For the last two
years Lillian Smith's committee has refused to provide
any information to publish. Her Proposal was obtained from the California Regional Water Quality.
Alfalfa adds
nitrate to the soil It does not reduce it as Lillian "expert
claims"
Report on the 4-7-97 California Regional Water Quality Board Meeting
Smith's refusal to make the proposal public
Smith's response refusing to work together.
Even though the CRWQB has asked her to provide copies to other Town Council (Tana Lampton etal) and the community. Smith refused.
Tana Faxed to Lillian Smith on 7-9-97.
She said: Can you please supply me with the draft community well head protection plan
which was submitted to state regional water quality board within the last few weeks?
Lillian responded by return fax:
Thank you for your interest. The proposed plan was submitted to staff July 7. It will be
published beginning with the next issue of the Jo
urnal. Copies will be available Monday July 14 [from Smith] for $10 each to defray
expenses.
Smith, as usual does, not want the public to read what her group is trying to force on the community. On July 10 the Vanguard made a demand under the Public Records Act to obtain a full copy of what was actually given to the board. Smith has a habit of not publishing a full or correct copy of documents. Smith has made her Jo urnal the official and exclusive voice of the outlaw Town Council and its outlaw water Committee.
It should be clear to everyone that if she and her fellow travelers were honestly representing the community they would want their proposal published immediately in full for the community to read. I wonder what they want to hide.
Tana Lampton and Howard Carlip of the real Agua Dulce Town Council
presented their all volunteer program to
protect the ground water in Agua Dulce at the California Regional Water Quality Board
meeting on April 7th.
See Tana's presentation. Lillian Smith was there
claiming her group was the "only" representative of Agua Dulce. They present no
plan except they were going to hire an expert to control your well. She then handed out a
letter to the board but refused to give us a copy. We will publish her letter as soon as
we get a copy of it from the board. She also claimed the residents had given her a mandate
to hire staff and have the community pay.
Lillian Smith implied that her water ballot shows that the community would accept a tax to fund her group (and pigs can fly).
The board's position was "as both groups support further testing they should work together on a joint program". Do you know all the money and data given to Smith's group is secret and she refuses to provide an accounting of how it has been spent. She will not provide copies of the well tests to CRWQB.
It claims Howard Carlip and Tana Lampton could attend and observe her group's meetings at the Chamber of Commerce. I can not, as she claims I am pro-growth and represent a developer. Ask Smith who pays the bills for her pro chamber "Jo urnal". For more informationand Agua Dulce Nitrate Problem.
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