Contaminants
Contaminants
Contaminants can refer to the many different kinds of chemicals, including industrial pollutants, agricultural products, and household waste, that make it into lakes and rivers. Such chemicals can have a detrimental effect on the drinking water supply, as well as fish and other aquatic species. Contaminants have also been shown to bioaccumulate up the food web - putting even non-aquatic species at
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Low Intensity Chemical Dosing (LICD)
Rivers, wetlands, and agricultural operations supply natural organic material to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) and the San Francisco Estuary. This natural organic matter provides many ecosystem benefits, but it also adversely affects drinking water. During drinking water treatment, chlorine added for purposes of pathogen control reacts with dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the water to...
Role Nutrients Play in Fish Death Rates at Rodeo Lagoon
Scientists investigate excessive nutients levels in Rodeo Lagoon that are believed to be cause of dying fish
Ground-Water Nitrate and Organic Carbon Inputs to the Lower San Joaquin River
This proposal addresses drinking water and aquatic habitat issues associated with nitrate and organic carbon in the lower San Joaquin River (SJR).
Analysis of Factors Causing Mercury Impairment in Water Bodies of the Sierra Nevada, California
The SWRCB has requested assistance from the USGS in analyzing the factors that control Hg concentrations in fish tissue in the Sierra Nevada. Specifically, the SWRCB wants to know whether Hg and (or) MeHg in bed sediment and (or) suspended sediment could be potentially useful in the future as a 303(d) listing criteria. The SWRCB has requested that the USGS perform an analysis of existing data for...
Improved Monitoring of Water Quality and Pelagic Organism Decline in the Delta with Continuous In Situ Sensor Measurements
Newly-developed, commercially-available sensors permit real-time collection of water quality data that may help identify ecosystem processes that affect the health of pelagic food webs in the Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta. In particular, the simultaneous measurement of nutrients, organic matter and algal abundance along with the basic water quality variables such as temperature and salinity -...
Sources of Microbial Contamination at Public Beaches, Santa Barbara
The focus of this study is on analysis of existing hydrologic, chemical, and microbiological data; collection of surface-water and shallow ground-water hydrologic, chemical, and microbiological data; and characterization of dissolved organic carbon composition.