Guidance on the Use of Passive-Vapor-Diffusion Samplers to Detect Volatile Organic Compounds in Ground-Water-Discharge Areas, and Example Applications in New England Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4186 By Peter E. Church, Don A. Vroblesky, Forest P. Lyford, and Richard E. Willey

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The citation for this report, in USGS format, is as follows:

Church, P.E., Vroblesky, D.A., Lyford, F.P., and Willey, R.E., 2002, Guidance on the Use of Passive-Vapor-Diffusion Samplers to Detect Volatile Organic Compounds in Ground-Water-Discharge Areas, and Example Applications in New England: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4186, 79 p.

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