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CSPA, Environmental Water Caucus ask Secretary of the Interior to Reject Delta Tunnels
On 16 September 2015 the Environmental Water Caucus, a coalition of groups including CSPA, submitted a letter to Sally Jewell , Secretary of the Interior, detailing the many problems of the proposed California Delta Water Tunnel Project and urging the Secretary to show bold leadership by rejecting the proposed Delta Tunnels. Among the many problems…
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CSPA Files Complaint Against SWRCB, USBR, DWR for Violations During Current Drought
On Tuesday, July 21 CSPA filed a complaint with the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) against the SWRCB, US Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), and California Department of Water Resources (DWR) alleging a multitude of serious water quality violations during the current drought. The complaint alleges that in allowing these violations, these the agencies have…
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CSPA Comments on the Crisis in Delta at SWRCB
On May 20, 2015 the State Water Board held a workshop to hear comments on its April 6 Order that approved relaxed Delta flow and water quality standards until June. During the public comment period CSPA’s Bill Jennings presented yet again on catastrophic impacts weakening water quality standard has on the health of the Delta.…
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Support CSPA’s Actions to Enforce the Clean Water Act
CSPA is working with Lawyers for Clean Water, Inc. on a Clean Water Act enforcement action against an industrial facility near the Stanislaus River in Oakdale. Stormwater discharges from the dairy feed manufacturing and heavy equipment storage facility flow into the Stanislaus River, which conveys the pollutants to the San Joaquin River and then to…
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CSPA Protests Weakening Bay-Delta Flow and Water Quality Requirements
On May 6, 2015, CSPA, joined by CWIN, and AquAlliance, submitted a Protest, Objection and Petition for Reconsideration to the State Water Resources Control Board’s Temporary Urgency Change Order (TUCO) issued on April 6th. In the order the SWRCB continues to illegally fail to enforce water quality standards during the present drought. This Protest follows CSPA’s February 13th Protest of…
