Abstract: Stress on California’s salmon fisheries drives a need for effective temperature management in California’s Sacramento River. Shasta Dam has a temperature control device that enables managers to provide cold discharge ...

Abstract: Originating at Lake Tahoe, the Truckee River provides 85% of drinking water for the Reno/Sparks metropolitan area. Major highways and a railroad run adjacent to the river, which increases risk of a contaminant spill into ...

Abstract: A water‐quality‐data‐management survey of 200 water‐quality agencies in the United States was conducted in 1991. The survey solicited information from each agency regarding the methods of data storage and management used, ...

Abstract: To improve water quality and enhance habitat for fish and wildlife, a restoration project was initiated on the Truckee River at McCarran Ranch, Nevada. A water quality model was parameterized using Hydrologic Simulation ...

Abstract: Recently, the United States Bureau of Reclamation agreed to increase spring releases from Upper Colorado River Basin reservoirs to create a more natural flow regime in the lower Gunnison River and Upper Colorado River. ...

Abstract: Construction of Shasta Dam on the Sacramento River in 1945 prevented anadromous fish from accessing their natural cold-water spawning habitat above the dam and is one of the factors that caused population declines in Chinook ...