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After 20 Years, Hearing Scheduled on CSPA’s Big Sur River Protest
The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) has scheduled a hearing on 8 & 9 March 2011 regarding CSPA’s protest of El Sur Ranch’s water right application on the Big Sur River. In 1990, El Sur Ranch was caught illegally diverting from the river and subsequently, in 1992, filed an application for a water right…
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San Joaquin River Flow and Salinity Workshop Scheduled for 6 & 7 January
Fate of the San Joaquin River hangs in the balance The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) will hold a workshop to receive comments and technical information related to its draft Technical Report on the scientific basis for alternative San Joaquin River flows and southern Delta salinity objectives. The Technical Report is intended to serve…
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CSPA Submits Testimony Opposing Davis/Woodland Water Grab
The City of Davis, University of California Davis and the City of Woodland submitted applications to divert up to 50,000 acre-feet of water annually from the Sacramento River. CSPA protested the applications. The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) has announced it will hold an evidentiary hearing (testimony, cross-examination and rebuttal, all under oath) on…
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CSPA Petitions State Board to Review Four NPDES Permits (City of Auburn, Davis, Galt and Placer County)
CSPA Petition For Review: City of Auburn NPDES CSPA Petition For Review: City of Davis NPDES CSPA Petition For Review: City of Galt NPDES CSPA Petition For Review: Placer SMD#1 NPDES
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State Board cancels San Joaquin application
By Chris Shutes, CSPA Projects Director The Division of Water Rights of the State Water Resources Control Board has canceled the application of San Joaquin County to divert South Fork American River water through EBMUD’s Freeport diversion on the Sacramento River. The proposed application would have sent the water to Pardee Reservoir on the Mokelumne…
