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Table 2
Descriptive statistics on parameters for the Newfoundland and Labrador datasets

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Units
Effective
Mean
Median
Standard deviation
Aluminum mg/L
10,886
0.133
0.111
0.100
Chloride mg/L
11,730
23.373
6.150
67.582
Copper µg/L
10,646
1.156
0.500
1.800
Dissolved oxygen mg/L
10,736
11.861
12.100
2.397
Iron µg/L
10,646
214.380
147.000
234.746
Nickel µg/L
10,646
0.327
0.200
0.333
Lead µg/L
10,646
0.555
0.200
1.853
pH pH
11,775
6.738
6.600
2.058
Phosphorus mg/L
11,696
0.007
0.005
0.013
Zinc mg/L
10,646
5.258
1.100
12.236
Data source: Data come from federal, provincial and joint water quality surveillance programs.
Table source: Statistics Canada, 2007, Environment Accounts and Statistics Technical Paper Series, volume 2007, number 3, Behaviour Study on the Water Quality Index of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, catalogue number 16-001-MWE.