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Washington State Pesticide Monitoring Program: Pesticides and PCBs in Marine Mussels, 1995

 
Publication number Date Published
96-301March 1996
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Author(s) Johnson, A.
Description Forty-three pesticides or breakdown products and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were analyzed in mussels (Mytilus trossulus ) collected from five sites in Puget Sound and one site at the mouth of the Columbia River. DDT, metabolites DDE and DDD, dieldrin, endosulfan, chlordane, gamma BHC (lindane), and PCBs were the most frequently detected.
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Keywords Padilla Bay, Commencement Bay, pesticides, Columbia River, river, water, chemical, monitoring, Puget Sound, PCBs, pesticide, marine, DDT
WATERSHED Water Resource Inventory Areas
(WRIA 03,WRIA 09,WRIA 10,WRIA 12,WRIA 13,WRIA CR)
DATA Environmental Information Management (EIM) #WSPMP95M