Organochlorine Pesticide Residues in Sediments and Waters from Cocoa Producing Areas of Ondo State, Southwestern Nigeria

Table 6

Results of the correlation tests for OCPs in sediment samples during the wet season.

OCPs/PCBs	HCB	α-BHC	β-BHC	γ-BHC	HEPT ACHLOR	ALDRIN	TRANS-CHLORDANE	CIS-CHLORDANE	α-ENDO SULFAN	β-ENDO SULFAN	p,p′-DDE	o,p′-DDD	p,p′-DDD	p,p′-DDT	DIELDRIN	ENDRIN
HCB	1.00	0.96	0.98	0.99	0.68	0.99	0.92	−0.06	−0.04	0.86	0.83	0.99	0.98	0.01	0.81	0.99
α-BHC		1.00	0.97	0.97	0.69	0.96	0.90	−0.09	−0.07	0.90	0.88	0.96	0.96	−0.00	0.76	0.97
β-BHC			1.00	0.99	0.72	0.98	0.92	−0.09	−0.07	0.94	0.92	0.98	0.99	0.00	0.78	0.99
γ-BHC				1.00	0.78	0.98	0.91	0.02	0.04	0.91	0.89	0.98	0.98	−0.00	0.81	0.99
HEPTACHLOR					1.00	0.67	0.63	0.53	0.59	0.74	0.75	0.68	0.70	−0.04	0.70	0.69
ALDRIN						1.00	0.92	−0.07	−0.06	0.86	0.83	0.99	0.98	0.02	0.81	0.99
TRANS-CHLORDANE							1.00	−0.11	−0.09	0.86	0.80	0.93	0.96	0.37	0.89	0.93
CIS-CHLORDANE								1.00	0.92	−0.11	−0.06	−0.07	−0.09	−0.08	0.17	−0.08
α-ENDOSULFAN									1.00	−0.09	−0.03	−0.06	−0.07	−0.06	0.21	−0.06
β-ENDOSULFAN										1.00	0.98	0.86	0.92	0.07	0.71	0.89
p,p′-DDE											1.00	0.84	0.88	−0.02	0.66	0.86
o,p′-DDD												1.00	0.98	0.02	0.81	0.99
p,p′-DDD													1.00	0.14	0.84	0.99
p,p′-DDT														1.00	0.43	0.01
DIELDRIN															1.00	0.80
ENDRIN																1.00

^∗Bold  𝑟 values are significant at 𝑃<0.0001.