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Officials discuss DEEP pesticide application and pond algae at golf course
Summary
At the June 17 Conservation Commission meeting, golf course superintendent Brian Johnson presented a DEEP pesticide permit application to address algae and pondweed in town ponds and state forest areas and answered commissioners' questions about potential environmental effects.
At the June 17 meeting, the commission reviewed a DEEP permit application for pesticide use affecting ponds and state forest areas and heard from Brian Johnson, the town’s golf course superintendent, about proposed treatments for algae, duckweed and invasive pondweeds.
Johnson described the targeted species as early leaf pondweed (an invasive) and filamentous algae. Commissioners flagged one active ingredient, flumioxazin, because Environmental Protection Agency…
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