Monthly Archives: October 2013

CSPA Report: The Loss of VAMP’s Export Limitations

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Bill Jennings

CSPA has released a report detailing the impacts to delta smelt and salmon from the demise of the mid-April – mid-May limits on Delta exports.  The export restrictions were part of the Vernalis Adaptive Management Program (VAMP) and served to … Continue reading →

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CSPA Issues Notice of Intent to Sue Waste Transfer Facility in San Martin California

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Bill Jennings

On 24 October 2013, CSPA sent a Notice of Intent to San Martin Transfer Station in San Martin California for violations of the federal Clean Water Act.  The notice letter alleges that the facility illegally discharges polluted stormwater to Llagas … Continue reading →

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A Compilation of Fish Salvage & Water Exports

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Bill Jennings

To provide a perspective on the interrelationship between fish salvage and water exports from the state and federal project export facilities in the South Delta, CSPA has assembled the graphs of salvage/exports between January & October for the years 1993 … Continue reading →

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CSPA Sues Metal Services Facility in Ripon

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Bill Jennings

On 21 October 2013, CSPA filed a lawsuit against Guntert Sales & Zimmerman in Ripon California for substantive and procedural violations of the federal Clean Water Act and the state’s General Industrial Stormwater Permit.  The facility is used for the … Continue reading →

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CSPA intervenes in lawsuits against FERC

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Chris Shutes

CSPA and five other organizations have intervened in two lawsuits against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) concerning FERC’s jurisdiction over La Grange Dam on the Tuolumne River.  The lawsuits contest FERC’s July 19, 2013 Order on La Grange, and … Continue reading →

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CSPA Joins in Comments Opposing BDCP

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Bill Jennings

On 7 October 2013, the Environmental Water Caucus (EWC), an organization of 34 environmental, fishing and tribal groups addressing water issues in California, including CSPA, issued a letter formally opposing the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP).  The letter was sent … Continue reading →

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CSPA Analysis Reveals Water Project Operations Butchered Delta Smelt in the Summer of 2013

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Bill Jennings

Operation of the state and federal export projects led to a massive kill of endangered Delta smelt in early July 2013.  CSPA has released a report, prepared by its consultant Thomas Cannon, chronicling this needless massacre of Delta smelt. The … Continue reading →

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Fish Predation Final Report Released: Cannot Identify Predators as Cause of Salmon Decline

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Bill Jennings

For years, water contractors have been attempting to deflect attention from the massive fish carnage at the state and federal export pumping facilities by blaming striped bass and predators for the demise of salmon and Delta smelt fisheries.  In 2008, … Continue reading →

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CSPA Joins in Comments on Shasta Dam Raise EIS

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Bill Jennings

On 30 September 2013, CSPA and the Environmental Water Caucus submitted voluminous comments on the major inadequacies of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed raising of Shasta Dam.  Shasta Dam captures water from the Upper Sacramento, McCloud and … Continue reading →

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