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Planning and design of studies for river-quality assessment in the Truckee and Carson River basins, California and Nevada

Open-File Report 80-435
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr80435

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Abstract

The objectives of the Geological Survey 's river-quality assessment in the Truckee and Carson River basins in California and Nevada are to identify the significant resource management problems; to develop techniques to assess the problems; and to effectively communicate results to responsible managers. Six major elements of the assessment to be completed by October 1981 are (1) a detailing of the legal, institutional, and structural development of water resources in the basins and the current problems and conflicts; (2) a compilation and synthesis of the physical hydrology of the basins; (3) development of a special workshop approach to involve local management in the direction and results of the study; (4) development of a comprehensive streamflow model emcompassing both basins to provide a quantitative hydrologic framework for water-quality analysis; (5) development of a water-quality transport model for selected constituents and characteristics on selected reaches of the Truckee River; and (6) a detailed examination of selected fish habitats for specified reaches of the Truckee River. Progress will be periodically reported in reports, maps, computer data files, mathematical models, a bibliography, and public presentations. In building a basic framework to develop techniques, the basins were viewed as a single hydrologic unit because of interconnecting diversion structures. The framework comprises 13 hydrographic subunits to facilitate modeling and sampling. Several significant issues beyond the scope of the assessment were considered as supplementary proposals; water-quality loadings in Truckee and Carson Rivers, urban runoff in Reno and management alternatives, and a model of limnological processes in Lahontan Reservoir. (USGS)

Suggested Citation

Nowlin, J.O., Brown, W., Smith, L.H., Hoffman, R., 1980, Planning and design of studies for river-quality assessment in the Truckee and Carson River basins, California and Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-435, vii, 81 p. , https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr80435.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Planning and design of studies for river-quality assessment in the Truckee and Carson River basins, California and Nevada
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 80-435
DOI 10.3133/ofr80435
Year Published 1980
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Description vii, 81 p.
Country United States
State California, Nevada
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