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When: Friday, March 3, 2006,
9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Where: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building
Who: Speakers from USGS and USEPA
Robert Hirsch, USGS Associate
Director for Water
Bob Gilliom, USGS author of Pesticides in the Nation’s Streams
and Ground Water, 1992 - 2001
Jim Jones, Director, Office of Pesticides - U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
Background: The USGS is releasing the results of a 10 year
nationwide assessment on pesticide occurrence and concentrations in
streams and ground water. The USGS assessment provides the most
comprehensive national-scale analysis to date of pesticide occurrence,
distribution and sources, and potential for effects on humans, aquatic
life, and wildlife. Among the major findings are that pesticides are
frequently present in streams and ground water, were seldom found at
concentrations likely to affect humans, but were found in many streams at
concentrations that may have effects on aquatic life or fish-eating
wildlife.
The assessment also begins to examine two important topics with
implications for the future—prediction of pesticides in unmonitored
areas and long-term trends.
Additional information: Contact Pixie Hamilton 804-261-2602 (pahamilt@usgs.gov)
or Donna Myers at 703-648-5012 (dnmyers@usgs.gov)
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