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CSPA Submits BDCP Comments
On 28 July 2014, CSPA submitted comments on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and associated EIR/EIS. The comments were focused on the various conservation elements, including the twin tunnels that will divert an average of 2.5 million acre feet of Sacramento River under the Delta for export to southern California. CSPA’s comments also focused…
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CSPA Issues Notice of Intent to Sue Gilroy Landfill
On 21 July 2014, CSPA sent a Notice of Intent to Recology Inc. for violations of the substantive and procedural requirements of the federal Clean Water Act and California’s General Industrial Stormwater Permit. Recology Inc. operates the Recology Pacheco Pass landfill, a 136-acre landfill in Gilroy California that discharges polluted stormwater to channels that drain…
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Court Denies Injunction Sought to Stop Water Transfers to Protect Fish: Delta smelt on the scaffold
On 11 July 2014, Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill, of the U.S. District Court in Fresno California, denied a motion for preliminary injunction to stop the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from transferring water through the south Delta export pumps to the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority (SLDMWA). The motion for preliminary injunction was filed…
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CSPA Sues Paradise Recycler
On 7 July 2014, CSPA filed a lawsuit against Northern Recycling & Waste for violations of the substantive and procedural requirements of the federal Clean Water Act and California’s General Industrial Stormwater Permit. Northern Recycling & Waste operates a recycling facility and landfill in Paradise California that discharges polluted stormwater to channels that flow into…
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CSPA, Coalition Submit Comments on Grasslands Bypass Project
On 30 June 2014, CSPA and a broad coalition of environmental, fishing and tribal organizations submitted comments to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board) regarding the proposed Waste Discharge Requirements (WDRs) for the Grasslands Bypass Project (GBP). The WDRs regulate the discharge of selenium and other pollutants exceeding state and federal…
