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Effects of Flow Diversions on Water and Habitat Quality: Examples from California's Highly Manipulated Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta [PDF]
San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 2007 We use selected monitoring data to illustrate how localized water diversions from seasonal barriers, gate operations, and export pumps alter water quality across the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (California).
Nancy E. Monsen +2 more
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Losses of Sacramento River Chinook Salmon and Delta Smelt to Entrainment in Water Diversions in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta [PDF]
San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 2008 Pumping at the water export facilities in the southern Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta kills fish at and near the associated fish-salvage facilities.
Wim J. Kimmerer
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Evaluating the Aquatic Habitat Potential of Flooded Polders in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta [PDF]
San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 2017 https://doi.org/10.15447/sfews.2017v15iss4art4Large tracts of land in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are subsided due to agricultural practices, creating polders up to 10 m below sea level that are vulnerable to flooding.
John R. Durand
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Levee Decisions and Sustainability for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta [PDF]
San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 2010 California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has fragile levees subject to several trends that make them increasingly prone to failure. To assess the likely extent of Delta island flooding, this study presents an economic decision analysis approach for ...
Robyn J Suddeth, Jeff Mount, Jay R Lund
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Concentrations, Loads, and Associated Trends of Nutrients Entering the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, California [PDF]
, 2021 Statistical modeling of water-quality data collected at the Sacramento River at Freeport and San Joaquin River near Vernalis, California, USA, was used to examine trends in concentrations and loads of various forms of dissolved and particulate nitrogen ...
Domagalski, Joseph, Saleh, Dina
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Looking At A New Strategy to Save the Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta [PDF]
, 2012 Water supply, flood control, and environmental management are fundamental challenges for the western United States. California’s unique development patterns, with nearly 20 million of its residents living in water starved southern California, has ...
Fredenburg, Julia, Fredenburg, Robert
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Analysis of the Tidal Range in the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta from 1857 to Present [PDF]
, 2020 The Sacramento San Joaquin Delta has been highly altered by human activity since the mid-1800s from mining, agriculture, dredging, and urbanization. Did the resulting modifications to channel width, depth, and length alter tidal range in the Sacramento ...
Szlemp, Elena
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New equations estimate evapotranspiration in Delta
California Agriculture, 1995 The San Joaquin-Sacramento river delta plays a critical role in California water issues, but little information about potential evapotranspiration (ET) in the region is available for water resources planning and development.
M Orang, M Grismer, H Ashktorab
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Indigenous societies along the temperate Pacific coast of North America embody diverse cultural institutions. This variation is conventionally classified into two distinct cultural areas: the Northwest Coast (NWC) and California (CAL). Discussion of the environmental, material, social, and ideological variation in these societies has a long and ...
Eric Alden Smith, Brian F. Codding
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Toxins, 2020 Harmful cyanobacterial blooms compromise human and environmental health, mainly due to the cyanotoxins they often produce. Microcystins (MCs) are the most commonly measured group of cyanotoxins and are hepatotoxic, neurotoxic, and cytotoxic.
Melissa Bolotaolo +6 more
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