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By Keith Kinnaird.
Bonner County Daily Bee (Idaho).

 
 
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August 4, 2005

Bonner County Daily Bee (Idaho)

City Beach milfoil plans hit the rocks

By KEITH KINNAIRD
News editor

DEQ denies permit for controversial herbicide

SANDPOINT -- A controversial plan to use herbicide to winnow milfoil infestations in the waters off City Beach has been scuttled, Bonner County's noxious weed supervisor said Wednesday night.

"DEQ turned down our permit. It appears there was a procedural flaw," weed boss Brad Bluemer said.

Bluemer said he was not entirely sure what the "procedural flaw" was late Wednesday and declined to speculate on what it might have been. He plans to talk the matter over today with Leslie Marshall, director of Bonner County Solid Waste, Waterways and Weeds.

The county planned to begin applying an herbicide called Sonar at City Beach on Monday, but the project was delayed because of an apparent problem with maps the county submitted with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality as part of the permit application.

The problem stayed unresolved through the week. Bluemer said re-applying for the permit would delay the project enough to undermine its effectiveness.

"We've done missed our window," Bluemer said, explaining that the infestations will have grown too large by the time a permit is secured.

Although the county is cutting its losses with the permit for Sonar, it is pushing head with plans to apply another herbicide called Renovate in the Pend Oreille River at Springy Point, Willow Bay, Albeni Cove, Laclede and Priest River.

Those treatments are tentatively set to begin on August 22.

"That will be the soonest that will happen," Bluemer said.

Despite assurances from officials that the herbicides pose no safety threat, some in Bonner County object to their use in Lake Pend Oreille and the river.

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Note from FAN: The active ingredient in Renovate is Triclopyr: 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinyloxyacetic acid, triethylamine salt.
See Material Safety Data Sheet at http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/guide/renovate_label.pdf

 
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