Minnesota Slip Quality Assurance Project Plan

The Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO) has funded a study by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to conduct a sediment remediation scoping project in Minnesota Slip, Duluth Harbor. In order to ensure that high quality data are collected, it is essential that quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) steps be adhered to while collecting, handling, and analyzing sediment samples. This document provides the Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) which will be followed during this investigation. As part of the QAPP, a detailed work plan is given in Section B for the field sampling component of this study. The MPCA Principal Investigator will have overall responsibility for all phases of this project. The various quality assurance and management responsibilities of key project personnel are defined in the following section.