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CSPA Issues Notice of Intent to Sue City of Watsonville
On 1 February 2014, CSPA sent a Notice of Intent to Sue to the City of Watsonville’s Municipal Service Center. The notice letter alleges that the recycling and solid waste processing facility illegally discharges pollutants into the City’s storm sewer system, which flows into Watsonville Slough and the Pacific Ocean, in violation of the substantive…
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CSPA and POWER Sue Stanislaus County for CEQA Violations
CSPA and Protecting Our Water and Environmental Resources (POWER) have filed a lawsuit against Stanislaus County for approving hundreds of permits to drill wells without environmental review, as required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). A substantial increase in the number of new wells is depleting area groundwater and, where the wells are hydraulically…
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CSPA Settles Lawsuit Against Stockton Chemical Facility
On 23 January 2014, CSPA settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit Sierra Chemical Co., a chemical manufacturing facility in Stockton, for violations of the federal Clean Water Act and California General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The lawsuit alleged that the facility discharged polluted stormwater, including aluminum, iron, nitrate+nitrogen and pH and above applicable levels into the…
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CSPA Submits Comments on Proposed WDRs for Pollutant Discharges from Irrigated Lands within the Sacramento River Watershed
On 21 January 2014, CSPA submitted extensive comments to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board) regarding proposed waste discharge requirements (WDRs) for discharges of pollutants from farmers within the Sacramento River watershed. The WDRs will replace the present “agricultural waivers” for the Sacramento Valley Water Quality Coalition and regulate pollutants discharged…
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CSPA Submits Comments on Proposed WDRs for San Joaquin County and Delta Agricultural Waste Discharges
On 17 January 2014, CSPA submitted extensive comments to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board regarding proposed waste discharge requirements (WDRs) for discharges of waste from farmers within San Joaquin County and Delta area. The WDRs will replace the present “agricultural waivers” for the San Joaquin County and Delta Irrigated Lands Coalition and…
