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Board hears Baldwin Basin maintenance update; urges better notice to neighbors on herbicide and prescribed-burn work
Summary
Community development staff and board members reviewed recent maintenance of the Baldwin Basin, including Wisconsin DNR-approved herbicide treatments for invasive phragmites, and recommended stronger advance notification to adjoining property owners before herbicide applications and prescribed burns.
Community development staff told the Sustainability Advisory Board on March 3 that City Department of Public Works has been maintaining the Baldwin Basin and that chemical applications used there "have been approved by Wisconsin DNR." Staff also said Public Works provided maintenance logs and that herbicides were applied to control invasive phragmites when the species covered too much area to be controlled by other practices.
Paul Trader, a new board member who introduced himself during the meeting, and other members raised concerns…
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