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QUALITY ASSURANCE PROJECT PLAN: CONNECTICUT WETLANDS STUDY
Citation:
Sherman, A., S. Gwin, M. Kentula, AND W. Niering. QUALITY ASSURANCE PROJECT PLAN: CONNECTICUT WETLANDS STUDY. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/3-91/029 (NTIS PB91179101), 1991.
Description:
EPA's Wetland Research Program has supported a major effort to study wetlands mitigation projects in the field. he field studies were designed to 1) evaluate the project plans; 2) compare the projects with natural wetlands in the same land use setting; and 3) describe the development of the projects over time. his information from these studies will be used as technical guidance for setting performance criteria and developing design guidelines for mitigation projects. ilot studies have been conducted in Oregon, Washington, Florida, and Connecticut. his report presents the methods and associated quality assurance procedures used during the Connecticut study. ajor objective of the pilot study was to evaluate the field procedures and the data quality assessment protocols used. e are in the process of performing that evaluation. e anticipate that in some cases we will adopt the procedure, while others will be refined or discarded. herefore, we caution the user of this document that, at this point, the EPA makes no claims or endorsement of the use of the field, laboratory, or data quality assessment procedures associated with this study.
