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Identifying Potential Pesticide Contaminants
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DPR requires environmental fate and chemistry data for all agricultural pesticides. These data are used to identify and sample for pesticides with the greatest chance to contaminate ground water.
- Pesticide Chemistry Data
Pesticide chemistry data provided by registrants of agricultural pesticides and used by DPR to identify potential ground water contaminants and fulfull mandated reporting requirements. - Potential
pesticide contaminants - regulations
Regulations adopted by DPR to identify pesticides that have the potential to pollute ground water based on their chemical properties and labeled uses. - Sampling
for potential pesticide contaminants
DPR samples for agricultural pesticides identified as potential contaminants to determine if their legal use may contaminate ground water and to better understand their fate and behavior in the environment.
For content questions contact:
Rick Bergin
1001 I Street, P.O. Box 4015
Sacramento, CA 95812-4015
Telephone: (916) 324-0827
E-mail: rbergin@cdpr.ca.gov