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RECORD NUMBER: 47 OF 278

Main Title Chesapeake Bay Coordinated Split Sample Program annual report, 1990-1991 /
CORP Author United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Chesapeake Bay Program. Monitoring Subcommittee.
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chesapeake Bay Program ; Available from the National Technical Information Service,
Year Published 1993
Report Number CBP/TRS 76/93; EPA 903-R-93-007
Stock Number PB93-208270
OCLC Number 39028095
Subjects Wetland conservation--Chesapeake Bay (Md and Va) ; Environmental policy--Chesapeake Bay (Md and Va)
Additional Subjects Program management ; Water pollution sampling ; Chemical analysis ; Chesapeake Bay ; Laboratories ; Tests ; Organizations ; Agreements ; Monitoring ; Quality assurance ; Accuracy ; Virginia ; Potomac River ; Standards ; Organic phosphates ; Particulates ; Assessments ; State government ; National government ; Total organic carbon
Internet Access
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https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=2000VZ8M.PDF
Holdings
Library Call Number Additional Info Location Last
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Status
EJAM  TD225.C54C667 1990/91 Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA 05/08/1998
EJDD  CB 00827 Env Science Center Library/Ft Meade,MD 02/14/2003
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 903-R-93-007 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
NTIS  PB93-208270 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation xiii, 85 p. ; 28 cm.
Abstract
The Chesapeake Bay Program is a federal-state partnership with a goal of restoring the Chesapeake Bay. Its ambient water quality monitoring programs, started in 1984, sample over 150 monitoring stations once or twice a month a month. Due to the size of the Bay watershed (64,000 square miles) and the cooperative nature of the CBP, these monitoring programs involve 10 different analytical laboratories. The Chesapeake Bay Coordinated Split Sample Program (CSSP), initialed in 1988, assesses the comparability of the water quality results from these laboratories. The report summarizes CSSP results for 1990 and 1991, its second and third full years of operation. The CSSP has two main objectives: identifying parameters with low inter-organization agreement, and estimating measurement system variability. The identification of parmeters with low agreement is used as part of the overall Quality Assurance program. Laboratory and program personnel use the information to investigate possible causes of the differences, and take action to increase agreement if possible. Later CSSP results will document any improvements in inter-organization agreement. The variability estimates are most useful to data analysts and modelers who need confidence estimates for monitoring data.
Notes
"CBP/TRS 76/93." "June 1993."