Sacramento NAWQA Publications

Study Design/Study Unit Overview
Cycle I Data Report
Surface Water
Ground Water
Aquatic Ecology
Quality Control
Related Studies

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Study Design/Study Unit Overview Publications

Domagalski, J.L., and Brown, L.R., 1994, National water-quality assessment program: the Sacramento River basin: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 1994-029.

Domagalski, J.L., Knifong, D.L., MacCoy, D.E., Dileanis, P.D., Dawson, B.J., and Majewski, M.S, 1998, Water quality assessment of the Sacramento River Basin, California; environmental setting and study design: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 1997-4254.

Surface Water Publications

Domagalski, J.L., 1996, Pesticide and Degradation Products in Stormwater Runoff: Sacramento River Basin, California: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, vol.32, no. 5, pp. 953-964.

MacCoy, D.E., Crepeau, K.L., and Kuivila, K.M., 1997, Dissolved Pesticide Data for the San Joaquin River at Vernalis and the Sacramento River at Sacramento, California, 1991-94: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 1995-110, 27p.

Domagalski, J.L., 1998, Occurrence and transport of mercury and methyl mercury in the Sacramento River Basin, California: Journal of Geochemical Exploration, vol.64, p.277-291.

Alpers, C.N., Taylor, H.E., Domagalski, J.L., eds., 2000, Metals Transport in the Sacramento River, California, 1996-97: Volume 1: Methods and Data: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 1999-4286, 430p.

Alpers, C.N., Antweiler, R.C., Taylor, H.E., Dileanis, P.D., and Domagalski, J.L., eds., 2000, Metals Transport in the Sacramento River, California, 1996-97: Volume 2: Interpretation of Metal Loads: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4002, 106p.

Domagalski, J.L., 2000, Pesticides in surface water measured at select sites in the Sacramento River basin, California, 1996-1998: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4203, 24p.

Domagalski, J.L., Knifong, D.L., Dileanis, P.D., Brown, L.R., May, J.T., Connor, V., Alpers, C.N., 2000, Water Quality in the Sacramento River Basin, California, 1994-98: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1215, 36p.

Domagalski, J.L., and Dileanis, P.D., 2000, Water-Quality Assessment of the Sacramento River Basin, California: Water Quality of Fixed Sites, 1996-1998: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4247, 60p.

Domagalski, J.L., 2001, Mercury and methylmercury in Water and Sediment of the Sacramento River Basin, California: Applied Geochemistry, vol. 16, p. 1677-1691.

Domagalski, J.L., Alpers, C.N., Slotton, D.G., Suchanek, T.H., and Ayers, S.N., 2004, Mercury and methylmercury Concentrations and Loads in the Cache Creek watershed, California: Science of the Total Environment, vol. 327, p. 215-237.

Saleh, D.K., Domagalski, J.L., Kratzer, C.R., Knifong, D.L., 2003, Organic carbon trends, loads, and yields to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, water years 1980-2000: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4070, 90p.

Ground Water Publications

Shelton, J.L., 2005, Assessment of shallow ground-water quality in recently urbanized areas of Sacramento, California, 1997: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5148, 51p.

Dawson, B.J., 2001, Shallow ground-water quality beneath rice areas in the Sacramento Valley, California, 1997: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4000, 33p.

Dawson, B.J., 2001, Ground-water quality in the southeastern Sacramento Valley aquifer, California, 1996: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4125, 24p.

Aquatic Ecology Publications

MacCoy, D.E.; Domagalski, J.L., 1999, Trace elements and organic compounds in streambed sediment and aquatic biota from the Sacramento River Basin, California, October and November 1995: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 1999-4151, 37p.

Brown, L.R., and May, J.T., 2000, Benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages and their relations with environmental variables in the Sacramento and San Joaquin River drainages, California, 1993-1997: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4125, 25p.

Brown, L.R., and May, J.T., 2000, Macroinvertebrate Assemblages on Woody Debris and Their Relations with Environmental Variables in the Lower Sacramento and San Joaquin River Drainages, California: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, vol. 64, p. 311-329.

May, J.T., and Brown, L.R., 2000, Fish Community Structure in Relation to Environmental Variables Within the Sacramento River Basin and Implications for the Greater Central Valley, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2000-247, 19p.

May, J.T., and Brown, L.R., 2001, Fish communities of the Sacramento River Basin: implications for conservation of native fishes in the Central Valley, California: Environmental Biology of Fishes, vol. 63, p. 373–388.

Quality Control Publications

Munday, C.M., and Domagalski, J.L., 2003, Quality-control results for ground-water and surface-water data, Sacramento River Basin, California, National Water-Quality Assessment, 1996-1998: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4201, 54p.

Related Study Publications

Domagalski, Joseph; Xinquan, Zhou; Chao, Lin; Deguo, Zhi; Chi, Fan Lan; Kaitai, Xu; Ying, Lu; Yang, Luo; Shide, Liu; Dewen, Liu; Yong, Guo; Qi, Tian; Jing, Liu; Weidong, Yu; Shedlock, Robert; Knifong, Donna, 2001, Comparative water-quality assessment of the Hai He River basin in the People's Republic of China and three similar basins in the United States: U.S. Geological Professional Paper 1647, 58p.

Cycle I Data Report

Domagalski, J.L., Dileanis, P.D., Knifong, D.L., Munday, C.M., May, J.T., Dawson, B.J., Shelton, J.L., Alpers, C.N., 2000, Water-quality Assessment of the Sacramento River Basin, California, Water-Quality, Sediment and Tissue Chemistry, and Biological Data, 1995-1998: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2000-391.