The 2006 General Herbicide Treatment is Upon Us

Today, Tuesday June 13th and tomorrow,Wednesday June 14 the 2006 general herbicide treatment is being conducted as per the treatment maps found below. All of the lakes were surveyed in creating these maps. It is critical that contact herbicides be used only when treatment criteria warrent doing so. We had some people ask why the treatment was not conducted earlier. The 2006 treatment was bumped up a week earlier than in 2005. If the treatment is conducted any earlier, we run the risk of needing a second treatment to provide season long control as the singed native vascular aquatic plants grow back. The need for a second treatment would be not only financially costly, but biologically detrimental as well as is described in privious Blog articles. In about 10 days to 2 weeks we should see treated plants begin to fall out of the water column as the applied salts burn and breakdown the plants cellulose structures.