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The Long Term Resource Monitoring Program An element of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration - Environmental Management Program Water Quality

Table 4. Acronyms used on the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program water quality component Web site.

Type	Acronym	Meaning
Study reaches
	p4	Pool 4
	p8	Pool 8
	p13	Pool 13
	p26	Pool 26
	op	Open River Reach
	lg	La Grange Pool – Illinois River
	WN	Winter
	SP	Spring
	SM	Summer
	FL	Fall
	MC	Main channel
	SC	Side channel
	BWC	Contiguous backwater
	IMP	Impounded
	OTH	Special lake; Lake Pepin in Pool 4 and Swan Lake in Pool 26
	STAT	Statistic
	stderr	Standard error
	n	Sample size
	n.s.	Not sampled
	TEMP	Water temperature
	DO	Dissolved oxygen
	COND	Conductivity
	pH	pH
	TURB	Turbidity
	SS	Suspended solids
	VSS	Volatile suspended solids
	CHL	Chlorophyll a
	TN	Total nitrogen
	NOX	Nitrate/nitrite
	NHX	Ammonium
	TP	Total phosphorus
	SRP	Soluble reactive phosphorus

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