Enjoy your thread, you have real concerns and a person wonders about what they don't know.
To me it looks like there is quite a grass buffer there, between the field and the pond? If a whole lot of terribles was leaching into the pond from the field, you'd be seeing that on the grass, I would think.
To be honest, as a farmer, I see how close the road is to the pond? I'd be more concerned about the grease, oil, exhaust, rubber bits, and 'out the window' debris that comes from the road. That seems the worse issue to me - again, a farmer. :)
The road crew just went past my county blacktop today - have a big arm out the side with a spritzer on it, drive by at 5mph, and the passenger pulls the trigger every now & then, I see a black fog coming out of it. Killing broadleaves I guess. Funny, to spray my fields I need to be close to the crop, not allow spray drift - they have a rig that would not pass muster for the county inspector if I had it in my field.
Typically corn is sprayed 2x a year? Notill would be a bit more. Probably putting down 2 pints or so of material per acre? On average. If he messed up this one time, the big rain blew out of nowhere, and he's got a fair grassy buffer strip....
I'd not worry about it too much. The roadway would bother me more.
If this were a spray every week all summer, and it rained every time, then it would bug me.
Just random thoughts, donno if I'm all right or all wrong. :)
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