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Relationship between suspended sediment concentration and turbidity at construction sites

R. Perkins, B.N. Wilson, J.S. Gulliver and B. Hanson
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation January 2017, 72 (1) 26-35; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.72.1.26
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