Mapping pesticide contamination potential |
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Authors: | M Akram Khan Tung Liang |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 96822 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA |
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Abstract: | Groundwater contamination by agricultural chemicals is a major environmental pollution issue nation-wide. The regulatory agencies of towns and counties face the problem of finding a methodology for assessing the ground-water contamination potential of a large number of agricultural pesticides. Because of the spatial nature of the problem and the limited data availability for comprehensive pesticide movement models, a contamination potential index was employed for preliminary assessment. A specially designed geographic information system was used to create ground-water contamination likelihood maps for a 1500 km2 area. The results suggest that this methodology can be used successfully for evaluating the relative contamination potential of a large number of pesticides over large areas with limited input data. A tentative approach for using this method for monitoring and registration of pesticides is also discussed. |
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Keywords: | Pesticides Pollution Mapping Environment Management Groundwater Contamination Licensing GIS |
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