Aquatic Weed Harvesting
Aquatic Weed Harvesting Company for your local Aquatic Weed Harvesting needs.
Aquatic Weed Harvesting and Lake Weed Control/Removal Contractors for Commercial and Residential clients
Aquatic Weed Harvesting customers select American Dredge and Aquatic Weed Control Services for all of their Aquatic Weed Harvesting and Aquatic Services needs. Let us be your first choice in Lake Weed Control or Removal, Aquatic Weed Harvesting, and Aquatic Control of Lake Weeds. We have multiple offices covering Michigan, MI, Ohio, OH, Indiana, IN, Pennsylvania, PA, Vermont, VT, and further south Missouri, MO, Georgia, GA, Kentucky, KY, Illinois, IL, Wisconsin, WI, Florida, FL, South Carolina, SC, TN we have offices near you and travel the nation for Large Projects. Even Alaska for aquatic weed harvesting. We also remove large acres of cattails, and lily pads from large bodies of water, ponds, and lakefronts with our specialized Hydro-rake & Amphibious equipment. We travel the nation doing what is best for our customers and the environment, contact American Dredge and Aquatic Weed Control Company at phone: 1 (855) 305-0233 www.swampthing.us.
We are an established Aquatic Weed Control Company that has a proven process with a large fleet of Aquatic Weed Harvesters, Conveyors, Trailers, Aquatic Weed Control equipment, boats, and dump trucks that can handle larger projects when others can't. We have the capabilities to handle Large Aquatic Weed Harvesting projects for Power Companies, and water treatment facilities that need their waterways cleared to increase water flow, no matter what state you are in IN, MI, OH, IL, WI, PA, VT, NY, ND, SD, ID, WY, WA, KS, CO, TN, KY, MO, IA, GA, SC, NC, AL, FL, TX, CA. If you have debris in the water, we do have specialized equipment we can bring to your project to remove logs, larger sections of cattails, phragmites, and lily pads. Lake Associations that want a Larger Professional Aquatic Weed Control company that has enough equipment to meet your needs, contact us. We have a variety of Aquatic Weed Control equipment and sizes to meet your demands, contact us today at 1 (855) 305-0233.
2024 Advertisement!
Aquatic Vegetation is expected to be very bad this year due to the abnormally mild winter we have had across the United States. HOAs, Lake Boards, City, and Township councils we advise you to plan earlier rather than later. We have one of the largest fleets of Aquatic Weed Harvesters and if you would like to plan ahead we recommend you schedule your dates with us now because based on prior years the outcry for aquatic vegetation removal will be large this year. Even with people who may get herbicide treatments, most of them will still need aquatic weed harvesting done by us. If you have had a problem in the past with Curly Leaf Pond Weed (Potamogeton Crispus), a lot of the North/Eastern states like MI, IL, WI, MN.....VT, NY, PA you should call now.. Eurasian Milfoil will be bad this year!!!
Curly Leaf Pond Weed (Potamogeton Crispus )
Curly-Leaved Pondweed is a hardy, aggressive non-native plant. Curly Leaf is usually the first macrophyte to emerge in the spring but dies back by July (causing other problems). Reproduction: Potamogeton Crispus reproduces mainly by turion production. Potamogeton crispus has a rather unusual life cycle. Fruits, turions, and seeds are produced in late spring/early summer and by July, Curly Leaf Pondweed has died back. The fruits and turions survive all summer and germinate in the fall. The new plants grow to a few centimeters tall and over the winter in a dormant state, even under the ice. In the spring, the small plants already have a head start on other native macrophyte and can quickly form dense stands. Note: We Have Had a Mild Winter, these and other plants are getting an early start!! Call us now to lock in dates to allow us to weed harvest the mats of curly leaf and help significantly remove the plant mass/turions. Which will overall help reduce the amount of decomposed mass and turions allowed to spread in your body of water. Remember when the plant decomposes early in the summer, it also allows for nutrients for other invasive plant life within your body of water, like Eurasian Milfoil, or coontail, etc. When curly leaf dies back in July, and when the dense mats decay, the available oxygen in the water may be depleted. This resulting low oxygen conditions (Anoxic) can lead to fish dying off and harming other aquatic organisms. Nutrients released from the decaying plants may also contribute to algal blooms and accelerate other plant species. (A similar process happens when you spray a herbicide on aquatic plant life, you are not removing, it but causing the plant to decompose, adding nutrients in the body of water, to promote other future weed growth).
If you have Curly Leaf Pond Weed problems in the past, please consider scheduling early before you're stuck with a big problem this season.
Do You Want to Get Rid of Geese Off Your Dock, Swim Raft, or Lawn?
Our customers have told us over the decades we have the absolute best goose, duck, seagull, and critter deterrent made.
- New Geese Deterrent--safely prevent, keep off Geese on your shoreline, grass, boat docks, and swimming rafts several products to choose from. The Goose Be Gone TM will allow you to keep geese away, and get rid of geese off your shoreline, sidewalks, swim raft, off, and lawn. Also, we have been told by clients The Goose Be Gone TM and Redneck Crittor Gettor TM are some of the best products in the world to keep deer out of a garden, keep ducks, geese, seagulls, pelicans, raccoons, squirrels, off or out of areas of a yard. Get rid of geese, ducks, and seagulls off your lawn, or your green grass (all that nasty goose poop). Pricing for these units is $125, with additional options. Have you tried the rest, now try the best email: [email protected] or 1 (855) 305-0233.
- Keep Geese off your swim platform, or off your swim raft with this unique product is like no other with the Redneck Critter Gettor TM. Are you tired of all the geese, ducks, seagulls, or pelican poop on your swim raft? Then keep them off your dock or swimming raft with this portable unit. It's absolutely amazing goose, seagull, or waterfowl deterrent. Call or email for details, pricing for these units averages $145, depending on the chosen options. Customers have used it also to keep away the neighbor's cat, or dog - It's a great product!
Our Southern Branch
We are looking for clients with aquatic vegetation problems in Southern states: Missouri, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Vermont and Pennsylvania. If you have an overabundance of lake weeds on your waterway, please email us and tell us of your situation. Do you and your neighbors have a hard time getting your boats in/out of your dock because the aquatic weeds are too thick? Do the lake weeds make it difficult to enjoy fishing, boating, swimming, or the view? Please tell us of your situation, which lake you're on, and if you know of others in your area that have a similar problem.
Here are a few pictures from aquatic weed harvesting and aquatic weed removal in the Missouri, Iowa area, (close to Kansas, Illinois where we also perform weed harvesting and dredging services).
This is just one of many large areas on the lake in Missouri that needed aquatic weed harvesting of the lake weeds removed in order to improve the lake, so thousands of people can enjoy the Missouri Lake for summertime fun and recreation. Also making a huge positive impact on the overall health of the waterway long term. Overall making a positive financial improvement for the businesses that earn a living from these waterways, because if people can enjoy the waterway, they will want to come back, tell their friends and in return will rent cottages, spend money on renting boats, kayaks, eating at the nearby restaurants, shopping at the nearby stores, etc... contact us today at 1 (855) 305-0233 or send us an email at: [email protected] to make a very positive impact on your waterways! (Missouri, Iowa, Kansas)….
New for 2025 we are looking for clients with dredging concerns and milfoil, curly leaf pond weed and other aquatic vegetation problems in Northern, Southern and Eastern states. If you have an over abundance of sediments or lake weeds on your waterway please email us and tell us of your situation. Do you and your neighbors have a hard time getting your boats in/out of your dock because the aquatic weeds are too thick. Is it too shallow because of too much muck or sediment build up? Does the lake weeds make it difficult to enjoy fishing, boating, swimming or the view. Please tell us of your situation, which lake your on and if you know of others in your area that have a similar problem.
Aquatic Weed Harvesting - Aquatic Weed Removal or Lake Weed Removal
The more Aquatic Weeds you remove during the spring, summer and fall the less Aquatic Weeds that will be on your lakefront. The problem with a lot of chemical use, it decomposes the lake weeds but creates biomass on the bottom of the lake, which can create a “Mucky” type bottom. More nutrients can lead to Algae Blooms, and then they have to apply more chemicals. You’re adding mass to the bottom of your lake, losing depth. Aquatic Weed Harvesting can improve your ecosystem on your lake when managed properly. Creating better breeding grounds for fish and wildlife. Improving oxygen levels by removing masses amounts of vegetation. Especially beneficial going into winter. It is like giving your lakefront a healthy haircut. It is about keeping your lake in balance, keeping it healthy for you and future generations to enjoy. www.swampthing.us. This is the start of how you improve your lake, pond, or canal. Further down the page are aquatic tips.
Aquatic Weed Harvesting With GPS Tracking
At Swamp Thing Aquatic Weed Control Services, we provide Aquatic Weed Harvesting with GPS tracking as shown below for clients that have large areas that need to be Aquatic Weed Harvested. This works excellent for townships, municipalities, large lake boards, and state projects that require tracking for funding. Swamp Thing leads the way to meet our client's needs to do an effective and thorough job. The highlighted areas show where several Aquatic Weed Harvesters cut and removed the vegetation from the lake. www.swampthing.us
We have a Fleet of Weed Harvesters & Aquatic Weed Removal equipment to handle your aquatic vegetation removal needs.
Periodic aquatic weed harvesting of shoreline areas will in many instances prove to be an effective means of aquatic plant control. The rooted AQUATIC WEEDS must produce sufficient food in their leaves to maintain their root systems. Frequent cuttings of the leaves will eventually lead to the death of some of the root systems because you're taking food away. It's the opposite with herbicide or chemical use, you are decomposing a portion of the plant and providing nutrients for stronger weed growth for this year and future years.
Like weeding the garden, it is necessary to watch for the early development of potential problems and remove the AQUATIC WEEDS as they become established, and before they spread over large areas. For a more permanent solution, we can dredge and remove the sediments and root systems, which are causing the abundant growth. It reduces the amount of Biomass on the bottom of the lake, more biomass equals more nutrients for plant growth.
Aquatic Weed Harvesting for the State and the Metro Parks
Mechanical Aquatic Weed Harvesting in Marinas in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and surrounding states can be a very selective method of Lake Weed Removal and can be used to only remove a portion of the aquatic plants. In the above pictures, we were selected by the state of Ohio to remove aquatic vegetation with our Aquatic Weed Harvesting equipment. The more selective methods can be used to maintain open boat channels through native aquatic plant stands, from docks to open water, without opening the bottom to the invasion of non-indigenous species. A lot of Chemicals deteriorate the plant and leave the bottom open for invasive aquatic plant species. Michigan has seen several Aquatic Invasive Species in its lakes. Eurasian Milfoil. Georgia and Florida have problems with Hydrilla. Aquatic weed harvests large projects in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Texas all over the nation. We can help www.swampthing.us.
Aquatic Weed Harvesting Contractor
American Dredge and Aquatic Weed Control Services, has become the Midwest's first choice for aquatic weed harvesting and dredging. With the largest fleet of Aquatic Weed Harvester gives us the capabilities to handle large and multiple projects. The White River and St. Joseph River have become infested with Eurasian Milfoil, which has made it hard for good boating access in miles of the river. Our aquatic weed harvesters can cut and remove the vegetation from these areas, and then this vegetation is transferred to shore and offloaded onto trailers to be disposed of. We can do the same for you. We work with all government programs/grants, LAR program, IDEM, and DNR. If you have a problem, call www.swampthing.us today. We travel the nation for similar projects, commercial and residential. We work with townships and local governments, to develop long-term programs for aquatic weed control. www.swampthing.us
Aquatic Weed Harvesting for the City of Brighton, Removing Aquatic Vegetation Within Their Mill Pond
Please Read Below Very Important--to the Overall Health of Your Lake, Pond, and Channel
Alternative to Herbicide use: Lake Associations, HOA, and Lake Boards are you tired of paying for expensive herbicide and/or chemical treatments without good results? How bad are the aquatic weeds still after 2 or 3 treatments a year? Do you get a lot of decay, or mass of floating aquatic vegetation that will settle to the lake bottom, and a lot that will wash up onto the residents' shorelines? This is adding to your problem each year providing more nutrients, for aquatic lake weed growth, ruining fish spawning beds, and creating a mucky bottom. Why do think they have warning labels on herbicide treatments? Use alternative methods to herbicides, such as aquatic weed harvesting, hydrocracking, and dredging, these are all very healthy alternative methods to herbicide treatment. Think about this for example, in Aquatic Weed Harvesting you are cutting the vegetation from the lake, leaving the stem at the bottom (good for fish) and when you remove the bulk of the plant you are instantly opening waterways (not waiting for it to decompose), taking nutrients out of the lake--a healthy balance. But with a herbicide it can decompose the plants, and add to your future weed growth problem, creating muck and nutrients. Also be very careful, too much decomposed aquatic vegetation in a body of water after a herbicide treatment can and has caused "fish kills", in a lot of states. Especially in a year with abundant lake weed growth and warm temperatures, you are better off Aquatic Weed Harvesting and removing the mass of the aquatic vegetation, when you have large amounts of vegetation within the water. Late summer and Fall, a good times for Aquatic Weed Harvest. Otherwise, if you treat a large amount of aquatic vegetation with a herbicide, going into the end of summer-fall and leading into winter (you could have a potential fish kill). Once the plant starts to decompose, it takes valuable oxygen to help the decomposition process, which can take away from the fish/aquatic life. Instead of using a herbicide here, please choose to Aquatic Weed Harvest and remove the mass of the vegetation. Rather than allowing it to decompose within your lake, which can be harmful (going into the winter months), you don't want to end up with a big fish kill, come spring. Seeing fish all over your shorelines. Call us today and stop using a herbicide treatment, try something eco-friendly. Let us put together a complete eco-friendly program for you. www.swampthing.us
What can it hurt, have your weeds gotten worse, do you now have more sediment/muck, has your budget slowly increased each year, because your current company says the weeds are getting worse, (More nutrients/sediment = more weeds) so you need more chemicals?? We are asking you to try something different, use some common sense, and try our Eco-Friendly approach. Long term you will be helping your lake, the residents that use the lake, and the ecosystem that is affected by your lake. Every inland lake is destined to fill it, don't try to speed up the process. www.swampthing.us
One of our small aquatic weed harvesters is used for smaller lakes, ponds, and lagoons. www.swampthing.us
Important for You to Read: Aquatic Weed Harvesting How Many Pounds of Weeds Are Removed?
Note: We recently removed 12 trailer loads of aquatic vegetation from a canal by weed harvesting. The trailer holds aquatic weeds in an approximate area of 22 feet long x 5 feet wide x 3 feet high. If you take this area and divide it into a cubic yard, it would be approximately 12.22 cubic yards of vegetation. A yard of mulch weighs roughly 300 to 500 pounds per cubic yard. Let us use (for the sake of argument) 300 x 12 cubic yards = 3,600 pounds. Now let's take the 12 loads x 3,600 pounds, this will give you 43,200. If the weed is harvested, you are helping by removing a lot of aquatic vegetation mass and helping remove phosphates, which promote further weed growth. Now, take that same scenario and treat these aquatic weeds 3 times a year and add all this decomposed aquatic vegetation to the bottom of your lake. You are overloading your lake/pond with too many nutrients and creating a mucky bottom in most cases. Now do this year after year, what is happening to your body of water!! One pound of phosphate can support 1100 pounds of algae growth. Look at the loads below. Help stop Algal Blooms, and remove the excess nutrients with aquatic weed harvesting.