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CSPA Comments on EPA and Army Corps Guidance Regarding Waters Protected by the Clean Water Act
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) and a coalition of fishing and environmental organizations submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers urging the agencies to finalize the proposed Guidance Regarding Identification of Water Protected by the Clean Water Act and undertake a formal rulemaking process. The proposed Guidance
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CSPA settles lawsuit against West Sacramento recycling facility for illegal pollution
On 19 July 2011, CSPA settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit against International Paper Company’s West Sacramento recycling facility regarding serious violations of the California General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The facility is a 5-acre paper and scrap materials recycling operation that discharges polluted stormwater to the Eastern Canal of the Sacramento River and Sacramento-San Joaquin
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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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