I'm Sorry for the lack of knowledge but why is that? I've been out of the loop involving that lake since they drained it..
Just messing with you. Most of the locals/long time Loveland users keep the info on the down low. Place is a gem and is getting trashed more and more each year by people who don’t respect that lake.
Ooo .. yeah for sure. I'm a big advocate for that lake . Been fishing it since 2005.
How is your big advocacy reflected?
Me personally, I release all bass and most panfish caught at that reservoir, I encourage anyone who is trying to keep bass to let them go. I keep all carp to help trim the population and encourage people to do so as well. I try to get any fishing line/trash left behind by other anglers. I try to help keep that lake healthy. Basically, being a responsible angler.
CDFW regional leadership acknowledged having tools that could be used at Loveland in 2021. These are the same tools, permits, and agreements that I have been discussing here lately. They could have been used pre-Loveland disaster or post. I hope it's not too late now.
I continue to conduct research and press regulators and politicians for the sake of Loveland. Loveland was essentially co-dewatered by Waterboards, CDFW, USFWS, and the Sweetwater Authority. It's no wonder accountability is hard to come by. It has been a system that has harmed environmental interests and public trust, granting greenlights and free passes while looking the other way from the consequences.
Co-hiding from this sordid past debacle creates tolerance for the threat of a repeat. Sweetwater continues to enjoy this tolerance after all they have done wrong.
Everydog wrote: Mon Jun 02, 2025 12:24 pm
I continue to conduct research and press regulators and politicians for the sake of Loveland. Loveland was essentially co-dewatered by Waterboards, CDFW, USFWS, and the Sweetwater Authority. It's no wonder accountability is hard to come by. It has been a system that has harmed environmental interests and public trust, granting greenlights and free passes while looking the other way from the consequences.
Co-hiding from this sordid past debacle creates tolerance for the threat of a repeat. Sweetwater continues to enjoy this tolerance after all they have done wrong.
Thank you! I truly appreciate all that you are doing.
Everydog wrote: Mon Jun 02, 2025 12:24 pm
I continue to conduct research and press regulators and politicians for the sake of Loveland. Loveland was essentially co-dewatered by Waterboards, CDFW, USFWS, and the Sweetwater Authority. It's no wonder accountability is hard to come by. It has been a system that has harmed environmental interests and public trust, granting greenlights and free passes while looking the other way from the consequences.
Co-hiding from this sordid past debacle creates tolerance for the threat of a repeat. Sweetwater continues to enjoy this tolerance after all they have done wrong.
Thank you! I truly appreciate all that you are doing.
You're welcome.
I'm not sure where it will go. Do these fools at Sweetwater have permission to cause social and environmental havoc in so many ways again? There has been and continues to be a very authoritarian response to Sweetwater's influence, the Forest Service's shortcomings, and regulatory inadequacies and failures. California departments are hunkering down on all their parts in it, like the Forest Service did with the abysmal handling of the easement, and politicians won't be assertive in either case, state or federal. I am worried where the abusive authoritarianism will go if I keep pushing. I could see agencies trying even harder to make it permissible to wreck it all again, just as any good authoritarian would under pressure.
I could say a lot more, but I'll hold back.
Hope for the best. Enjoy your fishing and hiking at Loveland and elsewhere.
I received a constructive email from a very high-level and the right kind of person... well, are we continuing in the right direction? ..only potentially.
Following up on State Waterboards Chief Counsel, Michael Lauffer's several times made promise to "take a fresh look at my Lovleand issues". State Water Boards Chair Joaquin Esquivel reiterated that commitment when I spoke before his board in Sacramento in March. I didn't see signs of constructive action, and had doubts that it ever would. Waterboards may be doing a slow but great job. However, public records and an email accidentally sent to me by a Waterboard's Lawyer didn't convey that anything but mollifying me and appeasing me was on their agenda. So, I requested a meeting with the CalEPA Secretary. Yana Garcia. State Waterboards is one of many divisions of environmental protection under the Secretary of CalEPA.
Because of the request for a meeting with Secretary Garcia, I have been contacted by the Deputy Secretary for CalEPA Special Legal Counsel, who has assured me that Mr. Lauffer is doing what he committed to do. She told me that I can expect outreach from him as promised. The Deputy Secretary points out that Sweetwater is in compliance around Loveland now. I agree.
Everydog wrote: Sat Jul 12, 2025 9:32 am
Following up on State Waterboards Chief Counsel, Michael Lauffer's several times made promise to "take a fresh look at my Lovleand issues". State Water Boards Chair Joaquin Esquivel reiterated that commitment when I spoke before his board in Sacramento in March. I didn't see signs of constructive action, and had doubts that it ever would. Waterboards may be doing a slow but great job. However, public records and an email accidentally sent to me by a Waterboard's Lawyer didn't convey that anything but mollifying me and appeasing me was on their agenda. So, I requested a meeting with the CalEPA Secretary. Yana Garcia. State Waterboards is one of many divisions of environmental protection under the Secretary of CalEPA.
Because of the request for a meeting with Secretary Garcia, I have been contacted by the Deputy Secretary for CalEPA Special Legal Counsel, who has assured me that Mr. Lauffer is doing what he committed to do. She told me that I can expect outreach from him as promised. The Deputy Secretary points out that Sweetwater is in compliance around Loveland now. I agree.
Awesome, I'm glad to see this happening. Finally we are getting somewhere. Hopefully in a few years time Loveland will be back to its format glory.
Everydog wrote: Sat Jul 12, 2025 9:32 am
Following up on State Waterboards Chief Counsel, Michael Lauffer's several times made promise to "take a fresh look at my Lovleand issues". State Water Boards Chair Joaquin Esquivel reiterated that commitment when I spoke before his board in Sacramento in March. I didn't see signs of constructive action, and had doubts that it ever would. Waterboards may be doing a slow but great job. However, public records and an email accidentally sent to me by a Waterboard's Lawyer didn't convey that anything but mollifying me and appeasing me was on their agenda. So, I requested a meeting with the CalEPA Secretary. Yana Garcia. State Waterboards is one of many divisions of environmental protection under the Secretary of CalEPA.
Because of the request for a meeting with Secretary Garcia, I have been contacted by the Deputy Secretary for CalEPA Special Legal Counsel, who has assured me that Mr. Lauffer is doing what he committed to do. She told me that I can expect outreach from him as promised. The Deputy Secretary points out that Sweetwater is in compliance around Loveland now. I agree.
Awesome, I'm glad to see this happening. Finally we are getting somewhere. Hopefully in a few years time Loveland will be back to its format glory.
Please go ahead and update this thread on the progress we are making from your end and from whom you are hearing about it.
