Still having difficulty with this.  Sorry, I realize repetitive.  Stuck in a loop of why, why, why?    OK, money obviously.  But why would the county LAFCos go along with such a special interest water development policy in view of the intended purpose of the LDPCSD?

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You know, in all the training classes I ever participated in while on the board that were presented by organizations such as the one KAMPA is apparently connected at the hip to,[i]  I have never heard it suggested that district officials intentionally misrepresent truth or practice omission of pertinent fact, as acceptable techniques for controlling legitimate customer concerns or protests of poor management.

[1] PETE KAMPA is currently running to retain his director position on the board of the CSDA (California Special District Association).  If KAMPA is an example of what that organization desires to have representing its interests – all I can say is “what goes around comes around”]

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Why were the Meeting Minutes between September 2 1980 to July 2 1981 “condensed”?

Probably because detailed notes would not have reflected well on a Board that immediately began expanding district service and violating the approved service area for Merced River Water after just assuming control of the facility.  But remember, our first GM was the previous GM of a private water company that was suddenly transformed into a public agency by LAFCo due to a positive vote of 88 people to form the LDPCSD.   That first GM believed the LDPCSD should serve water any where it was feasibly possible and the legally permissible issue was simply ignored.    

Those who read the CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION (CPUC) approval for the transfer of facilities and assets from Sierra Highlands Water Company to the newly formed LDPCSD, were very much aware of the service area established.  The approval was quite explicit as to what was, and what was not, approved regarding water service.

THEN WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED AFTER CPUC APPROVAL?

 

 

Why does the Lake Don Pedro CSD consistently refuse to post a legitimate map displaying where Merced River Water (pumped under Merced Irrigation District water license 11395) can legally be used in this area? Properties outside the 11395 Place of Use MUST use ground water. Why should 99% of legal Merced River water users in the subdivision (for whom the water plant was constructed) pay for this ground water special benefit for land developers outside the subdivision?

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WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL “REAL PLAN” FOR THE LDPCSD?

 

Was water service provided by the LDPCSD to properties that the State Water Board, CPUC  and County Lafcos never intended?

Or.

Was water service provided by the LDPCSD to properties that the State Water Board and CPUC never intended but the County LAFCo’s most certainly did?

IF the former is true, why did the County LAFCos approve so many annexations that were CLEARLY OUTSIDE THE SERVICE AREA ESTABLISHED BY THE STATE WATER BOARD AND THE CPUC during formation and immediately afterward?

IF the later statement is true the question becomes,  Do COUNTY LOCAL AGENCY FORMATION COMMISSION annexations necessarily over-rule decisions of higher State Departments and Commissions?

 

EVEN THE LDPCSD ATTORNEY

ADVISED IN JUNE OF 1981

NO SERVICE OUTSIDE AREA!

 

 

SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG

at the

Lake Don Pedro Community Services District

Like the unpleasant odor of decomposition one picks up on a breeze yet cannot grasp in hand to determine cause, this journey too is primarily sniffing facts and following the unmistakable and obnoxious scent of public agency deceit and betrayal.

Whether a corpse littered field, or unethical activities by public officials pursuing personal/business goals, both should be properly disposed of by the appropriate authorities and as soon as possible.

I can’t shake this Outside MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT PLACE OF USE (MIDPOU) LAKE SHORE RANCH property annexation  in 1995 during PETE KAMPA’s start of an infamous water career.

DID KAMPA CREATE A

MASSIVE ARTIFICIAL GROUNDWATER DEMAND ON PAPER

through many outside MIDPOU ANNEXATIONS

then returned 20 years later to

COMPLETE THAT PLAN BY PROVIDING

GROUNDWATER WELLS DEVELOPED WITH PUBLIC FUNDS

for the purpose of creating an 

“ALTERNATE SOURCE”

necessary for

GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION

for his

PAST APPROVED yet “quietly slumbering annexations”?

?

“…..so let me introduce to you, the one and only….”

“MR WEC”

(MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMER(S) !)

(lol – Thinking Billy Shears huh?)

MR WECs DO NOT APPRECIATE SUBSIDIZING SPECULATIVE LAND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS – lol

Then “out of the blue” after the LDPCSD had just reached the $1Millon dollar savings mark after a successful proposition 218 to raise capital to avoid bankruptcy; false information to a grand jury investigator resulting in a director resignation; aggressive land development activities for more service outside the MIDPOU and cheaper water rates; destruction of our Administration Office by arson; then suddenly in May of 2016 (only 5 months prior to Kampa’s return) new LAFCo service area maps for the LDPCSD, which greatly expanded the service area, are placed in LAFCo records with LDPCSD’s blessing.  (you couldn’t make this stuff up!)

KAMPA RETURN (yes again!  it’s important-shows prior knowledge of regulations and former relationship w/director)

A PETE KAMPA return is orchestrated by Directors Emery Ross and Danny Johnson through a highly unethical closed recruitment process to guarantee KAMPA the positions of General Manager and Board Secretary.

As you may recall, PETE KAMPA, having previously worked with EMERY ROSS in the mid 1990s [when ROSS had been denied district water service multiple times but somehow obtained another individual’s meter and service], was well aware of the restrictions on MERCED RIVER WATER per water license 11395 held by the Merced Irrigation District.  KAMPA was well informed as to the ABSOLUTE NECESSITY FOR A GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM to furnish properties such as the ROSS CATTLE RANCH and other proposed and approved annexations KAMPA had worked with in the 1990s.

KAMPA was quickly provided access to the district’s $1 Million in cash to leverage government grants to construct multiple groundwater wells ostensibly for the benefit of existing customers faced with potential loss of all lake water due to drought.  However, in actuality, KAMPA and others had all along intended to create the necessary “ALTERNATE SOURCE” of water with which to replace every unit of MERCED RIVER WATER intended to be diverted to land developers outside the permitted PLACE OF USE of WL11395.

“PRO-EXPANSION discussions PRIOR TO KAMPA’s RETURN to the LDPCSD, involved finding someone who could write grants to construct groundwater wells for the outside MIDPOU property developers.  (Surely just public prep-work disinformation before announcing the likely very long awaited plan of “re-activating slumbering annexations” with KAMPA’s return.)  I clearly voiced my opposition to that plan when ending my four year term on the board.   I was told such groundwater would not be used for outside MIDPOU use but only for emergency drought purposes.  They lied – otherwise, why such things as the two attempts to abolish 2013-4 which prohibited increasing such service?  Why the necessity of secrecy of LAKE SHORE RANCH?  The steadfast refusal to post accurate maps depicting the actual service boundary and where MERCED RIVER WATER could be served under WL11395?  Why the refusal to post the State Water Board official map of the district?  All this and much more to keep KAMPA & KOMPANY’s plan quiet and out of the public eye?

What CSD purpose is served with such apparent conspiratorial effort to conceal district activities, both past and present, regarding outside MIDPOU service?

What purpose is served to the benefit of MR WEC through continued deception of fact and omission of the truth, regarding a 1995 outside Merced Irrigation District Place of Use (MIDPOU) annexation of 900 acres for a proposed subdivision adjacent to MR WEC’s subdivision?

Even more importantly, was it appropriate for the LAFCo to apparently co-operate and assist the LDPCSD in preventing potential local protest of such annexations (lack of LDPCSD community notice, hearing & election), which again, by virtue of their outside MIDPOU status, would certainly cause an increase in operation costs to the detriment of MR WEC’s subdivision under the water license? 

 

What purpose is served, other than to continue the years of disinformation and deceit to conceal pertinent facts from the public, for KAMPA to REPEATEDLY FAIL TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON APPROVED ANNEXATIONS and LEGAL POU ISSUES UNDER 11395 with which he was PERSONALLY INVOLVED AS AN EMPLOYEE 20 years earlier? 

Is that not a form of lying to the the very customers the LDPCSD receives payment and is supposed to serve?

Heck, when the board has a Closed Session (permitted in accordance with the Open Meeting/Brown Act for certain actions), even the “report out” provides a general description of the meeting so the public can appreciate and understand the necessity for such confidential discussions. 

“Nawwww…..this is different – now don’t ya see?” 

as Gunsmoke Festus would say.  lol

WHY PETER KAMPA? 

Not only because he was previously and personally involved with the peculiar approvals of many of these 20 year old annexations and proposed developments, but more importantly, he had made and developed many very influential contacts within the state water system industry.  Heck, KAMPA taught classes to politicians, operators, GMs, Special District directors,…etc.

Kampa was once again preparing to saddle the innocent MR WECs of the subdivision with even higher unnecessary costs which also will also increase in cycles for perpetuity – just to continue funding and operating his special interest GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM to circumvent WL11395 restrictions for his developer acquaintances known 20 years earlier.   MR WECs of the subdivision did not care for this plan, back then or now as it does not make sense when considering all the facts for this area.  There were also droughts before 1995.  Certainly not as bad as the last one which should always remain relevant to this discussion of service expansion using groundwater wells.

AVAILABILITY FEES PAID ON PROPERTY TAXES

This is another good example of how the extremely powerful influences of land development and real estate have controlled this area for decades – and that’s the real “best kept secret” around here.  Consider.   A MR WEC of the subdivision is either 1) a resident water consumer who pays a monthly charge of $53 plus the amount of water consumed and these charges have obviously gone up since formation, or  2) An Absentee owner who pays an “availability fee on their property taxes, which is $60/ac, with a maximum of $180 a year (including fractional divisions thereof).

WHY MAXIMUM OF 3 acres?

How many properties does MR WEC in the subdivision own that are over 3 acres? (Very few)

So why should a property of three acres pay the same yearly availability fee as one with several hundred acres?  But wait!  Where are the “open several hundred acres” of unimproved properties in the approved MIDPOU for the subdivision?  There aren’t any.  Kassabalm Flats  perhaps on Ranchito Dirve has open land, but not that much.

Ah oh….side note.    What about our NATURAL PARKS that are obviously within the subdivision?  Was that a spin off goal plan back then when Orb Hatton and Dwight Mueller suggested the LDPOA sell our open park land to developers for cash?  Sell our parks to developers who could then pull strings for re-zoning,  subdivide the park and claim a right to a meter on every “condo sized lot” over-looking “Dead Possum Gulch” because they are in the subdivision and therefore the MIDPOU and thus entitled to Merced River Water like original MR WEC?   Who knows?  Such “players” seem to be able to do a lot of things most of us understand is against the law and unethical.

ANYWAY, why has this $60/ac Max $180/yr NEVER BEEN CHANGED IN OVER TWENTY YEARS WHILE LEAVING ESCALATING COSTS TO BE PAID FOR BY THE RESIDENT WATER CONSUMERS?  Because we are trapped – unless you care to sell at a loss to the very people that are causing this water problem.  Absolutely wild!

Yup, the same interests that are pushing for MORE OUTSIDE MIDPOU WATER SERVICE (that must be replaced with expensive groundwater – with the added bonus of arsenic removal costs) scream and cry it’s not fair to raise their costs on property not receiving water yet – heck it will be more difficult to sell it multiple times!

FRIGG’N UNBELIEVABLE!

Poor old MR WEC – catching it from both sides of THIS FINANCIAL EQUATION by the SO GOSIP [rem?  SAME OLD GROUP OF SPECIAL INTEREST PEOPLE]

The SO GOSIP increase the costs dramatically for the legal MR WECs ; reap the profits by increasing a property’s value with good water; adamantly resist any attempt at having to pay a “Fair share” in availability fees on speculative land; but all the while continually pushing for more extremely expensive GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION paid for by the MR WECs of the subdivision to expand into vast areas within which they have an interest.  Greed my friends, greed.   Same as always  …

THEY DIDN’T WANT OUR SUBDIVISION LAND WITH WATER

THEY WANTED OUR SUBDIVISION WATER ON THEIR LAND.

 

KAMPA HAS HI-JACKED A SURFACE WATER TREATMENT PLANT INTENDED FOR MR WECs of the subdivision.

That’s why residents pay $53 a month before using a drop of water – on top of the water consumption charge!

 

Yes I did just see John Wick again.  (Keanu Reeves) One of the most action-packed – violent movies I’ve seen on television for a while.  (Some of the SCI FI stuff is pretty gruesome)  Anyway, I was almost exhausted just watching it!  lol   Now I am certainly not advocating ANY FORM OF VIOLENCE, but rather, just the opposite

and using only five letters from the word VIOLENCE,

use your

VOICE!

Speak up as a MR WEC (MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMER) and demand protection of this subdivision’s most precious natural resource  – quality Merced River Water straight from Yosemite National Park!

You might as well, because as sure as the smell on a decomposing puppy, PETE KAMPA won’t. 

 

 

..must get away from this!

My best to you and yours, Lew

 

oh yeah….just have to type it!  .….PUPPY MONKEY BABY    PUPPY MONKEY BABY    PUPPY MONKEY BABY   lol!

First time I saw that on TV thought I had suffered some quiet brain annexation of my own!  lol  later