Quality Assurance Project Plan: Connecticut wetlands study

Technical Report · Mon Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5545995

Sherman, A; Gwin, S

EPA's Wetland Research Program has supported a major effort to study wetlands mitigation projects in the field. The field studies were designed to: (1) evaluate the project plans; (2) compare the projects with natural wetlands in the same land use setting; and (3) describe the development of the projects over time. The information from the studies will be used as technical guidance for setting performance criteria and developing design guidelines for mitigation projects. Pilot studies have been conducted in Oregon, Washington, Florida, and Connecticut. The report presents the methods and associated quality assurance procedures used during the Connecticut study. A major objective of the pilot study was to evaluate the field procedures and the data quality assessment protocols used. The authors are in the process of performing that evaluation. They anticipate that in some cases they will adopt the procedure, while others will be refined or discarded. Therefore, the authors caution the user of the document that, at this point, the EPA makes no claims or endorsement of the use of the field, laboratory, or data quality assessment procedures associated with the study.

• Research Organization: ManTech Environmental Technology, Inc., Corvallis, OR (United States)
• OSTI ID: 5545995
• Report Number(s): PB-91-179101/XAB; CNN: EPA-68-C8-0006
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540350* -- Environment
Aquatic-- Site Resource & Use Studies-- (1990-)
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
CONNECTICUT
DATA ANALYSIS
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
ECOSYSTEMS
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
FEDERAL REGION I
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
HYDROLOGY
LAND USE
MITIGATION
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NORTH AMERICA
POLLUTION ABATEMENT
POLLUTION REGULATIONS
QUALITY ASSURANCE
REGULATIONS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SAMPLING
SITE CHARACTERIZATION
US EPA
US ORGANIZATIONS
USA
WATER POLLUTION ABATEMENT
WETLANDS