• CSPA, EWC Oppose HR 3964

    CSPA and the thirty-plus members of the Environmental Water Caucus submitted a letter opposing HR 3964 to the Speaker and Minority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives.  The proposed legislation, authored by Representative David Valadao of Hanford and described as an “Emergency Water Delivery Act,” is a callous political stunt that uses the drought…

  • CSPA Opposes Contract Extension for Bay-Delta Plan Consultant

    CSPA has requested that a proposed contract extension for ICF Jones & Stokes  (ICF) be removed from the State Water Board’s 4 February 2014 consent calendar and rescheduled for a subsequent State Board meeting.  ICF is a huge international consulting firm that is analyzing and advising the State Board on the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control…

  • CSPA Issues Notice of Intent to Sue City of Watsonville

    On 1 February 2014, CSPA sent a Notice of Intent to Sue to the City of Watsonville’s Municipal Service Center.  The notice letter alleges that the recycling and solid waste processing facility illegally discharges pollutants into the City’s storm sewer system, which flows into Watsonville Slough and the Pacific Ocean, in violation of the substantive…

  • CSPA, Coalition Submit Comments on State Water Project Contract Extension

    On 29 January 2014, CSPA joined PCL, Sierra Club, Environmental Water Caucus, PCFFA, C-WIN, Southern California Watershed Alliance and CA Save Our Streams Council in submitting comments on the extension of the State Water Project water supply contracts.  The comments focused on the threats to ratepayers and taxpayers from increased capitol costs and stated that…

  • CSPA, Coalition Call for Drought Action Plan to Save Salmon Fisheries

    The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, Golden Gate Salmon Association, Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman’s Association and Coastside Fishing Club have called upon the Secretaries of Interior, Commerce and California’s Natural Resource Agency to convene a joint emergency meeting to save Central Valley Chinook salmon from the drought.   All four of the Central Valley salmon runs…