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Technical Information

Contaminants
These links provide a description of the source and toxicity of each contaminant.
    Mercury (Hg)    Copper (Cu)    Lead (Pb)

ER-L & ER-M Description

Methodology
This link provides a description of the methods used for sediment sampling, extraction, and sample analysis.

Quality Assurance/Quality Control Report
This report provides a thorough review of the data quality review process used to assess all data presented on this website.

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For more information contact: (401) 874-6182

Page last modified June 13, 2003