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WQX Metals Best Practices Guide

The goal of the WQX Metals Best Practices Guide is to increase the quality of metals data records in WQX by making it easier for data providers to capture metadata elements, increasing consistency of metadata elements utilized, and removing confusion and ambiguity for secondary data users.

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