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EWC, CSPA Release Updated Solution to California Water Crisis
CSPA worked closely with the Environmental Water Caucus to develop and update the EWC California Water Solutions Now report that establishes both a path and goal for restoring devastated Bay-Delta fisheries while meeting the water supply needs of California. The report identifies six fundamental criteria and ten basic principles of water policy reform. Previous plans…
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CSPA Testifies at Delta Plan Adoption Hearing
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…
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CSPA Submits Comments on State Board SED for San Joaquin River Update
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…
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Fact Sheet: BDCP and Fish Losses at the Pumps
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…
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CSPA Submits Comments on Delta Plan EIR
CSPA joined with the California Water Impact Network and AquAlliance in filing extensive comments on the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Plan and Revised Draft Delta Plan Program Environmental Impact Report. The highly critical comments said that the environmental document failed to: provide an adequate project description, adequately disclose the environmental setting, provide an adequate impact…
