It’s past time for affirmative actions for the protection of our environment and particularly our water. Scheduled for July 1 in Sanbornton, the NHEC with minimal effort to provide information to residents, will commence wide spread herbicide spraying as part of vegetation management around the power lines. This change in method is the beginning of a regiment of spraying chemicals on our landscape where they’ve never been before. On the application by NHEC states and I quote, “In accordance with State Regulations, it is the duty of each landowner or resident to make VCS (Vegetation Control Service, inc.) aware of the location of potentially affected private water supplies and any other environmentally sensitive areas where herbicide should be further restricted,” then a three checkbox part: spring or well, crops, other.
Oddly they’re stating they’re not responsible for a potentially affect to private water supplies from their chemicals they’re applying on your land. The terms are opt-out, not the permission to spray. There is more someone could call obfuscatory information available, go look for yourself. Then read the warnings about the chemicals they will be applying, good luck comprehending that scary stuff. Lets ask NHEC, the governor and state leadership to stop wide spread herbicide spraying programs across the state. If the state is not willing to stop the potential hazard, lets hope the municipal leaders would deny the trespass within their incorporated boundaries the companies that are planning to do so. Stick with the manual cutting!
Ken Carter
Sanbornton