PMID- 17099930 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20070323 LR - 20151119 IS - 1526-498X (Print) IS - 1526-498X (Linking) VI - 62 IP - 12 DP - 2006 Dec TI - Exposure risk assessment and evaluation of the best management practice for controlling pesticide runoff from paddy fields. Part 1: Paddy watershed monitoring. PG - 1193-206 AB - Rice pesticide concentrations in surface water along with hydrological balance and water management conditions were investigated in a paddy watershed of about 100 ha at the Sakura river basin in Tsukuba, Japan, for 3 years from April 2002. Monitoring on different hydrological scales ranging from a paddy plot up to a watershed determined the importance of water management associated with rainfall events and the cyclic irrigation for reducing pesticide discharge into aquatic environments. Surface drainage significantly increased as a response to rainfall events greater than about 1.5 cm day(-1). A total of 16 herbicides were detected in the stream water and their peak concentrations mostly occurred from early to mid-May following the pesticide application period. Two water management factors influencing the pesticide runoff from paddy fields were defined: excess water storage capacity (EWSC) and water holding period (WHP). Uncertainty analyses of pesticide discharge from a paddy plot for dymron (daimuron) and imazosulfuron (IMS) were performed using Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) with prescribed probability of rainfall and water management practice from observations over a period of 3 years. Application of an intermittent irrigation scheme with shallow water depth practice and high drainage gate to maintain the EWSC > 2 cm and increasing WHP from the current Japanese Agricultural Chemicals Regulation law of 3-4 days to at least 10 days were recommended for reducing the pesticide runoff from paddy fields in a monsoon region such as in Japan. The combination of good water management in field plots and small-scale water cycling is the best management practice for controlling pesticide discharge from paddy watersheds. CI - Copyright 2006 Society of Chemical Industry. FAU - Vu, Son Hong AU - Vu SH AD - Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Graduate School of Agriculture, 3-5-8 Saiwaicho, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8509, Japan. FAU - Ishihara, Satoru AU - Ishihara S FAU - Watanabe, Hirozumi AU - Watanabe H LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Pest Manag Sci JT - Pest management science JID - 100898744 RN - 0 (Herbicides) RN - 0 (Pesticides) SB - IM MH - Agriculture/*methods MH - *Environmental Monitoring MH - Fresh Water/*analysis MH - Herbicides/analysis MH - Monte Carlo Method MH - Oryza/growth & development MH - Pesticides/*analysis MH - Risk Assessment MH - Water Pollution, Chemical/analysis/*prevention & control EDAT- 2006/11/14 09:00 MHDA- 2007/03/24 09:00 CRDT- 2006/11/14 09:00 PHST- 2006/11/14 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/03/24 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/11/14 09:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/ps.1295 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Pest Manag Sci. 2006 Dec;62(12):1193-206. doi: 10.1002/ps.1295.