Wahpeton, Iowa — Treatment for Eurasian Watermilfoil is being done in several areas of West Lake Okoboji, Mill Creek Lake at Paullina and other northwest Iowa lakes.
Mike Hawkins, a fisheries biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, tells us they now have all of the permits they need and that the treatment is for the Miller’s Bay canals, the Harbor, and Lazy Lagoon areas. He says this treatment is targeted to those specific areas, unlike the much more widespread ones made last year to the lower chain of lakes.
Hawkins adds that as of now, there have been no additional discoveries of Eurasian Watermilfoil in the Iowa Great Lakes.
Hawkins adds the DNR is also applying treatments to several other bodies of water in the region where Eurasian Watermilfoil has also been discovered.
Hawkins adds the herbicide that’s being used has no label restrictions for swimming, fishing, recreation or irrigation purposes. He says the results should be pretty immediate.
