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Chris Shutes – Recipient of 2023 Mark Dubois Award from Friends of the River
Chris Shutes, Executive Director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, was a recipient of the 2023 Mark Dubois Award at the California River Awards held on April 21, 2023 at the City Club in San Francisco. Friends of the River … Continue reading
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Reckless Water Transfer Would Further Jeopardize Fisheries in 2021 & 2022
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, California Water Impact Network, and AquAlliance filed comments to the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) on July 16, 2021 in opposition to the proposed water transfer of up to 100,000 acre-feet of … Continue reading
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CSPA Protests State Water Board’s Protection of Irrigated Agriculture at the Expense of Fisheries and the Environment
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) and allies have vigorously protested two recent actions by the State Water Resources Control Board that virtually ensure a repeat of the last drought, when the Board’s disastrous decisions decimated multiple year classes of … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Jennings, Enforcement, Fisheries, Miscellaneous, State Board Bay-Delta Standards, Water Quality, Water Rights
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The First Law of Holes Is: Stop Digging.
Water in California is overallocated and overappropriated. Too much is promised, too much is delivered, and not enough is left in rivers and in the ground. The result is ecosystem collapse, sinking land and dry wells, and dying communities in … Continue reading
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Calaveras River Plan Takes 14 Years to Keep All the Water
On November 14, 2019, CSPA filed comments critical of a new Habitat Conservation Plan for the Calaveras River and also filed comments critical of a supporting environmental review document.[1] Stockton East Water District (Stockton East) and the National Marine Fisheries … Continue reading
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Opposing AB 313 – Negatively Effects State Water Control Board Water Rights Hearings
On July 5th, CSPA joined with other environmental organizations in opposing AB 313 which would impede the orderly administration of water rights in California. It threatens water rights holders, California’s rivers and fisheries and the communities and jobs that depend … Continue reading
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CSPA, Coalition Submits Multiple Comments on Stewardship Council’s Revision of the Delta Plan
The Delta Stewardship Council is in the process of revising the Delta Plan and related environmental documents following the successful litigation by CSPA and others in vacating the previous Plan. Unfortunately, the Council is again ignoring the strict requirements for … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Jennings, California Delta, Fisheries, No Tunnels Campaign, Water Quality, Water Rights
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CSPA Joins With Others in Protesting Westland’s Lobbyist Appointment as Deputy Secretary of Interior
The Trump Administration has appointed David Bernhardt as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Interior. Mr. Bernhardt was a former Interior Solicitor and has been a lobbyist for Westlands Water District. He is a registered lobbyist for Westlands and a … Continue reading
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Broad Coalition Says Hit the Brakes on Centennial Dam
CSPA has joined a broad coalition in recommending that the Army Corps of Engineers delay work on an Environmental Impact Statement for Centennial Dam, proposed for construction by Nevada Irrigation District on the Bear River near Colfax. A Comment Letter … Continue reading
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CSPA Submits Rebuttal Testimony in Part I of WaterFix Hearing
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance et al. (CSPA, CWIN and AquAlliance) joined the County of San Joaquin and Local Agencies of the North Delta in submitting rebuttal testimony in Part I of the State Water Resource Control Board’s (SWRCB) evidentiary … Continue reading
Posted in Bay Delta Conservation Plan, Bill Jennings, California Delta, Fisheries, No Tunnels Campaign, State Board Bay-Delta Standards, Water Quality, Water Rights
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Chris Shutes Named “Restorationist of the Year”
The Salmonid Restoration Federation (https://www.calsalmon.org/) named Chris Shutes – me – “Restorationist of the Year” on the concluding day of its 2017 annual conference in Davis. It is recognition that I did not expect and that I value very greatly. … Continue reading
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Sites Reservoir: Many Promises, Many Problems
On November 17, 2016, CSPA’s Water Rights Advocate Chris Shutes joined a panel discussion on the proposed Sites Reservoir. The panel was held at a conference in Chico produced by the north state non-profit AquAlliance, and also featured Jim Watson … Continue reading
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CSPA and Allies Protest Water Rights Application for Big New Dam
CSPA and allied groups in the Foothills Water Network (FWN) filed an extensive protest of Nevada Irrigation District’s (NID) application to construct a large new dam on the Bear River near Colfax. FWN protested the application for “Centennial Reservoir” on … Continue reading
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CSPA Submits Testimony and Exhibits for State Water Board Hearings on Delta Tunnels
CSPA is a formal protestant and party of record in the continuing battle over the Department of Water Resources (DWR) and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s (USBR) scheme to construct twin tunnels to divert the Sacramento River under the Delta to … Continue reading
Posted in Bay Delta Conservation Plan, Bill Jennings, California Delta, Fisheries, State Board Bay-Delta Standards, Water Quality, Water Rights
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CSPA Objects to Reduced San Joaquin River Flows
CSPA and allied groups California Water Impact Network and AquAlliance have filed an Objection to an April 19, 2016 Order that allows reductions of April-June flows in the lower San Joaquin River from the flows required in Water Rights Decision … Continue reading
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Coalition Sets High Bar for Analysis of Proposed Dam
CSPA and allies in the Foothills Water Network submitted 25 pages of comments today on the analysis Nevada Irrigation District (NID) must perform to inform decision making about a proposed new dam on the Bear River. NID’s proposes to build … Continue reading
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Give Voters the Opportunity to Vote on the Multi-Billion Dollar Delta Tunnels
On April 13, 2016, CSPA joined a coalition of environmental and fishing groups to send a letter to California assembly member Susan Eggman in support of Assembly Bill 1713. The bill would prohibit the construction of any infrastructure like the … Continue reading
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CSPA Says “NO” to Privatizing the Public Trust
Oral Comments of Chris Shutes, CSPA Water Rights Advocate, to the State Water Resources Control Board, April 5, 2016. Item 9: 2016 Operation of New Melones Reservoir on the Stanislaus River [based on notes as read; exact delivery was slightly … Continue reading
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CSPA Persists in Challenging the Broken Delta Tunnels Project
Following a petition by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and US Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) requesting to further delay the “Change in Point of Diversion” hearings, CSPA and a broad collation of environmental and water agency groups has … Continue reading
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CSPA Formally Protests Delta Tunnels to State Water Board
On 5 January 2016, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) filed a formal protest of the WaterFix Project petition to change the point of diversion for the State Water Project (SWP) and Central Valley Project (CVP) WaterFix Project that was … Continue reading
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