What if my postings regarding TRLIA levee work over the past few years turn out to be true? Of course a lot of naysayers would at the least, have egg on their faces. I have maintained since 2006 that TRLIA officials have not been forthcoming in their duty to inform the public regarding Levee matters. I have maintained they have been successful because the citizens of Yuba County are completely unaware of levee matters, such as the County  locating all the funds to upgrade RD 784 levees instead of letting the time honored method of the Corps of Engineers, the State of California and RD 784, through the Yuba County Water Agency, hold forth.

I have maintained TRLIA officials ( Yuba County/ RD 784) were not forthcoming in the handling of Developer fees and State tax grants as shown by them not accounting for the Years 2004-2005-2006-and 2007 and not until I asked them if they had accounted for the money in an Open meeting regarding funding needed to finish the levee project, did they hire a local CPA.  The Couty Auditor those years did not account nor did Paul Brunner executive Director of TRLIA, cause an accounting to be made until I inquired.

What if my postings regarding the YUba River south levee not being upgraded as stated by Local members of the Corps, John Hess PE and Robert Trainer PE,  whos certification of the levee as 100 year level in 2007, did not meet federal levee safety requirements of 44 CFR 65.10, A requirement?  What if it is true what the State Department of water resources told me and others about the Foundation being demolished by boulders and not repared? What if the 150 feet wide section of levee at the site of the 1986 was not upgraded for erosion prevention as the rest of the levee was?  What if TRLIA only constructed the Floor part of the Seepage berm just behind the Walmart?  What if the Scour trench under the levee at the site of the levee break did in fact leak flood water through it in 2005 and 2006?

What if it can be proven TRLIA truly did not upgrade the Yuba South Levee as they say? What would the repercusions be in such a situation for TRLIA, Yuba County Officials, RD 784,  etc?

What if............?

"What if" you took the advice of so many and provided proof from authorities? Most, including yours truly, would have supported you and helped you. Asking for proof got us attacked.  

Thank you for those kind words. The die has been cast, hang loose.

The memories......................

Cleanup posted this in late March

Again , Thank you for your comments. We do have a File built on Letters we have sent to Officials regarding the 0.79, and where we could, their answers. Just the sending of facts, pictures is sufficient to file a lawsuit when the levee fails at 0.79 against those who chose to turn a blind eye to their fiduciary duty we feel.

I am through with this topic, I had hoped to get some support for Linda, but it appears Times have changed.

Guess you aren't quite through Rex, though we would expect nothing less from and you wouldn't be Rex if you actually let the topic go despie your statement to the contrary, you would make a great politician!!

What if the Yuba River levee is as I say? What would be the ramifications?

An even better question...........WHAT IF it isn't as you say it is?

Quite honestly Rex it doesn't matter one way or another since in the event an RD 784 levee fails my priorities remain unchanged.

I sense you wish for a failure for two reasons:

1)  You can say "see I was right"

2)  It would wipe out Plumas Lake and put an end to any future development in Yuba County, you would then have your "precious" Linda back the way you want it.

The Post is to ascertain what the ramifications would be if I am right. Javadad has named a few, the ruination of Plumas lake developement, questions of why the levee was left in the shape i say it is in based on my knowledge from Nine years of RD 784 Levee experiance, but other ramifications would surly come to bear. That is what the post subject is.

In the original post above, one of my What If's said What if the Flood water in 2005 and 6 leaked through the levee through the scour trench, the Date should have been the Flood years of 1995 and 1996.

I can not believe Javadads statement saying If I bring out the truth it would ruin Plumas lake developement. Hey, what about the innocent Plumas lakers, Arbogans, Lindonions, Edgewater and O-Town people who might be saved by a change of Officials in Yuba County through a cleanup due to corruption ?

I have to report the Oroville dam water level is reported at 12 feet from the top and unsettled weather is holding forth. This coupled with the Massive snow bank still to melt which could cause high water like the 1995- 1996 winters which I do not like to think about for the valley residents good health. I have stated many times and went before the Yuba County, TRLIA, RD 784, State Reclamation Board, and warned them the Yuba River South bank was not upgraded by TRLIA, but in fact was not worked on as they said, to no avail.

I have to say this does not Bode well for us citizens south of the Yuba River, thanks to TRLIA officials.

Paul Bruener of TRILIA was on the radio yesterday talking about a levee upgrade to start on June 1st. If I understood correctly, it was for the area around Simpson Lane. He spoke about the need for work in the gold fields too.

Paul brunner was apparently speaking of the Levee raeches from Simpson lane, east to the gold fields. The levee I speak of is from the confluience of the Feather River levee, just west of the Highway 70 bridge. to the Simpson lane road. It is this section that most needed levee work in 2004-2011, especially the Destroyed levee foundation at Levee mile marker 0.79, just behind the Super Walmart store.

So what you're saying Rex is that Lake Orovile is at roughly 95% of it's total storage capacity.  In case you weren't aware we've had drought conditions the last few so this is a good thing.

Shouldn't you be more concerned about Bullards Bar and Englebright since they control water along the Yuba River?  They are also at just over 90% capacity.

You mention the levee in that area  (Linda) most needed work, that statement is completely wrong since all the levees in RD 784 area needed work, an example would be the Feather River at Star Bend which.  Again you show concern only for yourself since if any of the other levees in RD 784 failed that would have no affect on you or your precious town of Linda.

Refer to post # 9, 2nd paragraph, " This does not bode well for us citizens south of the Yuba River."  ( Plumas lake, Olivehurst, Arboga, Linda.)

All the Dams North of the Yuba River have a bearing on the Yuba River flows, The shasta flows the Sacramento River which being stronger than the Feather river backs into the feather, backing it into the Bear River and also into the Yuba River, causing High water against all levees effected. Also Bullard s and Englebright contribute as does a uncontrolled branch of the Yuba River to the Yuba flow. People in the past have reported the Yuba flowing upstream by teh pressure from the Backed up water from the Sacramento and Feather River. It is true if the Yuba River South bank levee holds back the water, Linda and Edgewater will not be effected, burt it is also true, if the Yuba River levee fails, all towns south of it are effected.

TRLIA and supporters such as javadad, Jeff Finney, and others relied on the words of Paul brunner, Ric Rinehart, Robert trainer, engineers all, who stated the Yuba River levee was Certified by the corps as a 100 year level levee and meeting 44 CFR 65.10 levee safety rules, when actually the certification by Robert Trainer was certified under the Flood control agency. When yuba County was advised of this, they stated in thwe Appeal democrat they were no longer protected by a 100 year levee!

There is more to come.

I and others have found TRLIA has convinced The FEMA official Eric Simmons and others that The Corps of Engineers certified the RD 784 levees in 2007, through what means I do not know but I recently conversed with a Corps official in Sacramento and after asking hiom if the Corps stood behind Robert Trainers certification, said, No, the Rd 784 levees are not corps certified, the TRLIA project Engineer, Ric rinehart had certified it for TRLIA.

The TRLIA Project Engineer Ric Rinehart could not have possibly analysesd the Foundation of the levee at the site of the 1986 levee break, because the Foundation was demolished the night of 1986!

We have determined TRLIA is trying to get the Yuba River South bank Levee certified with no meeting of 44 CFR 65.10 requirements by getting FEMA's Eric Simmons to accredit the RD 784 levees as a "system" . The System they use lets the Yuba River South bank be certified along with the Bear and feather River levees, that apparently are able to meet federal requirements although I am not sure of them either.

What if I recieved a spread sheet from the State DWR engineers showing TRLIA requested and recieved a summary of Proposition 13 tax funding reimbursement for local funded levee work? What if the " Yuba River levee repaires included construction of seepage and stability berms on the west and east side of Highway 70 and Shadpad Road" and after the completion of design and construction of TRLIA phase 1,2, and 4, ( 2007)  U.S. Army corps of engineers provided Certification that the Yuba River levee was adequately designed and constructed to withstand the Base, 100 year level levee flood event?

What if the U.S. Army corps of Engineers with drew their certification in 2009, because the engineer who certified the levee, failed to meet federal levee safety requirements under 44 CFR 65.10? If the U.S. Army Corps could not meet federal requirements, can the project Engineer who handled the TRLIA levee projects do so?

What if TRLIA officials did not comnstruct the Seepage and stabilty sand berms they used as collateral  to entice the State to reimburse TRLIA for the seepage berms TRLIA did not construct? I am a former RD 784 president of the board, and I know the levees as well as anyone and when I followed the description of the location of the sand berms, I could not find them. 2+2 does not equal 5 in this case!

Truly an audit is needed to see if TRLIA did the work they said they did, IMO. What say ye.

What if --- we just accept that perhaps as usual, the work isn't being done and no one seems to care but for those who live in the flood areas below the levee, and we just start packing up stuff in plastic containers and putting it all on shelves, so in case it does break, there is a better chance of it surviving? I say cleanup is attempting to give everyone a "heads up" that the water is coming and you need prepare. You all can argue back and forth till we have another blue moon and nothing will change. Seems to me you all have an opportunity to prepare now and not be one of the hundreds that posts when the floods hits that "someone should have told us ...." he's telling you now!

What if someone read the General Plan Update looking for inundation areas?

In an exchange of E-Mails the past month between Me and DWR Engineers in sacramento, under the freedom of information act, I was sent documents showing DWR had reimbursed TRLIA for $43,000,000 that TRLIA requested to replenish the Local funds they spent to construct Seepage/Stability berms along a lefees toe in 2005. I requested through channels that DWR send me an Engineer to observe the work area TRLIA had used as justification for the reimbursement. DWR did send Three Employees , one of which was a PE in the project delivery branch who observed the area with three of us interested citizens and we repaired to the site. Upon arrival I asked the Engineer to observe the toe of the levee from point A to point D and see if the Sand berms were indeed constructed as TRLIA had stated to DWR to justify prop 13 funding.

I asked all five accompaning me to observe the listed work area and see if Sand berms were constructed. None of the Five nor myself, saw the work construced.

The documents showed the State in answer to TRLIAS request through MBK engineers, did in fact credit or pay TRLIA for what appears to be a False Claim.

The Engineer Told us he would send me an E-Mail stating he saw no sand berms constructed at the site TRLIA stated as constructed on Thursday, the 23rd of June. When I E-Mailed the Engineer I found his superior had ordered all engineers who had been helping me unravel the questionable activities, to no longer contact me. The documents showed what I stated above and many Citizines, state officials have copies and are knowledgeable of the issues.

It appears either certain Engineers did not investigate to see if TRLIA actually constructed the sand berms before they reimbursed TRLIA or they looked away.

More to come.

Grand Jury? Little Hoover Commission?

The Little Hoover Comission is a joke.  Shody research for the obscene amounts of money which they are paid and when they get before the legislators all they can say is "It's this way because we think so, not because we have any solid evidence to back up our opinions."  And yet they expect everyone to jump up and bow down to every golden cow they throw out there.

Wolf

Rex:
Can you post any emails or other "hard evidence" discussed in your recent post? It appears you are going about this the right way by getting the proper experts and people in proper positions involved. I'm glad to see this without fighting....good job.   

The E-Mails brought state officials that were connected to the issue to the Yuba River South bank to observe what TRLIA stated as work justifying reimbursement. I think it best to leave my post as is for now except for any further developments. Thank you.

Also, the documents of evidence given to state officials are "Hard Evidence", irrefutable in my estimation, and it was all opened up by inquiring of state water officials why they had issued permits more than once for the same length of levee such as permit 18095GM issued in 2006 which included flattening the waterside of the Linda levee, and another permit `18095 rev GM in 2009 which again permitted the flattening of the waterside of the Linda levee.

In march of 2007 the state issued to TRLIA permit 18095 R-GM which covered the South Linda levee.

In 2006 the flattening of the waterside was to correct the slope to 3:1 while in 2009 TRLIA says it was to bring the levee to a 200 year level. Since they did not do the levee flattening in 2006 while they were seeking Corps certification how did they convince the corps to certify the levee as 100 year level?

Now, TRLIA plans to have Ric Reinhardt, their Engineer who works for MB K Engineering, to certify the West Linda levee as 200 year levee. How much longer will the Board of Supervisors let TRLIA get away with no Auditing, filing false claims, and pretending to do work they are required to do, but not doing the work? This will come to a head one day.

One of the members of the BOS also serves on the TRLIA board Rex, don't know about you but that supervisor is a good one and also knows what is going on at TRLIA.  You again make claim without backing them with the this so-called "hard evidence".  Interestingly you claim to have made request under the PRA, what you call FOIA, yet the information is freely available on the TRLIA web site.  Why would you waste time and money (to copy the records) invoking the PRA when the information is freely available on the tRLIA web site.

So which is it Rex, you are unable to back up your claims or unwilling to?  I would the former since my experience in our interactions is that you are all hat and no cattle.

Unable is the correct answer. The E-Mails received from DWR Engineers have a Blue color that I can not copy.

The issue is TRL:IA stated they constructed sand berms along a levee toe to protect from seepage and support the levee. TRLIA used that work as justification for requesting reimbusement for local funds used to construct the sand berm.

The State DWR reimbursed TRLIA for the work as shown by Spread sheets.

Six persons went to the levee site described by TRLIA as constructed but the work could not be found.

With the addition of that undone work, almost the whole South bank levee from the conflience of the Yuba and Feather to the west,  to the UPRR/SPRR tracks to the East , are defiecient .  The Corps of engineers withdrew their certification from 2007 after finding it did not meet 44 CFR 65.10 federal levee safety rules.

TRLIA's Project engineer then Certified the levee stating the Federal Rules of 44 CFR 65.10 were met by him.  The question is how can a local civil engineer certify a levee as meeting safe levee rules when the United State Army Corps of Engineers could not?

FEMA accredited the system of RD 784 levees based on the local Engineers letter to them and 8 bgoxes of material purportedly showing he met what the Coeps could not meet, federal levee safety laws. FEMA's accreditation does not mean the levee is safe, only that based on the local Engineers words , they accredit it as a base flood levee.

They can do that.

I forgot to mention, The Engineer who certifyed the levee system,  works for MBK engineers, the same Engineer firm that presented the request for reimbursement of Prop 13 funds for the non work on the Yuba River to DWR. Do the supervisors of Yuba County have no shame at all or is this the natural climax to the TRLIA levee work?  TRLIA/Yuba County knew in 2004 the Yuba River south  levee could not be fixed still they went forward spending over $405,000,000 on a $25,000,000 levee project, that fails to meet the original plan.  The old saying the chain is only as strong as its weakest link, fits this issue.

I'm sure it you provide the documents to the Dispatch or Appeal they will copy them and/or publish them. I would like to see the originals with the responses, it sounds interesting on the surface. 

Rex go to the following web site and download the application.

http://www.cutepdf.com/

This will allow you to print anything you want as a PDF (Portable Document Format) file you can post here or on your own blog.  This is a very handy utility I've used for years as it saves paper when you don't need to actyually print a hard copy of something and instead want to save as PDF file instead of MS Word or another format.

In local news today a Grand Jury report was released that commended TRLIA, Yuba County, RD784 and YWCA for their work in providing flood protection in South Yuba County. The report can be found here.

http://www.yubacourts.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/GrandJury/GJR2010-FLOOD.pdf

I certainly invite anyone interested to read the document, I believe that you will find as I did that the Grand Juries  independent investigation and research resulted in a report that positively reflected on TRLIA and its partner agencies.

Jeff Phinney, in the spiret of balancing news, I offer the following and ask for your input.

In 2005 DWR and TRLIA agreed on a grant funding plan with the objective of TRLIA locating and constructing levee improvements necessary to retain FEMA certification ( their words ) of 100 year levees. The Contact was # 4600004326 and was not to exceed $15,653,562, according to the Document TRLIA was to construct stability and seepage bgerms along the Levee  toe on the landside of the South Yuba River Levee from just West of the Highway 70 Bridge to the Shad pad road.

The Document shows under project status that TRLIA completed performance of the tasks identified in the contract and spread sheet documents show DWR reimbursed TRLIA from Prop 13 tax funds for the full amount, $ 15,653,562.

On June 15, 2011 six individuals went to the listed construction site that TRLIA stated they completed, and we six could not locate the Sand Berms. 

I believe if the Grand Jury had knowledge of those happenings, they may have been more harsh and urgent regarding TRLIA levee works.

Also::  In 2005 TRLIA and DWR formed another funding agreement under Contract # 4600003890, under the same rules, under Program Status TRLIA completed performance of the tasksm and was reimbursed from Prop 13 Funds by DWR in the amounht of $5, 307.312. As before, the Three State officials and Three interested citizens could not find the TRLIA work they reimbursed for.

So far The Styate DWR has reimbursed TRLIA for $30,000,000 and no work has been done that they say they done.

Also::  In 2005 according to Documents, TRLIA and DWR entered into a Proposition 1E & 84 Early implementation funding agreement for upper Yuba River work flattening the South Yuba River levee waterside of the levee from Highway 70 to the Southern pacific RailRoad Tracks. This work was completed in late 2009 and recieved $700,178. in funds.

This work used as justification for DWR 1 E $ 84 funds grants, elements of the same sand berms from west of highway 70 to the western pacific Railroad , reported on in the Proposition 13 contracts 4600003890 and 4326.

TRLIA used as justification for reimbursement from state tax funds seepage berms trhat can not be verified due to non existance, and over $30,000,000 appears to have came into Yuba County coffers between 7-1-07 and 6-30-2010.

GRAND JURY where is the money?

To remove an error, the amount appears to be Over $20,000,000 total.

Again Rex please post the emails you mentioned earlier, I provided you with information on how to convert said emails to PDF format and allow you to post them in order to backup your claims with regards to recent interactions with DWR.

Now for Jeff Phinney and Tom Erickson, Plumas lake residents, Not only does the documents show a possible False claim of many millions of Tax money, but TRLIA identified needed work on the South bank land side of the YUba River and did not upgrade the levee! We have been fortunate so far with the DWR holding back water behind Lake oroville but that can not last. TRLIA left a known danger unfixed and to top it off, collected Millions of Dollars by claiming they did upgrade the levee!  You two have staunchly defended TRLIA's levee work now this added failure of TRLIA could cause you to have 17 feet of watewr around your home as the snow melts. How's that going for you?

All evidence is placed at the state level. I wqill not post it here.

So the truth comes out, you are UNWILLING to post the emails as I previously suspected............. I gave you a solution to your inability to post the emails and all along you were unwilling, not unable to post the emails.  Showing your true colors again Rex.   I suspect you are actually ARE unable to post the emails you claim to have for a different reason, because they don't exist.

If water were being held in Lake Oroville as you claim then it would have overflowed by now............. They are slightly more water  than is coming in and water levels in the rivers are just fine Rex.

The State of California Tax payers were ripped off by TRLIA Therefore I placed the evidence there.  It is the states responsibility to investigate possible Fraud , false claims, and other crimes, posting the evidence here is of no consequence. We people in this day and age have to stand up for our rights against Government corruption that has almost sunk the State and for sure our County into the depths of insolvency, but our county management are doing well on their 2005 allocation positions.  It is for the State to bring justice for the taxpayers of the state, not us. It is for us to bring the wrong deeds to the States attention.

This has been a tough nut to crack because officials are involved in the unearned tax funds coming into the county received by county officials, disbursed by county officials, with no transparency. When I dealt with the State engineers at the lower level information flowed freely, then a branch chief engineer told me he was in charge of the things I questioned and he was stopping any further conversation between me and the engineers.

It is that type of layer of bosses that permit corruption to flourish  in the upper ranks of Government without the lower ranks being aware. For instance, I would say only a few upper echelon County employees are controlling the unearned funds that came into Yuba County. I believe what I investigated and brought to light is the Tip of the Corruption because TRLIA has refused to properly account for the $405,000,000 that has went through the county since 2004.

Posting the evidence you claim to have, hard evidence, would bring more people to support you and lend their voices to your cause.  yet you refuse and say posting your supposed evidence here is of no consequence.  My own contacts with county, State, and Federal officials seems to contradict everything you claim Rex, very interesting............

The DWR Branch chiefs E-Mail to me. 






Mr. Archer, I am a Branch Chief at Flood Projects Office responsible for the programs you are questioning. I believe our staff and program managers have been extremely responsive to you with spending valuable State resources on what I would characterize wild goose chases and fishing expeditions. Staff have communicated with you and met with you to only be confronted with more requests and attempts to turn their words into a mission that we do not support. DWR as an agency is suffering from hiring freeze, travel and overtime restrictions, furloughs, and many other financial cut backs, and still trying to manage the same number of projects and programs. Therefore, we do not have time to go down the expedition avenues you would like us to. I am directing all staff to stop communicating with you as of this email. All your communication with DWR needs to be directed to Mr. John Dunnigan (jdunniga@water.ca.gov) under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). As part of this process, please provide facts and documentation that supports your statements (even though we have requested a number of times, you have not provided any up to now). We do not have time to do your research for you. I do not think the legislature or public would be interested for our department to spend time in your endeavors and set aside public safety projects. I do not plan to respond to any follow-up email I receive from you, unless it follows the FOIA process. Thank you for your understanding. Michael Sabbaghian, PE Project Development Branch Flood Projects Office Department of Water Resources (916) 574-1404 (office) (916) 956-6127 (cell) msabbagh@water.ca.gov -----Original Message----- From: Rex Archer [mailto:archerrex@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 2:38 PM To: Rabamad, Charles Cc: Wright, David; Wong, William; Sabbaghian, Mahyar (Michael); Fucciolo, Kelly L.; Zenobia, Kent; Pendery, Andrew Subject: Re: Yuba river south bank.  Again David, Thank you for your assistance in my quest for taxpayers justice through oversight. I would ask you to also come visit the site of what TRLIA used for justification for asking for and receiving reimbursement of Local funds they say they used for constructing the sand / stability berms needed to support the Yuba River South bank levee and prevent seepage through and under said levee. As has been shown, there is no sand berm constructed by TRLIA where they stated they constructed sand berms, and received reimbursement from DWR for sand berms there, it appears to me, an Ex Deputy Sheriff that the claim filed for prop 13 and IE funds, had no justification or basis in reality, a false claim was given by TRLIA Officials. I request verification by David, of what I say based on the facts given and the fact we all saw ( except David ), there was no sand berm from the Highway 70 bridge to the Shad pad road where we stood and observed, Rex Archer 

Javadad, I attempted to post two E-Mails, one from me to DWR and one from the DWR Branch Chief on here, could not, sent the E-Mails to you asking if you would post. Thanks , Rex

Sorry Rex, get one of your friends to help you in your endeavor, although the email telling you that DWR will no longer spend time with you is very telling.  I'm sure you have plenty of people who can assist you in properly formatting the email.

In fact you've given me a great idea Rex.  Under the Public Records Act I can contact DWR and ask for all emails to and from you starting in January of this year and post the information here for all to read as I'm sure the contents would prove interesting.  One of the thing you neglected to consider is that when you contacted officials is that all became part of the public and is most certainly not exempt from disclosure to anyone requesting it.

Javadad, I sent the DWR related E-Mail to you because I could not get them to post on Yuba Foothills since you have virtually demanded they be posted and you said you were knowledgable in this area of expertise. You know as well as I do from reading the E-Mail from the Branch manager that he is the very person on the DWR side that failed to verify the work that whoever on the Yuba County side stated was constructed in 2005.

That gave you an oppurtunity to show the E-Mails as you desired, Instead you picked out a statement from the very person who failed to verify the work before granting the $40,000.000 to someone in Yuba County government. That person failed to verify levee safety work for whatever reason, some person in Yuba County Government asked for and recieved the funds and or credits, without doing the work, which resulted in a False claim to the state , which I believe is a felony. The State branch chief started this whole mess by not verifying and some people in Yuba County aided ( Conspiricy) by statinhg work was done when it was not.

Tom, We have many Documents resulting from the original E-Mails that you are welcome to find and post. Tom we have many Documents showing requests and spread sheets showing reimbursements which we have placed with State agencys, after all all taxpayers in California were victims in this, and it is the states duty to investigate and bring culprits to justice.

I will have someone else post the two E-mails here, you have shown your Bias rules over bringing to justice officials who filed false clams with the State.

Hi all. Nice to meet you. :)

I have been asked to paste the following email into here on Rex's (aka Dad's) behalf. I will do this for him when needed since I had to jump through PayPal verification and other hoops to get the privilege to post here. That may sound snarky, but honestly, kudos to the board staff for making a system that prevents alt accounts to easily post in hot bed areas like Politics. :)

So, I am doing a straight copy and paste from the email I was forwarded. I understand someone already has this email that was forwarded to them at some point. That person can verify if I did any edits, etc of the message I am about to post if they like. I did remove all email addresses sans the official capacity emails because the nature of political and official offices and positions in my personal opinion do not need emails hidden. They are public already. I did feel it right to remove cell and office phones from a public official. I don't feel right posting that kind of info. If that is a breakage in the forums rules, I ask moderators to remove any other emails they need to.

I likely won't be active here except when needed by Dad to help with documents, emails or whatever he may wish to offer in the future.

Now, on with what I am here to do:


-------- Original Message --------
Subject:     RE: Yuba river south bank
Date:     Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:50:48 -0700
From:     Sabbaghian, Mahyar (Michael) <msabbagh@water.ca.gov>
To:     Rex Archer <(REMOVED)@comcast.net>
CC:     Wright, David <dwright@water.ca.gov>, Wong, William
<wilwong@water.ca.gov>, Fucciolo, Kelly L. <kfucciol@water.ca.gov>,
Zenobia, Kent <kzenobia@water.ca.gov>, Pendery, Andrew
<apendery@water.ca.gov>, Rabamad, Charles <crabamad@water.ca.gov>,
Dunnigan, John M. <jdunniga@water.ca.gov>



Mr. Archer,

I am a Branch Chief at Flood Projects Office responsible for the programs you are questioning.  I believe our staff and program managers have been extremely responsive to you with spending valuable State resources on what I would characterize wild goose chases and fishing expeditions.  Staff have communicated with you and met with you to only be confronted with more requests and attempts to turn their words into a mission that we do not support.  DWR as an agency is suffering from hiring freeze, travel and overtime restrictions, furloughs, and many other financial cut backs, and still trying to manage the same number of projects and programs.  Therefore, we do not have time to go down the expedition avenues you would like us to.  I am directing all staff to stop communicating with you as of this email.  All your communication with DWR needs to be directed to Mr. John Dunnigan (jdunniga@water.ca.gov)
under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).  As part of this process, please provide facts and documentation that supports your statements (even though we have requested a number of times, you have not provided any up to now).  We do not have time to do your research for you.  I do not think the legislature or public would be interested for our department to spend time in your endeavors and set aside public safety projects.  I do not plan to respond to any follow-up email I receive from you, unless it follows the FOIA process.  Thank you for your understanding.

Michael Sabbaghian, PE
Project Development Branch
Flood Projects Office
Department of Water Resources
(REMOVED) (office)
(REMOVED) (cell)
msabbagh@water.ca.gov


-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Archer [mailto:(REMOVED)@comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 2:38 PM
To: Rabamad, Charles
Cc: Wright, David; Wong, William; Sabbaghian, Mahyar (Michael); Fucciolo, Kelly L.; Zenobia, Kent; Pendery, Andrew
Subject: Re: Yuba river south bank

Again David, Thank you for your assistance in my quest for taxpayers
justice  through oversight. I would ask you to also come visit the site
of what TRLIA used for justification for asking for and receiving
reimbursement of Local funds they say they used for constructing the
sand / stability berms needed to support the Yuba River South bank levee
and prevent seepage through and under said levee. As has been shown,
there is no sand berm constructed by TRLIA where they stated they
constructed sand berms, and received reimbursement from DWR for sand
berms there, it appears to me, an Ex Deputy Sheriff that the claim filed
for prop 13 and IE funds, had no justification or basis in reality, a
false claim was given by TRLIA Officials.

I request verification by David, of what I say based on the facts given
and the fact we all saw ( except David ),  there was no sand berm from
the Highway 70 bridge to the Shad pad road where we stood  and observed,

Rex Archer




Thanks, all. Happy rest of the weekend.

Thank you Bob, The freedom of information act is for the benifit of us citizens to get info., but when a group of people are investigating what is percieved to be possiblle illigal acts by government officials. the FOIA can help the suspects hinder that investigation. Many cases can be cited where the Government officials were not aware of an investigation due to the investigators not jumping through the hoops, especially when the FOIA person to go through is hand picked by the person who failed to verify the work done.

In 2004 an engineering firm, Kleinfelder , was hired by Yuba County to ascertain the status of the Yuba River South bank Levee and it was reported to Yuba County that the levee from the Highway 70 bridge upstream to the 1986 levee Break Site had seepage problems and needed to be fixed before the next rains.

TRLIA in 2005 did construct seepage berms from the SPRR/UPRR tracks west to Shad Road, It is the area from the Shad Road to the Highway 70 bridge that TRLIA officials state was constructed with sand berms and investigation found to be not true.

Rex - First off I ask that you post all emails regarding this matter since you claimed there was explosive evidence contained within the content of the emails.