Aquatic Life Water Quality Criteria for Selected Pesticides
Special ForewordForewordPrefaceAquatic Life Water Quality Criteria Derived via the UC Davis Method I. Organophosphate Insecticides Amanda J. Palumbo, Patti L. TenBrook, Tessa L. Fojut, Isabel R. Faria and Ronald S. TjeerdemaAquatic Life Water Quality
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Ronald S. Tjeerdema
VOLUME 216
Editor Ronald S. Tjeerdema Department of Environmental Toxicology College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences University of California Davis, CA, USA
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Special Foreword
California’s Central Valley has been a leader in agricultural productivity since it was first settled by European immigrants in the nineteenth century. Drained by both the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Systems, its fertile farmlands represent the most productive region in the USA today. Key to that productivity is the use of modern agrochemicals, including fertilizers and pest control agents. However, while enormously useful as tools, they also present their share of risks to both human health and the environment. The Central Valley also contains a rich, endemic flora and fauna—both terrestrial and aquatic. Thus, the challenge for many years has been how to enhance agricultural productivity in the region while maintaining environmental quality, as agricultural residues pose a risk to not only the valley, but also the San Francisco Bay-Delta Region. In recent years, the California State Water Resources Control Board, through its Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB; Central Valley Region), has sought to better characterize the risk to endemic aquatic organisms posed by agricultural pesticides used in the valley. Such characterization would assist in guiding the continued use of pesticides in an environmentally safe manner. However, methods for assessing the risk of pesticides to aquatic species have been slow to develop. Therefore, the RWQCB approached us a number of years ago with the request that we develop an advanced method for assessing such risk, and then apply it to develop criteria for the continued safe use of many of the most ef
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