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CSPA Settles Lawsuit Against Sacramento Concrete Facility
On 14 September 2014, CSPA settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit against Jensen Precast for violations of the California General Industrial Stormwater Permit. Jensen Precast operates a concrete product manufacturing and fabrication facility in Sacramento, California. The lawsuit alleged that the facility discharged polluted stormwater into Magpie Creek, which flows to Steelhead Creek, which discharges
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CSPA, Coalition Issue Comments on BDCP Scoping Process
On 10 September 2014, CSPA, Friends of the River, the Environmental Water Caucus and California Water Impact Network sent a letter regarding the scoping process for recirculated Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) documents. BDCP announced that it would shortly announce the scope of documents to be recirculated in the near future. The Coalition pointed out
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CSPA, Coalition Submits Information to Regional Board on Grassland Bypass Project
On 8 September 2014, CSPA and a Coalition of environmental and fishing groups, responding to a request by Central Valley Regional Board Chair Karl Longley, provided information on the estimated reduction in discharges of drainage, salt, selenium and boron from permanent land retirement of the impaired irrigated lands on the Westside of the San Joaquin
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CSPA, Coalition Submit Comments on BDCP Reasonable Range of Alternatives
On 4 September 2014, CSPA, Friends of the River, the Environmental Water Caucus and California Water Impact Network sent a letter regarding consideration of a reasonable range of alternative in any recirculated draft Plan, EIR/EIS and Implementing Agreement for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). In response to thousands of highly critical comments, BDCP announced
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CSPA Releases 14-Point Analysis/Opposition to Water Bond
On 3 September 2014, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) released a 14-Point Analysis and Statement of Opposition to the Proposition 1 Water Bond that is on the 4 November 2014 ballot. The $7.5 billion Bond includes $2.7 billion for new dams and is a serious threat to the Delta and Central Valley rivers and
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