The major source of 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane in drinking water is runoff/leaching from soil fumigant used on soybeans, cotton, pineapples and orchards.
It is also used in making lead free gasoline, paper coating, soil fumigant for nematodes, and insecticide for stored grain.
There were also significant releases during its former use as a soil fumigant.
In the 1960s, propargyl bromide was first used in a soil fumigant called Trizone.
It seems they contain contaminants that can form a chemical that is the basis for a pesticide sold as a soil fumigant.
Metham sodium is a soil fumigant used as a pesticide, herbicide, and fungicide.
The simplest organoiodine compound is iodomethane, approved as a soil fumigant.
The major source of carbofuran in drinking water is leaching of soil fumigant used on rice and alfalfa.
Strawberries and tomatoes are the two crops with the most intensive use of soil fumigants.
It is a soil fumigant formerly used in American agriculture.