Amador County – A committee of the Amador Water Agency board of directors last week was to discuss a response to information that it considered not factual regarding the Camanche water district.

Gene Mancebo, general manager of the Water Agency said Thursday that the agency Community Outreach Committee would be discussing comments posted online by a member of the Lake Camanche Village Owners Association board of directors. Mancebo said the posting gives incorrect facts including information about the operation of Camanche Well Number 14.

Camanche Owners Association Treasurer and board member Vera Ferguson signed a posting of information which was posted on the Association’s website, in its March 2012 newsletter, under the heading of “Community Bulletin Board.” Ferguson referred to a “Ratepayers Coalition,” and also listed the website of Ken Berry’s “Ratepayer Protection Alliance” in her posting, which is titled “Attention Lake Camanche Water Ratepayers: Important New Information.”

Ferguson’s posting said “AWA had been pumping Well Number 14 at full capacity since July 29, 2011.” Mancebo said Thursday that the well has been pumping at full capacity only for the last two months, but before that had been pumping at 50 percent capacity.

Ferguson also commented in the letter about a $150,000 loan from the Amador County Board of Supervisors. Mancebo said Supervisors still offer the funds, dependent on a rate increase in the Camanche system. He said the Camanche posting does not talk about a $500,000 grant that AWA already has secured for repair of lines and other work in the Camanche system.

The Committee on last week was going to consider methods of response to the posting to get factual information to customers, Mancebo said. Part of the discussion would be about asking Lake Camanche Village Owners Association to allow AWA to post information on the Association’s website. He said mailings would just increase costs, but the Agency could also post information on its own website.

The Association’s Community Bulletin Board stated that “Articles contained herein now, and in the future, are for your information only and are not direct activities of the LCVOA Board of Directors. They are not necessarily sponsored or funded by the Association.”

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