Pesticides and Groundwater Quality : Issues and Problems in Four States.

Pesticides and Groundwater Quality : Issues and Problems in Four States.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Staff, National Research Council
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : National Academies Press, 1986.
Subjects:
Groundwater > Quality > United States.
Pesticides > Environmental aspects > United States.
Groundwater > Quality
Pesticides > Environmental aspects
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Pesticides and Groundwater Quality
  • Copyright
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Executive Summary
  • RESPONSES TO GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION
  • Detection and Monitoring
  • Responses to Contamination
  • Regulation of Pesticides
  • NEEDS AND PROBLEMS
  • Understanding the Nature and Scope of the Problem
  • Monitoring
  • Screening and analytic techniques
  • Sampling protocols
  • Data Needs
  • Environmental fate data
  • Defining characteristics of susceptible sites
  • Delineating vulnerable areas
  • Pesticide use data
  • Point Source Contamination
  • Health AssessmentHealth standards
  • Treatment technologies
  • Institutional and Policy Capabilities to Respond to the Problem
  • IMPLICATIONS FOR AGRICULTURE
  • CONCLUSION
  • 1 California
  • THE STATUS OF EFFORTS TO MONITOR GROUNDWATER FOR RESIDUES OF AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDES
  • Past Monitoring Efforts
  • Current Monitoring Efforts
  • CRITICAL PROBLEMS AND NEEDS
  • Nematocides
  • Interdisciplinary Research
  • Data Base and the Need for a Multiresidue Analytic Screen
  • Irrigation Practices
  • Dry Wells
  • Ground and Aerial Applicators
  • Delineation of Regulatory AreasPublic and Institutional Perceptions of California Groundwater Contamination
  • AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AVAILABLE TO MITIGATE PESTICIDE/GROUNDWATER QUALITY PROBLEMS
  • Irrigation Efficiency
  • Best Management Practices for Pesticide Use
  • Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
  • Formulation Changes
  • MODELS TO PREDICT THE TRANSPORT AND ENVIRONMENTAL FATE OF PESTICIDES
  • 2 New York
  • THE STATUS OF EFFORTS TO MONITOR GROUNDWATER FOR RESIDUES OF AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDES
  • Past Monitoring Efforts
  • Aldicarb
  • Groundwater contamination by aldicarbTreatment of water contaminated by aldicarb
  • Factors contributing to. groundwater contamination by aldicarb in Suffolk County
  • Experimental use permit
  • Additional groundwater monitoring for aldicarb
  • Monitoring for Additional Pesticides
  • Golden nematode quarantine program
  • Suffolk County well testing program
  • Groundwater sampling for pesticides in upstate New York
  • Current Monitoring Efforts
  • CRITICAL PROBLEMS AND NEEDS
  • Nematocides
  • Interdisciplinary Research
  • Evaluation of Leaching Potential of PesticidesGroundwater Quality Data Base
  • Residue Analysis
  • Pesticide Applicators
  • Public Sentiment Against Pesticide Usage
  • AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AVAILABLE TO MITIGATE PESTICIDE/GROUNDWATER QUALITY PROBLEMS
  • Irrigation Efficiency
  • Potato Integrated Pest Management Program
  • Best Management Practices for Pesticide Use
  • MODELS TO PREDICT THE TRANSPORT AND ENVIRONMENTAL FATE OF PESTICIDES
  • 3 Wisconsin
  • THE STATUS OF EFFORTS TO MONITOR GROUNDWATER FOR RESIDUES OF AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDES

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