The Aquamog CCX-238 Creating a New Channel Through a Dense Cattail Zone No comments yet
This press release is about the Aquamog CCX in action. The aquatic rig is ideal for making channels or getting rid of nuisance cattail plants from shorelines. This is by far the quickest and most efficient Aquamog when it comes to only emergent vegetation and cattail removal. Where other Aquamogs need to separate attachments to do the same work, the Aquamog ccx just digs right in to make new open water.
The Aquamog CCX with its 2 independent cutter blades in the front of the barge can uproot cattails to a depth of three feet. The blades move the machine as well as do the root removal work. Getting rid ofthe roots limits re-growth in the area.
Once the roots are removed they remain on the surface of the water and are than easily picked up and removed from the lake using an aquatic plant harvester. The harvester takes the vegetation to the shoreline for final placement and/or off site land fill.
Cattails are a beneficial plant that have alot purposes in lakes. They provide filtering of nutrients and some heavy metals from the water, as well as provide nesting for birds and other animals.
However, if not properly maintained they can quickly turn into a large aquatic weed issues that can be very hard and expensive to handle. Thus the Aquamog CCX was built.
The Aquamog was created in the early 1980’s by Aquatics Unlimited (AU). The McNabb family founded Aquatics Unlimited in the 70’s. Both Tom and Dave McNabb created the Aquamog name and line of machinery through out the 80’s and 1990s while with AU. Tom continued the Aquamog line into the new century with the addition of the MarshMog. Tom’s new company Clean Lakes, Inc. (www.cleanlake.com) located in Martinez, CA and Dave’s company DK Environmental (www.dkenvironmental.com) in Lafayette, CA have been working together on the Aquamog CCX project for about 10 years and in February 2009 the Aquamog CCX was introduced into the “Mog” line.