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Occurrence Of Pesticides In Rain And Air In Urban And Agricultural Areas Of Mississippi, April-September 1995, R. H. Coupe, M. A. Manning, W. T. Foreman, D. A. Goolsby, M. S. Majewski

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

In April 1995, the US Geological Survey began a study to determine the occurrence and temporal distribution of 49 pesticides and pesticide metabolites in air and rain samples from an urban and an agricultural sampling site in Mississippi. The study was a joint effort between the National Water-Quality Assessment and the Toxic Substances Programs and was part of a larger study examining the occurrence and temporal distribution of pesticides in air and rain in the Mississippi River basin. Concurrent high-volume air and wet-only deposition samples were collected weekly. The air samplers consisted of a glass-fiber filter to collect particles and …