-
Where is the Missing BDCP Implementation Agreement?
When the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) released its 40,000 pages of planning and environmental review documents for public comment, the Implementation Agreement was conspicuously absent. However, the Implementation Agreement revealing the commitments to species recovery and how the Delta tunnels project will be financed, built and operated is a necessary and integral component of…
-
CSPA, Coalition Call for Immediate Agency Action to List Rivers Impaired by Inadequate Flow
On 1 April 2014, CSPA joined Russian Riverkeeper, Klamath Riverkeeper, California Coastkeeper Alliance, Karuk Tribe, Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman’s Associations and Earth Law Center in submitting comments to the State Water Resources Control Board urging that the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board list rivers impaired by inadequate stream flow on the Clean…
-
CSPA Adopts Drought Position Paper
CSPA, along with the California Water Impact Network and AquAlliance, have adopted a general drought position paper. The paper points out that, while drought occurs approximately 40% of the time in California, there is sufficient water for our cities, responsible and sustainable agriculture and fisheries and wildlife if its not wasted and inequitably distributed. The…
-
CSPA, EWC Oppose HR 3964
CSPA and the thirty-plus members of the Environmental Water Caucus submitted a letter opposing HR 3964 to the Speaker and Minority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives. The proposed legislation, authored by Representative David Valadao of Hanford and described as an “Emergency Water Delivery Act,” is a callous political stunt that uses the drought…
-
CSPA, Coalition Call for Drought Action Plan to Save Salmon Fisheries
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, Golden Gate Salmon Association, Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman’s Association and Coastside Fishing Club have called upon the Secretaries of Interior, Commerce and California’s Natural Resource Agency to convene a joint emergency meeting to save Central Valley Chinook salmon from the drought. All four of the Central Valley salmon runs…
