Contact Information for

The Borrego Water District Board of Directors and General Manager

 

The Borrego Water District's Board of Directors has five members. They are:

 

Last Name 1st Name Phone E-mail P.O. B. Occupation Rmrks
Andersen Rita 760-767-3471 <rita@cableusa.com> 448 Realtor  
King Kathy 760-310-1065 kking@coldwellbankerborrego.com 2251 Realtor Chrmn
Mendenhall Robert 760-767-5568 bobandjan@earthlink.net 534 Retired  
Shimeall Eleanor 760-767-3272 ceshimeall@gmail.com 1022 Retired  
Smiley Steven 760-767-5540 <jojobarefugee@gmail.com> 74 Farm Mngr*  

*Steven Smiley is also the Chief Financial Officer of AAWARE and its most vociferous advocate.

In addition to the board members, be sure to also contact the Borrego Water District General Manager:

 

Richard S. Williamson

760-767-5806

rich@borregowd.org

P.O. Box 1870

 

Feel free to contact these folks anytime regarding the groundwater situation in the Borrego Valley or with concerns or complaints about the Borrego Water Distirct.

 

 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)

 

BWD Grounwater Management Expenditures Fiscal Years 1997 - Date
     
Fiscal Yr. Expended Cumulative Total Remarks
1997 6,650 6,650  
1998 12,728 19,378  
1999 65,547 84,925  
2000 59,208 144,133  
2001 48,444 192,577  
2002 41,767 234,344  
2003 36,295 270,639  
2004 92,026 362,665  
2005 104,968 467,633  
2006 226,619 694,252  
2007 301,333 995,585  
2008 206,540 1,202,125  
2009 345,000 1,547,125 2009 unaudited

 

For all of that, and after eleven years of "managing groundwater," there have been no significant or substantial groundwater savings. 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 made virtually no material progress in the direction of a solution.

11/27/2009

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