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The Department of Water Resources has published many documents relating to the Delta over the years. The following reports are the most pertinent ones released between 1978 and 1992.
Delta Water Facilities, Program for: Delta Protection and Water Transfer, Water Conservation, Water Recycling, and Surface and Ground Water Storage. Bulletin 76. July 1978.
Delta Levees Investigation. Bulletin 192-82. December 1982.
Delta Alternatives Material (four volumes). December 1982. Reference copies only. Volumes III and IV contain material on Senate Bill 200 and Assembly Concurrent Resolution 90 (Proposition 8). Division of Planning.
Alternatives for Delta Water Transfer. November 1983.
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Water Quality Surveillance Program, Monitoring Results Pursuant to Delta Water Rights Decision 1485. Text and three volumes of data. August 1985. Central District.
Final Environmental Impact Report on Proposed Additional Pumping Units, H. O. Banks Delta Pumping Plant, Summary. January 1986. Central District.
Interagency Delta Health Aspects Monitoring Program, Project Report. December 1986. Central District.
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Emergency Water Plan. Report to Legislature. December 1986. Central District.
Flood Protection of State Highways in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. December 1987. Central District.
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Flood Hazard Mitigation Plan. January 1989. Central District.
The Delta as a Source of Drinking Water, Summary of Monitoring Results: 1983-1987. January 1989. Central District.
Water Quality Conditions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta During 1987. Report to the State Water Resources Control Board in Accordance with Water Rights Decision 1485, Order 4(f). May 1989. Central District.
The Delta as a Source of Drinking Water, Monitoring Results: 1983-1987. August 1989. Central District.
Delta Subsidence Investigation. October 1989. Central District.
Proposed Sherman Island Wildlife Management Plan -- Initial Study and Negative Declaration. January 1990. Division of Planning.
Delta Levee Slope Protection Alternatives. February 1990. Division of Design and Construction.
Actions and Priorities, Delta Flood Protection Act, Eight Western Delta Islands. March 1990. Division of Planning.
Negative Declaration: Proposed South Delta Water Management Program -- Land Purchase. April 1990. Division of Planning.
Water Quality Conditions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta During 1987. (Text and three volumes of data.) Text, May 1990; Volume 1, Water Quality, May 1990; Volume 2, Phytoplankton, May 1990; Volume 3, Benthos, May 1990. Central District.
Delta Island Drainage Investigation, Report of the Interagency Delta Health Aspects Monitoring Program. June 1990. Division of Local Assistance.
Management of the State Water Project. Appendix E, 1987 Water Operations in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Bulletin 132-88. October 1990.
Interagency Delta Health Aspects Monitoring Program, Summary of Monitoring Results, January 1988--December 1989. October 1990. Division of Local Assistance.
Water Quality Conditions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta During 1989. Report to the State Water Quality Control Board in Accordance with Water Rights Decision 1485, Order 4(f). July 1991. Central District.
Use of Global Positioning System to Establish a Common Vertical Datum in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California. August 1991. Division of Land and Right of Way.
Early Stages and Early Life History of the Delta Smelt in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary, with Comparison of Early Life Stages of the Long Fin Smelt. August 1991. Central District.
Long-term Trends in Zooplankton Distribution and Abundance in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary. May 1992. Environmental Services Office.
Water Quality Conditions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in 1990. June 1992. Environmental Services Office.
Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement: South Delta Water Management Program (Phase I of Water Banking Program). June 1990. Division of Planning.
Biological Assessment -- Effects of Central Valley Project and State Water Project Operations on Winter-run Chinook Salmon. October 1992. Environmental Services Office.
Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement: North Delta Program. November 1990. Division of Planning.
Evaluation of Selected Biological Factors That May Have Contributed to the Drought and Post-drought Decline in Chlorophyll, a Concentration. April 1990 (released in December 1992). Environmental Services Office.