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GAMA Fact
Sheet
By Justin Kulongoski and Kenneth Belitz
This document provides an overview of the Ground-Water
Ambient Monitoring and Assessment Program. It answers the questions:
Who is GAMA?, Why is GAMA important?, What will local agencies
gain from participating?, Study Results and GAMA Program Results
Reporting.
Framework
for a Ground-Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Program for
California
By Kenneth Belitz, Neil M. Dubrovsky, Karen
Burow, Bryant Jurgens, and Tyler Johnson
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), in
cooperation with the SWRCB, and in coordination with an interagency
task force (ITF) and a public advisory committee (PAC), has
developed a framework for a comprehensive ground-water-quality
monitoring and assessment program for California. The proposed
framework relies extensively on previous work conducted by the
USGS through its National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program.
In particular, the NAWQA program defines three types of ground-water
assessment: (1) status, the assessment of the current quality
of the ground-water resource; (2) trends, the detection of changes
in water quality, and (3) understanding, assessing the human
and natural factors that affect ground-water quality.
Downloadable Digital GIS Dataset:
Hydrogeologic Provinces for California based upon established groundwater basins and watershed polygons.
To view or print references you may need to download the following programs
Data Series Reports:
- Bennett, G.L., V, Belitz, Kenneth,Milby Dawson, B.J., 2006,
- California GAMA Program—Ground-water quality data in the northern San Joaquin basin study unit, 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 196, 122 p.
Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2006/196
- Burton, C.A., and Belitz, Kenneth, 2008,
- Ground-water quality data in the southeast San Joaquin Valley, 2005–2006—Results from the California GAMA Program: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 351, 103 p.
Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/351/
- Dawson, B.J., Bennett, G.L., V, and Belitz, Kenneth, 2008,
- Ground-Water Quality Data in the Southern Sacramento Valley, California, 2005—Results from the California GAMA Program: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 285, 93 p.
Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds285
- Ferrari, M.J., Fram, M.S., and Belitz, K., 2008,
- Ground-water quality in the central Sierra study unit, California, 2006: Results from the California GAMA program: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 335, 60 p.
Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/335/
- Fram, M.S., and Belitz, Kenneth, 2007,
- Ground-Water Quality Data in the Southern Sierra Study Unit, 2006—Results from the California GAMA Program: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 301, 78 p.
Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/301
- Kulongoski, J.T., Belitz, Kenneth, and Dawson, B.J., 2006,
- Ground-water quality data in the North San Francisco Bay hydrologic provinces, California, 2004: Results from the California Ground-Water Ambient Monitoring and Assessment(GAMA) Program: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series Report 167, 100 p.
Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/ds167
- Kulongoski, Justin T., and Belitz, Kenneth, 2007,
- Ground-Water Quality Data in the Monterey Bay and Salinas Valley Basins, California, 2005—Results from the California GAMA Program: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 258, 84 p.
Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2007/258
- Land, Michael and Belitz, Kenneth, 2008,
- Ground-water quality data in the San Fernando–San Gabriel study unit, 2005—Results from the California GAMA Program: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 356, 84 p.
Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/356/
- Landon, M.K., and Belitz, Kenneth, 2008,
- Ground-water quality data in the Central Eastside San Joaquin Basin 2006: Results from the California GAMA Program: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 325, 88 p.
Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/325/
- Shelton, J.L., Pimentel, Isabel, Fram, M.S., and Belitz, Kenneth, 2008,
- Ground-water quality data in the Kern County subbasin study unit, 2006—Results from the California GAMA Program: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 337, 75 p.
Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/337/
- Wright, M.T.., Belitz, Kenneth, and Burton, C.A., 2005,
- California GAMA Program—Ground-water quality in the San Diego Drainages hydrogeologic province, California, 2004: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 129, 91 p.
Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2005/129
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