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CSPA Sues Metal Services Facility in Ripon
On 21 October 2013, CSPA filed a lawsuit against Guntert Sales & Zimmerman in Ripon California for substantive and procedural violations of the federal Clean Water Act and the state’s General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The facility is used for the processing, fabrication and storage of various sheet metals and metal products and discharges polluted stormwater
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CSPA intervenes in lawsuits against FERC
CSPA and five other organizations have intervened in two lawsuits against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) concerning FERC’s jurisdiction over La Grange Dam on the Tuolumne River. The lawsuits contest FERC’s July 19, 2013 Order on La Grange, and FERC’s earlier Order of December 18, 2012, that require Turlock Irrigation District (TID) to initiate
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CSPA Joins in Comments Opposing BDCP
On 7 October 2013, the Environmental Water Caucus (EWC), an organization of 34 environmental, fishing and tribal groups addressing water issues in California, including CSPA, issued a letter formally opposing the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). The letter was sent to NOAA Fisheries, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Environmental
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CSPA Analysis Reveals Water Project Operations Butchered Delta Smelt in the Summer of 2013
Operation of the state and federal export projects led to a massive kill of endangered Delta smelt in early July 2013. CSPA has released a report, prepared by its consultant Thomas Cannon, chronicling this needless massacre of Delta smelt. The situation parallels the conditions during the Pelagic Organism Decline and record low smelt indices early
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Fish Predation Final Report Released: Cannot Identify Predators as Cause of Salmon Decline
For years, water contractors have been attempting to deflect attention from the massive fish carnage at the state and federal export pumping facilities by blaming striped bass and predators for the demise of salmon and Delta smelt fisheries. In 2008, the Coalition for a Sustainable Delta, a misnamed group funded by water contractors, filed suit
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