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2011 PESTICIDE APPLICATIONS
FOR HUNTERDON COUNTY
Route 12 County Complex - Building #8
PO Box 2900
Flemington, New Jersey 08822-2900
908-788-1178 - Fax: 908-788-1047
Jeff Quick, County Road Supervisor
Daniel Bush, Road Supervisor/Responsible Applicator

In compliance with NJAC 7:30-9.10 notice is hereby given that the Hunterdon County Road Department, Rt. 12 County Complex, Bldg. 8, PO Box 2900, Flemington NJ 08822, will be applying Herbicides for the control of Roadside Vegetation on an area-wide basis, as needed, throughout Hunterdon County during the months spanning from Monday, May 2, 2011 through Monday, October 31, 2011. Any # route or bridge/culvert within Hunterdon County excluding State of N.J. structures will be maintained within the above dates.

The herbicides to be used in the roadside vegetation program will be contact, post & pre-emergence pesticides applied by low volume truck mount and hand sprayers. We will also be applying growth regulators to turf grasses by this same method. All persons interested in obtaining additional information regarding Hunterdon County road department Pesticide activities are requested to contact Daniel T. Bush, General Supervisor Roads at (908) 788-1178 as well as (609) 397-5641.

The following pesticides are those herbicides that may be used throughout the season:

  • Oust xp (Sulfometuron methyl)( 352-601) Pathfinder II (Triclopyr) (62719-176) Escort XP Metsulfuron methyl (352-439)
  • Embark (Diethanolamine salt)(2217-759) Scythe (Pelargonic acid) (53219-7)
  • Accord XRT (Glyphosate) (62719-517) Spike 20p (Tebuthiuron) (62719-121) Stronghold PGR (Diethanolamine Salt) (2217-802)
  • Glypro Plus (Glyphosate) (62719-322)
  • Garlon 3A (Triclopyr) (62719-37) Transline (Clopyralid) (62719-259)

Upon request the pesticide applicator shall provide a resident with notification at least 12 hours prior to application. Except for quarantine and disease vector control only, when conditions necessitate pesticide sooner then than that time.

For EMERGENCIES contact the
New Jersey Poison Information and Education System
1-800-222-1222

Contact the National Pesticide Information Center at 1-800-858-7378
for routine health inquiries, and for information about signs
and symptoms of pesticide exposure.

Call the New Jersey Pesticide Control Program at 609-984-6507
for pesticide regulation information, pesticide complaints, and health referrals.

Daniel T. Bush, Responsible Applicator (29285A)
Hunterdon County Road Department
(980) 788-1178 / (609) 397-5641
www.co.hunterdon.nj.us
dbush@co.hunterdon.nj.us