Spent most of the weekend in frustration while trying to figure out why it was taking so very long to upload and download this video (others have been temperamental to get posted but this one was a real headache!).  Turns out, while importing the audio and video clips, the complete 4+ hour meeting was on a locked audio track that was “pushed” out of the way of the screen editing view so I my first attempts resulted in a video file that was 4.66 GB in size rather than the actual 875 MB!

My computer was locked up for two days trying to process that large file!  LOL   I am learning much about this new software but it is far more difficult than the old Windows Movie Maker, and that was another problem.  Windows 10 no longer contains the old software necessary for editing and authoring that the  previous versions did.  Always something, huh?  Wish I had enough time to work with this without interruption but there are other pressing projects requiring attention.

ANYWAY, hope this revision works – it is producing much faster, so if YOUTUBE uploading responds the same way, who knows…..maybe I’ll be able to post sometime Tuesday afternoon or evening?  Or sometime during September…lol,.   Anyway, here is the most recent installment of the September 19, 2016 Lake Don Pedro CSD Monthly Board Meeting…….

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Three hours, but finally worked through the agenda to the last item:  5g – District boundaries for water service which I obviously believe have (for some reason) been misrepresented since our CSD was formed in 1980.  How else can one explain why there has been no official LAFCo legal boundary map clearly illustrating our service area and indicating where GROUND WATER SUBSTITUTION MUST BE USED TO PROVIDE WATER?  You know, stamped with the LAFCo seal of approval?  Doesn’t seem like LAFCo would have permitted an engineer survey to establish a boundary without a subsequent official map for future public reference?

But if the may Kampa presented is correct:

WHY would LAFCo establish expanded service boundaries beyond what the CPUC approved in the Sierra Highlands transfer of facilities and assets to the new LDPCSD?

Why go substantially beyond where water could be served under water license 11395 held by the MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT?

This expensive SPECIAL BENEFIT GROUND WATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM should be FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED BY THOSE PROPERTIES WHICH MUST RECEIVE THAT BENEFIT from the CSD because they legally cannot be served MERCED RIVER WATER FROM LAKE McCLURE – which of course was the only source of water Sierra Highlands transferred to LDPCSD.  But of course with these new ground wells (constructed with public funds) our treatment plant must now also deal with groundwater arsenic and other undesirable chemicals and minerals not found in our beautiful lake water.  Reporting to the State of California is also more detailed considering the groundwater crisis and land subsidence ocurring in come communities.

These wells, ostensibly constructed due to drought conditions FOR EXISTING CUSTOMERS were obviously intended by KAMPA & KOMPAY to further expand district service beyond the MID POU of the water license.  (Please refer to their past attempts to drop the prohibition against such further service & theories for doing so.)  But once again, WHY should the 99% of legal MERCED RIVER WATER USING CUSTOMERS of the Lake Don Pedro residential subdivision (for whom the SURFACE WATER TREATMENT PLANT WAS ORIGINALLY CONSTRUCTED) be forced to pay for that?

Anyway, three boundaries are of importance:  Two created by County LAFCo  1) District service boundary and 2) SOI (Sphere of Influence which is essentially where service “might go” in the future), and 3) the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) which determines where MERCED RIVER WATER can be diverted and used under water license 11395 held by the Merced Irrigation District and under which the LDPCSD has always operated.

How can ANY SERIOUS PROBLEMS  be solved when the truth of the situation is intentionally obscured from, not only the public but the ORIGINAL INTENDED CUSTOMERS OF THE DISTRICT who must now pay for a special benefit they did not request or require?  Where were the public hearing regarding this issue of GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION?

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS:  (if what has been represented is factual)

WHY WOULD LAFCo CREATE A NEW SPECIAL DISTRICT AND ESSENTIALLY FORCE IT INTO A VERY EXPENSIVE GROUND WATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM for thousands of extra acres WHICH WOULD OF NECESSITY ALSO REQUIRE MASSIVE AND CONTINUED EXPANSION IN THE FUTURE?

How could this be done without some form of official disclosure of this fact to potential property purchasers in the LAKE DON PEDRO OWNERS ASSOCIATION WHICH BY VIRTUE OF THAT PROPERTY OWNERSHIP BECOME MANDATORY CUSTOMERS OF THE LAKE DON PEDRO COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT? 

Rather like a concealed financial trap to unsuspecting property purchasers?   None of this seems right to me – what do you think?