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Potential Sources of Error in Groundwater Sampling at Hazardous Wastes Sites

The introduction of error during ground-water sampling is an issue identified by the Forum as a concern of Superfund decision makers. To address this issue, this paper was prepared under the direction of K. F. Pohlmann of the Desert Research Institute/Water Resources Center, with the support of the Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory Las Vegas (EMSL-LV) and the Superfund Technical Support Project.

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