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CSPA Submits Comments on Industrial General Permit
On 4 March 2014, CSPA submitted additional comments on the latest draft of the revised General Industrial Stormwater Permit to the State Water Resources Control Board. The permit regulates the discharge of polluted stormwater from over 9,000 industrial facilities in California and is scheduled for adoption at the Board’s 1 April meeting. Over the last…
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CSPA, Coalition Protest State Water Contract Provisions
On 3 March 2014, CSPA and a Coalition of environmental, fishing and tribal groups wrote Mark Cowin, Director of the Department of Water Resources (DWR), asking they he deny proposed changes in the water supply contracts that would shift fish and wildlife mitigation costs incurred by the State Water Project to the state’s General Fund…
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CSPA Adopts Drought Position Paper
CSPA, along with the California Water Impact Network and AquAlliance, have adopted a general drought position paper. The paper points out that, while drought occurs approximately 40% of the time in California, there is sufficient water for our cities, responsible and sustainable agriculture and fisheries and wildlife if its not wasted and inequitably distributed. The…
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California Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Recommends No BDCP
On 26 February 2014, the California Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Trout sent California Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Charlton Bonham a letter recommending that the Department deny an incidental take permit and Natural Communities Conservation Plan (NCCP) for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). The Advisory Committee was established by the legislature…
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CSPA Requests Urgent Actions to Protect Delta and Longfin Smelt
On 20 February 2014, in a letter to California Natural Resources Agency Secretary John Laird and Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, CSPA requested that the agencies take urgent action to protect Delta smelt and longfin smelt during the present drought crisis. Present operations of the state and federal water projects are adversely affecting the…
