Potential of Surface Water Contamination from Three Triazine Herbicides

Authors

William W. Witt, University of KentuckyFollow
Kip W. Sander, University of Kentucky

Abstract

The movement of atrazine, cyanazine, and simazine from the site of application was monitored under conventional, reduced, and no-tillage conditions. Less water and soil was lost from the no-tillage and reduced tillage conditions. Conventional tillage conditions had about 66,000 L/ha runoff in 1986-87 and about 123,000 L/ha runoff in 1987-88. Seasonal rainfall was 885 mm in 1986-87 and 397 mm in 1987-88. The rainfall intensity was greater during the first two events in 1987 than the corresponding events in 1986. The first rainfall event in 1986 accounted for 91, 89, and 78% of the total seasonal loss of atrazine, cyanazine, and simazine, respectively. More simazine was found in the surface runoff water than was atrazine or cyanazine.

Publication Date

9-1988

Report Number

171

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.13023/kwrri.rr.171

Funding Information

The work upon which this report is based was supported in part by funds provided by the United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., as authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1984. Public Law 98-242.

Repository Citation

Witt, William W. and Sander, Kip W., "Potential of Surface Water Contamination from Three Triazine Herbicides" (1988). KWRRI Research Reports. 35.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/kwrri_reports/35