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CSPA Talks Hydropower Relicensing at Water Agency Conference
Chris Shutes, CSPA’s hydropower advocate, gave a presentation about hydropower relicensing at the conference of the Association of California Water Agencies on May 10, 2017, in Monterey. He appeared as part of a panel that included the relicensing leads for a water agency and an irrigation district, as well as a hydropower relicensing manager from
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CSPA, FOR and Others Request Release of Information and Public Involvement at Oroville
CSPA joined Friends of the River and three other groups in an April 19, 2017 clarification and public process request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) concerning repairs of the damaged spillway works at Oroville Reservoir. The letter asks FERC to release as much information to the public about damage, plans and repairs as
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CSPA Submits Comments on Amendments to Central Valley Water Quality Control Plan
On 14 April 2017, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) submitted extensive comments on proposed amendments to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board’s (Regional Board) Water Quality Control Plan for the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys (Basin Plan). The proposed amendments address salinity limits in the San Joaquin River upstream of Vernalis. CSPA
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Broad Coalition Says Hit the Brakes on Centennial Dam
CSPA has joined a broad coalition in recommending that the Army Corps of Engineers delay work on an Environmental Impact Statement for Centennial Dam, proposed for construction by Nevada Irrigation District on the Bear River near Colfax. A Comment Letter submitted on April 10, 2017 under the banner of the Foothills Water Network is also
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CSPA Submits Rebuttal Testimony in Part I of WaterFix Hearing
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance et al. (CSPA, CWIN and AquAlliance) joined the County of San Joaquin and Local Agencies of the North Delta in submitting rebuttal testimony in Part I of the State Water Resource Control Board’s (SWRCB) evidentiary hearing on the California Waterfix project proposed by the Department of Water Resources (DWR) and
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