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CSPA Comments on San Joaquin River Flow and Salinity
CSPA filed extensive comments March 17, 2017 on the State Water Board’s plan for improving flows in the lower San Joaquin River and for allowing more salinity in the southern Delta during the growing season. CSPA supports the Board’s approach of requiring the release of a percent of unimpaired flow in February-June in the Stanislaus,…
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CSPA Testifies on San Joaquin River Flow and South Delta Salinity
On December 16, 2016, CSPA’s Bill Jennings and Chris Shutes made presentations to the State Water Board regarding the need to increase flow from the San Joaquin River into the Delta. The hearings held in Stockton are part of Phase I of the Water Board’s update of the Bay-Delta Plan. Bill Jennings discussed five major…
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CSPA Objects to Reduced San Joaquin River Flows
CSPA and allied groups California Water Impact Network and AquAlliance have filed an Objection to an April 19, 2016 Order that allows reductions of April-June flows in the lower San Joaquin River from the flows required in Water Rights Decision 1641. In the Objection, Petition for Reconsideration, and Petition for Hearing, CSPA argues that the…
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California Cannot Wait for Water Quality Protections Any Longer
CSPA and more than 150 other environmental, fishing, environmental justice and tribal organizations have submitted two letters regarding the supposed three-year update of the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan. A letter to the State Water Resources Control Board urges the State Board to complete the update after years of delay. A second letter to the…
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CSPA Says “NO” to Privatizing the Public Trust
Oral Comments of Chris Shutes, CSPA Water Rights Advocate, to the State Water Resources Control Board, April 5, 2016. Item 9: 2016 Operation of New Melones Reservoir on the Stanislaus River [based on notes as read; exact delivery was slightly different] During the drought, Oakdale and South San Joaquin Irrigation Districts lived off Bureau’s [of…
