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CSPA joins Foothill Conservancy and FOR in asking DWR to not certify EBMUD’s Urban Water Management Plan
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), Foothill Conservancy and Friends of the River (FOR) have asked the California Department of Water Resources not to certify East Bay Municipal Utility District’s (EBMUD) Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP). The 23 page 12 attachment document outlines numerous examples where EBMUD’s plan is not in conformity with explicit requirements…
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Waterboard admits it has no water quality data in Battle Creek watershed
Responding to a CSPA Public Records Act (PRA) request, the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board was forced to admit it had never conducted water quality monitoring in the Battle Creek watershed, wasn’t in possession of any data from Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) alleged monitoring program and had never ordered SPI to provide information…
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CSPA Press Release
For comment please contact: Bill Jennings, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, 209-938-9053 and/or Carolee Krieger, California Water Impact Network, 805-969-0824 After a federal study warns San Joaquin River’s toxic agricultural wastewater load too high, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation bans representatives of fishing and environmental groups from meetings of agency team tasked with monitoring toxic discharges. Groups issue joint letter…
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CSPA submits comments on draft economic sustainability plan for the Delta
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) has provided comments on the second administrative draft of the Delta Protection Commission’s (Commission) draft economic Sustainability Plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. CSPA attended a 24 August workshop, reviewed the draft plan and submitted written comments on 2 September 2001.
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CSPA Sues Metal Recycling Facility in Modesto
On 31 August 2011, CSPA filed a lawsuit against A&S Metals in Modesto California for substantive and procedural violations of the federal Clean Water Act and the state’s General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The site is a metal recycling facility that discharges pollutants into the Modesto Storm Drain System, which flows into the Tuolumne River, thence…
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