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CLFUG: A GIS‐scaleable model of pesticide fate in the soil–groundwater system based on clearance and fugacity paradigms

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A model of pesticide transport through the soil profile based on clearance and fugacity paradigms is presented, and an example of its application in a GIS environment is shown. A validation of the model at the field plot scale is presented using data obtained at a crop in a semiarid irrigated agricultural basin which was treated with Lindane. The adequacy at the regional scale is tested by inspection of the model predictions and the measured concentrations of the pesticide obtained from a regional phreatimetric net. The clearance concept is used to obtain estimates of the volumes of some environmental phases. These are further used to solve the equations of thermodynamic equilibrium at equal fugacity and obtain concentration estimates. The model closely reproduces the observed percolation trends, and is consistent with the regional pattern of Lindane distribution in groundwater. An application of the model as unitary module for the simulation of non‐point pesticide sources in a raster GIS frame is shown. Its performance (run time, data needed, etc.) is comparable to that of other existing algorithms, and presents some advantages to planners and evaluators of environmental quality in that it incorporates an explicit 2‐D approach and allows the identification of polluted areas downslope with respect to those directly treated with the pesticides. Further, it can be implemented in a variety of GIS and spatial data processors.

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  1. Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Pharmacy, University of the South, San Juan 660, 8000, Bahía Blanca, Argentina

    Jorge Ares

  2. Department of Agronomy, University of the South, 8000, Bahía Blanca, Argentina

    Ana M. Miglierina & Ramón Rosell

  3. National Institute of Agricultural Technology, H. Ascasubi Exp. St., Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Ramón Sánchez

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Ares, J., Miglierina, A.M., Sánchez, R. et al. CLFUG: A GIS‐scaleable model of pesticide fate in the soil–groundwater system based on clearance and fugacity paradigms. Environmental Modeling & Assessment 3, 95–105 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019058705348

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