Quality-control equipment blanks, field blanks, and field replicates for baseline surface-water quality of an area undergoing shale-gas development in the Muskingum River watershed, Ohio, 2015-16.
In 2015-16, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District, conducted a study to assess baseline (2015-16) surface-water quality in six lake basins within the Muskingum River watershed that are in the early years of shale-gas development. Six samples were collected …