Pesticides in Streams of the United States--Initial Results from the National Water-Quality Assessment Program

By Steven J. Larson, Robert J. Gilliom, and Paul D. Capel

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4222
Sacramento, California, 1999

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Figure 5. Hypothetical plots as examples of (A) boxplots and (B) concentration distribution plots. In Figure 5B, the values on the y-axis show the percentage of monthly median concentrations greater than the value indicated on the x-axis. For example, 68 percent of monthly median concentrations of compound A were greater than 0.01 micrograms per liter, and 6 percent of monthly median concentrations were greater than 1 microgram per liter.

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