aquatic weed control News
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Modern Water signs new product development contract
Modern Water plc (AIM:MWG), the owner of leading water technologies for the production of fresh water and monitoring of water quality, has entered into a new substantial product development contract with global agrochemical company United Phosphorous Inc. (UPI). Under the contract Modern Water will develop and supply a new herbicide testing system. The new test system will detect Endothall, an ...
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Washington state issues aquatic weed control pesticide permit
Although the key definition of whether a pesticide applied to surface waters is, or is not, a pollutant is still to be decided in court. The Washington State Department of Ecology Wednesday reissued a general permit for the application of pesticides to control aquatic weeds in irrigation water conveyance systems. The permit covers 16 irrigation districts that use pesticides to control aquatic ...
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EPA proposes new permit requirements for pesticide discharges: action would reduce amount of pesticides discharged and protect America’s waters (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a new permit requirement that would decrease the amount of pesticides discharged to our nation"s waters and protect human health and the environment. This action is in response to an April 9, 2009 court decision that found that pesticide discharges to U.S. waters were pollutants, thus requiring a permit. The proposed permit, released ...
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Oil Stop Aids California Firefighting Effort
In August 2020 the Oil Stop Division of AMPOL shipped its new model SFB18TT containment boom to California to aid the firefighting effort. One of the tools commonly used in fighting forest fires is “Bambi” buckets under-slung from helicopters. The helicopter crew will use local rivers as a water source to scoop up water and deploy it to the fire ...
By AMPOL
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EPA Issues Final 2016 NPDES Pesticide General Permit
On November 1, 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its Final National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Pesticide General Permit for Point Source Discharges from the Application of Pesticides in the Federal Register, which regulates discharges to waters of the United States from the application of biological pesticides and chemical pesticides that leave a ...
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