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    MARY JOHNSON CONDUCTS JOINT TOWN COUNCIL MEETING ON WATER WELLS

Mary Johnson, Agua Dulce resident and current President of Agua Dulce Town

Council, managed to conduct a very-well-attended public meeting co-hosted by her

council and the Acton Town Council on February 23, 2009, at Meadowlark 

Elementary School in Acton. Over 300 local owners of water wells turned 

out to learn what they can do to combat oppressive and possibly illegal fees and

regulations on their water wells and properties.

"I would like to thank Ray Garwacki and the Acton Town Council for joining 

with the Agua Dulce Town Council to present this community water meeting. We

want to inform all of our friends and neighbors about new policies that have an

impact on all of us who have private wells."

Don Henry of Boston Henry Co. in Agua Dulce showed water well owners from

Acton and Agua Dulce what LA County fees, tests and regulations mean to local

residents at the present time. His analysis was very professional and he received

a big round of applause from over 300 people for his excellent costs and statistical 

analysis.

Attorney Damien M Schiff of the Pacific Legal Foundation told over 300 Acton 

Agua Dulce well owners he wanted to paint for them a "broad brush" picture of ways to combat government actions which might be onerous to them or unconstitutional.

"The Lucas Test, named after Paul Lucas, is a rule that basically says if the

government regulates your property to the extent that you can't do anything on it then that's called a "total" or "categorical taking"  and the government then has to compensate you for the fair value of what it has taken."