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Mass Frog Mortality on NF Feather River
PG&E operators on the North Fork Feather River have destroyed virtually all of 2011’s viable frog eggs on the NF Feather River below the Poe hydroelectric dam. On June 30, 2011, PG&E operators reduced the flow in the NF Feather below Poe Dam to about 114 cubic feet per second (cfs). In the last half…
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Comments on Regional Board proposed dairy monitoring plan
CSPA joined Clean Water Action, Food & Water Watch and Community Water Center in submitting comments on the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board’s proposed monitoring plan for dairies. Pollutants discharged by milk cow dairies have impaired groundwater throughout the Central Valley. In some areas of the Central Valley, more than 20% of small…
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CSPA joins Clean Water Network in opposing dirty water bill
CSPA has joined 280 national, regional, state and local organizations around the country in opposing the so-called Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011 (H.R. 2018), which passed the U.S. House of Representatives without any legislative hearings. This “dirty water bill” would strip away long-standing protections provided by the Clean Water Act by preventing the…
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CSPA Comments on EPA and Army Corps Guidance Regarding Waters Protected by the Clean Water Act
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) and a coalition of fishing and environmental organizations submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers urging the agencies to finalize the proposed Guidance Regarding Identification of Water Protected by the Clean Water Act and undertake a formal rulemaking process. The proposed Guidance…
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CSPA settles lawsuit against West Sacramento recycling facility for illegal pollution
On 19 July 2011, CSPA settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit against International Paper Company’s West Sacramento recycling facility regarding serious violations of the California General Industrial Stormwater Permit. The facility is a 5-acre paper and scrap materials recycling operation that discharges polluted stormwater to the Eastern Canal of the Sacramento River and Sacramento-San Joaquin…
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