Herbicide spraying planned for Annapolis County

By Lawrence Powell

Spectator

NovaNewsNow.com

The herbicide spray season is underway in Nova Scotia with several applications for forest in Annapolis County. In the following 39 locations in Annapolis and Digby counties, under one application, approval was still pending as of late last week. The area name is followed by the number of hectares. The spray start date is expected to be around August 15.

The total area expected to be sprayed is 1491.143 hectares with 1422.980 sprayed from the air and 68.163 sprayed from the ground. Herbicides to be used are Vision 19899, Forza 26401, and Vantage 26884.

Applications are made to the Department of Environment and Labour.

Guinea Road 37.972

Tower Hill 27.433

Morganille 20.401

Lake Mulgrave 113.464

Lac Lemachant 34.123

Charity Lake 7.59

Lake Jolli 55.49

Tom Wallace 3.363

Uniacke Lake 34.757

Dugas Lake 25.721

Uniacke Lake 117.56

Little Tom Wall 58.464

1st Chubb Lake 26.588

Ninth Lake 14.825

Sixth Lake 63.246

Lake Franklin 95.932

Ninth Lake 143.791

Chub Meadow Brook 3.094

Riverdale 26.589

Fourth Lake 23.756

New France 3.827

New France 27.268

New France 3.068

Barnes Lake 10.966

Cranberry Lake Rd 36.447

Silver River 28.186

Big Barios Brook 79.339

Little Bario LA 36.163

Lucky Lake 73.584

Sixth Lake 46.056

5th Lake 8.332

2nd Lake 23.371

Langford Lake 44.558

Acie Lake 55.007

Harlow Lake 6.265

Bradys Brk 16.199

Maitland Bridge 13.745

Lake Torment 28.157

Victory 16.466

The following locations in Annapolis, Digby, and Yarmouth counties, also under a single application, are also pending approval for spraying which could begin on or before August 23. Total area to be sprayed is 271.1 hectares, all from the air. Vision 19899 will be used.

Joe Simon Block 12.7

Toad Lake1 17.3

Toad Lake2 106.1

Toad Lake3 7.9

Toad Lake4 26.0

Toad Lake5 70.1

Georgies Meadow 18.9

Solomon Lake 12.1