Pesticides in New Jersey: Implications in groundwater quality

The normal use of pesticides may result in contamination of groundwater. The potential for such contamination in New Jersey was investigated here by coallating and perusing the chemical characteristics of 150 pesticides. The list of pesticides was compiled by scientists at New jersey Department of Environmental Protection/Office of Science and Research and relinquished to researchers at Rutgers University for further investigation. The overall purpose of this report was to evaluate the potential of the given pesticides to leach through soils, given the available data in the literature. From this data source, estimations were made regarding the compounds' likelihood to contaminate aquifers used as drinking water sources in New Jersey