Available Reports

SWAMP Summary Report, 2000-2005

Lahontan Water Board SWAMP staff has prepared an assessment report for years 2000-2005. The report summarizes comparisons of SWAMP results to regulatory criteria contained in the Lahontan Basin Plan, California Toxics Rule, California Primary MCLs and California Secondary MCLs.

Note: This report assesses and summarizes the results, but does not contain the actual data.

• Fact Sheet
• SWAMP Summary Report 2000-2005

Region-wide & Watershed Assessment Reports

• Lahontan Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program’s 20-Year Water Quality Review and Program Recommendations January 12, 2023 (13.4 MB)
• Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP) at the Lahontan Region: Summary of Results for Years 2000-2005 by Kim Gorman and others, July 2007
  • Fact Sheet

Methods and Tools for Stream & River Bioassessment

• Development of a Benthic Macroinvertebrate Index of Biological Integrity (IBI) for Stream Assessments in the Eastern Sierra Nevada of California – Final Report, by David B. Herbst and Erik L. Silldorff, December 2009
  • IBI spreadsheet calculator tool (Excel)
• Preliminary Index of Biological Integrity (IBI) for Periphyton in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California – Draft Report, by David B. Herbst and Dean W. Blinn, August 2008
• Comparison of the Performance of Different Bioassessment Methods: similar evaluations of biotic integrity from separate programs and procedures, by David B. Herbst and Erik L. Silldorff, June 2006
• Performance of Different Bioassessment Methods from California: Side by Side Comparisons of Field, Laboratory and Analysis Procedures for Streams of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, by David B. Herbst and Erik L. Silldorff, November 2004
• Use of Diatoms and Soft Algae as Indicators of Stream Abiotic Determinants in the Lahontan Basin, by Dean W. Blinn and David B. Herbst, December 2003
• Links to other methods & protocols for bioassessment

Restoration Project Evaluations

• Trout Creek Restoration Monitoring: Changing Benthic Invertebrate Indicators in a Reconstructed Channel, by David B. Herbst, September 2009
  • Data files
• Responses of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates to Stream Channel Reconstruction in a Degraded Rangeland Creek in the Sierra Nevada, by David B. Herbst and Jeffrey M. Kane, March 2009
• Macroinvertebrate Monitoring for the Bagley Valley Watershed Restoration Project on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest: Final Report, by David B. Herbst and Jeffrey M. Kane, September 2004

BMP Effectiveness Monitoring

• Responses of Stream Channels, Riparian Habitat, and Aquatic Invertebrate Community Structure to Varied Livestock Grazing Exposure and Management in the West Walker River Watershed (Mono County, California), by David B. Herbst and Jeffrey M. Kane, May 2004

Sediment Assessment Reports

• Development of Sediment TMDL Guidance Indicators: Relation of roads and land use disturbances at different spatial scales to the depositional environment of streams in the Sierra Nevada and Central Coast of California, by David B. Herbst and others, January 2011
• Comparison of Sediment Load Models in Predicting Sediment Deposition Patterns in Streams of the Sierra Nevada and Central Coast of California, by David B. Herbst and others, January 2011
• Development of biological criteria for sediment TMDLs: the relation of sediment deposition to benthic invertebrate communities of streams exposed to varied land use disturbances in the Sierra Nevada and Coast Range mountains of California, by David B. Herbst and others, January 2011
• Benthic Biological Community Responses to Sediment Loading in Experimental Stream Mesocosm Channels, by David B. Herbst and others, January 2011

Other SWAMP Reports for the Lahontan Region

• Microbial Source Tracking at Bacteria-impaired Waters of the Lahontan Region (2.82 MB)
  (Final Report prepared by principal investigator, Roland Knapp, Ph.D. for the Center for Eastern Sierra Aquatic Microbial Ecology with the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, University of California-Santa Barbara to fulfill the requirements of Contract 13-054-160 with the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board)
• Bacterial Water Quality in the Lahontan Region (7.02 MB)
  (Final Report prepared by principal investigator, Roland Knapp, Ph.D. for the Center for Eastern Sierra Aquatic Microbial Ecology with the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, University of California-Santa Barbara to fulfill the requirements of Contract 12-067-160 with the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board)
• Bacteria in Streams of the Eastern Sierra
  (Final Report prepared by the principal investigator, Roland Knapp, Ph.D. for the Center for EAstern Sierra Aquatic Microbial Ecology with the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, University of California-Santa Barbara to fulfill the requirements of Contract 11-167-160 with the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board)
• Bacteria Monitoring in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, Summary of Results for 2011, by Carly Nilson and others, March 2012
• Development of Biological Water Quality Targets for Assessment of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) of Sediment in the Squaw Creek Watershed (Placer County, California), by David B. Herbst, April 2002
  • Errata Sheet for above Squaw Creek TMDL Report
• Investigation of Near Shore Turbidity at Lake Tahoe, by Kendrick Taylor, March 2002
• Biomonitoring on the Upper Truckee River Using Aquatic Macroinvertebrates: Watershed Restoration Baseline Data for 1998-2000, by David B. Herbst, December 2001