Effective Aquatic Weed Control in South Carolina

Question: What are some effective aquatic weed control methods you use in the upper coastal region of South Carolina?

Answer: Some effective weed control methods are—and there are numerous weed control methods. One of the more important and most significant ways that we manage aquatic weeds are to go in and evaluate a site, and then we make a recommendation, primarily through spraying. You can do mechanical removal of weeds, spraying techniques with herbicides and algaecides. You can do biological fish stocking. The most prevalent and the most customary thing that we see and that we recommend the most is to simply go in and herbicidally remove—spray the vegetation and remove it that way.