Press Release
September 25, 2014
- Water & Soil
FY2013 Survey Results ofWater Pollution byAgricultural Chemicals Used at Golf Courses
The Ministry of the Environment has collected the results of monitoring surveys of agricultural chemicals in golf course drains, which is conducted by local governments and regional environment offices in FY 2013.
The monitoring surveys were conducted in accordance with the "Tentative Guideline for the Prevention of Water Pollution by Agricultural Chemicals Used in Golf Courses", hereinafter referred to as "the Guideline". 22,279 samples from 547 golf courses were measured in the survey and no sample of the drains exceeded reference values of concentrations set in the Guideline (Table 1 and Table 2).
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