Contra Costa County Depts' Pesticide Use
Home Background Pesticides Current Projects & Committees Environmental Hazards in Schools Press and News Releases Recipes for Safer Cleaning Recommended Businesses Environmental Topics Related Websites Donations Jobs Available Advisory Board	Contra Costa County Departments' Pesticide Use All Departments Public Works Department General Services Department Department of Agriculture Contra Costa Mosquito & Vector Control District Notes on reading our graphs Each Dept's total pesticide use for fiscal year July, 2004 - June, 2005 has been profiled by: Toxicity and Groundwater contamination table of all pesticides used Total lbs of each pesticide product applied Total lbs of active ingredients applied Total lbs of pesticide product and active ingredient applied by toxicity characteristic, cancer causing, neurotoxicity, reproductive/developmental toxicity, hormone disruption, and groundwater contamination potential. Some Depts' data have been further assessed for comparative use from earlier fiscal year, density of application, etc... Funded in part by a grant from the Federal Centerfor Disease Control and Prevention, and awarded by the State Department of Health Services, Center for Environmental Health Tracking Program. PfSE wishes to thank the following Campolindo and Acalanes High School Interns for their hard work developing these graphs that make sense of hundreds of documents. Jennifer Tao, Project Manager Kyle Kelson, Yasaman Bariri
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