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Support CSPA’s Actions to Enforce the Clean Water Act
CSPA is working with Lawyers for Clean Water, Inc. on a Clean Water Act enforcement action against an industrial facility near the Stanislaus River in Oakdale. Stormwater discharges from the dairy feed manufacturing and heavy equipment storage facility flow into the Stanislaus River, which conveys the pollutants to the San Joaquin River and then to…
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CSPA intervenes in lawsuits against FERC
CSPA and five other organizations have intervened in two lawsuits against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) concerning FERC’s jurisdiction over La Grange Dam on the Tuolumne River. The lawsuits contest FERC’s July 19, 2013 Order on La Grange, and FERC’s earlier Order of December 18, 2012, that require Turlock Irrigation District (TID) to initiate…
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Waterboard admits it has no water quality data in Battle Creek watershed
Responding to a CSPA Public Records Act (PRA) request, the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board was forced to admit it had never conducted water quality monitoring in the Battle Creek watershed, wasn’t in possession of any data from Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) alleged monitoring program and had never ordered SPI to provide information…
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CSPA Analyzes Water Quality Data for Battle Creek
CSPA technical staff has reviewed water quality monitoring data collected by the Battle Creek Alliance and finds evidence of adverse changes in water quality conditions attributable to clean-cutting activities, and numerous and continuing exceedances of the turbidity water quality standards in the Regional Water Quality Control Plan (Basin Plan). Sediment discharged from Sierra Pacific Industries…