Friday, September 10, 2010

New Times is Almost to the Party

TO: Colin Rigley, Reporter, New Times
DATE: 9/10/10

Hello Colin,

Just a quick note to say that I enjoyed your story in yesterday's New Times involving the Wallace Group.

I can help advance that story.

About a month ago, I published a piece on my blog, at this link:

http://sewerwatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/cha-friggin-ching-for-los-osos-project.html

... where I show how, beginning in 1999, a small group of people and consultants (including the Wallace Group) were directly responsible for creating the disaster in Los Osos, and ever since they created their disaster in Los Osos, that small group of people and consultants have been cashing checks off of their self-made disaster... ever since... and still are.

Included in that list of individuals and consultants that created the disaster in Los Osos, starting in 1999, and have been cashing checks off of it ever since, are current SLO County Public Works Director, Paavo Ogren (interim general manager of the Los Osos CSD in 1999), and current SLO County Parks Commissioner (appointed by Supervisor Bruce Gibson), Pandora Nash-Karner (LOCSD vice-president in 1999, and responsible for hiring Ogren as her interim GM).

That's right -- since he helped kill the County's 1999 "ready to go" sewer project in Los Osos, Ogren has made a fortune off of his self-made disaster. Same with MWH, the Wallace Group, Crawford, Multari and Clark, Cleath & Associates, and more.

ALL of them.

And just about a month ago, as I showed in my piece, there they all are -- STILL cashing fat checks off of the disaster they all created -- checks that none of them would be cashing, had they not created the disaster in Los Osos in 1999, to begin with.

[From a 2010 SLO County staff report involving the Los Osos wastewater project: Crawford, Multari and Clark: $145,455, Wallace Group: nearly $400,000, Cleath & Associates: Almost $100,000]

It's an amazing story.

(Boy, you folks at New Times should really read my blog, sometime. You're missing out on all of the fun ; -)

If you have any questions about how people like Paavo Ogren (and his consultant friends [i.e. the Wallace Group]) helped create the disaster in Los Osos in 1999, and have been cashing fat checks off of it ever since (including in 2010), please just ask. I'm sure I can answer them... using nothing but excellent, primary sources, as usual, of course.

Thanks again,
Ron

P.S. It's Friday, and I need an "at least weekly" post, so I published this e-mail on my blog:

sewerwatch.blogspot.com

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[36 weeks down... 16 to go.]

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