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CSPA Joins Environmental Justice Coalition to Request Restart of the BDCP Comment Period
On 30 May 2014, CSPA joined the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water in requesting a restart of the BDCP comment period. The BDCP comment period extension was requested because agencies failed to provide meaningful access and participation for California’s limited English speakers and low income communities. The request points to forty-seven significant and unavoidable adverse
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CSPA Sues Ready Mix Concrete Facility in Lincoln
On 21 May 2014, CSPA filed a lawsuit against Sue Syar Concrete, LLC, which operates a ready mix concrete facility in Lincoln California. The facility discharges pollutants to Markham Ravine, which flows into Auburn Ravine and ultimately the Sacramento River. The lawsuit alleges that the facility: 1) discharges pollutants in violation of the federal Clean
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CSPA Sues Sacramento Concrete Manufacturing Facility
On 21 May 2014, CSPA filed a lawsuit against Jensen Precast for violations of the substantive and procedural requirements of the federal Clean Water Act and California’s General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The 12-acre Sacramento concrete facility discharges polluted stormwater to Magpie Creek, which then flows to Steelhead Creek, the Natomas East Main Drainage, and ultimately to
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CSPA Files Lawsuit Against Sacramento Auto Recycler
On 21 May 2014, CSPA filed a lawsuit against Pick-N-Pull Auto Dismantlers for violations of the substantive and procedural requirements of the federal Clean Water Act and California’s General Industrial Stormwater Permit. Pick-N-Pull operates a 15-acre automobile dismantling facility on Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento California that discharges polluted stormwater to the municipal storm sewer system
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CSPA Submits Comments on State Board Attack on Water Rights System
On 19 May 2014, CSPA and CWIN submitted comments for the State Water Resource Control Board’s (Board) workshop on options for drought related curtailments of post-1914 water rights in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The Board has proposed a series of options on how to restrict diversions of water from streams during the drought. A
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