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CSPA Protests State Board’s Drought Urgency Order
CSPA, CWIN and AquAlliance have filed a formal protest against the State Water Resource Control Board’s (State Board) Order Approving a Temporary Urgency Change in License and Permit Terms and Conditions Requiring Compliance with Delta Water Quality Objectives in Response to Drought Conditions (Order). The Order essentially waives compliance with established water quality standards and…
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CSPA, Coalition Protest State Water Contract Provisions
On 3 March 2014, CSPA and a Coalition of environmental, fishing and tribal groups wrote Mark Cowin, Director of the Department of Water Resources (DWR), asking they he deny proposed changes in the water supply contracts that would shift fish and wildlife mitigation costs incurred by the State Water Project to the state’s General Fund…
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California Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Recommends No BDCP
On 26 February 2014, the California Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Trout sent California Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Charlton Bonham a letter recommending that the Department deny an incidental take permit and Natural Communities Conservation Plan (NCCP) for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). The Advisory Committee was established by the legislature…
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CSPA Requests Urgent Actions to Protect Delta and Longfin Smelt
On 20 February 2014, in a letter to California Natural Resources Agency Secretary John Laird and Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, CSPA requested that the agencies take urgent action to protect Delta smelt and longfin smelt during the present drought crisis. Present operations of the state and federal water projects are adversely affecting the…
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CSPA Testifies at State Water Board Drought Urgency Hearing
On 18 and 19 February 2014, CSPA testified at the State Water Resource Control Board’s workshop regarding the drought urgency petition filed by the Department of Water Resources and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Water Board’s temporary order, issued on 31 January and revised on 6 February, that weakened water quality and fish protection…
