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CSPA Assembles Broad Coalition to Protect Water Quality From Farm Pollution
Some 118 groups representing the environmental, environmental justice, recreational and fishing community signed on to a CSPA letter to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board regarding the proposed Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program. Coalition Letter
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Action Needed on Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program Framework
CSPA Needs Your Help to Improve Fisheries and Water Quality The existing regulatory waiver covering discharges from irrigated lands expires in June 2011, and the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board will consider a new long-term program at a hearing on April 7. The Clean Farms – Clean Water campaign is attempting to gather…
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CSPA and Food & Water Watch issue major report on dairy pollution
CSPA and consumer advocacy organization Food & Water Watch released a report showing serious contamination of groundwater around large-scale dairies. Failure to protect groundwater not only threatens the health and safety of many thousands of Central Valley residents, it places additional stress on limited surface water supplies to the detriment of already degraded aquatic ecosystems. …
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State Board Report Reveals Widespread Toxicity in Waterways
The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) has released a report summarizing toxicity in California waters identified by the state’s Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP) between 2001 and 2009. Unfortunately, the report does not include the widespread toxicity in non-SWAMP monitoring or toxicity identified pursuant to mandated monitoring by wastewater dischargers under their NPDES…
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CSPA Submits Comments on Draft Pesticide Spray Permit
CSPA has submitted comments on the State Water Resource Control Board’s draft General Permit covering point source discharges of residual pesticides from spray applications for pest control. Pest control covered by this General Permit includes invasive species of both insects and weeds. The permit will serve as both an NPDES permit, pursuant to the federal…
