High Point Enterprise DEAD WRONG about Greensboro growth increasing water needs

Yesterday’s editorial places the HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE right up there with the News & Record in the "cheerleading competition" for the Randleman Dam.

In its story “OUR VIEW: The rains come, and the rains go” the newspaper made the following false claim:

“Growth in the region, particularly in Greensboro, outran municipal/regional moves to assure sufficient supplies of water.”

HPE, what growth? Growth in population? Growth in industry? Please explain! I am measuring the growth in propaganda and you just added to it. Thanks to you and the lamestream media for feeding this dam crap to citizens to keep their wallets wide open for the dam! It is no wonder the public is 100% misinformed and thinks water use is escalating. (SOURCE: My 2009 water survey of Greensboro residents)

What are you smoking down there at the HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE? Have you never read the Dam Scam report? (Simply Google two words - dam scam) Have you never seen this CHART?

What part of declining water use do you not understand? Are you trying to help me win a pulitzer?

Bad enough that the N&R has spiked Greensboro's water decline story for more than a decade and continues to carry water for Greensboro…..but even John Hammer writes, “Greensboro needs the water.” Is this one of the few Greensboro scandals Hammer has missed? I am afraid so! I offered him an "exclusive" 2 years ago and never heard from him. Not even the Rhino Times would publish my CHART and correct the citizens' false beliefs. Go figure.

And the Carolina Journal story inferred that Greensboro’s water demand is "escalating." And the  head DENR honchos down in Raleigh also write that Greensboro’s water use is increasing. And now the HIGH POINT ENTERLIES joins the dam cult.

Did the HPE story mention that the City of High Point now claims it does not need Randleman water for 20 years?—NO!


You see, it only seems logical that water use would always increase, so sloppy journalists communicate that "logic" to their readers are paying for the Randleman Dam.

If Greensboro's citizens knew that water use was declining since 1995 and not escalating, do you think they would be so eager to pay for the Randleman Dam? Just like national journalism, local journalism has also reached new lows.


How about you? When will you become fed up enough to pick up the torch and run with my story about Greensboro’s 15-year decline in water use?

I have published 77 fact-filled stories over the past 2 years I have yet to be contacted by any local news agency.

When I was Greensboro's WC manager the N&R, Fox 8 and WFMY TV 2 did dozens and dozens of interviews with me. I often sat next to the anchor at the Fox 8 TV and WFMY 2 TV newsdesks and made live reports . How could I have been such a water expert back then and be so untouchable now?

That makes no sense until you catch on that there is a very effective Randleman Dam fraud and cover-up underway. I'm afraid all of you underestimate its depth and its power.

Mike J Baron reporting because nobody else will. Nobody knows the truth but you. Please join the dam scam effort.

16 Japanese comments on the death of Greensboro water conservation

A "Death of Water Conservation" story I posted on July 6th, 2009 has drawn 16 comments in Japanese!

Is there someone out there you know who can interpret these comments (with expletives deleted)? I cannot read Japanese but given the current support drought I am now accepting encouragement in foreign languages!

Arigato! (that's "Thank you" - the only Japanese I remember from my trip to the Hitachi Plant in Nagoya, Japan in 1981)



17 comments:

Billy The Blogging Poet said...

Great work, Mike. Don't give up.


Monday, July 6, 2009 6:32:00 PM EDT

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Monday, January 4, 2010 8:21:00 PM EST

Mike J Baron said...

It's all Greek to me! LOL

PTRWA's 50-year crystal ball — Watch this one very closely!

  

Greensboro's water surplus

Greensboro has a surplus of water to sell. Nobody knows. The surplus must be kept a secret so nobody catches on to the dam scam.

QUESTION: Would the City of Greensboro ever purchase water from Burlington just to make it appear that its own reservoirs are inadequate?

Of course it would! There is a scam and a cover-up underway. That scam and cover-up must be protected and fortified. One of the first things my naysayers site to refute my dam scam is this: 
"...but Greensboro has to buy water from Burlington and Reidsville!"


Oh yeah? According to who? According to the dam scammers, that's who! It is time that you naysayers begin putting 2 and 2 together. When a department head wants a new copier...or a new truck.....or a bigger budget he has to make the current copier or truck or budget appear inadequate. And sometimes those needs are faked. Buying water from neighboring cities when it is not needed is a Greensboro TRICK. It also adds cost. Everybody falls for it because they read it in the News & Record so it must be true. C'mon dam scam naysayers, wise up!

Are you influenced by COMMERCIALS? - NO-O-O, NOT ME-E-E!
Don't you snicker whenever you hear someone boast that they are not affected by commercials and advertising? You have been affected by two decades of water propaganda and yet you claim that you haven't? Sorry, that won't fly. Dry reservoirs by design have left an impression on you.


Greensboro is currently selling 3 million gallons of water a day LESS than it was selling back in 1995 when the dam was being justi-lied. Admit it - without my report you would not even know this shocking fact. When Randleman Lake opens for BUSINESS Greensboro will have expanded its water works by 75% after 15 years of declining water sales. Does that information seem newsworthy to you? Have you ever seen it reported anywhere but here?

Greensboro's dismal water sales are unable to finance its water works operations and pay for the dam. Keep your wallets wide open for annual rate hikes. To gain the proper perspective you must understand that the City is in the water-selling-for-profit BUSINESS. It's not a water-conserving society. You only hear about conservation from Greensboro when it has no water to sell. Now it has plenty. You will never hear the word conservation again because Randleman water is coming on line in 2010. Greensboro is under contract to take its share from Randleman Lake whether it needs it or not. Do you know what that means? Guess.

I have yet to hear the News & Record ask, "How much will Randleman water cost Greensboro's water customers?" Hmmmm. What if Greensboro does not approve of PTRWA's price for Randleman water? What then? And Greensboro will be sucking Randleman water 15 miles uphill. Water is heavy and it takes lots of energy to move it. How much cost will that add?

The Randleman Dam is Greensboro's scam of the century. The citizens have been molded into "believers" by dishonest dam scammers and a participating news media that refuses to publish my CHART. The folks are convinced that water use is CLIMBING. It isn't. It has declined since 1995! And the shocking numbers are NOT "news" according to local reporters and news editors. If you tell a resident that water use is LESS today than 15 years ago he won't believe you! Try it! - I dare you! You won't be taken seriously. That's how effective the propaganda has been. Admit it. Without my reporting you would have never known.

COMING SOON!....water use results for 2009! A DAM SCAM EXCLUSIVE! You won't find it anywhere but here! What will it be? See my CHART sometime after January 3rd.

Stegosaurus crap

Mike's declining water use CHART:

The City of Greensboro's CHART found on its water web page....

  

Dear Dam Scam Readers:
The shocking information contained in my CHART is being kept secret by the City of Greensboro to cover up the fraudulent Randleman Dam project. The local news agencies are aware of Greensboro's failed water forecast and they have refused to report this as news. If you think the public needs to know that Greensboro is using less water today than it did 15 years ago, please join my effort to spread the truth and expose this cover-up. Tell your neighbors to Goggle just 2 words - dam scam -  and learn the truth about the City of Greensboro.



A DAM SCAM EXCLUSIVE!
Return the first week of January and you'll see that I have added 2009's daily water use to my CHART. You won't find 2009's results published by the City of Greensboro and you won't find 2009 covered by the local news! It is a DAM SCAM EXCLUSIVE and you will only find it here! 

Ed Cone tries to dismiss the Randleman Dam Scam — Read my reply....

Ed Cone attempted to dismiss the entire Randleman Dam Scam in a few short paragraphs entitled Water Works published on December 4, 2009. His conclusion: “Baron is wrong about the dam.”

Below is my reply.



Mr. Cone:

Thank you for finally giving the dam scam some attention. The news blackout that's been keeping the decline in water use a secret has been quite remarkable. Let's get started....

Your summation is exactly what I would expect from someone affiliated with the Greensboro News & Record, a long-time dam proponent and apologist. I have introduced a mountain of incriminating evidence that reveals a municipal fraud and cover-up. How strange that the N&R has failed to find one single item in my collection newsworthy. The daily paper has been a veteran cheerleader for the dam while failing to publish the history of declining water use and the failed water forecast that helped win approval for the Randleman Dam. Anyone reading the N&R would never know that anything is wrong with Greensboro water.


I have shown how the City of Greensboro allowed the ends to justify the illegal means it used to secure the approval and funding for the dam. It does not surprise me that you and the entire Greensboro’s news media dismiss every bit of evidence I have provided. To admit anything now would be an admission of failure to have done your jobs.

Just one look at my CHART is all the cityfolk need to begin asking questions. Citizens deserve to see this CHART and the news media and the City of Greensboro is keeping the water history hidden from them.

I am pleased that you chose to comment because given the success of the city's propaganda and the success of the cover-up there is no such thing as bad publicity regarding my efforts. More people will now hear of the scam for the very first time simply by having attached your name to it. Everybody seems to know who Ed Cone is so my page views will soar and my message will spread.


I was fired for reducing Greensboro’s water demand—the job that I was hired to do. Does that sound good for you taxpayers? I was an unemployed family man trying to support a wife and kids when I accepted this entry-level assignment. At 47 I needed a secure job and I liked the challenge—to educate and change the water-using behavior of 215,000 citizens. I didn't know if I would succeed. Never did I dream that I would interfere with a $150 million dollar project.

When water use began to decline under the programs I initiated, my workplace became even more hostile. That's right, my workplace was unfriendly from day #1. Water Director Ray Shaw was ordered by city council to begin water conservation (WC) against his will. I did not know that. So I worked 3 years under Shaw without ever attending his weekly water department meeting. I was not invited.

Shaw did not care what I was doing as long as I stayed out of the way. Of course on camera he sang praises about WC. Then WC began producing “new water” for Greensboro at a lower cost than Shaw's plants could produce water. That got his attention. Shaw ridiculed WC to his subordinate managers so you can imagine how little help they were to me. I was the entire WC program.


Water use began declining in 1996. The more successful WC became, the greater its threat was to the Randleman Dam approval process. I won US Environmental Protection Agency 1st place awards awards and the city hated them because they drew attention to the fact that water use was declining. Twice I was not allowed to attend receptions in Atlanta to receive my 1st place 1996 and 1997 awards.

The city council and Mayor Allen got the message that Greensboro's award-winning WC manager had to be “taken out” for the sake of the dam. They remained silent and thus joined the dam scammers.

My controversial termination was never investigated or reported. Not a single council member phoned me. The News & Record sent a reporter to cover my post-termination news conference at Adams Farm who was on her last day of work and beginning a new job the following week with a Texas newspaper. That’s how little the N&R cared about my news conference on the water fraud.


I was hired under false pretenses. I was asked to reduce water use by 4% but the city was not serious. Ray Shaw never expected anything from me. Had I failed in my mission I would probably still be employed today.

The city realized it could not justify its argument for the Randleman Dam without a WC program in place. So I was hired to develop the program "for show."—and given every opportunity to fail. The city expected that my WC effort would not save a single drop.

Most municipal WC programs run school tours, print fancy brochures and never save any water. Wanna know why? It’s because their bosses are water-selling engineers who hope to sell more. Whenever an engineer is in charge of WC you have the fox guarding the hen house. WC is used for good public relations and nothing more. Most municipal WC managers and coordinators complain that their bosses won't let them do anything that saves water.

I was never expected to make a difference in water use. Then my efforts saved 2 billion gallons over the first 3 years. That meant 2 billion gallons went unsold! The water department began losing income as well as its arguement for the dam.

I was fired in 1999, given 2 weeks severance pay and I was never replaced. I lost everything I had after being jobless and unable to find work. Next my health failed.

First I was necessary for the dam ....and then I became expendable in the grand scheme to get Randleman Dam. Don’t you and the rest of your journalist colleagues find it odd that Greensboro fired its WC manager and never replaced him? That sure was dumb! It's one of the many smoking guns of the water fraud.

You wrote, “But the ten-year usage projections brandished by Baron as evidence of a scam were not the impetus for the new reservoir.” That’s absurd! Of course they were! If we were warned that an asteroid is going to take out Earth, don’t you want to know WHEN? Is it in 10 years …..or 10,000 years? Those bogus water projections told everyone the dam was needed ASAP. They were false. Nobody but my readers know!


Do you think if Greensboro had projected a steady decline in water use the dam would have been funded? DUH. The water projections and a bunch of hype were used to sell a dam bill of goods to the state, the feds and Greensboro’s citizens. Those water use projections missed by a mile! Now they are so carefully hidden in the bowels of the water works that had I not introduced them, nobody would know!

You accused me of “brandishing” those projections. Ha! That’s so funny. Of course I “brandish” them just like the adversaries of those climate change scientists are “brandishing” those hidden emails. Yes, Mr. Cone, I am the chief "brandisher" of the Dam Scam CHART because everyone deserves to know its contents!


You wrote, “Nor is there evidence that the projections were made in bad faith.” That’s absurd too! I have provided plenty of evidence that Greensboro acted in bad faith! Ray Shaw made those projections in the same year that WC began. His numbers reveal that nothing was ever expected from WC. And Shaw knew his projections were bogus! They were for the moment and designed to justify the dam.


You wrote, “Even modest growth over the decades ahead will greatly overburden today's water supply.” How do you know that? When gold runs out in a mining town and miners start leaving, does that town need more resources? …or fewer resources? The gold is leaving Greensboro for Asia. And migration to Greensboro has slowed. Nobody can accurately predict even a few years out and you are speaking of “decades ahead.” After missing the boat on the dam scam you and others have no other option but to dismiss every shred of evidence I have introduced.


Greensboro's citizens are so brainwashed by city propaganda that you are simply responding according to plan. Sure it seems logical that population growth will increase water demand, but a water conservation program would decrease demand—and Greensboro does not have one! It did for 7 years and it was dismantled without any challenge! Does that not make you suspect of Greensboro? And with manufacturing leaving, that more than offsets population growth. If Greensboro returned to WC it would further reduce water use. I will let you in on a little secret. Greensboro is out to sell all the water it can to increase revenue. You cannot have the objective to sell all the water you can and run an award-winning WC program at the same time! That's what's wrong with WC programs across the country.

Once the dam was approved, Greensboro did away with its WC program around 2004. The elimination of WC during the period the city was claiming water scarcity was never investigated or reported by the News & Record. Why all the silence?


In 1999 the city was reporting that water use was increasing when in fact it had decreased 4 years in a row. This dishonesty was never investigated or reported. If it did not “brandish” my CHART nobody would know what has happened!


FACT: Greensboro deliberately sold water for lawns below cost and gave additional incentives for lawn watering like free water meters and no off-season billing. That’s what lowered the reservoirs annually and induced the fear that won support for the Randleman Dam.


The equivalent would be a fire department that set fires to win public support for more fire stations. It was a scam and it worked. Ray Shaw set fire to his own water works. It has never been investigated or reported.


Lawn watering overstressed the distribution system and that’s how the water department got its $9 million dollar expansion of its treatment and pumping plant approved. Imagine how Greensboro’s poor people would feel if they learned that lawn watering caused $9 million to be invested. Low income people actually were subsidizing lawn watering in affluent neighborhoods. Why?—because irrigation water was sold below cost. I am the ONLY person to report it. Nobody else knew that irrigation water was sold below cost. The Shaw of Utilities knew how to get a dam approval.


The water works had plenty of horsepower to push water across the city—except during lawn watering —a practice which was being encouraged through incentives! So the $9 million dollar expansion was gotten by incentivising citizens to water their lawns. That’s how many municipal projects get done using fakery of all kinds. You have to be an insider to know this stuff.

Director Ray Shaw allowed his water distribution system to fail (no water in NW Greensboro) on Tuesday, May 24, 1994 to win support for that $9 mil project and for the Randleman Dam. It was criminal what he had done. If a large fire broke out during his stunt there was no water in the hydrants to fight it. Shaw took the 24-hour risk and it worked!…and it was never investigated or reported. This is how you get a dam approval.


You had no idea what was behind the May 24, 1994 water outage. I do, and that’s why you should listen rather than type. I doubt that city council even knew. If council was intelligent about water it would have known that Shaw allowed the system to fail to win support for the dam. It worked!

City council reacted exactly how Shaw hoped it would. A water-knowledgeable city council would have FIRED Ray Shaw for allowing the distribution system to fail. On the other hand, council may have liked that May 24 failure because it greased the skids for the Randleman Dam.

While it said it was “running out of water” Greensboro had the lowest priced water among North Carolina cities. Greensboro’s price was 47% lower than the NC average. I thought, “Well how dumb is that?” We are running out of water and we practically give it away! Low price is an incentive to use more of the resource and that’s what Greensboro wanted—to get the dam. This stuff is so simple even a cave man could get it.

Shaw was a water-seller and a water-profiteer. All other city departments depend on the General Fund for a budget. Water gets its money from water sales. Shaw wanted no water to slip over the top of the dams. He made sure every drop of it was sold.


Incentives were given to maximize water use (sales) while Greensboro was warning that it was “running out.” Price and incentives and lawn watering were the reasons for the low reservoirs. These issues have never been investigated or reported. It was a highly effective trick.

I had lunch with a water engineering consultant I met during a national conference. I told him about Greensboro's fake water shortage. He said he knew about faked problems. Then he explained how he designed and built a water treatment plant for another major US city that used the same trick! He said he was able to put his son through 4 years of college on what he earned from that unnecessary project.


It's just like if Greensboro builds that Aquatics Center and nobody comes to use it. Taxes would need to go up because ticket sales would not be producing the revenue the city anticipated. Randleman was built because water use was supposed to go up! Sorry but now it is time to pay for bad decisionmaking by the dam scammers.

So much less water is being sold today than was projected that the water department cannot pay for its operations plus the dam. Waste water treatment (sewer) sales are also insufficient. The bogus reasons the city is giving for rate increases are not being investigated or reported.

The real reason for the Randleman Dam was to attract industry with plenty of surplus water. However, city insiders—the dam scammers—knew the public would not fund such a project for growth and development. So Greensboro pitched the Randleman Dam for “survival” knowing it would be funded.

The water department caused its own reservoirs and distribution system to fail to gain support for expanding the water works. I saw how they did it with my own two eyes. I was there and you were not there. I was expected to go along with the fraud and I could not participate. Fortunately for Greensboro's taxpayers my business ethics are derived from my Christian faith. I was on TV and radio frequently but I would not repeat the false statements my bosses were making. In good conscience I became a whistleblower. I just happen to be a licensed Baptist minister if that helps your understanding of what I had to do.


Greensboro eliminated all other sensible alternatives to pitch the dam as the only solution to a faked water shortage. The city could have had a long-range contract to purchase Burlington’s surplus water but water director Ray Shaw would have nothing to do with Burlington….or with water conservation. 

Shaw’s career dream was to build the Randleman Dam. It may have even been an obsession. He actually believed his water department would build it and operate it. That’s what engineers do—they design and build for a living. And Greensboro’s water engineers have kept right on designing and building even when water use has declined for 14 years! Private sector companies downsize when sales are bad but the government water works expands when sales are bad. Think about it…because nobody else is.

Have you ever heard of a department head wanting to grow his department? Shaw had his finger on the scale for the dam for most of his career. Some of the council members probably knew that. No doubt some were all for Shaw’s tricks because they were so effective.

Ray Shaw refused all best management practices and far less expensive alternatives to the Randleman Dam. Shaw’s foolish choices have never been investigated or reported.

The reason for the news media’s silence about the dam scam is that the news media is looking dam foolish right now for failing to scrutinize such an expensive public works project. Nobody wants to jump in at this late stage because the water is too hot. You Mr. Cone gave it your best shot as if your explanation was the final chapter on the dam scam and the dam scam need not be mentioned again.


I am not a journalist like you, but I have the truth and I have witnessed the inner workings of this scam. I am reporting and you are only repeating what you have read. For example, in your post you have repeated what others have claimed—that Randleman Dam will meet the Triad’s water needs for the next 50 years. That’s hilarious! Greensboro cannot accurately forecast even 5 years into the future and yet you are repeating that Randleman is good for 50 years! According to who?—according to the propaganda. If I was John Hammer my Rhino headline would be, “Greensboro wants us to believe Randleman will meet water demand for 50 years when Greensboro could not predict its water needs for 5 years.” The emperor is naked.

Please show me the "study" that supports the claim for 50 years of water. I say there isn’t one. Only a fool would "sign off" on a 50-year projection these days. You read "50 years" in the News & Record and other in reports and you believe it and you repeat it. I say 50 years is laughable. It is made for the camera and you bought it.

Your mention of the 50-year projection demonstrates the problem with the news media today. Reporters don't investigate any longer. They simply repeat what somebody else says. It took just 2 freelance reporters to expose ACORN! It took just one hacker to discover the climate scientist's hiding data. And if I was not reporting Greensboro's water fraud you would never have seen the shocking numbers and all the evidence that makes the dam a scam.


You and others are hopelessly infected by 15 years of Greensboro's lies, false reports, propaganda and photos of dry reservoirs. People’s take on the Randleman Dam is not their own. My 2009 telephone survey proved it. 100% of Greensboro believes that water use has increased since 1995 and they are all wrong thanks to media like the News & Record.

Anyone with a brain knew in 1995 that manufacturing was departing for Asia. Shaw knew that a "service economy" was our future when he made his water forecast. Greensboro was so worried about losing Cone Mills as a water customer that it actually thought cheap water was the glue that would keep it here. Goodbye Greensboro! Now that Cone Mills and other industries like it have departed, Greensboro’s residential customers must make up for the huge loss in revenue.
The current reasons being given for water rate increases are not the real reasons. Read the news and watch each explanation Director Allan Williams provided. Every one of them is a diversion from the truth. You see, the city cannot be truthful about the rate increases because the real reasons would reveal the dam scam.

Translation: WATER RATE HIKES are necessary because big industrial water accounts have departed. Are you going to tell me that Greensboro couldn't see this coming?
I suspect your summation will accomplish the exact opposite of what you and the N&R and the City of Greensboro hope to accomplish.

Through one blog that's up against a decade of propaganda the citizens can learn the truth about how major municipal capital improvement programs are often justified, funded and completed. Every large-scale public project deserves the highest scrutiny because pride and profit are strong motivators of insiders who use other people’s money to develop what THEY want. Unfortunately the axiom seems to be that the more expensive and complex something is, the faster it is approved and the less it is scrutinized. Look at Cap and Trade. Look at the healthcare bill.


The Randleman Dam is the most successful scam in the history of Greensboro. However, once the truth gets out it may remain the biggest scam in the history of Greensboro—but it will no longer be successful because the folks will know they were had. Maybe the next time they will ask more question and demand more from the mainstream news media—whatever’s left of it.


Mr. Cone concluded, “Baron is wrong about the dam.” What do you think?

The Spag Report: Climate Change scientists and media hiding data. Speaking of hiding data…..

 From the 12-4-09 Spag Report:
"For the fourteenth straight DAY, the three broadcast networks have failed to report on the great and growing ClimateGate scandal."


And now for the local news.....
For the fourteenth straight YEAR the local news media continues to hide Greensboro's declining water demand and Greensboro's failed water forecast that justified the Randleman Dam.

Spag and Baron wonder what it will take for a public uproar over data that is being deliberately hidden to advance a cause and secure the funding for it.

It took just 2 freelance reporters to expose ACORN! It took just one hacker to discover the climate scientist's hiding data. And if I was not reporting Greensboro's water fraud you would never have seen the shocking numbers that point to the dam scam. It's a cover-up.


When truths like these surface, news reporters and editors with secret agendas look like self-serving morons. It's no wonder they are going out of business.

How much water did Greensboro pump in 2009?

During the first week of January the Water Resources Department will tabulate the total amount of water it pumped during 2009.


You would think the Water Resources Department would publish the 2009 results on its web page. It won’t. It never has. If the total was published, citizens would immediately want to compare it to previous years. Heaven forbid!

Greensboro conceals the history of its water use. Can you guess why? Shouldn’t that make you suspicious?

The only statement Greensboro makes about water use on its web page is this useless report called "yesterday’s water use compared to one year ago." It is a way of reporting without having to provide any real information.

Every day Greensboro sends the single day report to the News & Record for publication. Apparently the N&R believes it is newsworthy because it has been printing the useless daily report for 12 years!

FACT: A single day of water use compared to the same day last year is as useless as yesterday's temperature compared to the same day one year ago. Nothing can or should be concluded from a single-day report.
 
Last year during the first week of January, I requested total water use for 2008 from the water department under the Freedom of Information Act. The water department replied that 2008’s water use was 30.9 million gallons a day (MGD). Unless you read my dam scam report you would never have learned that figure.

When I was managing water conservation in 1995, water use was 34.6 MGD. Last year's water use was less than what Greensboro pumped 13 years ago! Do you think citizens deserve to know?

1995     34.6 MGD

2008     30.9 MGD

Do these totals grab your attention? They should. There is a City of Greensboro cover-up underway. The news media is refusing to investigate it. The public deserves to know the truth.

Water use in 2008 was 30.9 MGD. What was the water use for the previous year? Are you curious? Nobody knows that 2007’s water use was 33.7MGD. From 2007 to 2008 water use declined by 2.8 million gallons a day.



2007                       33.7 MGD
2008                       30.9 MGD
Forecasted for 2008   42.4 MGD

Greensboro never mentions the future water needs forecast because water use went down when it was supposed to go up.

The cover-up is necessary to keep citizens minds and wallets wide open for the Randleman Dam.
Visit my dam scam web page the first week of January and you'll see 2009's water use added to the CHART below.

My guess is that 2009's water use will be about the same as 2008's water use.


   

 

Climate-gate same as Gate City's water-gate

The University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit has just been caught hiding data about the Earth's declining temperature. Why would they scuttle that data? Well DUH!—Billions of dollars in funding for climate change remedies are at stake. And so are people’s prides, reputations and jobs! Even entire companies expecting work could fold!

How is this any different than the City of Greensboro fabricating a water shortage to justify building the Randleman Dam …..and then conducting a 15-year cover-up of data that shows water use is decreasing when Greensboro predicted it would be increasing? Hmmmmmmmmm?

The City of Greensboro and its media accomplices are deliberately concealing a 15-year decline in public water use that blows their whole dam argument right out of Randleman’s water! Why? Well double DUH! It’s being done to protect the dam scammers’ pride, reputations and jobs. Nobody wants their name attached to this fraud.

How do you think the state and the feds will feel about being scammed? The dam scammers must continue to pitch their false claim of water scarcity to keep citizens’ wallets wide open and minds made up for the completion of the Randleman Dam—and not get caught in this scam!


QUESTION: Why is there no public outcry for having been tricked into financially supporting an unnecessary 75% expansion of Greensboro’s waterworks!


ANSWER: Because 97% of citizens don’t have the facts and have fallen for the propaganda! Virtually all of Greensboro’s residents falsely believe that water use is steadily INCREASING (SOURCE: My 2009 Telephone Survey).

Citizens still believe the Randleman Dam is a necessity. They have been misguided.

That’s not surprising given the water-shortage hype they have been fed since 1995.

Even after seeing the numbers my pastor believes water use must be increasing! He said, "Those numbers can't be right."

It only seems logical to the folks that water use will always increase. That "logic" is faulty but it works to the dam scammers advantage. Now you know why the water department only publishes "yesterday's water use" and does not publish water use over the past 13 years the way my CHART has it. They are not stupid.

Here's a novel idea for all reporters, news editors and doubting bloggers - why don't you verify the numbers in my CHART  by sending an email with the CHART attached to Greensboro water supply manager Steve Drew at steve.drew@greensboro-nc.gov  

Ask Mr. Drew if the daily water use amounts I have published from 1995 to 2008 are correct. How hard is that? After all, many of you have written several times in your blogs, "Well, if Baron's numbers are correct....." Does anyone think I am making them up?

Citizens, state officials and federal officials have been deliberately misled so Randleman’s abundant water would enable Greensboro to compete with Raleigh and Charlotte. The “surplus water” was supposed to attract manufacturers —but the window of opportunity to attract industry has been missed. So a new justification for the Randleman Dam has surfaced—drought. Drought is a dam poor excuse to purchase 53% of Randleman Lake!

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The Randleman Dam is the scam of the century. Once the citizens learn the naked truth and review my documentation they will understand why the dam was a scam. It was the last thing Greensboro should have done....but the scammers made it the first and only choice.


The Randleman Dam is the scam of the century. Remember Project Homestead? The same officials and politicians running the dam scam were creating the Homestead fiasco. Project Homestead was tiddleywinks compared to Randleman!

Greensboro's citizens are using less water today than 15 years ago! Hello-o-o? And not a single Greensboro news reporter or news editor dares to walk on Randleman water!

If global warming scientists are committing fraud by concealing declining temperatures, then the City of Greensboro is committing fraud for hiding the 15-year decline in water use …and hiding its failed water forecast that justified the Randleman Dam.

 

Al Gore and his band of "scientists" are proving to be climate scammers. Dozens of Greensboro managers, officials and politicians are dam scammers for having secretly secured the Randleman Dam using lies, deception and false reports while concealing the truth about declining water use and the complete failure of the water needs forecast that justified the dam.

Does anyone have any questions?

Climate Change scandal and Randleman Dam scandal receiving same treatment

Very damaging insider emails have recently surfaced exposing the fraud of man-made climate change. Billions of dollars about to be invested in global warming are now at risk. So are the reputations of experts and politicians who were about to take us down the wrong path. Does it surprise you that the climate fraud story is not being covered by the mainstream news?

Dam scammers took us down the wrong path
My CHART showing the history of public water use since 1995 and Greensboro's faulty forecast of future water needs is all you need to recognize that a fraud and a cover-up are underway. This CHART contains irrefutable damaging information but like the climate change fraud, the news media refuses to acknowledge the CHART's existence. Too much is at stake. And then there is the embarrassment of being wrong or having been fooled.

There is no question about my CHART's newsworthiness if my numbers are true. And when you add the fact that my 2009 telephone survey revealed that 97% of citizens are terribly misinformed about public water use, the CHART deserves a spot on the front page. Citizens want the facts contained in the CHART and citizens deserve the facts contained in the CHART. The local news is ignoring the CHART. Pretty soon it won't have a choice.


Since 2007...
My well-documented stories and my public water use CHART began appearing at this site one and one-half years ago. Then in 2008 water use went down by 3 million gallons a day! Imagine that. Nobody but me reported the 3 million gallon a day decline from 2007 to 2008.

So far nobody has dared to challenge the data in my CHART! It is easy to confirm my numbers by simply calling the water department. Why hasn't the News & Record done that? You would think the N&R would be the first to dispute my claims because it has the most to lose if I am right. I AM right and I have the truth on my side.

The local news media has not contacted me a single time regarding my claims of fraud and cover-up by the City of Greensboro. The longer the reporters avoid the data in the CHART the stronger the case for fraud becomes.


The City of Greensboro, the News & Record, YES! WEEKLY and the Rhinoceros Times are losing credibility by avoiding my dam scam reports. The evidence I have provided is overwhelming. Reputations are in jeopardy. Heads could roll. A public uproar is likely. These dam ignorant news reporters and editors will be viewed as accomplices for their failure to investigate and report this fraud. They will look like fools when the public catches on to the dam scam.


Dam about to burst

Hopefully this dam fraud story will burst wide open before I assume room temperature. That's why I installed a direct phone line for the local news to contact me.

You can help speed things up by simply telling your neighbors and colleagues to Google just two words - dam scam. It's Google's #1 story atop one million pages appearing in a search for "dam scam." But like the climate change scandal, you would not know it by reading or watching the mainstream local news.