Just a look out - Pesticide spray around Thunder Bay HWY 527

[werner.reiche]

This stuff kills more than weeds, it kills everything but the jackpine.Leaves nothing that the animals want to eat, therefore animals move on to other areas. Takes a couple of years before anything comes back to the area.

Its a broadleaf herbicide, similar to what is in the now-banned lawn herbicides "weed and feed" and "killex". Its used in forestry applications, spread from planes. They want to kill the soft maple and poplar so the pine/spruce can get started. There is supposed to be signage in the area indicating pesticides have been used there. I've found these on cut-overs in the Pembroke area.

[greatwhite]

I have never seen it spread by plane. I have spread it by hand with a tanker truck and sometime back pack sprayer.

Its a broadleaf herbicide, similar to what is in the now-banned lawn herbicides "weed and feed" and "killex". Its used in forestry applications, spread from planes. They want to kill the soft maple and poplar so the pine/spruce can get started. There is supposed to be signage in the area indicating pesticides have been used there. I've found these on cut-overs in the Pembroke area.

[vom Dufenshmirtz]

thanks for sharing the info (as opposed to opinions and anecdotes)

I would not say it is impossible but in my experience it is very unlikely. My company has tested 1000s of groundwater samples from all over southern ontario and had them analyzed by independent third party laboratories for glyphophate and numerous other common agricultural and industrial chemicals. Not one of those samples has ever come back positive for any detectable amount of glyphosphate. Some of those samples were taken from wells 20 or 30 feet from heavily sprayed bean fields.

Surface water on the other hand is a different animal and trace amounts will regularly show up in creeks and ponds close to spray areas.