Sacramento Valley – Bend

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Source: CA DWR
Source: CA DWR

California Water Library Documents About This Basin

Assessing Causes and Consequences of Winter Surface Water Dynamics in California's Central Valley Using Satellite Remote Sensing

Wiley Online Library | June 3rd, 2025

California's Central Valley is increasingly vulnerable to winter floods. A comprehensive spatial baseline of flood extents is critical for inundation analyses that can en

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Groundwater sustainability and land subsidence in California’s Central Valley

Water (MDPI) | April 22nd, 2024

The Central Valley of California is one of the most prolific agricultural regions in the world. Agriculture is reliant on the conjunctive use of surface-water and groundw

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Subsurface water flux in California's Central Valley and its source watershed from space geodesy

American Geophysical Union (AGU) | September 29th, 2022

We combine measurements from Global Positioning System positioning and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment gravity to infer change in water components in Central Vall

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Critical Aquifer Overdraft Accelerates Degradation of Groundwater Quality in California's Central Valley During Drought

American Geophysical Union (AGU) | September 1st, 2021

It has been established that wells are at risk to run dry when groundwater levels decline during drought, but associated impacts to water quality are poorly understood. 

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Groundwater development leads to decreasing arsenic concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley, California

Science of the Total Environment (Elsevier) | January 18th, 2021

In the San Joaquin Valley (SJV), California, about 10% of drinking water wells since 2010 had arsenic concentrations above the U.S. maximum contaminant level of 10μg/L.

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Groundwater quality in the Redding–Red Bluff shallow aquifer study unit of the northern Sacramento Valley, California

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | April 23rd, 2020

 This study was designed to provide a statistically representative assessment of the quality of groundwater resources used for domestic drinking water in the Redding–

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Domestic well vulnerability to drought duration and unsustainable groundwater management in California's Central Valley

Environmental Research Letters (IOP) | March 18th, 2020

Millions of Californians access drinking water via domestic wells, which are vulnerable to drought and unsustainable groundwater management. Groundwater overdraft and th

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A hybrid machine learning model to predict and visualize nitrate concentration throughout the Central Valley aquifer, California, USA

Science of the Total Environment (Elsevier) | June 9th, 2017

Intense demand for water in the Central Valley of California and related increases in groundwater nitrate concentration threaten the sustainability of the groundwater res

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Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Water Management Technical Report

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) | December 15th, 2014

This Technical Report describes pertinent hydrologic and hydraulic condition and water management operations for Shasta Lake, the Sacramento River, the Delta, and the CVP

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Geochemistry of Ground Water in the Sacramento Valley, California

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | July 13th, 1984

A geochemical investigation was done to evaluate temporal changes in water quality and to determine the processes that control water chemistry in shallow ground water of

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