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Water Quality in the Western Lake Michigan Drainages, Wisconsin and Michigan, 1992-95

Fertilizers and Livestock Wastes Increase Nutrients in Streams and Ground Water Figures


Boxplot of Dissolved Nitrite Plus Nitrate
Median nitrate concentrations, during base-flow conditions, at two of the agricultural sites and the mixed agriculture and forested sites were twice the national average concentration for agricultural areas (Smith and others, 1993). (RHU labels correspond to the RHU figure on p. 6.)

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