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No Milfoil Found in the Lake - Milfoil in Canals to be Treated This Year
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At their August 25 meeting, the Manistee Lake Improvement Board received the results of our late summer milfoil survey. For the first time since this issue arose on Manistee Lake, the survey found no Eurasian Milfoil in the main body of the lake. However milfoil growth in the canal areas did increase so the Board voted to treat the canals for milfoil this year. No exact date has yet been set for this treatment but it will occur sometime shortly after the Labor Day weekend.
Residents on the canals will receive required notices by mail of the pending chemical treatment. These notices tend to be full of cautions that may concern recipients as they are boilerplate covering the wide range of chemical treatments that could be used. MLIB has only approved the use of a compound called Porcella COR, the most selective and safest treatment chemical currently available. It is not a poison like Roundup or similar broad spectrum weed killers. Porcella COR is absorbed by the plant roots and then mimics a growth hormone in milfoil that causes the plant to grow faster than it can support itself, causing it to fall over and die. While residents are encouraged to avoid going in the water on the day treatment occurs, Porcella COR does not remain in the water column for longer than the day of treatment.
On the day of treatment canal residents will also see notices placed on trees in front of their homes, along the canal that treatment is occurring. You can keep or remove these notices as you please.
Welcome to Our Website
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Welcome to the new and improved Manistee Lake Association web site. We hope you like the look and the many additional features. We have tried to make the site far more useful as a source of information and communication. Many of the features are in the members only area so we encourage everyone to become a member and to register for the member area. Access is free to MLA members. Members please make sure to update your member information so we have current contact information for you. If you are a new resident who does not receive our newsletter, please give us your contact information so we can add you to our database. Just click on the contact us link under website feedback on the lower right of this page and submit your information.
We invite comments and suggestions to improve the site as well. We want to make this site as useful and user friendly as we can. We have tried to minimize some features to lessen download times for those of you with slower internet connections. We will continue to add information to the site and to improve features as we go so please check back often and let us know what you think. I hope you enjoy our new home on the web. Spread the word around. Manistee Lake can always use more friends.
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