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

Table 7

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

	HCB	α-BHC	β-BHC	γ-BHC	HEPTA CHLOR	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	0.13	0.0.08	0.19	0.06	0.01	0.96	0.23	0.23	0.75	0.15	0.82	0.95	0.07	−0.14	0.86
α-BHC		1.00	0.93	0.64	0.92	0.63	−0.05	0.31	0.31	0.04	0.90	0.57	−0.07	0.63	0.07	0.16
β-BHC			1.00	0.39	0.90	0.50	−0.05	0.06	0.06	0.09	0.88	0.58	−0.05	0.51	0.24	0.09
γ-BHC				1.00	0.46	0.39	−0.08	0.86	0.86	0.11	0.45	0.21	−0.09	0.37	0.27	−0.02
HEPTACHLOR					1.00	0.81	−0.05	0.21	0.21	0.13	0.94	0.48	−0.05	0.83	0.30	0.26
ALDRIN						1.00	−0.04	0.34	0.34	0.34	0.76	0.24	−0.05	0.98	0.21	0.41
TRANS-CHLORDANE							1.00	0.03	0.03	0.76	0.04	0.75	0.99	0.03	−0.09	0.89
CIS-CHLORDANE								1.00	1.00	0.21	0.27	0.04	0.03	0.31	0.15	0.19
α-ENDOSULFAN									1.00	0.21	0.27	0.04	0.03	0.31	0.15	0.19
β-ENDOSULFAN										1.00	0.09	0.52	0.81	0.14	0.44	0.69
p,p′-DDE											1.00	0.57	0.03	0.76	0.25	0.32
o,p′-DDD												1.00	0.73	0.28	−0.13	0.73
p,p′-DDD													1.00	0.03	−0.02	0.88
p,p′-DDT														1.00	0.26	0.47
DIELDRIN															1.00	−0.01
ENDRIN																1.00

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