Herbicide Loading to Shallow Ground Water beneath Nebraska's Management Systems Evaluation Area
Roy F. Spalding*,a,
Darrell G. Wattsb,
Daniel D. Snowa,
David A. Cassadac,
Mary E. Exnerd and
James S. Scheperse
a Dep. of Agronomy and Horticulture, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0915
b Dep. of Biological Systems Engineering, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0726
c Water Sciences Laboratory, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0844
d School of Natural Resource Sciences, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0759
e Dep. of Agronomy, USDA-ARS, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0934

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Fig. 1. Location of the Nebraska Management Systems Evaluation Area (MSEA) within the nonpoint-source nitrate and atrazine ground water contamination zone.
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Fig. 2. Layout of researchdemonstration site and sampling locations.
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Fig. 3. Average atrazine, atrazine degradate (DEA, deethylatrazine; DIA, deisopropylatrazine), and metolachlor concentrations in shallow ground water ( 1.5 m) downgradient of the three corn management fields.
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Fig. 4. Average molar ratio of deethylatrazine to atrazine (DAR) in the shallow ground water ( 1.5 m) downgradient of the corn management fields.
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Fig. 5. Seasonal concentrations of atrazine, atrazine degradates (DEA, deethylatrazine; DIA, deisopropylatrazine), and metolachlor in shallow ground water ( 1.5 m) downgradient of the four management fields.
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Fig. 6. Atrazine, atrazine degradate (DEA, deethylatrazine; DIA, deisopropylatrazine), and metolachlor concentrations in the shallow ground water ( 1.5 m) upgradient of the researchdemonstration site.
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Fig. 7. (a) Average molar ratio of deisopropylatrazine to deethylatrazine (D2R) and (b) regression analysis of deisopropylatrazine (DIA) and deethylatrazine (DEA) concentrations in the shallow ground water ( 1.5 m) downgradient of the corn management fields.
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