This is the public notice mailed out to everyone on the CPIA mailing list and also posted in the Portland Press Herald regarding the public informational meeting to be held Monday May 22nd at 6pm in the Windham High School cafeteria regarding the next step in fighting milfoil in Collins Pond.
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Environmental Assessment’s Invasive Aquatic Species Program (IASP), intends to file a Notice of Intent (NOI) with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection Division of Water Quality Management for herbicide treatment of Collins Pond (Windham, ME) to control the invasive aquatic plant hybrid variable-leaved water-milfoil ( Myriophyllum heterophyllum X laxum ).
The application is for a permit to discharge the aquatic herbicide Procellacor EC (active ingredient florpyrauxifen-benzyl) via subsurface injection through perforated hose from a surface watercraft into Collins Pond. Depending on the extent of invasive milfoil growth in 2023, the herbicide will be applied to all or a portion of the pond. The treatment will likely occur in June or July 2023. The treatment goal is to significantly diminish the hybrid variable-leaved water-milfoil in Collins Pond to reduce risk of spread and allow future management with non-chemical control methods. The treatment is part of a five-year management plan.
The IASP will hold an in-person public information meeting regarding this proposed herbicide treatment on Monday, May 22, 2023, at 6 p.m. at the Windham High School cafeteria ( 406 Gray Rd, Windham, ME).
Upon treatment, the IASP will post these advisories for the area treated: l ? Do not use lake water for hydroponic, greenhouse or nursery irrigation before contacting the IASP to confirm the herbicide has dissipated l ? Do not use lake water for any residential or non-agricultural irrigation (such as shoreline property use for irrigation of residential landscape plants and homeowner gardens, golf course irrigation, and non-residential property irrigation around business or industrial properties) for 3 days following treatment. l ?
There is no swimming restriction for florpyrauxifen-benzyl but the IASP advises residents not to swim within treated areas on the day of treatment as an added safety measure. The NOI will be submitted around May 24, 2023 and will be available via email along with dates of NOI submission, NOI approval and herbicide treatment.
More information is available from the DEP IASP Coordinator, Maine DEP, State House Station 17, Augusta, ME 04333 ( milfoil@maine.gov ; 207-215-9863).
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