2024 Herbicide Treatment Plan Update by Sheila Rappazzo, Herbicide Chair
This is the second year of our 3-year commitment with Pond and Lake Connection (PLC) as our herbicide applicator. We will again be treating some areas for Eurasian Milfoil with ProcellaCOR. We will be treating areas for Curlyleaf Pondweed with Aquathol, and we have requested authorization to also use Aquathol, later in the season if needed, to treat overgrowth of Southern Naiad.
The herbicide application was filed with the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) in January, and is currently under review by various Departments within. We expect that the DEC will issue the permit by sometime in April to allow for treatment as early in the season as possible. The areas to be treated will be based on the pre-treatment assessment that PLC will conduct, ideally in late April.
If you have any questions, please contact Sheila Rappazzo at sarappazzo@yahoo.com, or call or text (518) 429-8312.
2023 Herbicide Treatment Plan Update
After the last few frustrating years of working with SOLitude as our herbicide treatment applicator, we have switched to a new company, The Pond and Lake Connection (PLC). PLC is a full-service organization with a field person located in Saratoga Springs. In a different approach from the past, we have developed a three-year treatment plan with PLC. Under the new plan, substantial areas of the lake will be treated for Eurasian Milfoil with ProcellaCOR, an herbicide we have used in the past. Our expectation is that in the second and third year of the plan those areas should not need, or need very little, treatment for Milfoil. We will also be treating areas for Curlyleaf Pondweed with Aquathol, which is the same herbicide that we have used in the past. The areas to be treated will be based on the pre-treatment assessment that PLC will conduct in late April.
All in all, we are hopeful that the three-year plan will better control the invasive weed growth. The application has been filed with DEC and seems to be on track for DEC to issue the permit in mid to late April, which should allow treatment in early May.
If you have any questions please contact Sheila Rappazzo at sarappazzo@yahoo.com, or call or text (518) 429-8312.
2022 Herbicide Treatment Update Sheila Rappazzo, Herbicide Chair
Herbicide treatment of the lake is Thursday May 26, starting at 9:00 AM.
Water Use Restrictions will be as follows:
* Swimming/bathing 24 hours after treatment
* Fishing no restriction
* Animal/pet consumption no restriction
* Use of the lake water for drinking, cooking, food preparation and other culinary uses will be restricted until laboratory analysis confirms concentrations below 50 parts per billion. We will notify you when the restrictions are lifted.
* Use of the lake water for irrigating is restricted for 21 days or until notification that concentrations are below 100 ppb.
If you have any questions, please contact Sheila Rappazzo (call or text) at 518-429-8312 or sarappazzo@yahoo.com
2021 Herbicide Treatment Update Sheila Rappazzo, Herbicide Chair
The herbicide treatment of the Lake took place on Thursday May 20th. Weather conditions were good for the treatment. The air boat, which has been used in prior years and is loud and very noticeable, was not used by Solitude to do the application this year. The boat they used for the herbicide application for the Curlyleaf Pondweed was just a regular boat; it looked like a fishing boat, definitely not as noticeable as the air boat. Aquathol is a liquid which they put into the water with a hose from the boat.
We were planning to treat for both Curlyleaf Pondweed and Milfoil. While the pre-treatment survey found very little milfoil in the areas identified in our application to DEC in the northern 2/3rds of the lake, there were areas identified in the south end of lake. However, due to a number of missteps by Solitude the herbicide used for Milfoil was not available when treatment needed to be done for the Curlyleaf. This is a significant concern for us, and we will be following up with Solitude.
Thanks to the donations of many we were able to proceed with the treatment, though at a scaled back level from what had been anticipated. 35 acres were treated. Keeping Milfoil and Curlyleaf Pondweed in check is a daunting task. Both are very resilient, aggressive, invasive weeds.
Restrictions on the use of the water for potable purposes and irrigation were lifted in June after laboratory analysis.
If you have questions (including what kinds of weeds you have by your dock), please contact Sheila Rappazzo at sarappazzo@yahoo.com or 518-429-8312 (call or text).
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