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CSPA Settles Lawsuit Against Ripon Manufacturing Facility
On 6 April 2014, CSPA settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit against Guntert & Zimmerman for violations of the California General Industrial Stormwater Permit. Guntert & Zimmerman operates a 22-acre construction machinery equipment and metal services used for processing, fabrication and storage of various sheet metal and metal products in Ripon California. The lawsuit alleged…
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CSPA Files Lawsuit Against City of Watsonville for Pollution Discharges
On 4 April 2014 CSPA filed a lawsuit against the City of Watsonville for massive violations of the state’s General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The City of Watsonville operates a 7-acre recycling and solid waste processing facility that discharges polluted stormwater into the municipal storm sewer system, Watsonville Slough and ultimately into the Pacific Ocean. A…
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CSPA, Coalition Call for Immediate Agency Action to List Rivers Impaired by Inadequate Flow
On 1 April 2014, CSPA joined Russian Riverkeeper, Klamath Riverkeeper, California Coastkeeper Alliance, Karuk Tribe, Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman’s Associations and Earth Law Center in submitting comments to the State Water Resources Control Board urging that the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board list rivers impaired by inadequate stream flow on the Clean…
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CSPA Issues Notice of Intent to Sue Watsonville Manufacturing Facility
On 2 April 2014, CSPA sent a Notice of Intent to Sue to S. Martinelli & Co. for violations of the substantive and procedural requirements of the federal Clean Water Act and California’s General Industrial Stormwater Permit. S. Martinelli & Co. operates a 17-acre industrial facility that includes the manufacturing and bottling of food products. …
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CSPA Joins SARA in Complaint Against Reclamation’s Folsom and Nimbus Dams
On 2 April 2014, CSPA joined Felix Smith, Save the American River Association, California Small Stream Council and Public Trust Alliance in filing a complaint with the State Water Resources Control Board regarding the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s (Reclamation) operation of Folsom and Nimbus Dams on the lower American River. The complaint alleges that Reclamation…
