Nov 2012: Report published by the Northern Territory's Department of Land Resource Management, Trial Monitoring for Pesticides and PAH's in the Katherine River using Passive Samplers, finds traces of 5 pesticides (and metabolites) and 2 insecticides. Atrazine, Atrazine Desethyl (0.001ug/L), Hexazinone, Simazine, Tebuthiuron, DEET (0.189ug/L) and Chlorpyrifos were detected.
Nov 2012: Report published by the Northern Territory’s Department of Land Resource Management, Trial Monitoring for Pesticides and PAH’s in the Katherine River using Passive Samplers, finds traces of 5 pesticides (and metabolites) and 2 insecticides. Atrazine, Atrazine Desethyl (0.001ug/L), Hexazinone, Simazine, Tebuthiuron, DEET (0.189ug/L) and Chlorpyrifos were detected.
https://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/146765/Kath_pesticides_Final_Nov_2012_DLRM.pdf