Klamath Tribal Water Quality Consortium

The Tribal Water Quality Work Group is comprised of the heads of environmental departments of the Yurok, Hoopa Valley, and Karuk Tribes, the Quartz Valley Indian Community, and the Resighini Rancheria. The group was formed in 2003, following a massive adult salmon kill in September 2002. The Work Group's stated purpose is "to prevent future disasters through sound scientific research, data analysis, and thorough planning." While the Work Group collaborates on research and shares information, it takes no collective positions, but defers to individual Tribes to offer policy statements. Each Tribe exercises authority over Reservation waters (see Tribal WQ Authority). Some Tribes also acquire designated authority as co-managers of water quality from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Links to reports and other documents are available on their website.

Hoopa Tribe

Hoopa Tribe website provides a description of the water quality program, locations, equipment, and reports. Data are available through the EPA's Water Quality Portal (WQX). 

Karuk Tribe

The Karuk Tribe data portal provides real-time data for SONDE locations throughout the Mid-Klamath.

Annual Water Quality Reports

Mainstem Klamath, Shasta, Scott, and Salmon Rivers

2000 Indian & Elk Creek

Blue Green Algae Reports

2009 Middle Klamath River Toxic Cyanobacteria Trends
Karuk Tribes Toxic Cyano In Copco-Irongate Reservoirs; 2005 Final Report
Microcystin Bioaccumulation in Klamath River Fish and Freshwater Mussel Tissue: Preliminary 2007 Results

Regulatory Documents

Quality Assurance Project Plan
Water Quality Control Plan (2014)
SOP for Surface Water E. coli

Karuk Climate Adaptation Plan

Data

The Karuk Tribe data portal provides real-time data for continuous sonde data (temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, conductivity) throughout the Mid-Klamath.
Discrete grab sample data (nutrients, etc.) for the Karuk Tribe is available on the EPA's Water Quality Portal (WQX).

Klamath Tribes - Klamath, Modoc, Yahooskin Tribes

Annual Water Quality Reports

* The USBR discontinued funding for The Klamath Tribes water quality monitoring in 2019 for both Upper Klamath Lake and tributaries and sampling in 2020 was limited to six stations within UKL. 

The Klamath Tribes Water Quality Report Repository - New Klamath Tribes website compiling reports relevant to the Upper Klamath Basin.

Data

Discrete grab sample data (nutrients, etc.) for Upper Klamath Lake and tributaries is available on the federal Water Quality Portal (WQX).
Discrete data for years 1990-2013 are also available on CEDEN and CD3. 
Discrete water quality data for 1990-2020 are also available as an Excel file (Uploaded on 5/24/2021).

Quartz Valley Indian Reservation

The QVIR website provides general information about the natural resources program. The Klamath Tribal Water Quality Consortium website provides access to additional selected reports. 

Annual Water Quality Reports

Data

Discrete grab sample data (nutrients, etc.) are available for download on the federal Water Quality Exchange (WQX) database.
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Resighini Rancheria

The Resighini Rancheria website provides general information about the rancheria and contact information. Data are available through STORET. 

Yurok Tribe

Data are also available through the Water Quality Exchange (WQX)  STORET.

Annual Reports (not available for all years)

Yurok Tribe Water Quality Control Plan (August, 2004)

Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management website provides restoration project description for regions surrounding Upper Klamath Lake.  Data and reports are not currently available on-line. 

U. S. Bureau of Reclamation

Klamath River Basin Study (Full Report) (Summary) (Appendices)
-The 2019 Klamath River Basin Study took a comprehensive approach to evaluate historical and projected future water supply and demand over the entire Klamath watershed, and identified a range of strategies to best address these imbalances and meet users’ needs in the Basin.

USBR, USGS, and other historical water quality data (WQ Mapper)

Quarterly USBR water quality data (xls)

USBR, USGS, and Others Flow Sites

USBR Weather sites including Klamath Basin locations

Link River and Keno Dam real time temp and flow (Data Link); Regional Baseline Monitoring and Special Investigation Projects (Database)

ADAPS - Continuous Sondes (Data Link)

Reclamation Information Sharing Environment (RISE) - USBR open data system for viewing, accessing, and downloading water and water-related data.

U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Arcata Fish and Wildlife Office- The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service website provides access to reports and maps of monitoring locations.

Data request forms are here. 

• Water Quality Dynamics of the Klamath River Below Iron Gate Dam: A Summary
• Fish Health Monitoring Updates

Klamath Falls Fish and Wildlife Office

 U. S. Forest Service

Fremont-Winema, Klamath, Six Rivers, Trinity, Shasta, and Modoc National Forests, AREMP

The U. S. Forest Service websites provide access to project description and reports. Data request forms are available. 

Streambed Sediment and Equivalent Roaded Area on the Klamath National Forest

Klamath National Forest- Projects

Water temperature data and climate change models are available for the Klamath Basin through the Forest Service's NorWeST project.

U.S. Geological Survey

The U.S. Geological Survey website provides graphs and tables of streamflow and water-quality data from selected sites in the State of Oregon. Data are also available on the National Water Information System (NWIS).

Nutrient and Sediment Loading to Upper Klamath Lake

Long-Term Water Quality Monitoring Program in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon

Klamath River Basin Water-Quality Data Primer

USGS Klamath River Basin Water Quality Mapper

Klamath Dam Removal Studies

Trinity River Restoration Program

The IIMS Data Web Portal project is an evolving project and is currently under development. The functionality of the website and data holdings will continue to be expanded through the end of 2009. The priority datasets for inclusion during Fall 2009 include: sediment transport, water temperature, and cross-sections. Currently the data web portal consists of four main tools: Data Query Tool, Document Library, Time Series Analyst, and Interactive Map.

California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Klamath/Trinity Program Biological Information Documents - Annual reports, spawning survey documents, Steelhead surveys, Fall Chinook megatables, etc.

California Department of Water Resources

The CDWR website provides project information. Data and reports are available through CDEC as well as through their Water Data Library.

State Water Resources Control Board

California's Water Board website contains information about water quality, water rights, groundwater, and more, including on the Scott and Shasta River Drought Response. 

North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board

The NCRWQCB website provides project information and reports. Data are available through the CEDEN website. 

Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

The ODEQ website provides project information and reports. Data are available through the AWQMS website. View ODEQ latest annual Status and Trends report and Appendix G with data for the Klamath Basin.  

Oregon Department of Agriculture

The ODA develops agricultural water quality plans and ensures rule compliance to prevent and control water quality pollution.

Shasta Valley Resource Conservation District

The Shasta Valley RCD website provides information regarding projects in the Shasta Valley, newsletters, and reports.

Siskiyou Resource Conservation District

The Siskiyou RCD conducts projects in the Siskiyou region, newsletter, and reports are available. 

Trinity Resource Conservation District

The Trinity RCD website provides information regarding projects in Trinity county, newsletters, and reports.

Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement Monitoring (KHSA)

As part of the dam removal agreement,  PacifiCorp has agreed to fund a long-term (10 year) baseline water quality monitoring study,  including nutrient monitoring, special studies, and  blue-green algae monitoring as necessary to protect public health. Data are also available at the link above. 

PacifiCorp

The PacifiCorp data portal provides water quality monitoring data and reports. 

Riverbend Sciences

Riverbend Sciences is a consulting firm with extensive experience in the Klamath Basin. They have information for many projects on water quality and stream temperature analysis and have many reports and publications available. 

Klamath Basin Rageland Trust

Website provides general information about the program, projects, and reports

Mid Klamath Watershed Council

The Mid Klamath Watershed Council provides general information and refugia monitoring project description. 

The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy website provides information about the Williamson River Delta and Big Springs Ranch restoration projects and reports. Data are not currently available on-line.

Salmon River Restoration Council 

The SRRC website provides access to publications, water quality monitoring data, interactive map, and volunteer opportunities. 

Evidence of Climate-Driven Increases in Salmon River Water Temperatures

Scott River Watershed Council

The Scott River Watershed Council provides access to background information, groundwater projects, Beaver Dam Analogues (BDAs), and other restoration projects. 

Watershed Research and Training Center

The Watershed Research and Training Center provides access to background information and projects including temperature monitoring in the Trinity / South Fork Trinity River Basin. 

Trinity River Restoration Program

The TRRP is a collaboration of federal, state, and county agencies along with the Yurok Tribe and Hoopa Tribe. The TRRP is tasked with restoring anadromous fish on the Trinity River by rehabilitating the river itself. 

The TRRP DataPort links to multiple resources, including a document and data library, map applications, time series data, restoration database, and other resources. 

Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement Monitoring

Through Interim Measure 15 of the KHSA, extensive long-term monitoring has been conducted in the Klamath Basin. Data and reports are available on the PacifiCorp website and on the KHSA page on the KBMP website. 

California Environmental Data Exchange Network (CEDEN)

Select member organizations provide water quality data through CEDEN. The California Environmental Data Exchange Network (CEDEN) is a growing statewide cooperative effort of various groups involved in the water and environmental resources of the State of California.  This network is open to federal, state, county and private organizations interested in sharing data throughout the state.  The purpose of the CEDEN network is to allow the exchange of water and environmental data between groups and to provide access to the public.

On-line Resources

DOTABLES is an on-line program developed by USGS  that generates tables of dissolved oxygen (DO) solubility values and (or) salinity correction factors over a range of user-specified values for water temperature, barometric pressure, and salinity or specific conductance. In addition to generating tables, DOTABLES can compute a single-value of oxygen solubility and percent saturation for a specific instance of temperature, pressure, and salinity.

Water Quality Portal (WQP) contains data connected to the federal National Water Information System (NWIS) and STOrage and RETrieval Water Quality Exchange (STORET),  from USGS, EPA, tribes, NGOs, and academic groups. 

For users of WQP, there is a tutorial for the statistical program R here that outlines techniques to help retrieve and format water quality data.

Klamath Basin TMDLs

(California and Oregon)

Sites list TMDLs developed for the Klamath Basin. Section 303(d) of the federal Clean Water Act and 40 CFR §130.7 require states to identify waterbodies that do not meet water quality standards and are not supporting their beneficial uses. These waters are placed on the Section 303(d) List of Water Quality Limited Segments, also known as the 303(d) List of Impaired Waterbodies. The list identifies the pollutant or stressor causing impairment and establishes a schedule for developing a control plan to address the impairment.  Placement on this list generally triggers development of a pollution control plan called a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for each waterbody and associated pollutant / stressor on the list.

CA TMDL Report Cards for Phosphorus and Nutrients, Dissolved Oxygen, and Microcystin

Klamath Fish Health Assessment Team

The Klamath Fish Health Assessment Team (KFHAT) is supported by the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board and California Department of Fish and Game and is made up of federal and state agencies, tribes, private organizations, and other interested individuals that share a concern for fish health in the anadromous portions of the Klamath Basin.

Klamath Basin Monitoring Program - Document Library

The KBMP Document Library is an online repository of documents relevant to the water quality and fisheries of the Klamath River.

Klamath Basin DSS

The Klamath Basin Decision Support System (DSS) is the vision of the Klamath County Board of Commissioners, a vision which quite simply, is to allow a broad and diverse audience access to a common base of resource data for the Klamath Basin.