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  • CSPA Testifies at Delta Plan Adoption Hearing

    Bill Jennings

    CSPA’s Executive Director Bill Jennings testified at the 16 May 2013 adoption hearing of the Delta Stewardship Council’s hearing on the final Delta Plan and Environmental Impact Report.  Jennings told the Council that it had squandered a marvelous and unique opportunity to resolve California’s water crisis and meet the co-equal goals of ecosystem restoration and…

  • CSPA Submits Comments on State Board SED for San Joaquin River Update

    Bill Jennings

    CSPA joined the California Water Impact Network, AquAlliance, Friends of the River and Restore the Delta in submitting extensive comments on the State Water Resource Control Boards Substitute Environmental Document for Phase I of the update of Water Quality Control Plan for the Delta.   Phase I addresses flows in the San Joaquin River and South…

  • Fact Sheet: BDCP and Fish Losses at the Pumps

    Bill Jennings

    CSPA has prepared a short fact sheet on fish losses at the State and Federal Project water export facilities in the South Delta.  Proponents of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and its peripheral tunnels suggest that only by diverting water from the Sacramento River can the Delta be restored because of immense fishery losses…

  • CSPA Submits Comments on Sixth Draft of the Delta Plan

    Bill Jennings

    On 13 June 2012, CSPA submitted comments on the sixth draft of the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Plan.  The letter criticized the Council for failing to define the “coequal goals” or provide defensible and quantifiable goals, yardsticks and mileposts for achieving the goals or to establish consequences for failing to make progress toward those goals.…

  • EWC, Including CSPA, Submit Comments on Delta Plan EIR

    Bill Jennings

    The Environmental Water Caucus and 48 environmental, fishing and tribal organizations, including CSPA, submitted detailed comments on the deficiencies of the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Plan and Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The Draft EIR and proposed Delta Plan perpetuate the myth that existing water exports are sustainable and suggest that “water supply reliability” is shorthand…