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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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CSPA, Coalition Requests Moratorium and Review on Trinity River Restoration Program: Wastes Money, Degrades Environment
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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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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CSPA Settles Lawsuit Against West Sacramento Beverage Facility
On 16 January 2014, CSPA settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit against Nor-Cal Beverage Co. Inc., a 10.5 acre beverage manufacturing and distribution facility in West Sacramento, for violations of the federal Clean Water Act and California General Industrial Stormwater … Continue reading
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CSPA, Coalition Submits Comments on Westlands’ Contract Renewals
On 14 January 2014, CSPA and a coalition of environmental and fishing organizations submitted comments on six interim contract renewals for the delivery of 1,192,948 million acre feet of Central Valley Project (CVP) water to Westlands Water District. The comments … Continue reading
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CSPA Sues Waste Transfer Station in San Martin
On 9 January 2014, CSPA filed a lawsuit against Recology, Inc., for substantive and procedural violations of the federal Clean Water Act and California’s General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The lawsuit alleges that Recology’s seven-acre San Martin waste transfer station illegally … Continue reading
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CSPA, Coalition Submit Comments on Proposed Water Transfer
On 21 December 2013, CSPA and a coalition of fishing, environmental and tribal groups submitted comments on the draft Environmental Assessment (DEA) for the proposed water transfer/exchange program from Arvin-Edison Water Storage District to Metropolitan Water District (MET). The project … Continue reading
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CSPA Comments on Groundwater Workplan Concept Paper
On 18 December 2013, CSPA submitted comments on the State Water Resources Control Board’s draft Groundwater Workplan Concept Paper. While generally supporting the papers five management elements, CSPA pointed out that water quality must be measured and the results publically … Continue reading
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Broad Coalition Vows to Stop BDCP
On Friday, 13 December 2013, some 500 people attended a rally at the State Capitol protesting the Bay Delta Conservation Plan as the comment period for the BDCP and environmental documents began. Californians for a Fair Water Policy, a statewide … Continue reading
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Opponents to Rally Against Governor’s Water Export Tunnels as Public Comment Period Begins
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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Campaign Against the Tunnels Launched
On Monday 9 December 2013, CSPA and a broad statewide coalition, operating upper the banner of Californians for a Fair Water Policy, launched a campaign opposing Governor Brown’s water export tunnels. In a press conference on the steps of the … Continue reading
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CSPA Action Alert
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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CSPA, CWIN Submit Comments of Westside San Joaquin River Waste Discharge Requirements for Agricultural Discharges
On 2 December 2013, CSPA submitted extensive comments to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board regarding the proposed waste discharge requirements (WDRs) for pollutant discharges from the Westside San Joaquin River Irrigated Lands Coalition. The WDRs will replace the … Continue reading
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CSPA, Coalition Sue State over Agricultural Pollution
On 27 November 2013, CSPA joined with Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, PCFFA, Otter Project, Environmental Justice Coalition for Water and an elderly woman on a fixed income who cannot drink water from her tap because it is contaminated with agricultural waste … Continue reading
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CSPA Submits Comments on Grassland Monitoring
On 26 November 2013, CSPA and a coalition of environmental, fishing, environmental justice and tribal organizations submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. EPA on the proposed reduction in monitoring requirements … Continue reading
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CSPA Settles Lawsuit Against Redding Auto Dismantler
CSPA has settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit against Viking Auto Parts, a four-acre vehicle dismantling and automotive parts recycling facility in Redding, for violations of the California General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The lawsuit alleged that the facility discharged polluted … Continue reading
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CSPA Settles Modesto Lawsuit
On 13 November 2013, CSPA settled a lawsuit against the City of Modesto over illegal sanitary sewer spills in violation of the City’s Clean Water Act permit. The lawsuit was filed 13 December 2012. The City agreed to enhanced inspection … Continue reading
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Fisheries Plummet, Standards are Violated, Regulators Refuse to Enforce the Law
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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