Archive for KLPW – Hydrilla Information
Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on August 21, 2012
This blog post comes from an avid lake user and Veteran, Dennis Harris. We welcome your comments and posts. Just send an email to info@kerrlakeparkwatch.orgor click on the comment section of this blog.
“Another problem related to the hydrilla is that the Corp (US Army Corps of Engineers) is dropping the lake an average of 6 inches every week. Four weeks ago, docks were above the hydrilla, but now
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on June 21, 2012
While the US Army Corps of Engineers continues to study hydrilla and its effects on Kerr Lake, North
Carolina State Parks will become the first governmental agency to take action against hydrilla infested areas around the shoreline that borders some popular recreation areas. Spray treatments are
scheduled for next week.
Kerr Lake State Recreation Area leaders announced yesterday that the spraying of herbicides to help contain hydrilla
will take …
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on June 19, 2012
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on June 11, 2012
The only person talking about hydrilla is a Vance
County Cooperative Extension Agent and his message in summary is spray, spray, spray, but only pay to do it. So hydrilla management in the waters of North Carolina is lucrative only to the
handful of “approved” herbicide applicators who collect big dollars from the lake-front owners who are trying to keep the encroaching water weed from blocking their boating and
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on August 14, 2011
Nearly 100 people, most of them Kerr Lake homeowners, crowded a
Satterwhite Point meeting room Thursday evening, August 11th as presenters discussed hydrilla, first giving a history of the aquatic weed’s introduction into North Carolina, then talking about its
effects on fresh water and finally treatment options. KLPW attended as well.
Vance County Ag Extension Agent Paul …
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