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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)

Low Flow Statistical Tools Handbook

The Low Flow Statistics Tools Handbook is a how-to handbook for NPDES permit writers. The handbook describes how to estimate low flow statistic values in a variety of situations using free publicly available tools.

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