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Post Icon Posted: Sep. 13 2005,6:07 am Post # 1 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Mass of hyacinths leaves many boaters frustrated

STOCKTON -- Tangles of green water hyacinth floating atop channels in the San Joaquin Delta have exploded to life under this summer's heat, creating headaches for local boaters who just try to steer clear of the stuff.

"It's like you're navigating through somebody's green lawn," Roman Oren of Rocklin said Wednesday morning as he worked on his 35-foot cruiser, moored at Ladd's Stockton Marina.

Oren and other Delta boaters leery of floating logs camouflaged under the hyacinth have to slow their boats to a snail's pace while travelling through hyacinth clumps. Or they steer around it altogether.

"The other day, it looked like you could walk across it," Oren said.

Nearly every year since 1982, the state's Department of Boating and Waterways has battled the hyacinth and other water weeds by spraying herbicide on choked areas of the Delta. Spraying is expected to continue until November.

Aside from annoying boaters, the hyacinth starves oxygen from water, hurting fish and plant life native to the Delta. It clogs marinas built in stagnant channels and irrigation systems that draw Delta water.

"In some places, it's worse this year and in some it's better," said June Iljana, a spokeswoman for the Department of Boating and Waterways.

A state crew sprayed herbicide in marinas skirting Stockton in recent weeks. Some flowering hyacinths have wilted and started to rot in the water, while other patches continue to thrive.

"It's certainly rearing its head," said Bill Jennings, chairman of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance.

Jennings said hyacinth is only one of several exotic species of plants that found their way into the Delta.

Egeria densa, a garlandlike plant that's not native to the Delta, reaches up and wraps around boat propellers.

Jennings, who said he's been caught up in egeria densa more than once while boating in the Delta, urged greater regulation to control importing exotic species.

"Hyacinth will quickly become the least of our problems in the Delta," he said.

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Post Icon Posted: Sep. 13 2005,7:02 am Post # 2 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
What the hell :eek That shit is a mess :(

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Post Icon Posted: Sep. 13 2005,10:12 am Post # 3 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Don't let the tree huggers see this!! They won't let them kill it, they'll make'm transplant it!! :eek  :angry

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Post Icon Posted: Sep. 13 2005,11:12 am Post # 4 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
I first thought that was land when looking at the picture... :eek
That stuff is out of control. :guns
They closed portions of a Rec. Lagoon here in Carlsbad because of some exotic grass they needed to kill off...boats and jetskis spread the grass as they cut/chop and spit the stuff throughout the water.
They presummed the grass got in there from someone dumping their fishtank in a gutter..... :banghead
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AZ Game and Fish ask us boaters to ck our boats and trailers for foriegn plants after pulling them out of the water to keep from spreading crap like that all over. When I got back from Parker I cked my intake and sure enough had about a softball size of that river weed stuck all around it :eek

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Last 2 times to Parker I have mowed the grass in the Keys. I get out to the center of the river and pull a HUGE clump off the drive before we can go anywhere. Thiing that sucks is sometimes theres little stickers in the grass.  :eek

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Post Icon Posted: Sep. 13 2005,2:47 pm Post # 7 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Boy that crap STINKS when it rots too!! :puke That along with the wakeboard boats beating the crap out of the leveys there might not be anywhere in the delta to boat soon :angry
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Post Icon Posted: Sep. 13 2005,3:11 pm Post # 8 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
thats some rude shit. and yes parker seems to have more grass,weeds, crap whatever you want to call it in the water than last year.

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Quote (BigDogIvan @ Sep. 13 2005,1:15 pm)
Last 2 times to Parker I have mowed the grass in the Keys. I get out to the center of the river and pull a HUGE clump off the drive before we can go anywhere. Thiing that sucks is sometimes theres little stickers in the grass.  :eek

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Post Icon Posted: Sep. 14 2005,6:17 pm Post # 10 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Shue, are you sure you didn't use a picture of Needles marina from last year??

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Quote (GlassMan @ Sep. 14 2005,6:17 pm)
Shue, are you sure you didn't use a picture of Needles marina from last year??

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