The Weber Heights Story

From a neighborhood water arrangement, to Weber Heights Non-Profit Association, to Weber Valley Heights Water Association, to the current Weber Heights Association question.

Sharing a well in 1973 did not start a public water system

What came next was a practical neighborhood problem: people living on those parcels needed water. The first association document in this story is the 1973 Weber Heights Non-Profit Association bylaws. That document shows people trying to organize rules, officers, and water-system responsibilities under the Weber Heights name.

That is easy to understand. Rural neighbors had wells, tanks, pipes, roads, expenses, and problems to solve. But there is a difference between neighbors cooperating and a separate legal entity owning land, wells, easements, and water rights.

The first problem is the missing legal bridge

The 1973 bylaws used association language, but bylaws alone do not prove that the association owned land or received recorded rights. When the property-rights documents are followed, the trail points to recorded land instruments, not to a deed conveying the system to a Weber entity.

The first major recorded easement in this story is the 1985 Grant of Easement. Later, Charles and Jo Ann Campbell executed the 1990 Grant of Easement. Then Ronald Mark Leuschen executed the later 1992/1993 Grant of Easement. Those are the documents that matter because wells and water rights attach to land.

So the question is simple: if Weber Heights Non-Profit Association owned or controlled the water system, where is the recorded document that gave it those rights?

1990 is where the paper story and the physical story separate

Riverside County Ordinance 682 required a written application and a valid permit before drilling a water well. The ordinance says a person or entity may not drill or construct a water well without first filing an application and receiving a valid permit. That requirement appears in Ordinance 682, Section 3.

The 1990 permit file begins with the 1990 well permit application. That paper trail has been treated as part of the Weber water-system history. But the physical land trail points to a separate problem: the subject property is APN 571-040-002, shown in the APN 571-040-002 record and on the Assessor Map 571-04.

That is where the record begins to split. One set of documents points to the County permit file. Another set points to private land, private ownership, and appurtenant easement rights. The missing document is the one that lawfully joins those histories together.

The water system was still being organized after 1990

The recorded easement history does not stop in 1990. The later 1992/1993 Grant of Easement shows that the water-system property-rights story was still developing after the 1990 permit application.

That matters because a completed, fully settled public water system would normally have a clear operating history, clear authority, and clear ownership documents. Here, the paper trail shows an arrangement being built, adjusted, and carried forward over time.

Then the name changed

By 2002, the governing document uses a different name: Weber Valley Heights Water Association Bylaws, Revised July 13, 2002. The 2002 bylaws state that the organization is known as Weber Valley Heights Water Association and that its objective is to control water-system policy, maintenance, and repair. They also state that the water rights remain with the land.

That last part is important. If the water rights remain with the land, then the association’s claimed authority still has to be traced back to the landowners and the recorded property documents. A new name and revised bylaws do not, by themselves, transfer title, easements, or water rights.

The association kept operating, and DEH kept recognizing it

The Weber Valley Heights Water Association name appears in later meeting and operating records. The 2004 meeting minutes, preserved in the DEH-filed association meeting and emergency-plan materials, show officers, membership discussions, state small-water assessment discussions, and Janice Smith asking about the meter for property purchased from Mark Leuschen.

The same file also contains the January 14, 2012 meeting materials. Those 2012 records show another board election and a meeting conducted under the Weber Valley Heights Association name.

This proves activity. It proves people were operating under the Weber name. But operation is not the same thing as title, and a meeting is not the same thing as a recorded conveyance.

DEH inspection records created administrative weight

By 2024, Riverside County DEH was inspecting the system as a State Small Water System. The 2024 DEH inspection report identifies the DBA as Weber Valley Heights Association, lists the location as 44135 Perryman Lane, gives APN 571-040-004, and describes two wells, two pressure zones, and six connections on each well.

The 2025 DEH inspection report again identifies the DBA as Weber Valley Heights Association, again lists 44135 Perryman Lane and APN 571-040-004, and states that the system has 12 residential connections, six on each well.

Those inspection reports are important because they show County recognition. But County recognition does not prove private ownership. An inspection report proves that DEH inspected a system. It does not prove that the named operator owns the well, owns the land, owns the easement, or has authority over APN 571-040-002.

The address and APN problem is not a small paperwork issue

The subject property is APN 571-040-002, supported by the APN 571-040-002 record and the Assessor Map 571-04. But the DEH inspection reports identify the system location as 44135 Perryman Lane and APN 571-040-004, as shown in both the 2024 inspection report and the 2025 inspection report.

That matters because wells are tied to land. Permits are tied to land. Easements are tied to land. Ownership is tied to land. If the County file follows the wrong parcel, then the legal conclusion can be wrong even when the system has been inspected for years.

Then Greg and Sherry Reed asked the question

Greg and Sherry Reed are tied to APN 571-040-002 through the parcel record and assessor map: APN 571-040-002 and Assessor Map 571-04. The public record question they raised is the same question any contractor or property owner would ask: show me the document.

Show the permit. Show the inspection record. Show the electrical permit. Show the easement. Show the deed. Show the document where the owner of APN 571-040-002 granted Weber Heights Non-Profit Association, Weber Valley Heights Water Association, or Weber Heights Association lawful authority over the property.

That issue is also summarized in the County-facing flawed permit issue correspondence and the related permit issue correspondence. Those letters are not the primary land instruments; they are the administrative demand letters explaining why the primary land and permit records matter.

What the record shows

The record shows recorded surveys. It shows the 1973 Weber Heights Non-Profit Association bylaws. It shows the 1985, 1990, and 1992/1993 easements. It shows the 1990 well permit application. It shows the 2002 Weber Valley Heights Water Association bylaws. It shows 2004 and 2012 association activity. It shows DEH inspections in 2024 and 2025 identifying the system as Weber Valley Heights Association and describing 12 residential connections.

What the record still does not show is the one document that would make the story legally whole: a recorded conveyance, easement, or signed authority document proving that a Weber entity acquired control over APN 571-040-002 and that the authority lawfully passed through each later name.

Operation is not title. Repetition is not ownership. Inspection is not an easement. A name on a permit is not a deed.

The public question

This archive does not ask the reader to take anyone’s word for it. It asks the reader to follow the documents: the surveys, the bylaws, the easements, the permit application, the assessor records, the meeting minutes, and the DEH inspection reports.

After following those documents, the public question becomes unavoidable:

How did a 1973 neighborhood water association become the claimed authority for a later water association controlling a water system tied to private land?

That is the Weber Heights story. It began as neighbors trying to solve a water problem. It became a decades-long record problem. And today it comes down to one simple demand:

Show the document.