Press Release
October 23, 2015
- Water & Soil
FY 2014 Survey Results of Water Pollution by Agricultural 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 FY2014.
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". 17,328 samples from 511 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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