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CSPA Analysis Reveals Water Project Operations Butchered Delta Smelt in the Summer of 2013
Operation of the state and federal export projects led to a massive kill of endangered Delta smelt in early July 2013. CSPA has released a report, prepared by its consultant Thomas Cannon, chronicling this needless massacre of Delta smelt. The situation parallels the conditions during the Pelagic Organism Decline and record low smelt indices early…
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Fish Predation Final Report Released: Cannot Identify Predators as Cause of Salmon Decline
For years, water contractors have been attempting to deflect attention from the massive fish carnage at the state and federal export pumping facilities by blaming striped bass and predators for the demise of salmon and Delta smelt fisheries. In 2008, the Coalition for a Sustainable Delta, a misnamed group funded by water contractors, filed suit…
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CSPA Joins in Comments on Shasta Dam Raise EIS
On 30 September 2013, CSPA and the Environmental Water Caucus submitted voluminous comments on the major inadequacies of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed raising of Shasta Dam. Shasta Dam captures water from the Upper Sacramento, McCloud and Pit rivers and is the largest reservoir in the state. It supplies water to the…
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CSPA Submits Comments on MAST Report
CSPA has provided extensive comments on the draft Interagency Ecological Program’s (IEP) MAST (Management, Analysis and Synthesis Team) report. The MAST report is an updated conceptual model for Delta smelt and is intended to synthesize the latest scientific data and information on Delta smelt responses to recent changes in habitat conditions due to hydrology and…
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CSPA Issues Notice of Intent to Sue Recycling Facility in Gault California
On 30 September 2013, CSPA sent a Notice of Intent to Sue Gault Recyclers in Gault California for violations of the federal Clean Water Act. The notice letter alleges that the scrap materials recycling facility illegally discharges polluted stormwater to Deadman Gulch, which flows into the Cosumnes River and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, in violation…
