COLUMBUS -- Platte County Weed Control Superintendent Dave Gilsdorf is stepping up his war on noxious weeds in the Platte River.
As a result area residents may see low-flying helicopters spraying areas of the river from the Platte River bridge west from Columbus to Silver Creek and east from the bridge to the Colfax County line at various times this week.
“The two noxious weeds we’re concentrating on are purple loosestrife and phragmites,” Gilsdorf said. “The phragmites is especially bad because it grows anywhere from 10-15 feet tall and chokes everything out, even the purple loosestrife.”
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Weed control superintendent aims to take out two weeds
By Eric Freeman efreeman@columbustelegram.com
Thursday, Sep 10, 2009 - 09:35:29 am CDT
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just thinking
Sep 10, 2009 4:17 PM
Hopefully they are just spraying on the north side of the river. Butler and Polk should cover there own.gov
Sep 11, 2009 7:37 AM
sure it is state funded.. last I check Butler and Polk are part of NebraskaAmazed
Sep 11, 2009 8:15 AM
Hey just thinking, you have no clue what is going on with this program, or obviously anything to do with the river, thanks for showing us that.wow
Sep 11, 2009 8:48 AM
The government helped to create this problem by regulating stream flows, now just throw more money at it, I say let mother nature take care of it like she has for millions of years. Just like everything else the government gets into, it gets messed up. Well, I guess it gives someone a job, hey you guys in the state truck, go back to sleep.Read the article
Sep 11, 2009 11:03 AM
Pretty sure it said Platte Co. Weed Control not State of Nebraska Weed control. I'm also sure that Platte Co. pays this guys wage.Neighborhood watch
Sep 11, 2009 12:16 PM
I personally witnessed someone that owns nearby property to mine dumping cut thistles into shell creek.....this person has an excavating company that could have dug a DEEP hole and buried it....but then again, maybe that isn't a good idea either.....Luke
Sep 11, 2009 12:23 PM
The chemicals there are using are approved for use around water. They will not be harmful and will not have any sort of carryover or subsistence in the water. They know what they are doing. You just can't go and start spraying without the proper training or knowledge of the subject. Mother nature won't be able to control a problem that man helped create.read the article again
Sep 11, 2009 1:31 PM
I guess Platte County has a new helicopter too. Please read more on the topic before you make rediculous comment such as this. This is a state funded project.Hummer
Sep 11, 2009 1:47 PM
Living along the south river bank for some years I have enjoyed the large numbers of butterflies, humminbirds and swallows Now that the spraying is going on along the river. I have noted only about 30% of the butterflies that there once was in my garden. I only had one humming bird this year. Other years I have had many more. I have seen a great reduction in swallows and other birds. Is it due to the spray. If so I look forward to when it longer is needing to be done in order to see a slow rebound of the things I love.cancer
Sep 11, 2009 2:45 PM
LukeAt one time asbestos was approved for use as an insulation and now look at all of the medical conditions and lawsuits there are. Approved today, banned tomorrow.
Luke
Sep 11, 2009 4:40 PM
Testing is more thorough now today than it was when abestos was first approved. EPA standards for these chemicals are very strict and if used the proper way, they will not cause problems.dk47
Sep 11, 2009 7:05 PM
u guys r funny. hey stop knocking people 4 lack of info, some people only read the telegram so will not be up to speed on most anything that is going on in nebraska(except the viaduct of course).dk47
Sep 11, 2009 7:22 PM
oh ya forgot 2 tell u. the state has been doing this on the platte and other rivers in ne for a few years now (most of u already know that). if u drive hwy 92, just look at the river when you cross it east of yutan,(they sprayed that section last year). it is brown and rather ugly looking. that's what we will looking at next summer. i guess green is overated, brown and lifeless is the "in" thing now. we at war with weeds, we are not backing down. those weeds messed with the wrong state and now they are gonna pay, and so will we.stay classy columbus
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