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Source Identification and Fish Exposure for Polychlorinated Biphenyls Using Congener Analysis from Passive Water Samplers in the Millers River Basin, Massachusetts

U.S. Geological Survey, Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4250

by John A. Colman


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Section 1--2.91 MB

Abstract

Introduction

Description of the Study Area

Previous Investigations

Acknowledgments

Sampling and Analysis

Sampling Procedures

Analytical Laboratory Procedures

Statistics for Evaluating Changes in Congener Patterns

Polychlorinated Biphenyl Data

Data Quality

Sampling Results

Identification of Sources of Polychlorinated Biphenyl

Sources Upstream from Birch Hill Dam

Conceptual Model of Source

Correspondence with Aroclors

Congener Pattern Weathering and Sources Downstream from Birch Hill Dam

Exposure of Fish to Polychlorinated Biphenyls in the Millers River Basin

Summary and Conclusions

References

Section 2 -- 1.28 MB 

Appendix A. Polychlorinated biphenyl congener names and International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) numbers in gas-chromatograph domain order

Appendix B. Polychlorinated biphenyl congeners from 31 stations in the Millers River Basin, Massachusetts


 

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