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CSPA Settles Lawsuit Against Stockton Manufacturing Facility
CSPA has settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit against QBR Brake, Inc., for violations of the California General Industrial Stormwater Permit. QBR Brake operates a brake manufacturing facility in Stockton California. The lawsuit alleged that the facility discharged polluted stormwater into Stockton’s storm drain system and thence into the San Joaquin River and Delta. The
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CSPA Settles Lawsuit Against Salinas Waste and Recycling Facility
CSPA has settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit against the Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority for violations of the California General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The Salinas Valley Solid Waste operates a 6.75-acre waste transfer and recycling facility in Salinas, California. The lawsuit alleged that the facility discharged polluted stormwater into the Salinas Reclamation Canal, which
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CSPA and conservation allies fight for fish passage past Tuolumne River dams
For the past five years, CSPA and allied conservation groups have been stymied in efforts to require study of fish passage in important hydropower relicensings in California. Licensees on the Merced and Tuolumne rivers have argued that their own agricultural irrigation diversions dams downstream of the huge dams that store water for these diversions were
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CSPA Submits Comments on Delta Plan EIR
CSPA joined with the California Water Impact Network and AquAlliance in filing extensive comments on the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Plan and Revised Draft Delta Plan Program Environmental Impact Report. The highly critical comments said that the environmental document failed to: provide an adequate project description, adequately disclose the environmental setting, provide an adequate impact
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CSPA Settles Lawsuit Against Linden Fertilizer Facility
CSPA has settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit against The Scotts Company for violations of the California General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The Scotts Company operates a fertilizer manufacturing facility in Linden, California. The lawsuit alleged that the facilities discharged polluted stormwater into Potter Creek, which flow into the Calaveras River and ultimately the Delta. The
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