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CSPA Follows up at State Water Board on Economics, Fisheries and Water Deliveries
February 26, 2015 – In a supplementary filing to the State Water Board, CSPA submitted supporting information in opposition to weakening Delta flow and water quality standards as requested by the Department of Water Resources and the Bureau of Reclamation on January 27. CSPA submitted records showing increases in San Joaquin Valley farm production and income…
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CSPA Back before the State Water Board
February 18, 2015. The State Water Board held a workshop on February 18, 2015 to hear comments on its February 3 Order that relaxed Delta flow and water quality standards in the Delta. The Department of Water Resources, Bureau of Reclamation, and various other water agencies argued for increasing Delta exports even during times of…
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CSPA Opposes Weakening of Delta Standards
February 13, 2015. The State Water Project and Central Valley Project have doubled down on last year’s disastrous rollback of Delta flow and water quality standards. The Department of Water Resources and the Bureau of Reclamation, operators of the state and federal projects, submitted a Temporary Urgency Change Petition to the State Water Board on…
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CSPA and Colleagues Push Back on FERC’s Yuba Analysis
CSPA, as part of the Foothills Water Network coalition, filed comments on February 9 on the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the relicensing of the Yuba-Bear and Drum-Spaulding hydroelectric projects, located in Placer and Nevada counties. CSPA first engaged in 2008 in the process required by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and has been…
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US Fish and Wildlife Service Issues Report Opposing the Enlargement of Shata Dam
Today the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) and the California Water Impact Network (CWIN) issued a media release documenting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s opposition to the Bureau of Reclamation’s proposed $1.1 billion project to enlarge the Shasta Dam. The Bureau of Reclamation is attempting to claim that 61% of the “economic justification” for the…
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