Fast Fact
70 percent of the salmon caught off California's coast spawn in the river and its hatcheries.
70 percent of the salmon caught off California's coast spawn in the Sacramento River

View the Water Quality Compendium

View the major water quality monitoring programs in the Sacramento River watershed

(Above) Monitoring on Big Chico Creek by Chico USA.

SRWP Monitoring Data is Online


The SRWP monitoring data from 1998 - 2001 is available online at the Calif. Dept. of Water Resources Bay-Delta Tributaries. This website was launched in February 2004 and is continuing to be improved and expanded. SRWP data is summarized here and is available for download here.

SRWP Annual Reports

Date  TitleTypeSize
2008-03-012005-2007 Final Proposition 50 Grant Monitoring ReportHTML12.6 KB
2006-12-01Monitoring Program Summary, Dec. 2006PDF1.5 MB
2005-12-012003-2004 Annual Monitoring Report of the Sacramento River Watershed ProgramPDF5.5 MB
2004-07-292002-2003 Annual Monitoring Report of the Sacramento River Watershed ProgramPDF7.3 MB
2003-06-262001-2002 Annual Monitoring Report of the Sacramento River Watershed ProgramPDF4.0 MB
2002-06-272000-2001 Annual Monitoring Report of the Sacramento River Watershed ProgramPDF4.8 MB
2001-07-021999-2000 Annual Monitoring Report of the Sacramento River Watershed ProgramPDF5.3 MB
2000-06-231998-1999 Annual Monitoring Report of the Sacramento River Watershed ProgramPDF3.2 MB