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CSPA, Coalition Oppose Reduction in Grasslands Selenium Monitoring
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) and a coalition of fishing and environmental organizations sent an 11 August 2001 joint letter vigorously opposing efforts to reduce monitoring of selenium and other contaminates discharged from the Grasslands Bypass Project. Earlier this year, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced that it would no longer conduct water quality
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CSPA settles lawsuit against Butte County Landfill
On 10 August 2011, CSPA settled a lawsuit against Butte County’s Neal Road Landfill and Recycling Facility for violations of the federal Clean Water Act. The 187-acre landfill in Chico is used to dispose of municipal solid and industrial waste and discharges pollutants to Butte Creek, which drains to the Sacramento River and ultimately to
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CSPA Issues Notices of Intent to Sue Five Rancho Cordova Auto Dismantling and Recycling Facilities
On 5 August 2011, CSPA sent Notices of Intent to Sue five auto dismantling and recycling facilities in Rancho Cordova California for violations of the federal Clean Water Act. All of the facilities are owned and operated by Specialized Parts Planet, Inc. The notice letters allege that each of the facilities is illegally discharging polluted
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Mass Frog Mortality on NF Feather River
PG&E operators on the North Fork Feather River have destroyed virtually all of 2011’s viable frog eggs on the NF Feather River below the Poe hydroelectric dam. On June 30, 2011, PG&E operators reduced the flow in the NF Feather below Poe Dam to about 114 cubic feet per second (cfs). In the last half
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Comments on Regional Board proposed dairy monitoring plan
CSPA joined Clean Water Action, Food & Water Watch and Community Water Center in submitting comments on the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board’s proposed monitoring plan for dairies. Pollutants discharged by milk cow dairies have impaired groundwater throughout the Central Valley. In some areas of the Central Valley, more than 20% of small
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