The Brazos Water Authority is asking Freeport, Texas, residents and its surrounding areas to conserve water after a chemical was sprayed too close to the region’s water supply. While employees were spraying a common aquatic herbicide in the Dow freshwater canal, the Brazosport Water Authority’s intake area was also accidentally sprayed with Alligare Glyphosate. According
After 3 months laboring through the difficult and wet task of hand-pulling plants from Field Pond, the fate of the pond’s invasive plants lies in the hands of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. In late May Conservation Commission members voted unanimously to approve the DCR’s proposed use of the herbicides Sonar and Diquat
Lake Pend Oreille’s noxious weed problem has worsened over the past six years, as blooms of invasive Butomus umbellatus, or flowering rush, have joined Eurasian milfoil to clog area waterways. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers enacted targeted herbicide treatments at portions of waterways to control most of the flowering rush. According to the Corps,
Water samples taken in late 2013 from the South Relief Canal, which flows into the River Lagoon, in Florida, tested positive for three different herbicides that could compound pollution in the estuary. Sediment samples taken from the mouth of Taylor Creek has also tested positive for a chemical herbicide. After analyzing the samples, traces of
Lake George located at the southern end of the Adirondack Park in Upstate New York is among the clearest and cleanest large lakes in the World. Like many lakes, it has been impacted by invasive Eurasian milfoil. First discovered in 1986, milfoil has been managed over the past 30 years at a cost of over
Several residents of Lakeland Estates in Greely are upset over the continual use of algaecides and herbicides being used to treat the aquatic vegetation on these private man-made lakes. Homeowner Chris Leblanc believes it is an irresponsible way to manage the lakes, and that pesticide use is not meant to be a long-term management plan.
Aquarius Systems joined forces with Ray Scott (founder of B.A.S.S.), the Lower Colorado River Authority, Texas Parks & Wildlife, the Tennessee Valley Authority and numerous fishing & environmental groups in giving a demonstration of an Aquatic Plant Harvester for Texas Governor George Bush. The TVA brought their specially designed Aquarius harvester from Guntersville, Alabama to
State environmental officials have rejected a plan to use a powerful chemical herbicide to control an invasive water weed in Lake Iroquois in Chittenden County, saying the potential environmental damage did not justify its use. The proposal was rejected because it did not sufficiently consider non-chemical alternatives and could damage native plants along the lakeshore.
We realize this article is about terrestrial weeds, but can’t help but make the connection to aquatic plants and the need to have many options in the lake management plan. When weeds begin showing resistance, it’s not a case of the herbicide changing the weed, it’s a simple “survival of the fittest” case, according to
Following reports of hundreds of dead fish floating in Bayou Rouge in Cottonport, Louisiana, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) conducted an investigation to find out what caused the fish kill. Officials determined that that fish died from a low dissolved oxygen level in the water, basically suffocating the fish. The low dissolved