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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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CSPA, Coalition Submit Comments on Central Valley Project Interim Renewal Contracts
On 1 November 2013, CSPA and a coalition of nine other organizations submitted comments to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation regarding the proposed interim renewal contracts for water delivery from the Central Valley Protect to Westlands Water District (incl. Widren, Centinella, Broadview Mercy Springs), City of Tracy (incl. West Side & Banta-Carbona) and Pajaro Valley
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CSPA Report: The Loss of VAMP’s Export Limitations
CSPA has released a report detailing the impacts to delta smelt and salmon from the demise of the mid-April – mid-May limits on Delta exports. The export restrictions were part of the Vernalis Adaptive Management Program (VAMP) and served to help protect out-migrating San Joaquin River salmon from being drawn to the export facilities during
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