DETECTION FREQUENCY, IN PERCENT

100 0 100
*Deethylatrazine Atrazine Metolachlor Bentazon Acetochlor
Alachlor

80

60

40

20

20

40

60

*Deethylatrazine Atrazine Metolachlor Bentazon Acetochlor Alachlor Prometon EPTC Metribuzin Cyanazine Trifluralin 2,4-D Terbuthiuron *2,6-diethylaniline Malathion Simazine Ethoprop Propachlor Acifluorfen Dicamba Dinoseb MCPA Molinate Carbaryl Carbofuran DCPA Dieldrin Napropamide Pendimethalin

80

Prometon EPTC Metribuzin Cyanazine Trifluralin 2,4-D Terbuthiuron *2,6-diethylaniline Malathion Simazine Ethoprop Propachlor
Acifluorfen

PESTICIDE

Dicamba Dinoseb MCPA Molinate Carbaryl Carbofuran

DCPA

Dieldrin Napropamide Pendimethalin

STREAMS
Agricultural-use pesticide

GROUND WATER
Urban-use pesticide

Agricultural- and urban-use pesticide

* Deethylatrazine and 2,6-diethylaniline are degradation products of atrazine and metoachlor, respectively.

Atrazine and its degradation product deethylatrazine were the most frequently detected pesticides in streams and ground water in agricultural areas in the UMIS study unit.
This figure taken from: Stark, J.R., Hanson, P. E., Goldstein, R.M., Fallon, J.D., Fong, A.L., Lee, K.E., Kroening, S.E., and Andrews, W 2001, Water quality in the Upper Mississippi River Basin, .J., Minnesota and Wisconsin, South Dakota, Iowa, and North Dakota, 1995-98: U.S. Geological Survey Summary Circular 1211, 35 p.

PESTICIDE