Hydrilla public meeting 11/12, 7-9 p.m TCPL

[Sharon K. Anderson]

(please help spread the word – and not the plant)

 

Hydrilla Update: treatment, monitoring and successes

November 12, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner Room East

101 E. Green Street in Ithaca.

Free

 

Topics to be covered include an overview of hydrilla control efforts in 2013, the results of monitoring for drinking water safety, the findings from plant monitoring,  the effectiveness of the herbicide and treatment in the southeast corner of the lake. Time for questions will be included.

 

Presenters include James Balyszak, Hydrilla Coordinator; Anne Wildman of the Tompkins County Health Department; and Bob Johnson, aquatic plant ecologist. Sharon Anderson, Environment Team Leader at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County will moderate.

 

The public meeting will be preceded at 6:30 pm with a reception to thanking our volunteers. The reception honors the  Hydrilla Hunters and others who have been on alert for hydrilla all summer and who helped "spread the word, not the plant." Come for refreshments and a brief presentation. Stay for the public meeting at 7 pm.

 

Sponsored by the Hydrilla Task Force of the Cayuga Lake Watershed, the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County. For more information, please contact Sharon Anderson at (607) 272-2292 or sk...@cornell.edu

 

 

 

Sharon K. Anderson

Environment Team Leader

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County

615 Willow Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850

Cell 607-280-5580

Office 607-272-2292

 

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