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  • Interagency Ecological Program: Water quality, fish, phytoplankton, clams and zooplankton monitoring to support the Summer-Fall Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Gates Action 2018-2020
  • Hartman, Rosemary Kay; Environmental Program Manager; California Department of Water Resources
    Rasmussen, Nicholas; Senior Environmental Scientist (Specialist); California Department of Water Resources
    Wells, Elizabeth; Environmental Scientist; California Department of Water Resources
    Stewart, Alan Jamel; Water Resources Engineer; California Department of Water Resources
    Burdi, Christina E; Environmental Scientist; California Department of Fish and Wildlife
    Sommer, Ted; Lead Scientist; California Department of Water Resources
  • 2021-12-06
  • Hartman, R.K., N. Rasmussen, E. Wells, A.J. Stewart, C.E. Burdi, and T. Sommer. 2021. Interagency Ecological Program: Water quality, fish, phytoplankton, clams and zooplankton monitoring to support the Summer-Fall Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Gates Action 2018-2020 ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/DOI_PLACE_HOLDER (Accessed 2024-12-27).

  • The Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Gates (SMSCG) have the potential to increase low-salinity-zone habitat for endangered Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus, California Endangered Species Act listed as Endangered, Federal Endangered Species Act listed as Threatened), and to allow them to more frequently occupy Suisun Marsh, especially Montezuma Slough, one of their most important rearing habitats. Operation of the SMSCG in summer and fall to improve Delta Smelt habitat are called for in the Biological Opinion and Incidental Take permit for the Central Valley Project and State Water Project. To support the adaptive management of the action, the California Department of Water Resources monitored the change in water quality, phytoplankton, zooplankton, fishes, and clams resulting from the action in 2018. This data package includes data collected by the Interagency Ecological Program’s (IEP) long-term monitoring programs supplemented with targeted sample collection where existing surveys lack spatial or temporal coverage. This package also includes modeling the change in Delta Smelt habitat based on area of open water with appropriate temperature, salinity, and turbidity. Monitoring during no-action years (2019 and 2020) will be used as a baseline for comparison during action years. This data package will be updated annually during both action years and non-action years.

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  • edi.578.1  (Uploaded 2021-12-06)  
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