Groundwater ubiquity score: A simple method for assessing pesticide leachability
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Government agencies at both the state and federal levels now face increasing pressures to assess the likelihood of pesticide occurrence in well‒water supplies. Screening methodologies are required in order to determine which pesticides now in use should receive the greatest attention with respect to groundwater, and in order to determine whether elaborate and expensive groundwater testing should be required in order to register a new pesticide. Several screening techniques have been proposed recently, some based on threshold values for critical physical properties of the pesticide, and others based on mathematical models of the leaching process. A different approach is taken in this paper, whereby an index is derived based entirely on the physical properties of those pesticides that have been found either leachable or essentially immobile. The index is based on graphical examination of a plot formed by two widely available pesticide properties: half‒life in soil (
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