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CSPA and Allied Groups Comment on Merced Relicensing, Request Studies
January 31, 2011. CSPA and a five other conservation and fishing groups have commented on the Initial Study Report in the relicensing of the Merced River Project, and submitted seven requests for new studies. In 2009 and 2010, Merced Irrigation District, the operator of New Exchequer and McSwain dams on the Merced River, used process
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CSPA Joins Broad Coalition in Submitting Comments on Delta Plan EIR
On 27 January 2011, CSPA submitted extensive written scoping comments on the Delta Plan Environmental Impact Report. CSPA also joined the California Water Impact Network and Center for Biological Diversity in preparing and submitting additional comments on the Monterey Plus Amendment. Additionally, CSPA joined the Environmental Water Caucus, a broad coalition of fishing, environmental and
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CSPA Comments on Delta Plan EIR at Stockton Hearing
On 25 January 2011, at a packed public hearing in Stockton California, CSPA’s Executive Director Bill Jennings presented scoping comments for the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) regarding the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Plan. The Delta Plan was mandated by the state legislature, as part of the Delta Reform Act of 2009.
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CSPA Issues Notice of Intent to Sue Recycling Facility in Stockton
On 13 January 2011, CSPA sent a Notice of Intent to Sue Stockton Recycling in Stockton California for violations of the federal Clean Water Act. The notice letter alleges that the two-acre auto salvage and scrap recycling facility illegally discharges polluted stormwater to the city stormwater drainage and thence the San Joaquin River and Delta
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CSPA Comments on Auburn Wastewater Permit Amendment
On 2 January 2011, CSPA submitted comments on the proposal by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board to relax the effluent limits for aluminum in the NPDES permit for the City of Auburn’s wastewater treatment plant.
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