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Methods of Rating Unsaturated Zone and Watershed Characteristics of Public Water Supplies in North Carolina

Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4283
By Jo Leslie Eimers, J. Curtis Weaver, Silvia Terziotti, and Robert W. Midgette


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