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CSPA Submits Comments on Grassland Monitoring
On 26 November 2013, CSPA and a coalition of environmental, fishing, environmental justice and tribal organizations submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. EPA on the proposed reduction in monitoring requirements for the Grasslands Bypass Project. The letter accuses the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation of violating…
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CSPA Settles Lawsuit Against Redding Auto Dismantler
CSPA has settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit against Viking Auto Parts, a four-acre vehicle dismantling and automotive parts recycling facility in Redding, for violations of the California General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The lawsuit alleged that the facility discharged polluted stormwater into Redding’s storm drain system, which drains to Churn and Clover Creeks and thence…
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CSPA Settles Modesto Lawsuit
On 13 November 2013, CSPA settled a lawsuit against the City of Modesto over illegal sanitary sewer spills in violation of the City’s Clean Water Act permit. The lawsuit was filed 13 December 2012. The City agreed to enhanced inspection and cleaning protocols and a performance standard of five spills per hundred miles of collection…
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Fisheries Plummet, Standards are Violated, Regulators Refuse to Enforce the Law
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) has released the 2013 September-October Fall Mid Water Trawl (FMWT) abundance indices of Delta fish. Fisheries continue to collapse. Delta smelt, striped bass, longfin smelt, American shad and threadfin shad populations in 2013 have plummeted 98.9, 99.6, 99.7, 89.1 and 98.1 percent, respectively, from the average of…
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CSPA, Coalition Submit Comments on FONSI and Draft EA For Tracy Interim CVP Contract Renewal
On 4 November 2013, CSPA and a coalition of eleven other fishing, environmental and tribal organizations submitted comments on the Find of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Central Valley Project’s water service interim renewal contract for the City of Tracy. The comments point out that the EA: 1)…
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