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CSPA, CWIN Submit Comments of Westside San Joaquin River Waste Discharge Requirements for Agricultural Discharges
On 2 December 2013, CSPA submitted extensive comments to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board regarding the proposed waste discharge requirements (WDRs) for pollutant discharges from the Westside San Joaquin River Irrigated Lands Coalition. The WDRs will replace the present “agricultural waivers” and are intended to regulate pollutant discharges from some 500,000 acres of
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CSPA, Coalition Sue State over Agricultural Pollution
On 27 November 2013, CSPA joined with Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, PCFFA, Otter Project, Environmental Justice Coalition for Water and an elderly woman on a fixed income who cannot drink water from her tap because it is contaminated with agricultural waste and filed a lawsuit against the State Water Resources Control Board in Sacramento Superior Court.
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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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