A Compilation of Water Quality Goals

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July 2008 Edition and Updates

This staff report contains an extensive compendium of numerical water quality limits from the literature for over 850 chemical constituents and water quality parameters. Included are:

• California and Federal Drinking Water Standards (MCLs)
• Public Health Goals (PHGs)
• California State Notification Levels
• Health Advisories, Water Quality Advisories, and Drinking Water Advisories
• Suggested No-Adverse-Response Levels (SNARLs)
• Cancer Risk Estimates
• Health-based criteria from USEPA's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
• Proposition 65 Safe Harbor Levels
• Agricultural use protective limits
• Freshwater and saltwater aquatic life protective limits
• Taste and odor based criteria

These limits may be used to determine whether beneficial uses of groundwater and surface water are impaired or threatened. The text of the report is currently under revision.

The July 2008 Edition contains updated tables of water quality limits, footnotes, references and cross reference of chemical names. This information is current as of late July 2008.

How to obtain:

• Paper Copies
• Electronic Copies
• Updates
• More Information or Provide Comments

Paper Copies

Hard copies of the July 2008 Edition and earlier editions are not available.

Electronic Copies

The electronic version of the July 2008 Edition of the report is available in three downloadable file formats.

• Acrobat format (PDF)- Recommended (PDF Info)
• Complete Report, 98 KB, PDF
  The text of the report is currently under revision.
• Cover, 392 KB, PDF
• Cross Reference of Chemical Names, 106 KB, PDF
• Water Quality Limit Tables, 492 KB, PDF
• Footnotes, 39 KB, PDF
• References, 29 KB, PDF
• MS Excel Spreadsheet format (xls) - Tables Only
  For proper use of this information, it is highly recommended that you also download the Cover & Text Portion of the Acrobat version, above.
• Cross Reference of Chemical Names, 265 KB, MS Excel
• Water Quality Limit Tables, 942 KB, MS Excel
• Footnotes, 57 KB, MS Excel
• References, 36 KB, MS Excel
• Tab Delimited Text format (txt) - Tables Only - For import into database or spreadsheet programs
  For proper use of this information, it is highly recommended that you also download the Cover & Text Portion of the Acrobat version, above
• Water Quality Limit Tables, 433 KB, Text
• Footnotes, 48 KB, Text
• References, 7 KB, Text
• Data Dictionary, 56 KB, MS Word
  A key to field names used in the database.

Updates

• The following document shows the changes that have been made since the August 2007 Edition of Water Quality Goals:
• List of changes since August 2007, 13 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
• The following document shows the changes that have been made between the August 2003 and the August 2007 Editions of Water Quality Goals:
• List of changes between August 2003 and August 2007, 56 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
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Information and Comments

For more information or to comment on this report, please contact:
Jon Marshack by email at jmarshack@waterboards.ca.gov