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The Tennessee Valley Authority will help some Nickajack and Guntersville lake property owners stay out of the weeds for another year.
TVA officials said Thursday the agency reversed an earlier decision to limit severely its control of aquatic weeds around private docks.
Faced with public and political opposition to the cost-cutting move, TVA officials agreed to maintain two of the three regular weed sprayings on the Nickajack Reservoir in Marion County this summer and continue most of the weed cutting and spraying it does on the Guntersville Reservoir in Alabama.
“We were hopeful that stakeholders on Nickajack and Guntersville would take a larger share of the responsibility for funding aquatic plant management activities on these reservoirs,” TVA Manager Sandra S. Robertson said in a letter to lakefront property owners. “Unfortunately, most of what we continue to hear is the repeated call for TVA to provide full funding for treatment of aquatic plants.”
TVA wanted to save most of the $1 million it spends each year on cutting and spraying to limit hydrilla, milfoil and other aquatic weeds. TVA spokeswoman Barbara Martocci said the agency agreed to give local landowners and governments another year to figure out how to control weeds around private docks.
TVA said it will continue to control weeds around public recreation areas but will reduce weed control efforts in 2010.
John Moore, chairman of the River Clean-Up Alliance on Nickajack, vowed to fight again next year to push TVA to maintain all of its weed control program.
“TVA is in charge of the reservoirs, and I think they should be responsible for maintaining them,” he said.
TVA estimated that cutting weed control around private docks on Nickajack and Guntersville would save about $800,000. But for local property owners to take over that responsibility probably would cost most homeowners about $6,000 a year, Mr. Moore said.
“That’s too great of a cost to pay,” he said.
WELL, THEY WILL STILL BE SPRAYING NICKAJACK LESS THAN THEY DID LAST YEAR IF THEY GO BY WHAT THEY SAY IN THE ARTICLE! BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE GUNTERSVILLE WILL GET A DOUBLE DOSE, TVA AND PRIVATELY FUNDED SPRAYING IN ROSEBERRY. WE HAD BETTER KEEP OURS EYES AND EARS OPEN..... ANY TIME THERE IS A NICKAJACK STAKEHOLDERS MEETING THERE NEEDS TO BE PLENTY OF FISHERMEN THERE BECAUSE THERE ARE ALWAYS PLENTY OF LAKEFRONT PROPERTY OWNERS THERE!
TVA officials said Thursday the agency reversed an earlier decision to limit severely its control of aquatic weeds around private docks.
Faced with public and political opposition to the cost-cutting move, TVA officials agreed to maintain two of the three regular weed sprayings on the Nickajack Reservoir in Marion County this summer and continue most of the weed cutting and spraying it does on the Guntersville Reservoir in Alabama.
“We were hopeful that stakeholders on Nickajack and Guntersville would take a larger share of the responsibility for funding aquatic plant management activities on these reservoirs,” TVA Manager Sandra S. Robertson said in a letter to lakefront property owners. “Unfortunately, most of what we continue to hear is the repeated call for TVA to provide full funding for treatment of aquatic plants.”
TVA wanted to save most of the $1 million it spends each year on cutting and spraying to limit hydrilla, milfoil and other aquatic weeds. TVA spokeswoman Barbara Martocci said the agency agreed to give local landowners and governments another year to figure out how to control weeds around private docks.
TVA said it will continue to control weeds around public recreation areas but will reduce weed control efforts in 2010.
John Moore, chairman of the River Clean-Up Alliance on Nickajack, vowed to fight again next year to push TVA to maintain all of its weed control program.
“TVA is in charge of the reservoirs, and I think they should be responsible for maintaining them,” he said.
TVA estimated that cutting weed control around private docks on Nickajack and Guntersville would save about $800,000. But for local property owners to take over that responsibility probably would cost most homeowners about $6,000 a year, Mr. Moore said.
“That’s too great of a cost to pay,” he said.
WELL, THEY WILL STILL BE SPRAYING NICKAJACK LESS THAN THEY DID LAST YEAR IF THEY GO BY WHAT THEY SAY IN THE ARTICLE! BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE GUNTERSVILLE WILL GET A DOUBLE DOSE, TVA AND PRIVATELY FUNDED SPRAYING IN ROSEBERRY. WE HAD BETTER KEEP OURS EYES AND EARS OPEN..... ANY TIME THERE IS A NICKAJACK STAKEHOLDERS MEETING THERE NEEDS TO BE PLENTY OF FISHERMEN THERE BECAUSE THERE ARE ALWAYS PLENTY OF LAKEFRONT PROPERTY OWNERS THERE!
