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The Long Term Resource Monitoring Program

An element of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration - Environmental Management Program

Water Quality

 Upper Mississippi River Restoration - Environmental Management Program U. S. Army Corps of Enineers


Table 1. Relation of Long Term Resource Monitoring Program aquatic area codes and sampling stratum used in stratified random sampling for water quality monitoring. Aquatic areas are based on Wilcox (1993).

  Stratum
Aquatic area code Code Description
1501
1
 Main channel (MC)
1504
2
 Side channel (SC)
1510
3
 Backwater area contiguous to the main channel at low water conditions (BWC)
1513
4
 Lake Pepin or Swan Lake (LK)
1520
5
 Open water area above the dam influenced directly by impoundment (IMP)

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