• CSPA Settles Lawsuit Against Woodland Concrete Plant

    On 9 June 2011, CSPA settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit against the Syar Concrete LLC regarding serious violations of the California General Industrial Stormwater Permit.  Syar Concrete operates a 6-acre ready-mix concrete facility in Woodland, California.  Stormwater runoff discharges to the Tule Canal that empties into the Sacramento River and thence the Delta.  

  • CSPA Submits Comments on Extension of Agricultural Waiver

    On 6 June 2011, CSPA and C-WIN submitted final comments on the proposed extension of the existing Irrigated Lands Program waiver to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board).  The Regional Board will consider a two-year extension of the existing waiver at its 9 June 2011 hearing.  

  • CSPA Urges Continuation of Suction Dredge Mining Moratorium

    CSPA has joined a broad coalition of fishing, tribal and environmental organizations in urging Governor Brown, Senate Pro Tem Steinberg and Assembly Speaker Perez to eliminate funding for the California Department of Fish and Game’s suction dredge mining regulatory program and to maintain the current moratorium on the highly destructive and polluting mining practice for…

  • CSPA Joins in Opposition to Nunes’ Folly

    CSPA and a coalition of fishing and environmental organizations have submitted a 20 May 2011 letter to the House Natural Resources Committee and Water and Power Subcommittee in opposition to H.R. 1837.  

  • CSPA settles lawsuit against Redding auto recycling facility for illegal pollution

    On 19 May 2011, CSPA settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit against Gustafson Auto Wrecking and Towing, Inc. regarding serious violations of the California General Industrial Stormwater Permit.  The facility is a 9-acre vehicle dismantling and automotive parts recycling operation in Redding California that discharges polluted stormwater to Stillwater Creek, which drains to the Sacramento…