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Suggested citation:

Kleiss, B.A., Coupe, R.H., Gonthier, G.J., and Justus, B.J., 2000, Water Quality in the Mississippi Embayment, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky,1995–98: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1208, 36 p., on-line at https://pubs.water.usgs.gov/circ1208/

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