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The Borrego Water District Board of Directors |
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| The Borrego Water District's Board of Directors has five members. They are: |
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1951 |
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Anderson |
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Roger |
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760-767-4322 |
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deanann0831@aol.com |
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Fortiner |
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Scot |
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760-767-4707 |
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thestand@uia.net |
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239 |
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1022 |
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Shimeall |
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Eleanor |
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760-767-3272 |
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703-8943 |
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Chair |
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ceshimeall@gmail.com |
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Jerry |
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1200 |
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Jones |
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Appointed 22 Dec. 04 |
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760-767-3379 |
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Mendenhall |
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Robert |
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760-767-5568 |
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bobandjan@earthlink.net |
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| Feel free to contact these folks anytime regarding the groundwater situation in the Borrego Valley. Don't be surprised, however, if they come up short. Still, it never hurts to ask, and ask, and ask, and ask. |
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| The Borrego Water District's Board of Directors should be at the forefront of efforts to resolve Borrego's groundwater crisis. They are not. Instead they follow the advice of the three monkeys ("See no evil; hear no evil; speak no evil.") and must be drug kicking and screaming into even acknowledging the problem. That has not, however, kept them from spending hundreds of thousands of rate-payer's dollars on "Groundwater Management." (see below) |
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BWD Groundwater Management Expenditures for Fiscal Years 1997 - date. |
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6,650 |
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6,650 |
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1997 |
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12,728 |
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1998 |
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19,378 |
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65,547 |
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1999 |
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84,925 |
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59,208 |
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2000 |
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144,133 |
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48,444 |
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2001 |
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192,577 |
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41,767 |
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2002 |
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234,344 |
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36,295 |
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2003 |
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270,639 |
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2004 |
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92,026 |
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362,665 |
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2005 |
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446,725 |
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84,060 |
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YTD |
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05/31/05 |
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| For all of that, and after eight years of "managing groundwater," not so much as a teacup of water has been saved. |
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| John Foster Dulles, U. S. secretary of State (1953 - 59), once said "The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year." By this standard, the BWD Board is an abject failure. They have had the same problem to deal with for many years and have not only not solved it, but have made no material progress in that direction. |
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Want to help the BWD Board out? |
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