Pesticide Mitigation Strategies for Surface Water Quality

Edited by Kean Goh, Brian Bret, Thomas Potter, and Jay Gan

American Chemical Society

ACS Symposium Series

Provides comprehensive and most updated information on managing greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural systems, including fundamental processes as well as control strategies of emissions

Pesticide Mitigation Strategies for Surface Water Quality

Edited by Kean Goh, Brian Bret, Thomas Potter, and Jay Gan

American Chemical Society

Description

This book compiles chapters developed from presentations at two symposia that addressed urban and agricultural pesticide uses and mitigation measures to prevent pesticide runoff and surface water contamination. The symposia were held at the 239th ACS International Meeting in the spring of 2010 in San Francisco with collaborative organizational efforts and presentations from industry, academia, government research organizations, and regulatory agencies. Selected chapters were also invited outside the symposia to more comprehensively cover the topic.

The first section of the book focuses on mitigation measures. Chapters describe field research conducted on vegetated ditches and buffer strips, constructed wetlands, settlement ponds, use of enzymes to degrade pesticides, application methods, and grower outreach. The second section focuses on modeling efforts in field crops, rice paddies, and urban turf testing various mitigation measures or comparing different models. The final section discusses some of the more problematic issues and challenges to implementing mitigation practices. It is the editors' expectation that the chapters included in this book will prove useful to both academics and practitioners, stimulate further research where needed, and encourage development and implementation of mitigation measures resulting in improvements in surface water quality.

Pesticide Mitigation Strategies for Surface Water Quality

Edited by Kean Goh, Brian Bret, Thomas Potter, and Jay Gan

American Chemical Society

ACS Symposium Series

Preface

Best Management Practices To Mitigate Pesticide Runoff
1. Improving Surface Water Quality Through Grower-Led Coalition Program Using GIS Mapping and Grower Visits
Parry Klassen and Michael L. Johnson, PhD
2. From Vegetated Ditches to Rice Fields: Thinking Outside the Box for Pesticide Mitigation
M. T. Moore, R. Kröger, J. L. Farris, M. A. Locke, E. R. Bennett, D. L. Denton, and C. M. Cooper
3. Use of Constructed Wetlands as Best Management Practice To Reduce Pesticide Loads
Robert Budd
4. Efficacy of Sediment Basins for Reducing Sediment and Pyrethroid Transport in Almond Orchards
James C. Markle, Tamara E. Watson, Terry L. Prichard, and P. Klassen
5. Management Practices for Reducing Discharge of Pyrethroids and Sediment in Irrigation Drainage Water from Row Crops
Russell L. Jones and James C. Markle
6. Mitigating Pesticide Runoff from Nurseries
Julie Newman, Salvatore Mangiafico, Don Merhaut, Laosheng Wu, Jianhang Lu, Darren Haver, Ben Faber, and Jay Gan
7. Effectiveness of Cultivation Practices To Minimize the Off-Site Transport of Pesticides in Runoff from Managed Turf
Pamela J. Rice, Brian P. Horgan, and Jennifer L. Rittenhouse
8. Encouraging Adoption of Integrated Pest Management in Non-Agricultural Settings
Cheryl A. Wilen, Chris A. Geiger, and Wanda Y. MacLachlan
9. Comparison of Pesticide Runoff from Organic and Conventional Walnut Orchards
Nicole David, Fred Thomas, and Debra Denton
10. Introduction of Atrazine Degrader To Enhance Rhizodegradation of Atrazine
Chung-Ho Lin, Brian M. Thompson, Hsin-Yeh Hsieh, and Robert N. Lerch
11. Free-Enzyme Bioremediation of Pesticides
Colin Scott, Cameron Begley, Matthew J. Taylor, Gunjan Pandey, Vinko Momiroski, Nigel French, Clint Brearley, Steve E. Kotsonis, Michael J. Selleck, Flerida A. Carino, Cristina M. Bajet, Craig Clarke, John G. Oakeshott, and Robyn J. Russell
12. Efficacy of a Vegetative Buffer for Reducing the Potential Runoff of the Insect Growth Regulator Novaluron
Robert Everich, Andrew Newcombe, Mary Nett, and Janet Olinger
13. Application Methods in Orchards To Reduce Off-Site Deposition of Pesticides
Robert C. Ehn, Dennis M. Dunbar, and Tim Ksander

Modeling Pesticide Runoff and Mitigation Practices
14. Modeling Approaches for Pesticide Exposure Assessment in Rice Paddies
Yuzhou Luo, W. Martin Williams, Dirk F. Young, Hirozumi Watanabe, Julien Boulange, Amy M. Ritter, and Thai Khanh Phong
15. Modeling the Effectiveness of Mitigation Measures on the Diazinon Label
Nathan J. Snyder, W. Martin Williams, Debra L. Denton, and Christian Bongard
16. Estimating Pesticide Retention Efficacy for Edge-of-Field Buffers Using the Riparian Ecosystem Management Model (REMM) in a Southeastern Plains Landscape
Thomas L. Potter, R. Richard Lowrance, David D. Bosch, and Randall G. Williams
17. Comparison of Models for Estimating the Removal of Pesticides by Vegetated Filter Strips
Michael F. Winchell, Russell L. Jones, and Tammara L. Estes
18. Sources of Pyrethroid Insecticides in California's Urban Watersheds: A Conceptual Model
Kelly D. Moran and Patti L. TenBrook
19. Use of the EPA Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) for Diagnosis of Pesticide Off-Target Movement from Residential Areas
Scott H. Jackson and Michael Winchell

Challenges in Protecting Surface Water Quality
20. The Challenges of Developing and Implementing Agricultural Environmental Management Practices
K. L. Mercer
21. Food Safety and Surface Water Quality
Karen Lowell and Mary Bianchi

Editors' Biographies
Indexes
Author Index
Subject Index

Pesticide Mitigation Strategies for Surface Water Quality

Edited by Kean Goh, Brian Bret, Thomas Potter, and Jay Gan

American Chemical Society

ACS Symposium Series

Author Information

Kean S. Goh is affiliated with the California Department of Pesticide Regulations. Brian L. Bret is affiliated with Dow AgroSciences LLC. Jay Gan is affiliated with the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of California. Thomas L. Potter is Affiliated with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service.