In an attempt to accommodate use for haying, the County will allow individual owners to come in to sign up for areas of roadside ditches they do not want sprayed.

Areas not to be sprayed shall be marked on a map, and the owners shall then be held responsible for vegetation control. Vegetation control in the right-of-way includes brush, trees, thistle, leafy spurge, and other noxious weeds.

Should the weed inspector notify us, or if problem areas are found, the County will spray those areas and bill the property owners accordingly.

Applications and maps may be filled out at the Highway Department at 221 North Wallace Avenue in Ivanhoe.

All applications and maps for not spraying must be filled out by June 6, 2012.

ss/ Lee E. Amundson
County Engineer