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U.S. Geological Survey
Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4228

Prepared as part of the
NATIONAL WATER-QUALITY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM

Quality of Shallow Ground Water in Areas of Recent Residential and Commercial Development, Wichita, Kansas, 2000

Table 2. Laboratory analysis methods for analyzed water-quality constituents

[USGS, U.S. Geological Survey; UV, ultraviolet; C, carbon; GC/MS, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry]

Constituent or constituent group	Analysis method	Method reference
Chlorofluorocarbons	Purge and trap gas chromatography with an electron capture detector	Busenberg and Plummer (1992)
Major ions (USGS schedule 2750)	Atomic absorption spectrometry	Fishman (1993)
Nutrients (USGS schedule 2752)	Various methods	Fishman (1993)
Dissolved organic carbon (USGS schedule 2085)	UV-promoted persulfate oxidation and infrared spectrometry	Brenton and Arnett (1993)
Trace elements (USGS schedule 2703)	Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry	Faires (1993)
Pesticides (USGS schedule 2001)	Solid-phase extraction using a C-18 cartridge and GC/MS	Zaugg and others (1995)
Volatile organic compounds (USGS schedule 2020)	Purge and trap capillary-column GC/MS	Connor and others (1998)

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