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State targets invasive plants

Published 11/02/2009 12:00 AM
Updated 11/02/2009 04:22 AM

Hartford - Connecticut authorities are hoping that new projects in four towns will help stop the spread of fast-growing invasive plants. The state Department of Environmental Protection says the invasive plants threaten other plants and animals in the native ecosystems. The biggest project is a $78,000 effort to fight the aggressive fanwort plant in the Bantam River system in Litchfield and Morris. If it's left to grow, it could harm Bantam Lake, which is Connecticut's largest natural lake. Smaller projects are targeting the fast-growing "mile-a-minute" vine in New Milford and Newtown, and water chestnut plants that took hold in a Hartford flood control pond after getting into the Connecticut River.

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