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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Comparison of Pesticide Transport Processes in Three Tile-Drained Field Soils Using HYDRUS-2D

Arnaud Boivin^a,c,*, Jirka imnek^b, Michel Schiavon^c and Martinus Th. van Genuchten^a

^a USDA-ARS, George E. Brown, Jr., Salinity Lab., 450 West Big Springs Rd., Riverside, CA 92507
^b Dep. of Environmental Sciences, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521
^c Laboratoire Sols et Environnement, UMR INPL-ENSAIA/INRA, 2 Avenue de la Forêt de Haye, B.P. 172, 54505 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, France
^* Corresponding author (arnaud.boivin{at}lyon.cemagref.fr)

Received 22 July 2005.

The purpose of this study was to assess the transport of the herbicide bentazone [3-(1-methylethyl)-1H-2,1,3-benzothiadiazin-4(3H)-one 2,2-dioxide] in three contrasting tile-drained cultivated field soils subject to otherwise similar experimental conditions. Observed drain discharge rates and chemical concentrations in the drainage water reflected the different transport processes at the three sites in the same area of northeastern France: a sandy loam site (Villey), a silt loam site (Bouzule-1), and a silty clay site (Bouzule-2). The sandy loam site showed very little tile drainage (240 m³ ha^–1) during the 100-d study in the spring of 2002, as well as low chemical losses in the drainage water (0.16% [v/v] of the applied amount). While little drainage was observed also for the silty clay soil (175 m³ ha^–1), observed pesticide losses were considerably larger (1.25% of the applied amount). The silt loam soil, in comparison, showed much more drainage (521 m³ ha^–1) and the highest chemical loads in the drainage water (2.7% of the applied amount). Numerical simulations of drain discharge with the HYDRUS-2D variably saturated flow and solute transport model compared well with the observed data for the relatively homogeneous sandy loam (Villey) and the silt loam (Bouzule-1) soils. The saturated hydraulic conductivity of the bottom layer in both cases was key to correctly predicting the drainage fluxes. Accurate predictions of the silty clay field data (Bouzule-2) could be obtained only when the soil hydraulic functions were modified to account for preferential flow through drying cracks near the soil surface. Chemical concentrations could be better described using a dual-porosity (mobile–immobile water type) transport model for all three soils, including the sandy loam. Results indicate that water and pesticide transport in soils is governed by site-specific processes. Optimal use of the HYDRUS-2D flow and transport model allowed a reasonable description of the field-scale pesticide processes using only a limited number of adjustable parameters.

Abbreviations: ADE, advection–dispersion equation • MIM, mobile–immobile solute transfer model

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