WSP10284

• File Number: 8170
• Description: Arkansas Basin Water Quality Issues
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/1/1998
• Author: USGS
• Title: Water-Quality Assessment of the Arkansas River Basin - Southeastern Colorado - 1990-93
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Figure 22. Median dissolved. and total. recoverable nickel concentrations by streamflow regime in the lower Arkansas
River, April 199O-March 1993.

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