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Resident urges ban on broad‑spectrum herbicides after pesticide application at Will Baker Park
Summary
Resident Steve McCarter told the Decorah City Council that a contracted applicator sprayed a three‑way herbicide (2,4‑D, MCPP and dicamba) on a city soccer field without required warning signage and urged the council to adopt an ordinance prohibiting broad‑spectrum herbicides on playing fields and park grounds.
Steve McCarter told the Decorah City Council that a contracted lawn‑care crew sprayed a three‑way herbicide containing 2,4‑D, MCPP and dicamba on the Will Baker Park soccer field and failed to post warning signage. McCarter said the spraying occurred days before children from Kinder House Preschool walked along the nearby Upper Iowa River and that he found empty pesticide containers in a truck adjacent to the field.
"These are potent poisons which can harm people, plants, and animals," McCarter…
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