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Pesticides in Streams of the United States--Initial Results from the National Water-Quality Assessment Program

By Steven J. Larson, Robert J. Gilliom, and Paul D. Capel

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4222
Sacramento, California, 1999


Table 6. Agricultural use of selected pesticides per square kilometer of drainage basin.

[Values represent estimates for 1990-95 (see discussion in text). Crop group codes are defined in table 4]

Site code

Crop group code

Agricultural use in basin (kilograms per square kilometer)
   

Atrazine

Metolachlor

Cyanazine

Simazine

Chlorpyrifos

Diazinon

Carbofuran

Carbaryl

AGRICULTURAL BASINS

lsus-mill

    C
    27
38 6.5 3.2 5.4 0.0 2.1 0.9

cnbr-prairie

    C
    51
32 18 0.0 5.8 0.3 2.2 0.9

wmic-duck

    C
    14
17 15 0.0 3.3 0.1 0.7 0.1

hdsn-canaj

    CA
    6.0
4.0 2.9 0.5 3.7 0.0 0.6 0.0

poto-muddy

    CA
    13
6.8 0.9 1.3 2.5 0.0 2.5 0.4

wmic-nbmilw

    CAv
    11
14 13 0.0 2.6 0.0 0.5 0.2

cnbr-maple

    CS
    39
27 13 0.0 4.6 0.2 1.8 1.7

cnbr-shell

    CS
    46
31 16 0.0 5.5 0.3 2.1 1.4

whit-kess

    CS
    51
32 18 0.8 2.0 0.0 1.1 1.3

whit-sugar

    CS
    48
31 17 0.8 1.9 0.0 0.9 0.1

albe-pete

    CScot
    5.4
17 1.3 0.7 12 0.5 2.3 1.9

albe-albe

    CSW
    8.7
16 1.2 1.2 4.4 0.1 3.8 1.2

lsus-eastm

    CW
    12
19 2.8 1.3 2.0 0.1 1.0 0.5

poto-mono

    CW
    10
17 2.2 4.0 6.5 1.1 0.8 2.0

splt-lone

    CW
    2.7
1.6 0.8 0.0 0.9 0.1 0.5 0.0

acfb-lime

    CWp
    11
8.2 2.4 0.4 11.0 0.1 2.0 3.6

trin-chamb

    CWsor
    5.1
2.3 0.9 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.5 0.9

ccpt-crab.rl

    WA
    2.4
2.4 0.3 0.9 6.1 1.1 1.6 3.2

usnk-rock

    WAb
    0.2
0.4 0.7 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.6 0.1

ccpt-palouse

    Wb
    0.0
0.5 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1

redn-turtle

    Wb
    0.1
1.4 0.2 0.0 1.3 0.0 1.3 0.4

usnk-teton

    Wpot
    0.0
0.8 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.0 1.2 0.0

gafl-tucsa

    WScot
    2.5
6.2 7.2 0.3 9.4 0.0 0.6 3.1

albe-devils

    WStob
    0.8
3.1 0.1 0.1 5.7 0.5 0.8 1.3

ccpt-crab.m

    W
    0.0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0

ccpt-el68

    W
    0.1
0.4 0.1 0.1 0.7 0.3 0.8 0.4

redn-snake

    W
    0.3
0.9 0.2 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.7 0.2

redn-wildr

    W
    0.7
1.2 0.5 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.0

gafl-little

    P
    6.9
12 3.9 0.2 14 0.3 1.4 2.5

acfb-aycocks

    P
    10
8.8 2.9 0.2 10 0.0 2.0 2.0

sanj-salt

    COTv
    0.2
1.1 5.4 7.1 22 11 2.3 4.3

will-pudding

    FGv
    3.2
6.1 0.0 1.8 4.9 3.1 0.1 2.9

will-zollner

    FGv
    6.7
13.0 0.0 2.8 9.7 6.5 0.2 5.7

sanj-merced

    O
    0.1
0.4 0.6 0.6 3.4 2.3 0.3 0.5

sanj-orest

    O
    0.6
5.6 1.2 6.6 22 27 1.5 4.8

ozrk-dous

    XX
    0.7
0.4 0.2 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.5 0.1

ozrk-yocum

    XX
    1.2
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2

INTEGRATOR BASINS

cnbr-platte

    CW
    8.0
5.2 2.7 0.0 1.1 0.0 0.5 0.3

whit-white

    CS
    30
18 11 0.5 1.2 0.0 0.6 0.2

wmic-milw

    CAv
    9
11 10 0.0 2.1 0.0 0.4 0.1

hdsn-moh

    CA
    2.7
1.8 1.3 0.2 1.7 0.0 0.3 0.0

poto-shenan

    CA
    4.3
2.5 0.3 0.6 1.1 0.0 0.8 0.3

albe-tar

    CScot
    1.2
5.9 0.4 0.2 6.7 0.5 0.7 1.2

gafl-withla

    P
    7.6
6.7 4.0 0.3 9.7 0.2 1.7 2.3

redn-rr.fargo

    CSW
    2.2
4.6 2.3 0.0 1.1 0.0 0.2 0.3

redn-rr.em

    W
    0.7
1.7 0.7 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.4 0.2

sanj-sanj

    O
    0.1
0.8 0.9 1.4 5.6 4.4 0.5 1.0


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