Mechanical Harvesting an Economical Choice

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Inland Lake Harvester with Seaplane
It is exhausting reading about lake after lake after lake becoming infested with an over abundance of aquatic vegetation.  This plant material not only negatively affects water quality, the health of the fishery, recreation, aesthetics, but it is financially devastating as well. It affects tourism; bait shops, marinas, hotels, restaurants.  It affects lake property owners;

Keeping Our Waterways Weed Free

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Steam Powered Aquatic Weed Harvester
Little thought is given to aquatic weeds unless you live or recreate on the worlds waterways.  The aquatic plant harvester industry has grown in response to those concerns. With Pictures of steam powered cutter boats dating back to the late 1890’s, we know that excessive plant growth has been a problem for a long time. 

Weed Harvesters as Workboats – WorkBoat.com

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Aquatic Canal Cleaner
Weed harvesters as workboats By WorkBoat Staff 11/15/2011 As we’ve been following efforts by folks such as those along the Cuyahoga River in Ohio to establish greenery along previously dead rivers, perhaps opening them to more passenger vessel traffic as people again see these rivers as something they’d like to ride along, our attention was

Aquatic Weed Cutting & Harvesting Success

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Hydropower Intake Structure Blocked by Weeds
Ninety-eight percent of Malawi’s electricity supply comes from five hydro plants on the Shire River.  An increase in floating aquatic weeds and debris caused serious operational problems at the stations and resulted in millions of dollars spent on repairs.  For example, the intake structures at one plant were so blocked by accumulated weeds, water could not

Cutting the Weeds at Bakersfield River Walk

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Aquatic Weed Harvester
The Bakersfield big blue mechanical monster in the lake is pretty intimidating up close.  The aquatic weed harvester acts like an underwater lawn mower.  It moves about 5 mph and has cutter blades underneath it with an adjustable swath of about 8 feet wide and 6 feet deep. The blades cut the weeds as they

What is an Aquatic Weed Harvester?

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Mechanical Weed Harvester
Aquatic Plant Harvesters offer an environmentally sound method of controlling excessive aquatic plant growth and nuisance vegetation in waterways of all sizes. These heavy duty work boats are highly efficient in the management of submerged, emergent and free floating aquatic vegetation. Like an underwater lawn mower, an aquatic weed harvester cuts aquatic vegetation, collecting and storing