However, some initial testing by the NSW Department of Land & Water Conservation (G Carter, NSW DWR, Leeton office, pers. comm.) has detected simazine in the Jugiong Creek (0.4μg/L on 25th May 1995) and both simazine and atrazine in the Murrumbidgee River at Wagga Wagga (0.3μg/L simazine on 26th May 1995 and 0.2μg/L atrazine on 6th July1995).

p99 PESTICIDE MONITORING IN THE IRRIGATION AREAS OF SOUTH-WESTERN NSW 1990 - 1995 K H Bowmer, W Korth, A Scott, G McCorkelle, M Thomas

1995 May/July. Murrumbidgee River. Pesticides: Atrazine, Simazine

However, some initial testing by the NSW Department of Land & Water Conservation (G Carter, NSW DWR, Leeton office, pers. comm.) has detected simazine in the Jugiong Creek (0.4μg/L on 25th May 1995) and both simazine and atrazine in the Murrumbidgee River at Wagga Wagga (0.3μg/L simazine on 26th May 1995 and 0.2μg/L atrazine on 6th July1995).

p99 PESTICIDE MONITORING IN THE IRRIGATION AREAS OF SOUTH-WESTERN NSW 1990 - 1995 K H Bowmer, W Korth, A Scott, G McCorkelle, M Thomas

However, some initial testing by the NSW Department of Land & Water Conservation (G Carter, NSW DWR, Leeton office, pers. comm.) has detected simazine in the Jugiong Creek (0.4μg/L on 25th May 1995) and both simazine and atrazine in the Murrumbidgee River at Wagga Wagga (0.3μg/L simazine on 26th May 1995 and 0.2μg/L atrazine on 6th July1995).

p99 PESTICIDE MONITORING IN THE IRRIGATION AREAS OF SOUTH-WESTERN NSW 1990 – 1995 K H Bowmer, W Korth, A Scott, G McCorkelle, M Thomas