Clear Lake Water Quality

On this page you will find links to various agency reports about Clear Lake Water Quality. A description of the content of each report is provided below.

This page also serves as a parent page for the topics of Clear Lake Algae and Clear Lake TMDL information.

Water Quality Reports

Clear Lake Historical Data Analysis, Clear Lake Report 2010 - M. Winder, J. Reuter, G. Schladow, 2010.

Data source and methods of collection
Status and trends of temperatures, water clarity, pH, and Nutrients
Status and trends of fishes, phytoplankton, zooplankton
Conclusions and models

Evaluating and Managing a Multiply Stressed Ecosystem at Clear Lake, California: A Holistic Ecosystem Approach - T. H. Suchanek, P.J. Richerson, et al. 2003.

Cultural history of the Clear Lake region
Cultural and environmental impacts
Mining, bioaccumulation, pollution
Fish fauna and Clear Lake food web

The Causes and Control of Algal Blooms in Clear Lake - Peter J. Richerson and Thomas H. Suchanek directors, 1994.

Purpose of Clean Lakes project
Physical and chemical characteristics of Clear Lake
External and internal nutrient loading
Pytoplankton and chemical data
Wetlands and riparian vegetation
Recommended strategies and control of Blue-Green Algae blooms
Figures, Tables, and Graphs

Changes in Fish Diets and Food Web Mercury Bioaccumulation Induced by an Invasive Planktivorous Fish - C.A. Eagles-Smith, T.H. Suchanek, P.B. Moyle, et al., 2008.

Effects of planktivorous threadfin shad with respect to bioaccumulation of mercury in the food web
Relative abundance, biomass, stomach content, Hg analysis of nearshore fishes monitored by Lake County Vector Control District
Resiliency of Clear Lake food web
Results, zooplankton abundance, statistical analysis, and discussion presented

Identification of harmful cyanobacteria in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Clear Lake, California by DNA barcoding- T. Kurobe, D. Baxa, C. Mioni, R. Kudela, T. Smythe, S. Waller, A. Chapman, S. Teh, 2013

A molecular approach to identify cyanobacteria to species level from two different Northern California water bodies
The article provides a background on study locations, methods, materials, and results
Contains tables and figures to convey different cyanobacteria genotypes