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Diuron and Simazine Losses to Runoff Water in Mediterranean Vineyards

Dep. of Soil Science, INRA, 2 Place Pierre Viala, 34060 Montpellier, France.

^* Corresponding author (lennartz{at}wundl.uni_kiel_de and louchart{at}ensam.inra.fr).

ABSTRACT

The Mediterranean climate is characterized by a hot and dry summer where occasional storm events induce erosion and runoff. The high leaching potential of pesticides to surface waters under such climate conditions are not in relation to the main body of data that originated from summer-rain row-crop scenarios. In this 2-yr study we monitored runoff discharge and concentrations of the two soil applied herbicides diuron [3-(3,4-dichlorphenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea] and simazine [6-chloro-N₂,N₄-diethyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine] from two field sites—one tilled and one no-till—cropped with grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.; Cinsault and Aramon, respectively). Despite a time lag of 140 d in 1994 between chemical application and first runoff event, diuron concentrations in overland flow exceeded 200 µg L^–1 at the no-till site. In 1995 the first strong rainfall-runoff event following application carried >87 and 60% of the respective seasonal simazine and diuron loss at both sites, although it accounted for <17 and 7% of the total runoff volume at the no-till and tilled site, respectively. At the no-till site, seasonal diuron loss during 1995 was 1.71% of applied; the corresponding value for simazine was 1.25%. Only 0.68 and 0.79% of the respective applied diuron and simazine mass were washed from the tilled field, reflecting differences in runoff volume between sites. Pesticide losses depended primarily on runoff volume and intensity. Event average herbicide concentrations in surface runoff followed an exponential decay over time. Estimated first order rate coefficients were at least twice as large as those derived from soil samples using the alcoholic solvent extraction technique. The decreasing water availability with time compared with the herbicide content at the soil surface indicated an increasing adsorption with time.

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