Water-Quality Assessment of the Potomac River Basin:
Water-Quality and Selected Spatial Data 1992-96


Selected references


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______1993, Guidelines for processing and quality assurance of benthic invertebrate samples collected as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-407, 80 p.

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