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Specific site data for Nutrient and pesticide data collected from the USGS National Water Quality Network and previous networks, 1963-2018

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Lee, C.J., and Reutter, D.C., 2019, Nutrient and pesticide data collected from the USGS National Water Quality Network and previous networks, 1963-2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P94F31R8.

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The National Water Quality Network (NWQN) for Rivers and Streams includes 110 surface-water river and stream sites monitored by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Program, National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project. The NWQN includes 20 large river coastal sites, 41 large river inland sites, 30 wadeable stream reference sites, 10 wadeable stream urban sites, and 9 wadeable stream agricultural sites. In addition to the 110 NWQN sites, 3 large inland river monitoring sites from the USGS Cooperative Water Program are also included in this annual water-quality reporting Web site to be consistent with previous USGS studies of nutrient transport in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin. This data release provides [...]

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