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Scientists put herbicide in the CT River. Why it’s ‘like conquering a monster’ in the waterway
The verdict is in on year one of the effort to eradicate hydrilla, the pernicious, choking, aquatic weed that has exploded across the lower Connecticut River in less than a decade: Success so far, but more work ahead. A year ago, when Joe Standart looked out over Selden Cove from his three century old farm house in Hadlyme, it was so choked from the bottom to the surface by an acre-sized raft of weed that he couldn’t move his boat through it. “It looked like you could walk across the cove,” Standart said. “It was that solid.” In August, after four years of study by invasive aquatic plant experts at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, scientists at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began the experimental application of a variety of herbicides at selected spots on the river below Hartford. There have been stunning results, according to those who live by or depend on the river for their livelihoods.
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