This can't happen anymore

[pourfarmer]

11 litrea to poison the whole lake... But that's not how currents work and the density of the chem will concentrate it in a specific area of the lake and a specific water depth.

The active ingredient is .91g/l so it should have floated on top, and is water soluble to .0005mg/l so I'm not sure what would happen.

In any case, half life is ONLY 20days in water, so it should be good by next season.

[hobbyfrmr]

And how did matador end up in the water. Agricultural pesticide. Reflects badly on all of us

Sumdum, I see your point. It is not necessarily the spray plane that Contaminated the lake.

[sumdumguy]

Sumdum, I see your point. It is not necessarily the spray plane that Contaminated the lake.

That sounds like a pretty shallow lake, 12 feet, more like a slough maybe. This time of year, she might be pretty green, lacking oxygen. Echo Lake is many times deeper and last weekend it was green as pea soup on our side and dead fish wash up on shore along with crayfish and all kinds of lake creatures. Who are we going to blame, the plane that flew over last year?

This sounds like CBC and CNN needed a story.

[samhill]

Strange

With this dry weather not likely there would be runoff from a premerge. Or have they received substantial precip?
Not likely premerge is aerial app, but could be.

[hobbyfrmr]

That sounds like a pretty shallow lake, 12 feet, more like a slough maybe. This time of year, she might be pretty green, lacking oxygen. Echo Lake is many times deeper and last weekend it was green as pea soup on our side and dead fish wash up on shore along with crayfish and all kinds of lake creatures. Who are we going to blame, the plane that flew over last year?

This sounds like CBC and CNN needed a story.

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Algae blooms and lack of oxygen happen in many areas, fish, and insects die, that is nature. This does not explain the matador residue in the water.
It is a sure sign of reckless use or handling by somebody. I seldom care what the others are doing but this is newsworthy. Hopefully they can do some sleuthing, find the culprit and slap a very large fine on them.

[bgmb]

Can someone help me on this?

Seech lake contains approx 4675946505.603 liters of water. I arrived at that number from the following information which I found online:

Seech Lake is a natural lake that covers a surface area of 0.61 km2 (0.24 mi2), has an average depth of 4 meters (12 feet).

MSDS from syngenta says eco acute toxicity .24ppb.

What is the minimum amount of matador required to reach .24ppb in a water volume of 4675946505 litres?

Seech lake is over according to locals is over 50 ft deep. Witnesses have stated the airplane did not spray over the lake

[Jay-mo]

Gotta be more to this story then a bit of drift or swinging part of a spray boom over some swampy tributary of this lake.

[pourfarmer]

Seech lake is over according to locals is over 50 ft deep. Witnesses have stated the airplane did not spray over the lake

Average depth is 12ft. Meaning parts of it could very well be 50ft deep and other parts maybe 2 or 4 ft deep.

[bgmb]

Average depth is 12ft. Meaning parts of it could very well be 50ft deep and other parts maybe 2 or 4 ft deep.

Sorry Google is wrong on this one

[sumdumguy]

I doubt if onr lab would say it is Matador. They would identify it as a chemical name, not a companu name, sounds like bull crap to me.