By: Libi Uremovic, July 16, 2014| Original Article at Patch.com
Transcript from the July 15th 2014 Beaumont City Council Meeting when Berg uses the Public Comment period to brag about past harrassment of a private citizen and threatens to do it again.
“Roger Berg, 1169 Euclid Blvd, Beaumont. I’m speaking as a private citizen. I just want to bring up a few facts here. Some statements have been made earlier by Mrs. Bingham about the City Attorney that’s not true. I turned her in to the Regional Board myself as a private citizen because she was contaminating the ground water down there. I’m working in the engineering services and water management and I was at that meeting back in December up there at the – and she spoke. She was very rude to a scientist from UCR saying that the spikes in there were not there they were caused by the City and actually they were coming from pollutants coming off her property. She was – they had to get an administrative warrant because she wouldn’t let the federal officials on her property and the State went in there and they issued a citation, it was in the newspaper, told her to clean her property up. And I’d just like to report also that I don’t know, but maybe we ought to, someone should get a hold of the State again to make sure they are checking up on their best management practices because I drove by there the other day and I noticed that she doesn’t have any rolls up there to control the runoff from her property and we’ve got the rain coming up probably in August the storms come in and we want to make sure our ground water stays clean and her nursery operation was in violation and we want to make sure that it stays clean so it doesn’t contaminate our ground water.”