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CSPA, Coalition Submit Comments on State Board Trash Control Amendments
On 5 August 2014, CSPA joined a coalition on environmental organization in commenting on the State Water Resource Control Board’s proposed amendments to the Statewide Water Quality Control Plans to Control Trash. Trash impairs the health of both humans and aquatic life and is a growing threat to the chemical, physical and biological integrity of
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CSPA’s Assessment of Historical Habitat Restoration in the Delta
The Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) proposes to create approximately 150,000 acres of habitat in the Delta to compensate for the diversion of another 2.5 million-acre-feet (MAF) of water around the estuary. This newly restored habitat would be in addition to the 223,902 acres of existing conservation lands within the Delta. Since the foundation of
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CSPA Issues Notice of Intent to Sue Sonoma Industrial Facility
On 31 July 2014, CSPA sent a Notice of Intent to Soiland Co., Inc. for violations of the substantive and procedural requirements of the federal Clean Water Act and California’s General Industrial Stormwater Permit. Soiland Inc. operates a 30-acre industrial facility, operating under the name of “Soils Plus” in Sonoma California, that discharges polluted stormwater
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CSPA Submits BDCP Comments
On 28 July 2014, CSPA submitted comments on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and associated EIR/EIS. The comments were focused on the various conservation elements, including the twin tunnels that will divert an average of 2.5 million acre feet of Sacramento River under the Delta for export to southern California. CSPA’s comments also focused
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CSPA Proposes High Spring Flows in Merced River
CSPA and a coalition of environmental and fishing groups filed extensive comments and recommendations on July 22 in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s relicensing of the Merced River Project on the Merced River. The filing makes recommendations for flows in the lower Merced River, fish passage, gravel augmentation, placement of large wood, stocking of fish
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