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State Water Board, USGS to discuss well-sampling
Siskiyou Daily News
Mount Shasta, Calif. —
The State Water Resources Control Board
and the U.S. Geological Survey will present information
on Thursday, July 15 on a large-scale study of
groundwater quality they are launching in northeastern
California, a recent press release from the U.S.
Geological Survey announced. The study area will cover
Modoc County and parts of Siskiyou, Shasta, Lassen,
Tehama, Plumas, and Butte counties, and will include the
cities of Alturas, Susanville, Tulelake, Burney, Weed,
Dorris and Mount Shasta, among others.
The Water Board is collaborating with the USGS and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL) to conduct the Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program. According to the release, the main goals of GAMA are to improve comprehensive statewide groundwater monitoring and to increase the availability of information about groundwater quality to the public.
The USGS California Water Science Center is the project lead for the GAMA Priority Basin Project. With the voluntary cooperation of local water agencies and well owners, USGS is testing water in California groundwater basins over a 10-year period.
The Cascades-Modoc study unit is one of 35 GAMA study units across the state. It includes 55 volcanic and sedimentary groundwater basins, as defined by the state Department of Water Resources.
Starting July 12 and continuing for about 12 weeks, USGS
scientists will collect water-quality samples from an
estimated 90 wells. A report on the data is expected to
be available in about a year.
The GAMA Priority Basin Project is designed to characterize water quality in groundwater basins. GAMA does not evaluate the quality of water delivered to consumers. After withdrawal from the ground, water for public systems is typically treated or mixed before consumers receive it to maintain water quality.
More information on the GAMA program is available at http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/gama/ and ca.water.usgs.gov/gama/
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