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CSPA Issues Notice of Intent to Sue Waste Facility in Windsor
On 23 December 2010, CSPA and the Petaluma River Council (PRA) sent a Notice of Intent to Sue West Coast Metals in Windsor California, for violations of the federal Clean Water Act. The notice letter alleges that the 3-acre facility is illegally discharging polluted stormwater in violation of the substantive and procedural requirements of the…
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CSPA Submits Testimony Opposing Davis/Woodland Water Grab
The City of Davis, University of California Davis and the City of Woodland submitted applications to divert up to 50,000 acre-feet of water annually from the Sacramento River. CSPA protested the applications. The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) has announced it will hold an evidentiary hearing (testimony, cross-examination and rebuttal, all under oath) on…
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CSPA Issues Notice Letter to Red Bluff Millwork for Violations of Prop. 65
On 20 December 2010, CSPA issued a 60-day Notice of Intent to Sue Sierra Pacific Industries’ millwork facility in Red Bluff for violations of California Health & Safety Code Section 25249 (Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986), otherwise known as (Prop. 65). Prop. 65 was passed overwhelmingly by California voters, and among…
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CSPA settles lawsuit against Redding Pipe Manufacturer for illegal pollution
On 15 December 2001, CSPA settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit against Contech Construction Products, Inc. regarding serious violations of the California General Industrial Stormwater Permit. Contech Construction Products’ 33-acre facility in Redding California manufactures culvert pipe and discharges polluted stormwater to Canyon Hallow Creek and the thence the Sacramento River and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
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Sacramento told to cleanup wastewater pollution
Late in the evening of 9 December 2010 and after a 15-hour hearing and extensive testimony, the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board voted to approve a new wastewater discharge permit for the Sacramento Regional County District’s treatment plant. The outdated facility is responsible for inadequately treating over half of the wastewater discharged into…
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