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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 Analysis Reveals Water Project Operations Butchered Delta Smelt in the Summer of 2013
Operation of the state and federal export projects led to a massive kill of endangered Delta smelt in early July 2013. CSPA has released a report, prepared by its consultant Thomas Cannon, chronicling this needless massacre of Delta smelt. The situation parallels the conditions during the Pelagic Organism Decline and record low smelt indices early…
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Fish Predation Final Report Released: Cannot Identify Predators as Cause of Salmon Decline
For years, water contractors have been attempting to deflect attention from the massive fish carnage at the state and federal export pumping facilities by blaming striped bass and predators for the demise of salmon and Delta smelt fisheries. In 2008, the Coalition for a Sustainable Delta, a misnamed group funded by water contractors, filed suit…
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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…
