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CSPA Report: The Loss of VAMP’s Export Limitations
CSPA has released a report detailing the impacts to delta smelt and salmon from the demise of the mid-April – mid-May limits on Delta exports. The export restrictions were part of the Vernalis Adaptive Management Program (VAMP) and served to help protect out-migrating San Joaquin River salmon from being drawn to the export facilities during…
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CSPA Issues Notice of Intent to Sue Waste Transfer Facility in San Martin California
On 24 October 2013, CSPA sent a Notice of Intent to San Martin Transfer Station in San Martin California for violations of the federal Clean Water Act. The notice letter alleges that the facility illegally discharges polluted stormwater to Llagas Creek, which flows into the Pajaro River and Monterey Bay, in violation of the substantive…
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A Compilation of Fish Salvage & Water Exports
To provide a perspective on the interrelationship between fish salvage and water exports from the state and federal project export facilities in the South Delta, CSPA has assembled the graphs of salvage/exports between January & October for the years 1993 – 2013 for chinook salmon, striped bass and delta smelt. These graphs come from the…
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CSPA Sues Metal Services Facility in Ripon
On 21 October 2013, CSPA filed a lawsuit against Guntert Sales & Zimmerman in Ripon California for substantive and procedural violations of the federal Clean Water Act and the state’s General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The facility is used for the processing, fabrication and storage of various sheet metals and metal products and discharges polluted stormwater…
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CSPA Joins in Comments Opposing BDCP
On 7 October 2013, the Environmental Water Caucus (EWC), an organization of 34 environmental, fishing and tribal groups addressing water issues in California, including CSPA, issued a letter formally opposing the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). The letter was sent to NOAA Fisheries, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Environmental…
