{"id":2211,"date":"2018-06-25T21:11:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T04:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2018-06-25T21:11:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T04:11:28","slug":"gross-violation-of-water-quality-standards-for-water-temperature-in-lower-sacramento-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=2211","title":{"rendered":"Gross Violation of Water Quality Standards for Water Temperature in Lower Sacramento River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Water temperatures in the lower Sacramento River over the past month have often exceeded water quality standards that protect salmon and other beneficial uses (Figures 1 and 2).\u00a0 Water temperatures at or above the standard of 68<sup>o<\/sup>F adversely affect adult and juvenile salmon.\u00a0 Water temperatures can meet the standard if the Bureau of Reclamation maintains flow in the Sacramento at Wilkins Slough at 6000-8000 cfs, depending on air temperature.\u00a0 The Bureau of Reclamation has maintained such flows in the past to meet water quality standards and terms in its water rights permits (Figure 3).\u00a0 Shasta Reservoir water storage is 102% of normal as of June 18, 2018.\u00a0 Water diversions from the Sacramento River upstream of Wilkins Slough are approximately 6,000 cfs, with 100% allocation to CVP contractors under water right permits.\u00a0 For more on the effects on salmon, see <a href=\"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=2100\">past posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2212\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2212\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2212\" src=\"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image1-1-941x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image1-1-941x1024.png 941w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image1-1-276x300.png 276w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image1-1-768x836.png 768w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image1-1.png 1307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. Sacramento River flow and water temperature at Wilkins Slough in lower Sacramento River: mid-May to mid-June 2018. Red line denotes water quality standard. Source: CDEC.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2213\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2213\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2213\" src=\"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image3-1-1024x559.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image3-1-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image3-1-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image3-1-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image3-1-500x273.png 500w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image3-1.png 1302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 2. Sacramento River water temperature at Verona in lower Sacramento River: mid-May to mid-June 2018. Red line denotes water quality standard. Source: CDEC.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2214\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2214\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2214\" src=\"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image2-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image2-2.png 580w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image2-2-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image2-2-405x300.png 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 3. Historical and recent flow at Wilkins Slough. Source: USGS.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water temperatures in the lower Sacramento River over the past month have often exceeded water quality standards that protect salmon and other beneficial uses (Figures 1 and 2).\u00a0 Water temperatures at or above the standard of 68oF adversely affect adult &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=2211\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinook","category-water-quality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}