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Greenbrier River near Seebert, WV.
Greenbrier River near Seebert, WV.
Photograph by Katherine S. Paybins, USGS.

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Paybins, K.S., Messinger, Terence, Eychaner, J.H., Chambers, D.B., and Kozar, M.D., 2000, Water Quality in the Kanawha–New River Basin West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina, 1996–98: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1204, 32 p., on-line at https://pubs.water.usgs.gov/circ1204/

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