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The Town of Paradise Public Works Department will begin our spring herbicide application during the week of March 28, 2011 (weather permitting). This herbicide application is intended to keep the road edges and ditches free of noxious weeds and will help reduce the fire danger for the upcoming summer. We will be using sprays containing either Glyphosate or Triclopyr as active ingredients. The herbicide spraying will consist of critical road shoulders, selected areas along the Memorial Trailway and drainage ditches as well as spot spraying the poison oak. Spraying operations will be conducted over the next several weeks, as weather permits. Crews will be starting at 1:00 AM each day (to avoid traffic and wind that may pick up later in the day).

Most treated areas will have a four to five foot wide band of herbicide applied (from the edge of pavement outward). This treatment reduces the amount of weeds and vegetation alongside the roadway edges and will greatly reduce the chance of carelessly thrown cigarettes causing a wildland fire later this summer. In addition, control of noxious weeds during this stage of development will improve the roadside drainage and minimize additional maintenance by Town staff.  Detailed maps showing the areas to be treated are available at the Public Works Department at Paradise Town Hall.

Click here to download the Public Notice of Environmental Contamination in Honey Run Creek, Town of Paradise. For additional information contact the Vance Severin, Butte County Environmental Health, 530-538-7282.