Melbourne Water and DPI agrochemicals in Port Phillip Catchment project report 2009-10

Site 29: Lynbrook Estate Wetlands Lynbrook Bvd, Lynbrook

8/9/09: Simazine 0.02ug/L

6/10/09: Bifenthrin 0.14ug/L, Atrazine 0.005ug/L, Simazine 0.02ug/L

16/12/09: Atrazine 0.01ug/L, Prometryn 0.67ug/L, Simazine 0.65ug/L, Desisopropylatrazine 0.062ug/L

22/1/10: Atrazine 0.01ug/L, Prometryn 0.001ug/L, Simazine 0.29ug/L, Metalaxyl 0.005ug/L

Site 29: Sediment: 7/9/09  p,p’DDE 7.4ug/kg, p,pDDD 39ug/kg, p,p’DDT 157ug/kg, Dieldrin 11ug/kg, Endosulfan alpha 10ug/kg. 6/10/09: Bifenthrin 23ug/kg

Melbourne Water and DPI agrochemicals in Port Phillip Catchment project report 2009-10

Potentially toxic concentrations of synthetic pyrethroids associated with low density residential land use

Supplementary Material

Stephen Marshall*, David Sharley, Katherine Jeppe, Simon Sharp, Gavin Rose, Vincent Pettigrove

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2016.00075/full

Lynbrook Estate Wetlands

Sediment

Feb/April 2015: Bifenthrin 136ug/kg, DEET 4.8ug/kg, Diuron 165ug/kg, Fenamiphos 69.6ug/kg, Permethrin 49.2ug/kg

also see: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-common-insecticide-poisoning-our-rivers-and-wetlands