Contacts:

Bill Jennings, CSPA Executive Director: 209-464-5067, Cell 209-938-9053, deltakeep@aol.com

Erin Ganahl, Environmental Law Foundation, 510-208-4555, Cell 510-898-8620 eganahl@envirolaw.org

Michael Lozeau, Lozeau/Drury LLP, 510-749-9102-2#, Cell 415-596-5318, michael@lozeaudrury.com
 

http://www.calsport.org/6-18-09b.htm
 

Permit authorizes massive increase in pollutants discharged to degraded Delta

 Stockton, CA – Thursday, June 18, 2009 --  Today, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) and the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) filed a lawsuit against the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board) for issuing a permit to the City of Tracy allowing increased discharges of polluted wastewater to the seriously degraded Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The Complaint, filed in Sacramento Superior Court, alleges the Regional Board failed to comply with fundamental state and federal antidegradation requirements in issuing the Tracy wastewater discharge permit.

“The Tracy permit is a poster-child of the state’s failure to comply with laws designed to protect the water quality and fisheries of the Delta,” said CSPA Executive Director Bill Jennings.