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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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As Delta Smelt Plummets Towards Extinction, New Rules Allow Increased Kill
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) and California Water Impact Network (CWIN) issued a press release on Monday, January 26, 2015 criticizing a decision that will allow government pumps to kill twice as many endangered Delta smelt than was previously permitted. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved the Bureau of Reclamation’s request to increase the
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Irrigation Districts Agree to Study Tuolumne River Fish Passage
Modesto Irrigation District and Turlock Irrigation District, owners and operators of the La Grange and Don Pedro hydroelectric projects on the Tuolumne River, agreed November 21 to conduct studies related to passing salmon and steelhead past both projects. The Districts filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) an “Updated Study Plan” for the licensing
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