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Roads and Bridges Department County Departments and Services Updated 06/06/2005

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

PESTICIDE APPLICATIONS FOR HUNTERDON COUNTY

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, through Monday October 31 2005. 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.

• 41-A (2839-50021)
• Oust xp (Sulfometuron methyl) (352-601)
• Cutless (62719-237)
• Pathfinder (Triclopyr) (62719-176)
• Embark (Diethanolamine salt or Mefluidide)
• Scythe (Pelargonic acid) (53219-7)
• Spike 20p (Tebuthiuron) (62719-121)
• Escort (Metsulfuron methyl) (352-439)
• Stronghold PGR (Diethanolamine Salt)
• Glypro Plus (Glyphosate) (62719-322) (2217-802)
• Garlon 3A (Triclopyr) (62719-37)
• Transline (Clopyralid) (62719-259)
• Sucker Stopper RTU (5481-460-54705) (Ethyl 1-Napthaleneacetate)
• Weedblast 4G (Bromacil, Diuron) (434913-19)

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. Please contact the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System at 1-800-222-1222 for emergencies and the National Pesticide Information Center at 1-800-858-7378 for routine health inquires, 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.