certainly appears to be just a total loss right now?

Hey!  At least I don’t have a giant splinter sticking out of my bod!  Or lacerations from a wind controlled flying knife!  Or a ……

(BELOW)

Suddenly Liz and I make eye contact with the same obvious unspoken thought (she speaks too you know):

“Hear that?” 

(Darn dog forgot to remind me to take the potted plants out of the outdoor casement windows again)

(Below) “Now where did I leave that little piece of blue tarp?”

(BELOW)  “LOOKS TERRIBLE, BUT SMELLS GREAT”

(aka, goodbye to another Leland Cypress)

(JUST LIKE THE MAST ON SINBAD’S VESSEL!)

(BELOW)

“PERHAPS THE HENS JUST REDECORATED?”

My best to you and yours, Lew

Why not? It is, after all,  just another “Lew Almost Music Expression” produced in video format right?

So it is technically a LAME production anyway!

Perhaps, “Lew Almost Music Experiment” might be a more accurate and appropriate definition?  Whatever,  I can still continue having a blast with this stuff while simultaneously boasting a voluntary and accurate content disclaimer –

they are all LAME productions!

lol

(Referencing a lack of skill, proficiency, aptitude with “real” musical instruments/equipment and a wanting in vigor of expression; weak presentation, etc – A lack of adequate time the primary excuse used in quickly wrapping up a project when a bit more time and thought would have made a very big difference – this usually equates to something as simple as a good night’s sleep and starting again later…… But, oh no….. “I’ll just change this little part right here real quick…..”

For example, this final “tune”, as usual, was waaaaaaaay overdone –

I created a “sweet spot” that I really liked and thought had some interesting potential – but instead of “protecting that content” I kept throwing other instruments in the mix until I actually buried what I initially liked but going back through all the layered tracks was going to lead me in the opposite direction of finishing the project, so, I screwed up and rushed another one because I already have so many other “open projects” …..  it isn’t even lol and adding another was not an option at the time.  [Yawn]   Ahh, that elusive thing called time….)

Oh well. Guess I should just keep on practicing, right?   (Poor viewers- “he he he” evil chuckle).   This “almost music” stuff is also a great way to utilize some of the thousands of photos and videos I’ve collected through the years – which of course themselves are also chronic victims of poor organizational skills resulting in a lack of consistent easy retrieval – (“where the heck is that “______”  I shot back in winter of 2014?”) but I’m working on that also, just takes a lot of,  well, you know.

Seriously though, what is the point of taking and storing such material if not shared with others?  (Most will probably end up in a land fill somewhere when I depart anyway, so might as well spread the garbage now yeah?  lol.

Of course that assumes others might even be interested, but there resides the primary reason for this exercise – the personal and therapeutic benefits in redirecting years of frustration and anger about the “activities of others” into creation of an expressive opposition,…. or in the present case, appreciation for something.  Yeah, I know, blah, blah, blah, here’s another LAME project for your whatever….    🙂

My best to you and yours, Lew

TRANSYLVANIAN LULLABY by THE ACES

The conclusion of a recent Letter to the Editor of the Mariposa Gazette regarding water service issues of the LDPCSD (more like a 350 word drive-by spray of relevant facts in outline form) referenced this website for more information on the subject.   I woke early this morning realizing I had essentially invited the entire Gazette reading public to drop by without making any reasonable advance preparations.  You know, rather like inviting folks to physically stop by and visit where you live without first picking up and cleaning to make a decent first impression – quite a traumatic realization for an “almost hermit”.

Sure, in this case it is more a matter of rummaging around my  “grey matter output” on this website that has been fueled by a sense of betrayal and frustration with the lack of more immediate correction and expressed in a variety of ways: verbatim transcriptions of board meetings; audio and video meeting productions, formal complaints to local, state and federal authorities, etc.  and most recently, through what I call “almost music” videos.  (An  activity which, in itself, only goes to show – you never know what previously unconsidered, new, and enjoyable options might materialize in response to a negative situation demanding much time, money, effort and diversion from originally planned and more happier pursuits.)

Anyway, a friend recently pointed out that banging on an empty trash can with or without vocal expression is still a form of music and my referring to what I was doing as “almost music” could conceivably be considered offensive or insulting to others who might express themselves in a similar fashion.   OK.  Point well taken – I basically agree with that and would never intentionally demean other sincere expressions regardless of form.  The “almost music” characterization of my back ground sound and/or satirical little songs was not intended to be self deprecating, but rather, just an acknowledgement that (in my own mind) what I’m doing would likely not qualify as true music by those trained in composition and/or those possessing the talent and skill (achieved through extensive study and practice) to play an authentic musical instrument.  Seriously, I am merely pressing different Casio keys to mimic instrument sounds digitally – but it is still a blast of fun!

Do I know how to play a violin?  No.

Tuba?  Nope.

Laotian flute?  No.

Would I know how to use a set of drums if they were laid out in front of me and I was handed a couple of drumsticks?  No.

Could I conduct a string quartet or orchestra?  No.

Do I know how to write music?  No.

You get the idea — but I sure can play around with a Casio keyboard in an attempt to produce digital sounds that at first blush seem like actual musical instruments/equipment.   (A real trumpet player or violinist could never hold a note as long as I can digitally – while sipping a beer with the other hand no less!   lol)

Heck, that keyboard even has the capability of conveniently recording different tracks with a variety of instruments with playback of all or only selected tracks.  I honestly do not know how to use the far majority of functions and features of the darn thing!   This new interest started when a friend generously loaned me an old keyboard  she had and I was hooked – and thus began the systematic torture of viewers with “almost music”.  I just needed a short cut to being an accomplished musician so I could (hopefully) present my opinions and thoughts in a form folks might think interesting, or humorous enough, to spend the time to get the point.  (Which I repeat over, and over, and over, ……anyway.)

Yup, Lewtune “almost music” videos turned out to be a blessing in disguise while continuing objection and fight against what I sincerely believe to be an intentionally designed financial and water service fraud operating for decades committed against thousands of MR WECs of the Lake Don Pedro residential subdivision since 1980 (formerly Sierra Highlands Water Company – transformed into a public agency in August 1980 with 88 affirmative votes and 29 against).

Yes indeed, a brand new special district complete with built in innocent, but mandatory victim customers of LAFCO’s foothill water providing district scam essentially creating a perpetual “deep pocket” for continued water service expansion outside the subdivision POU of WL11395 to serve LAFCO ANNEXATIONS.

How?  With an extremely expensive (and for this area, unreliable) GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM to specifically serve thousands of acres of LAFCO ANNEXATIONS into the LDPCSD that apparently didn’t even follow their own operational guidelines.

Why groundwater?  Because water license 11395 prohibits Merced River water service outside the subdivision so all river water illegally leaving the subdivision must be replaced with groundwater.  If the water is replaced – supposedly there is no violation of the license, so the MR WECs of the subdivision have been, and are expected to continue, paying for this special benefit water REPLACEMENT service for even more third party land developers who own LAFCO ANNEXED PROPERTIES within the district’s LAFCO expanded water service boundary.   Some of these outside owners are attempting to develop adjacent subdivisions which will obviously only increase the demand for expensive groundwater that is already primarily subsidized by subdivision residents!

Please understand:  subdivision MR WECs, DO NOT REQUIRE GROUNDWATER REPLACEMENT!

Seriously, consider how different this designated “disadvantaged community” might be if clear state regulations had been followed from the beginning.   Wonder how much more developed, attractive, and valuable our subdivision properties would be right now had our right to that quality Merced River water been protected rather than exploited by the respective local county government departments, agencies, commissions, etc. which were apparently focused more on the special interests of land developers in a drought prone area wanting our subdivision dedicated water.  Everybody wins but the subdivision residents who have primarily paid for all the additional costs!  (Heck, subdivision owners no longer consume the quality Merced River water from Lake McClure, but a “blended product” made with groundwater that must have contaminants such as arsenic removed.  Special monitoring, treatment, reporting, equipment, etc.  all paid for by those who do not require a remedy for intentional violations of the state water license.

Shame, shame, shame.  Distrust of local government is sometimes not only warranted, but earned.

My best to you and yours, Lew

….the Merced River actually flows? 

  lol?

(hint: Mariposa County where it begins and Merced – Stanislaus County line where it joins the San Joaquin River.)

My best to you and yours, Lew

Our best to you and yours.

But then again……looks like we will!

HAPPY ALMOST NEW YEAR!

Worked outside a bit – then inside to play around with the “almost music stuff”. What can I say? It’s fun! Anyway, just playing around and then thought…..why not a last 2018 “almost music” thing? So, here it is, just sliding under the wire of 2019….”We’re not going to make midnight” – although it actually looks like we will…maybe. But maybe not?……it is 2343hrs right now. 2347hrs……processing almost done……OK READY TO POST (fastest one ever I think!)  2351hrs bye!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Blah, blah, blah with you next year, yeah?

My best to you and yours, Lew

LAFCOs – Local Agency Formation Commissions, ie, state agencies operating at the county level so that  THE POWER OF THE STATE IS ACTUALLY EXERCISED BY AND FOR LOCAL COUNTY INTERESTS under the concept local authorities would know best how to develop and manage local resources and appropriate development.

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This post/video simply examines some of the 2016 statements made by  LAKE DON PEDRO COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT (LDPCSD) General Manager/Treasurer, Pete Kampa, and his supporting Board of Directors in light of the historical facts contained in the September 28, 2017 State Water Board Notice of Violation.  That NOV reaffirmed exactly how this nightmare of SPECIAL BENEFIT WATER SERVICE outside the legal subdivision started and continues today.

Fake Maps, paper, Mylar, digital, whatever!  All the same.  FAKE/FALSE INFORMATION.

The Lake Don Pedro residential subdivision (as a CID,POA & CC&R governed entity under the California Civil Code) has been severely injured by other organizations, both public and private, that were intended to assist in protecting its integrity but instead, exploited a subdivision water resource for outside subdivision development and profit.

The “disinformation” intentionally spread within this area for decades has been outrageous – but especially damaging since return of Peter Kampa in October 2014 to complete the LAFCO ANNEXATIONS for outside subdivision development he started over twenty years ago when beginning his infamous water career in California between the years 1994-1997.  Pete Kampa’s twenty year affiliation with the CSDA (CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION) [aka a major not for profit state lobbyist organization] has in no small part assisted KAMPA with the corruption and abuse within the LDPCSD.  Seems every turn in the road has involved some facet of CSDA, the political special district updates from Sacramento; opinions regarding our POST RETIREMENT MEDICAL BENEFITS which were abandoned years ago until KAMPA & KOMPANY decided to reinstate them at great cost to our district; discounts for CSDA members and affiliates for such things as our LDPCSD WEBSITE, (which is still quite unresponsive to public requests and continues to display incorrect information to the public); how about THE FINAL ANSWER TO THE WL11395 POU QUESTION FOR LDPCSD WATER SERVICE TO LAFCO ANNEXATIONS?  Just another one of the many FAKE KAMPA POU MAP PRODUCTIONS courtesy of a CSDA discounted provider (don’t forget the $35,000 budget the Board approved for this digital FAKE MAP!,and so it goes, on and on and on…..)  Kampa is not just a “REMOTE GM/TREASURER – BUT A CSDA LOBBYIST AND SHOULD BE REGISTERED AS ONE!  lol

Yeah, yeah, yeah….OK…..prepare yourself for another repeat and resulting yawning exercise – lol

Kampa was returned to the LDPCSD through a highly unethical “CLOSED RECRUITMENT SELECTION PROCESS” specifically designed to guarantee ONLY PETE KAMPA could be appointed as the new GM/Treasurer and provided access to over ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN LDPCSD CASH that was saved as a result of a successful PROPOSITION 218 to raise rates and fees almost ten years ago to avoid LDPCSD bankruptcy.  (Those funds were later used by Kampa to leverage state and federal grant money to develop the ground water production for an “ALTERNATE SOURCE WATER” which Kampa used to circumvent Merced River water restrictions contained in WL11395 which prohibit river water service outside the authorized Place of Use subdivision.   By “blending” this groundwater with Merced River water, the final “blended product” is CLAIMED TO BE A LEGAL “FOR SALE PRODUCT” TO LAFCO PROPERTIES OUTSIDE THE PLACE OF USE BOUNDARY OF WATER LICENSE 11395! 

[RECALL THE SO GOSIP (Same Old Group Of Special Interest People) talk of “finding someone” who was going to write grants for groundwater well development”  (for LAFCO ANNEXATIONS outside the subdivision) before Kampa even submitted his blitzkrieg promoting management contract?]

Hindsight is always 20/20 yeah?

CONSIDER ALSO: Since the groundwater contains contaminants such as arsenic, that must be removed for human consumption which Merced River water does not possess, this SPECIAL BENEFIT BLENDING  also forces MR WECs to consume something less than the quality Merced River water that has been pumped from Lake McClure from the very start back in the late 1960’s when the SIERRA HIGHLANDS WATER COMPANY!)

ANYWAY, …..Thanks to confidential BOARD INFORMATION of a forthcoming GM opening (that was quickly relayed to PETE KAMPA by a sitting LDPCSD director/personal friend who worked with Kampa back in the mid 1990s) Kampa was able to quickly prepare and present a contract – ready for board approval – for his company, KAMPA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS, or KAMPACS, to immediately assume REMOTE district GM/Treasurer responsibilities.  There was no public notice of the upcoming vacancy and prior plans for GM selection were immediately abandoned by members of the board.   Kampa was then appointed without even a simple employment background check which would have revealed KAMPA was in actuality, a rogue former employee who was negotiating ANNEXATIONS INTO THE DISTRICT WITHOUT BOARD APPROVAL OR AUTHORIZATION, apparently one of the reasons prompting a quick resignation and departure to McCloud CSD where he also made quite a name for himself in exploiting the resources of that special district. 

(Yes, the CSDA must be very proud.  Read Governor Brown’s statement about that McCloud CSD contract negotiated by Kampa back then when Governor Brown was the State Attorney General!)

Pete Kampa was very much aware of the LDPCSD water license limitations in serving Merced River water and immediately started work on the plan to misrepresent the actual purpose of developing more groundwater wells (ostensibly for entitled subdivision customer use during state wide emergency drought) for the true misappropriated purpose of expanding SPECIAL BENEFIT GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTED SERVICE OUTSIDE THE WATER LICENSE DESIGNATED PLACE OF USE RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION!  

Rather like the old traditional “bait and switch”, yeah?     Advertise one thing but sell another?

 State and federal officials were told groundwater production would be used for the drought threatened residential subdivision, when in actuality, the Ranchito Drive “remedy well” (which formerly produced enough groundwater to remedy the illegal service already recognized outside the subdivision) had already failed, or was in the process of failing, to produce the groundwater necessary for water license compliance purposes.  This water license compliance reporting to MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT (MID) [holder of water license 11395] started back in 2000 when MID stated NO MERCED RIVER WATER COULD BE SERVED OUTSIDE THE POU BOUNDARY OF THE WATER LICENSE AND ANY SUCH SERVICE WOULD HAVE TO COME FROM THE RANCHITO DRIVE WELL – the only ground well owned by the LDPCSD!  (Kampa stopped these compliance reports and the water loss information previously furnished the public.)

Yup, not about the MR WECs of the subdivision at all, but rather, PETE KAMPA’s LAFCO ANNEXATIONS FROM 20 YEARS EARLIER LOSING THE ONLY ALTERNATE SOURCE WATER AVAILABLE TO PREVENT VIOLATION OF THE WATER LICENSE RESTRICTIONS.    Do not forget Pete Kampa was likely also aware of the other properties receiving water for many years that were outside the POU of WL11395 but district billing was unaware yet he allowed such known unreported illegal service to continue.

In other words, KAMPA and his special interest board of DEFECTORS NEEDED GROUNDWATER AND FAST BEFORE THE NONCOMPLIANCE WITH WL11395 WAS PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE!   And what better way to obtain it than telling “the community and world” they were DRILLING HOLES ALL OVER THE PLACE to prevent customers from  losing water service as the lake went down due to drought*.   (Original board that hired Kampa knew exactly what they were doing in violating clear restrictions in WL11395 and burdening MR WECs with the added financial costs of subsidized water for third party land developers to which our district had no legal duty or moral obligation to provide water.  Period.)

* Another important issue.  Decades of massive water loss (wink and nod thefts?) have continued unchecked yet the PERFECT OPPORTUNITY FOR CORRECTIVE ACTION DURING THAT STATE WIDE EMERGENCY DROUGHT (relaxed EPA/development, application/permitting, etc. and physically reaching equipment usually under water) to repair and replace failed equipment for our SURFACE WATER TREATMENT PLANT was intentionally ignored in favor of groundwater wells desperately needed to maintain water license compliance reporting conditions that KAMPA HAD STOPPED (later said he was unaware of the reporting requirement) that the MONEY GRANTING AUTHORITIES WERE NOT EVEN AWARE!

The State of California and Federal Government thought they were approving grant money to save a community on the verge of losing their water supply as the McClure Lake level went down (this has happened a number of times in the past but not quite as severe) when in reality they were providing PUBLIC FINANCING FOR PRIVATE LAND DEVELOPER PROPOSED PROJECTS ON SUSPICIOUS LAFCO ANNEXED PROPERTIES!  

REM: The PROPOSED 900 ACRE RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION across the road from the LDPCSD Administration Office (where the original office was destroyed by arson in February 2012 during an investigation of this outside POU water service issue)  that MARIPOSA COUNTY LAFCO later said had been annexed in 1995 but kept a virtual secret from the public until only a few months before Kampa returned to the LDPCSD and a SEMI-PRIVATE LAFCO-LDPCSD meeting produced two new maps with different LDPCSD BOUNDARIES OF WATER SERVICE?

But I digress.

Thousands of property owners (past, present and future) of the Lake Don Pedro Owners Association (LDPOA) who were essentially forced into becoming mandatory customers of the LAFCO created Lake Don Pedro Community Services District (LDPCSD) (due to CC&Rs that ran with their POA governed property title) have all been harmed by this rigged groundwater substitution program subsidy for land developers outside the water entitled subdivision that is primarily paid for by subdivision LDPCSD customer owners!  I call these victims: MR WECs  (Merced River Water Entitled Customers – of the Lake Don Pedro subdivision).

WHAT ARE THE DESIGNED CHARACTERISTICS OF SPECIAL DISTRICTS  LIKE THE LDPCSD?

1) limited service (Subdivision lot water service)

2) to a particular group of customers (Only LDP subdivision property owners- as indicated in LAFCO publications);

3) within a defined geographical area (an official water service area with boundaries aka, THE LDP SUBDIVISION as determined by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) January 1981 approval in the transfer of SIERRA HIGHLANDS facilities and assets to the newly LAFCO FORMED LDPCSD)  [Spoiler Alert:  Mariposa County LAFCO (in anticipation of the CPUC’s intention to limit the service area to only the subdivision and golf course) apparently quietly & secretly substantially enlarged the LDPCSD SERVICE AREA (ready for this?) immediately after the STATE OF CALIFORNIA DECLARED WATER LICENSE 11395 FULLY APPROPRIATED AND BEING PUT TO MAXIMUM BENEFICIAL USE AS REQUIRED BY OUR STATE CONSTITUTION!

State declaration of water license full appropriation: July 1980

LDPCSD formed by LAFCO: August 1980 (And that official service area map has been missing ever since!)

4) customers are charged only for those costs NECESSARY IN PROVIDING THAT SERVICE   which is absolutely impossible when MR WECs has been subsidizing a groundwater substitution program for land developers OUTSIDE THE ENTITLED SUBDIVISION!

Sad to say but my conclusion is the LDPCSD has been an intentional fraud since its first day of operation.

Also, do not forget that it only took 88 votes to encumber thousands of LDP subdivision MR WEC owners with this hidden GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM for perpetuity!  AND THE GERRYMANDERING THAT PERMITS THIS TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE TO CONTINUE!   NON STAKEHOLDERS WHO CAN VOTE AND DETERMINE DIRECTOR ELECTION OUTCOMES!

WHY DID LAFCOs CONTINUE ANNEXATIONS KNOWING THE LDPCSD COULD NOT SERVE THE WATER?

TO ASSIST IN THE GERRYMANDERING  OF THE DISTRICT TO “LOCK IN” THE FRAUD AGAINST MR WECs?

WHY FORCE MR WECs INTO TREMENDOUSLY EXPENSIVE GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION FOR LAFCO “LATE ON THE SCENE” PROPERTY ANNEXATIONS INTO THE LDPCSD?

TAXABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE DROUGHT PRONE FOOTHILL AREAS OF TWO COUNTIES WHERE  THE RESPECTIVE COUNTY WOULD NOT HAVE TO FURNISH AN EXPENSIVE WATER SUPPLY?

WHO WERE THE TRUE BENEFICIARIES OF THIS UNETHICAL FINANCIAL SCHEME?

Sorry, this post is kind of all over the place – think I would learn not to just blah, blah, blah…without a bit more planning ahead— ahhh, what the heck! Woke again this morning thinking about it anyway….might as well blah, blah, blah…

Yes indeed, I do repeat myself – and will most likely continue to do so until this decades old criminal conspiracy is corrected because I believe heart and mind it is absolutely wrong to the innocent stakeholder property owners of this subdivision.

Anyway, I thought some of the statements made in 2016 take on more illuminating aspects especially when considered in light of the STATE NOV and the apparent June 2018 Kampa/SWRCB quick attempt to end that investigation.  An investigation that started off quite professionally but was quickly shunted into the shadows of special interest protection and concealment from the public.

There is a gold mine in these past meeting recordings because the true motive for so many of these former statements and actions by KAMPA and HIS BOARD only become apparent when truth is allowed to flow like water from undocumented valves.

HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR – BUT PLEASE BE SAFE SO AS TO CONTINUE THE HAPPINESS ALL YEAR LONG!

My best to you and  yours, Lew