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CSPA Submits Comments on State Board Attack on Water Rights System
On 19 May 2014, CSPA and CWIN submitted comments for the State Water Resource Control Board’s (Board) workshop on options for drought related curtailments of post-1914 water rights in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The Board has proposed a series of options on how to restrict diversions of water from streams during the drought. A…
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CSPA Protests Latest State Board Drought Urgency Order
On 13 May 2014, CSPA, CWIN and AquAlliance filed a formal Protest, Objection and Request for Reconsideration of the State Water Resources Control Board’s 2 May 2014 Temporary Urgency Drought Order. The Order represents the eighth time within ninety days that the Board has weakened water quality and flow standards enacted to protect fisheries and…
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CSPA Protests Latest State Board Drought Temporary Urgency Change Order
On 28 April 2014, CSPA, CWIN and AquAlliance formally protested the State Water Resource Control Board’s latest Temporary Urgency Order further relaxing water quality criteria and flow standards in the Delta to expedite increased water exports. The 18 April Order is the seventh modification of Delta protection standards since 7 February. The protest asserts that…
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CSPA Questions El Dorado Plan to Permit Water in Order to Sell It
On March 13, 2014, El Dorado Water and Power Authority issued a Notice of Preparation of an Environmental Impact Report for what it now calls the “El Dorado Water Reliability Project.” The project as proposed is a second run at El Dorado’s 2008 application to use a “county of origin” water rights reservation to permit…
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CSPA, Coalition Urge Governor Brown to Establish Groundwater Regulations that Protect Public Trust Resources
On 15 April 2014, CSPA joined PCFFA, California Coastkeeper Alliance, Environmental Water Caucus, California Water Impact Network, Earth Law Center, Karuk Tribe, Environment Now and Klamath Riverkeeper in urging Governor Jerry Brown to reform groundwater management in California. The coalition recommended specific measures that would help prevent the overdraft and waste of critical groundwater resources…
