Abstract
Abstract Atrazine is a pesticide frequently encountered in ground and surface waters. The maximum allowable concentration of this pesticide in France is 0.1 μg I‐1 and levels of atrazine often are over this limit. Researches are being conducted actually to treat this polluant or to find new molecules in replacement. Cyanazine has been proposed and we have tested the efficiency of differents treatments on a pilot plant. Coagulation ‐ floculation is ineffective. Ozonation seems not very effective but slow sand filtration seems better to remove this herbicide. The explanation of elimination of cyanazine on slow sand filters seems to be adsorption followed by rapid biodegradation. The step of reversible adsorption may conduct to high concentration of cyanazine in water flowing out the slow sand filter in case of brutal change of concentration in raw water.
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