U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
                            DIGITAL DATA SERIES 37


            Data from Selected U.S. Geological Survey National Stream 
                    Water-Quality Monitoring Networks (WQN)
                               


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                               ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


       The authors would like to acknowledge the many individuals who 
    assisted in the development and review of the report, data sets, 
    and graphics published on the CD-ROMs.  

       We thank the technical reviewers Janice Ward, William Battaglin, 
    Richard Coupe, and Randy Parker.  Their recommendations greatly 
    improved the organization and content of the report and CD-ROM data 
    bases.  We especially thank Richard Coupe for providing additional 
    reviews of preliminary versions of the CD-ROMs and Janice Ward for 
    providing administrative guidance during the development of the 
    CD-ROMs.  

       We thank Alan Lumb for administrative support that allowed Larry 
    Briel to contribute his valuable data management skills to the 
    project.  

       We thank John Briggs and Timothy Miller for assistance in obtaining 
    information on historical network operations.  

       Thanks to Richard Smith and Gregory Schwarz for discussions and 
    valued input on various water-quality and quality-assurance topics.  

       Steve Glodt and Thomas Maloney of the National Water Quality 
    Laboratory in Denver, Colorado and Herman Feltz and Bernard Malo 
    provided important information on laboratory analytical methods used 
    currently and historically by the USGS.  

       Donald Dolnack performed the many daily streamflow retrievals from 
    the USGS centralized data base, and Jerry Casile patiently retrieved 
    water-quality data from each of the USGS District computers.  

       We thank Dawn Fuller for editing text and graphical data
    files, and especially for designing the Web pages that are provided
    on the CD-ROM.  

      Linda Geiger assisted in reviewing preliminary versions of the 
    CD-ROMs.  

       We thank Patricia Greene for designing the layout of the CD-ROM
    jewel-box inserts.  

       Also, we thank Frances Buchanan for the production of final 
    versions of the illustrations.

       Marie Nofs of the National Water Quality Assessment Program 
    assisted in scanning water-quality memoranda into digital form.

       Sharon Cline and Joyce Soloman provided technical assistance 
    with graphical software.  

       Phillip Redman created the digital versions of the CD-ROM photos.
    Michael Ierardi produced final versions of these photos for use in
    the Web pages.