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CSPA settles lawsuit against Redding Pipe Manufacturer for illegal pollution
On 15 December 2001, CSPA settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit against Contech Construction Products, Inc. regarding serious violations of the California General Industrial Stormwater Permit. Contech Construction Products’ 33-acre facility in Redding California manufactures culvert pipe and discharges polluted stormwater to Canyon Hallow Creek and the thence the Sacramento River and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
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Sacramento told to cleanup wastewater pollution
Late in the evening of 9 December 2010 and after a 15-hour hearing and extensive testimony, the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board voted to approve a new wastewater discharge permit for the Sacramento Regional County District’s treatment plant. The outdated facility is responsible for inadequately treating over half of the wastewater discharged into…
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CSPA issues intent to sue solid waste combustion facility in Red Bluff
On 13 December 2010, CSPA sent a Notice of Intent to Siemens Water Technologies Corporation for violations of the federal Clean Water Act. Siemens Water Technologies operates a 22-acre waste combustion facility that receives, stores and stores and/or disposes of industrial and hazardous wastes. Polluted stormwater from the site discharges into unnamed drainages, which drain…
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CSPA Issues Notice Letters to Redwood Empire Disposal for violations of Prop. 65
On 13 December 2010, CSPA and the Petaluma River Council (PRC) issued a 60-day Notice of Intent to Sue Redwood Empire Disposal, Inc. and Redwood Empire Disposal Sonoma County, Inc. for violations of California Health & Safety Code Section 25249 (Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986), otherwise known as (Prop. 65) at…
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CSPA issues intent to sue to Petaluma sand and gravel operation
On 10 December 2010, CSPA and the Petaluma River Council sent a Notice of Intent to Sue Shamrock Materials, Inc., in Petaluma California, for violations of the federal Clean Water Act. The facility includes two parcels: a sand off-loading, storage and transportation area and a gravel off-loading, storage and transportation area. The notice letter alleges…
