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Article: GIANT SALVINIA MOVES DEEPER INTO TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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ATHENS, Texas, Nov. 5 -- The Texas Parks and Wildlife issued the following news release:
A ribbon of giant salvinia and water hyacinth 200 to 300 yards wide and more than a mile long is floating down the middle of Toledo Bend Reservoir.
"Runoff from the recent rains flushed the plants out of shallow areas on the upper portion of the reservoir that normally act as nursery areas and are inaccessible to most conventional treatment, and they are moving south," said Howard Elder, aquatic vegetation biologist for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). "It's what we feared would happen."
Being located in the open reservoir actually makes the plants more accessible to spraying with herbicides.