Category Archives: Alerts & Advisories

CSPA Settles Stanislaus County Well Drilling Permit Lawsuit Against Certain Parties

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Bill Jennings

On 27 August 2014, CSPA and Protecting Our Water and Environmental Resources (POWER) reached a settlement with nine defendants in one of two Stanislaus County lawsuits filed over drilling permits for wells without California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review. The … Continue reading →

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CSPA Wins Major Clean Water Act Lawsuit Against Water Board

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Bill Jennings

The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) prevailed in a lawsuit against the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board) regarding the wastewater discharge permit for the Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant (Treatment Plant). Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael … Continue reading →

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CSPA Files Complaint Against DWR, USBR for Illegal Diversion of Water

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Bill Jennings

On 13 August 2014, CSPA filed a formal complaint with the State Water Resources Control Board (Water Board) alleging that the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) have been illegal diverting and exporting water … Continue reading →

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CSPA Assails Water Bond: A Return to 19th Century Solutions

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Bill Jennings

On 13 August 2014, CSPA assailed Governor Brown’s $7.1 billion water bond as a poster-child of pork barrel politics, a rejection of 21st Century solutions and a return to the failures of the Dam Building era. Contrary to claims by … Continue reading →

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Join CSPA at Rally to Save the Delta Stop the Tunnels

Posted on July 19, 2014 by Denise Zitnik

On Tuesday, 29 July 2014, at 11:30 am, CSPA, Restore the Delta, and a coalition of commercial and recreational fishing, environmental, tribal and environmental justice organizations are staging a rally at the West Steps of the State Capitol. The rally … Continue reading →

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Court Denies Injunction Sought to Stop Water Transfers to Protect Fish: Delta smelt on the scaffold

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Bill Jennings

On 11 July 2014, Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill, of the U.S. District Court in Fresno California, denied a motion for preliminary injunction to stop the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from transferring water through the south Delta export pumps to … Continue reading →

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CSPA Sues USBR Over Water Transfers

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Bill Jennings

On 11 June 2014, CSPA and AquAlliance filed a lawsuit in federal District Court against the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) over its inadequate disclosure, avoidance of impacts, and mitigation of major water transfers from the Sacramento Valley through the … Continue reading →

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CSPA, EWC Submit Extensive BDCP Comments

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Bill Jennings

On 11 June 2014, the Environmental Water Caucus, of which CSPA is a member, submitted 259 pages of scathingly critical detailed comments on the Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and associated Environmental Impact Report and Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS). … Continue reading →

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Press Conference: Experts Criticize Flawed BDCP Process, Missing Implementation Agreement

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Denise Zitnik

On May 14 2014, CSPA Executive Director Bill Jennings joined Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta; Bob Wright, Friends of the River; Osha Meserve and Local Agencies of the North Delta; in a media call to discuss the flawed BDCP process. … Continue reading →

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Where is the Missing BDCP Implementation Agreement?

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Bill Jennings

When the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) released its 40,000 pages of planning and environmental review documents for public comment, the Implementation Agreement was conspicuously absent. However, the Implementation Agreement revealing the commitments to species recovery and how the Delta … Continue reading →

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CSPA, Coalition Call for Immediate Agency Action to List Rivers Impaired by Inadequate Flow

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Bill Jennings

On 1 April 2014, CSPA joined Russian Riverkeeper, Klamath Riverkeeper, California Coastkeeper Alliance, Karuk Tribe, Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman’s Associations and Earth Law Center in submitting comments to the State Water Resources Control Board urging that the North Coast … Continue reading →

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Court Strikes Down Environmental Review of Kern Water Bank

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Bill Jennings

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 … Continue reading →

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CSPA, EWC Oppose HR 3964

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Bill Jennings

CSPA and the thirty-plus members of the Environmental Water Caucus submitted a letter opposing HR 3964 to the Speaker and Minority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives. The proposed legislation, authored by Representative David Valadao of Hanford and described … Continue reading →

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CSPA, Coalition Call for Drought Action Plan to Save Salmon Fisheries

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Bill Jennings

The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, Golden Gate Salmon Association, Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman’s Association and Coastside Fishing Club have called upon the Secretaries of Interior, Commerce and California’s Natural Resource Agency to convene a joint emergency meeting to save … Continue reading →

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CSPA, Coalition Requests Moratorium and Review on Trinity River Restoration Program: Wastes Money, Degrades Environment

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Bill Jennings

On 23, January 2014, CSPA, California Water Impact Network, Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman’s Associations, AquAlliance and Environmental Protection Information Center asked the Trinity River Restoration Program (TRRP) to put all channel rehabilitation projects on hold pending a thorough review. … Continue reading →

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Press Conference: Can California Tunnel its Way Out of Drought?

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Bill Jennings

On Monday, 13 January 2013, Bill Jennings, CSPA’s Executive Director, joined Jonas Minton, Planning and Conservation League; John Herrick, South Delta Water Agency; Dr. Jeffrey Michael, University of the Pacific; Tom Stokely, California Water Impact Network and Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore … Continue reading →

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Delta Fish Hammered Yet Again: Fall Midwater Trawl Results Reveal Continued Biological Collapse

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Bill Jennings

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) has released the results of the 2013 Fall Midwater Trawl (FMWT), which reconfirms the continuing biological collapse that is occurring in the Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta Estuary. The FMWT conducts monthly … Continue reading →

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Opponents to Rally Against Governor’s Water Export Tunnels as Public Comment Period Begins

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Bill Jennings

On Friday, 13 December 2013, at 12:00 p.m., CSPA and Californians for a Fair Water Policy, a statewide coalition opposing Gov. Brown’s water export tunnels, will conduct a rally at the North steps of the State Capitol as the Brown … Continue reading →

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CSPA Action Alert

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Bill Jennings

State and Federal Water Contractors Launch Great Water Grab JOIN US FOR A RALLY TO SAVE THE DELTA AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RIVERS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2013 at NOON WEST STEPS OF THE STATE CAPITOL, SACRAMENTO (CAPITOL MALL AND 10TH between … Continue reading →

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Fisheries Plummet, Standards are Violated, Regulators Refuse to Enforce the Law

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Bill Jennings

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) has released the 2013 September-October Fall Mid Water Trawl (FMWT) abundance indices of Delta fish. Fisheries continue to collapse. Delta smelt, striped bass, longfin smelt, American shad and threadfin shad populations in … Continue reading →

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