Pesticide Transport

The transport of pesticide from land areas into streams and water bodies is a result of soil weathering and erosion processes. Excessive loading of pesticides in streams and water bodies can produce toxic conditions that harm aquatic life and render the water unfit for human consumption. This chapter reviews the algorithms governing movement of soluble and sorbed forms of pesticide from land areas to the stream network. Pesticide transport algorithms in SWAT+ were taken from EPIC (Williams, 1995).