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Slide presentation reporting a 2003 vegetable garden study at the Augusta Forestry Center (Crimora, VA) by the South River Science Team. Soil Hg was measured in 40 floodplain plots (4.22–78.3 mg/kg) and control plots (<0.162 mg/kg). Lettuce, radish and spinach harvested Dec 13, 2003 had mercury below the practical quantitation limit (<0.1 mg/kg wet weight).

File Type: pdf
Categories: Presentations
Tags: Augusta Forestry Center, Crimora-VA, crop-sampling, floodplain, mercury, soil sampling, south-river-science-team, vegetable-gardens
Publication Date : 2004-02-10
Type : Presentation
Review Notes : Presentation slides dated Feb 10, 2004 by Bill Berti and Dean Cocking. Soil sampling occurred Nov 23, 2003 and selected crops were harvested Dec 13, 2003 (dates appear on slides). No formal authored report text beyond the slide deck; numeric results shown on slides were used directly.

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