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Court Strikes Down Environmental Review of Kern Water Bank
On 5 March 2014, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy M. Frawley ruled that the EIR for the operation of the Kern Water Bank, the nation’s largest underground water-banking operation, failed to comply with basic requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act. The court will now begin a proceeding to determine an appropriate remedy. Nearly four…
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CSPA Issues Notice of Intent to Sue Watsonville Landfill
On 5 March 2014, CSPA sent a Notice of Intent to Sue to the City of Watsonville for violations of the substantive and procedural requirements of the federal Clean Water Act and California’s General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The City operates a 50-acre landfill that discharges polluted stormwater to Gallighan Slough, the Pajaro River and ultimately…
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CSPA Submits Comments on Industrial General Permit
On 4 March 2014, CSPA submitted additional comments on the latest draft of the revised General Industrial Stormwater Permit to the State Water Resources Control Board. The permit regulates the discharge of polluted stormwater from over 9,000 industrial facilities in California and is scheduled for adoption at the Board’s 1 April meeting. Over the last…
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CSPA Appeals Westside SJR WDRs for Irrigated Lands to State Water Board
On 7 February 2014, CSPA and CWIN appealed the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board’s approval of general waste discharge requirements (WDRs) for growers within the Western San Joaquin River Watershed that are members of a Third Party Group to the State Water Resources Control Board. The new general WDRs were approved on 9…
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CSPA Files Lawsuit Against Santa Cruz Concrete Facility
On 7 February 2014, CSPA filed a lawsuit against Las Animas Concrete and Building Supply Inc., in Santa Cruz California for substantive and procedural violations of the federal Clean Water Act and California’s General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The lawsuit alleges that Las Animas illegally discharges pollutants to the City’s storm sewer drainage system, which flows…
