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Name:	Feb -	Reply
Subject:	Giant Salvinia
Date:	7/31/2007 4:04:53 PM

Anyone else heard of this stuff? Sounds almost like a water version of Kudzu.

Anyway, I saw it on the news last night. It is completedly covered Caddo Lake in Texas (LA border).

Here is a link;

URL: Salvinia

Name:	PC Al -	Reply
Subject:	Giant Salvinia
Date:	7/31/2007 4:24:08 PM

I saw the same news report. Very, very scary.

Name:	LakeLover -	Reply
Subject:	Giant Salvinia
Date:	7/31/2007 4:28:16 PM

I had not heard of it until the news report last night. It sounds like the "plant from hell". Nasty, I hope we never see it in Alabama lakes.

LL

Name:	LakeLover -	Reply
Subject:	Giant Salvinia
Date:	7/31/2007 4:39:42 PM

Link with pictures.

URL: Salvinia

Name:	BayPineYankee -	Reply
Subject:	Giant Salvinia
Date:	8/1/2007 12:09:24 AM

I haven't heard of this but in the west we had a weed called Milfoil - very nasty, took over entire lakes and traveled by trailers and props moved from lake to lake. Once in, it zapped the oxygen levels and threatened the health of large lakes. We should be careful -

Name:	F1Fan -	Reply
Subject:	Giant Salvinia
Date:	8/1/2007 6:22:51 AM

Isn't milfoil what has been a chronic problem on Lake Guntersville, especially since they stopped the federal eradication programs about 10-15 years ago?

Name:	weagle89 -	Reply
Subject:	Giant Salvinia
Date:	8/1/2007 7:43:52 AM

They showed a map on the news showing where the Salvinia has spread--there were two places in Alabama shown.
Also interesting to me (and scary) -- a man held a fistful of the stuff and said that amount could spread to 40 acres within a month. They also said the prime way of spreading the stuff was the Salvinia getting caught on boat trailers when launching/trailering and then being transported from place to place.

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