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CSPA Submits Comments on EID’s Deer Creek Wastewater Plant
CSPA has submitted comments to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board regarding proposed revisions to the wastewater permit for El Dorado Irrigation District for discharges to Deer Creek. The revisions are in response to a successful lawsuit CSPA filed against the Regional Board. The Regional Board was directed by Judge Timothy Frawley of…
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CSPA Sues Paper and Scrap Materials Recycling Facility in West Sacramento for Violations of Clean Water Act
On 27 April 2011, CSPA filed a lawsuit against International Paper Company, Inc. in West Sacramento California for massive violations of the federal Clean Water Act and the state’s General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The 5-acre facility illegally discharges polluted stormwater to the eastern canal of the Sacramento River and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
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Coalition Comments on Third Draft of the Delta Plan
The Environmental Water Caucus (EWC) is a coalition of environmental, environmental justice and fishing organizations. CSPA as a member of EWC has been collaborating with the coalition in comments on the various drafts of the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Plan, which was mandated by the state legislature. On 28 April 2011, EWC submitted comments on…
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Group Submits Comments to EPA on Proposed Bay-Delta Rulemaking
CSPA, California Water Impact Network and AquAlliance have submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding their notice of proposed rulemaking for water quality in the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary. EPA solicited public input on how the Agency and State of California can achieve water quality and aquatic resource protection goals in the Bay…
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CSPA Issues Notice of Intent to Sue Recycling Facility in Stockton
On 11 April 2011, CSPA sent a Notice of Intent to Sue Stockton Recycling Inc. in Stockton California, for violations of the federal Clean Water Act. The notice letter alleges that the facility is illegally discharging polluted stormwater in violation of the substantive and procedural requirements of the General Industrial Stormwater Permit into the Stockton…
