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CSPA Report: The Loss of VAMP’s Export Limitations
CSPA has released a report detailing the impacts to delta smelt and salmon from the demise of the mid-April – mid-May limits on Delta exports. The export restrictions were part of the Vernalis Adaptive Management Program (VAMP) and served to help protect out-migrating San Joaquin River salmon from being drawn to the export facilities during…
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A Compilation of Fish Salvage & Water Exports
To provide a perspective on the interrelationship between fish salvage and water exports from the state and federal project export facilities in the South Delta, CSPA has assembled the graphs of salvage/exports between January & October for the years 1993 – 2013 for chinook salmon, striped bass and delta smelt. These graphs come from the…
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CSPA Joins in Comments Opposing BDCP
On 7 October 2013, the Environmental Water Caucus (EWC), an organization of 34 environmental, fishing and tribal groups addressing water issues in California, including CSPA, issued a letter formally opposing the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). The letter was sent to NOAA Fisheries, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Environmental…
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CSPA Joins in Comments on Shasta Dam Raise EIS
On 30 September 2013, CSPA and the Environmental Water Caucus submitted voluminous comments on the major inadequacies of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed raising of Shasta Dam. Shasta Dam captures water from the Upper Sacramento, McCloud and Pit rivers and is the largest reservoir in the state. It supplies water to the…
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USBR, USFWS Gives Away 451,000 Acre Feet of Fish Water to San Joaquin Valley Farmers
San Joaquin Valley farmers who received a gift of many thousands of acre-feet of water necessary to support fisheries and meet water quality standards, have sued and secured a temporary injunction preventing the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from releasing water in the Trinity River to prevent a repeat of the massive 2002 Klamath River fish…
