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CSPA Files Complaint Against DWR, USBR for Illegal Diversion of Water
On 13 August 2014, CSPA filed a formal complaint with the State Water Resources Control Board (Water Board) alleging that the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) have been illegal diverting and exporting water for which they have no legal water right to divert and export. Additionally, the complaint…
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CSPA Assails Water Bond: A Return to 19th Century Solutions
On 13 August 2014, CSPA assailed Governor Brown’s $7.1 billion water bond as a poster-child of pork barrel politics, a rejection of 21st Century solutions and a return to the failures of the Dam Building era. Contrary to claims by the architects of the bond, it represents an enormous underground subsidy for BDCP’s Delta tunnels.…
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CSPA’s Assessment of Historical Habitat Restoration in the Delta
The Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) proposes to create approximately 150,000 acres of habitat in the Delta to compensate for the diversion of another 2.5 million-acre-feet (MAF) of water around the estuary. This newly restored habitat would be in addition to the 223,902 acres of existing conservation lands within the Delta. Since the foundation of…
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CSPA Submits BDCP Comments
On 28 July 2014, CSPA submitted comments on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and associated EIR/EIS. The comments were focused on the various conservation elements, including the twin tunnels that will divert an average of 2.5 million acre feet of Sacramento River under the Delta for export to southern California. CSPA’s comments also focused…
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Join CSPA at Rally to Save the Delta Stop the Tunnels
On Tuesday, 29 July 2014, at 11:30 am, CSPA, Restore the Delta, and a coalition of commercial and recreational fishing, environmental, tribal and environmental justice organizations are staging a rally at the West Steps of the State Capitol. The rally to Save the Delta Stop the Tunnels coincides with the end of the BDCP comment…
