National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program

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Oxidation reduction (Redox) conditions are closely related to nitrate concentration. Oxic water had the highest nitrate concentrations and almost all of the sites that exceeded 10 mg/L were in oxic water. The illustration shown is based upon figure 21 of SIR 2008-5240.
