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CSPA Submits Testimony on Delta Tunnels – Months of Hearings Start in January
On November 30, CSPA filed testimony and exhibits for the State Water Board’s hearings on the Delta Tunnels (“WaterFix”). This new testimony is for Part 2 of the hearings: impacts to fish and wildlife, recreation, and other Public Trust values. Some of the highlights are described below. CSPA’s biologist Tom Cannon presents thirty pages of…
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Report on Oroville Describes Urgent Dam Safety and Flood Lessons
Much of California’s dam and flood infrastructure is obsolete and falling apart. It needs to be fixed now, says a report entitled “The Oroville Dam Spillway Incident and Lessons from the Feather River Basin.” The authors of report are from CSPA, Friends of the River, South Yuba River Citizens League, and American Whitewater. These organizations…
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CSPA and Coalition Recommend Flows and Habitat for Lower Yuba River
In a hundred-plus page filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on August 25, 2017, CSPA and other members of Foothills Water Network coalition filed recommendations for improving flow and habitat conditions in the lower Yuba River. The filing responds to the “Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis,” a major milestone in the relicensing…
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Oroville Dam Relicensing – Letter to FERC Requests Delay in New License
CSPA has joined a broad-based ad hoc coalition of entities in an August 8, 2017 letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that requests a delay in the issuance of a new hydropower license for the Oroville Facilities Project. The signers of the letter include two elected state officials, two counties, two chambers of…
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CSPA comments on scoping for relicensing the Potter Valley Hydroelectric Project
CSPA presented oral scoping comments on June 28, 2017 for the relicensing of the Potter Valley Project in Mendocino and Lake counties. The small 1900’s-era hydroelectric project generates power with water that is piped from the upper mainstem Eel River to the upper Russian River watershed. The project’s Scott Dam, which forms Lake Pillsbury in…
