MSBG Jake
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Hope this is the correct area to put this post....I know a lot of people here like roseberry creek....
READ AND GET READY OR WE AS FISHERMAN WILL ONCE AGAIN BE ABUSED BY THE ROSEBERRY CREEK GROUP!
Scottsboro Daily Sentinel -- February 8, 2012 Roseberry group seeks funding for weed spraying project By DeWayne Patterson The weeds are returning. And the Roseberry Rescue Group is getting primed for the battle. Lowell Bivens, a spokesperson for the non-profit group, spoke to the Scottsboro City Council Monday during a work session. Bivens asked the council to contribute $50,000 to a $200,000 project to remove milfoil and hydrilla weeds from the Roseberry Creek embayment on the Tennessee River. The council will decide at its regular meeting next Monday.2/13/12 In 2009, the city council, along with the Jackson County Commission and local legislative delegation, contributed $42,500 each to the group, who itself spent $42,500 to hire Aqua Services to spray 900 acres with fluridone. "It's a very effective chemical," said Bivens. "And we got a good performance out of it three years ago. We considered it a total success." The Roseberry Rescue Group was formed in 2008 by a small group of citizens to promote the health, safety and improvement of the quality of water and aquatic life in that portion of Lake Guntersville within Jackson County, according to its website. Bivens said the 2012 project will expand from 900 acres to 1,100 (this is an increase from 3 years ago) acres and also include an additional 144 acres for contact herbicide zones. He said, in the past, TVA sprayed those zones. In 2008, TVA made the decision to scale back its service of treatment and eventually stop altogether. Bivens said the Roseberry group reached out to TVA for the 2012 project, but TVA graciously said it would not participate. "TVA is just not going to step back in right now," said Bivens. The Roseberry group's primary issue is to keep the embayment open, Bivens said, adding that, once again, the county commission and local legislative delegation will also be contacted to contribute to the project. He said he anticipates 100 percent participation from property owners, who will also contribute $50,000 to the project. "We're already halfway there," said Bivens. Once funding is secured, Bivens said the group plans to start the project in May, depending on the weather and water levels. It will run through July in three parts. Council member Keith Smith, who asked for the request to be put on next week's agenda, said in 2009 there was criticism about spraying on the lake. "There was threatening e-mails about how the fishing industry was going to die," said Smith. "That wasn't the case. It's been better than ever."
( This staetment above is absolutely not true, fishing is awful in Roseberry Creek compared to before the spraying)
All local fisherman need to be at this meeting on Monday to object, it has been said that the fisherman will not unite and we need to prove them wrong. I have personally proposed that a group of fisherman and boaters get together and propose a plan that will benefit everyone. There is no need to clean out Roseberry Creek there are many areas where it is full of stumps and to shallow for boating and no need to spary it. If you fisherman don't unite it will be a shame, as I have been saying since we have tried to organize a membership for the LGAA. We need a large voice and we don't have it; well once again the fisherman are going to get shafted by the Roseberry Creek group and we only have one shot to stop it!
Captain Mike Gerry
READ AND GET READY OR WE AS FISHERMAN WILL ONCE AGAIN BE ABUSED BY THE ROSEBERRY CREEK GROUP!
Scottsboro Daily Sentinel -- February 8, 2012 Roseberry group seeks funding for weed spraying project By DeWayne Patterson The weeds are returning. And the Roseberry Rescue Group is getting primed for the battle. Lowell Bivens, a spokesperson for the non-profit group, spoke to the Scottsboro City Council Monday during a work session. Bivens asked the council to contribute $50,000 to a $200,000 project to remove milfoil and hydrilla weeds from the Roseberry Creek embayment on the Tennessee River. The council will decide at its regular meeting next Monday.2/13/12 In 2009, the city council, along with the Jackson County Commission and local legislative delegation, contributed $42,500 each to the group, who itself spent $42,500 to hire Aqua Services to spray 900 acres with fluridone. "It's a very effective chemical," said Bivens. "And we got a good performance out of it three years ago. We considered it a total success." The Roseberry Rescue Group was formed in 2008 by a small group of citizens to promote the health, safety and improvement of the quality of water and aquatic life in that portion of Lake Guntersville within Jackson County, according to its website. Bivens said the 2012 project will expand from 900 acres to 1,100 (this is an increase from 3 years ago) acres and also include an additional 144 acres for contact herbicide zones. He said, in the past, TVA sprayed those zones. In 2008, TVA made the decision to scale back its service of treatment and eventually stop altogether. Bivens said the Roseberry group reached out to TVA for the 2012 project, but TVA graciously said it would not participate. "TVA is just not going to step back in right now," said Bivens. The Roseberry group's primary issue is to keep the embayment open, Bivens said, adding that, once again, the county commission and local legislative delegation will also be contacted to contribute to the project. He said he anticipates 100 percent participation from property owners, who will also contribute $50,000 to the project. "We're already halfway there," said Bivens. Once funding is secured, Bivens said the group plans to start the project in May, depending on the weather and water levels. It will run through July in three parts. Council member Keith Smith, who asked for the request to be put on next week's agenda, said in 2009 there was criticism about spraying on the lake. "There was threatening e-mails about how the fishing industry was going to die," said Smith. "That wasn't the case. It's been better than ever."
( This staetment above is absolutely not true, fishing is awful in Roseberry Creek compared to before the spraying)
All local fisherman need to be at this meeting on Monday to object, it has been said that the fisherman will not unite and we need to prove them wrong. I have personally proposed that a group of fisherman and boaters get together and propose a plan that will benefit everyone. There is no need to clean out Roseberry Creek there are many areas where it is full of stumps and to shallow for boating and no need to spary it. If you fisherman don't unite it will be a shame, as I have been saying since we have tried to organize a membership for the LGAA. We need a large voice and we don't have it; well once again the fisherman are going to get shafted by the Roseberry Creek group and we only have one shot to stop it!
Captain Mike Gerry