EDI: Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta Continuous Water Quality Monitoring (Central Delta)
Continuous (15-minute) water quality monitoring time series for the Central Delta region of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta, California (2005-ongoing), published via the Environmental Data Initiative repository.
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At a glance
- Region
- United States (North America)
- Coverage
- Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Research
- Last updated
- 2026
What's inside
- Water quality
- Continuous monitoring
- Delta hydrology
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Hotspots and trends
Find where contamination is high and whether it is getting worse.
Because it has: Water quality
- 02
Compliance checks
Compare samples against drinking water and discharge standards.
- 03
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Because it has: Delta hydrology
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Risk maps
Predict contamination where no samples exist, from geology, land use and climate.
- 02
Anomaly alerts
Catch sudden spikes in sensor or lab data automatically.
- 03
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
EDI PASTA REST API: data entities downloadable via package access URLs (pasta.lternet.edu)
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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