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CSPA settles lawsuit against Red Bluff waste combustion facility for illegal pollution
On 19 July 2011, CSPA settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit against Siemens Water Technologies Corporation’s Red Bluff solid waste combustion facility regarding serious violations of the California General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The 22-acre facility receives, stores and/or disposes of industrial and hazardous wastes and discharges polluted stormwater to unnamed drainages that flow into the…
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CSPA Joins New Effort to Stop Pardee Dam Raise
Round two of the campaign to stop a raise of Pardee Dam has begun. In Jackson (Amador County) last night, CSPA presented scoping comments and accompanying photos, asking the East Bay Municipal Utilities District to remove the dam raise from its alternatives for managing its long term dry year water supply needs.
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CSPA Appeals Agricultural Waiver and EIR
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) and California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) have appealed the extension of the Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program (ILRP) Waiver and the ILRP Program Environmental Impact Report (EIR) adopted by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board) to the State Water Resources Control Board (State Board). The “waiver”…
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Carnage at the Predator Pumps Continues Unabated
The horrific counts of pelagic and anadromous fish “consumed” by the predator water export pumping facilities continue unabated. As of 11 June 2011, 8,830,515 splittail, 246,833 striped bass, 33,822 large mouth bass, 35,435 salmon, 60,822 bluegill, 50, 634 white catfish, 17,514 channel catfish, 44,011 threadfin shad, 65,763 American shad and 1,614 steelhead had been documented…
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CSPA Major Enforcer of CWA in California
The State Water Resource Control Board’s Office of Enforcement has released a report titled Citizen Suit Enforcement Under the Federal Clean Water Act. The report analyzes citizen suits based upon Notices of Intent to Sue issued between March 2009 and June 2010. During that period, 15 organizations instituted 70 citizen enforcement actions. CSPA was responsible…
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