Pesticide Mitigation Strategies for Surface Water Quality (ACS Symposium Series, 1075)

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.