Welcome to the Truckee River Info Gateway (TRIG), which is the home for the Truckee River Water Quality Program. The objectives of this Program, encompassing the Truckee River and its sub-watersheds down to Pyramid Lake, are:
- to use the available water quality data to determine the potential for water quality improvements through restoration and stream bank stabilization.
- to determine the necessity of additional data collection (i.e.monitoring) to prove benefits from restoration.
- to determine the role of anthropogenic and naturally occurring nitrogen, phosphorus and total dissolved solids (TDS) on the water quality and aquatic habitat of the Truckee River.
Background
The water quality and aquatic habitat of the Truckee River have been under investigation by the Cities of Reno and Sparks for many years. Throughout this time the Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation Facility (TMWRF), Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP), Desert Research Institute (DRI), and many other agencies have collected significant quantities of data on water quality. Additionally, many individual studies and regulatory monitoring efforts (e.g. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) and other Clean Water Act requirements) have amassed large amounts of potentially useful data over limited spatial and/or temporal scales. At the present time these data do not appear to have been analyzed adequately on a large, comprehensive scale for trends, for potential water quality problems and for potential improvements. The goal of the Program is to address this gap.
