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Old 06-09-2010, 09:49 AM   #15
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Scott's products might be easy to dump a bag into a spreader and
march back and forth to apply

without really having to think to much about it.... and have a truly perfect lawn....
(without considering the earthworms)

But multiply this by hundreds of thousands of lawns
and or millions of lawns...

then the drainage / run off begins and some of these chemicals get into the WATERSHED
....and into the fish and into the wildlife that eat the fish......
and on an on it goes. not a good practice.
I hope I am remembering the facts correctly, but isn't the Delaware River suffering from this plight?
The fertilizer and animal waste are running off into the river, and has caused numerous fish kills and bacterial outbreaks in the fish populations where it enters the Chesapeake Bay area.
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