Water Quality Library

Welcome to the Water Quality Resource Library. We hope to provide quality links to information on drinking water and groundwater in the Los Angeles and Southern California region. Please contact us if you have any comment or suggestions.

US Geological Survey


Water Quality of the Data Central and West Coast Basins of Los Angeles County 1995 - 2000

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The study characterizes the geohydrology and geochemistry of the regional ground-water flow system and provides extensive data for evaluating ground-water management issues. This report is a compilation of geologic, hydrologic, and water-quality data collected from 24 recently constructed multiple-well monitoring sites for the period 1995?2000.

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Ground-Water Quality Data in the Coastal Los Angeles Basin Study Unit, 2006: Results from the California GAMA Program

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Groundwater in the Central Coast Los Angeles Basin study unit was studied from June to November of 2006. Samples were tested for a large number of synthetic organic constituents sucha as gasoline oxygenates, pesticides, polar pesticides, and pesticide degradates, pharmaceutical compounds, and potential wastewater-indicators.

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Ground-water quality of coastal aquifer systems in the West Coast Basin, Los Angeles County, California, 1999-2002

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A detailed assessment of saline groundwater, isotopic data, borehole electromagnetic conductivity logs and with gamma-ray logs of groundwater from the aquifer of the West Coast Basin.

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State Water Resources Control Board


Basin Plan for the Coastal Watersheds of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties

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Here you can download a series of pdfs of LASWQRCB's Basin plan for the Coastal Watersheds of Los Angles and Ventura Counties

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