You can help the Santa Rosa Creek

[The A Team]

Help bring back the fish in Santa Rosa Creek, ask to stop the spraying. We have spent many years and millions of dollars to rehabilitate the creek . Let’s end the spraying.
Some facts:
Roundup* (and other glyphosates) being sprayed in your parks and neighborhood sometimes weekly (including west county):

Did you Know?

Monsanto was banned by the New York Attorney General from advertising it as safe.
Despite worldwide scientific studies showing them as cancer causing, city Parks denies seeing any chemical reports of its danger.
Studies in Japan link glyphosates to testicular cancer.
Many European countries have banned glyphosates (weed killers) as toxic.
Weed killers are more potent to children because of their body size.
After use it leaches into the water table.

Average time Roundup* “kills” weeds for 1-2 months.
Safe weed controls such as weed screen combined with mulch work for 6 months to one year. Mulch is free to cheap for city and county services.
for more info see alternative to toxins sites
https://www.alternatives2toxics.org/
What you can do:

Contact your City Council Member and/or County Supervisor
- ask them to consider price of Roundup versus cost to your health and ground water.


To take a quick action:
Copy and clip the letter below, or e-mail your own message to your favorite council member, please cc me at [email protected]
Thanks-Andrea Pellicani


PHONE (707)-565-2241
FAX (707)-565-3778

E-MAIL ADDRESSES:

First District Supervisor:
Valerie Brown - [email protected]

Second District Supervisor
Mike Kerns - [email protected]

Third District Supervisor
Tim Smith - [email protected]

Fourth District Supervisor
Paul L. Kelley - [email protected]

Fifth District Supervisor
Mike Reilly - [email protected]

City Council members

Veronica Jacobi
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Susan Gorin
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Jane Bender
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John Sawyer
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Mike Martini
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Vica Mayor Lee Pierce
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Mayor Bob Blanchard
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Dear

I would like to ask that the use of safe weed control be implemented in my neighborhood(city). Please phase out and end the use of toxins to control weeds. I would like to recommend high weed mowers for appropriate areas. In smaller areas I recommend weed screen, mulch and weed burners, or when safe no treatment.

Thank You,

[John Malpas]

Hello,

Here are a few comments on this letter.
I am a home gardener, and use glyphosate herbicides
very reluctantly; they always seem to kill much more than
you intend. The best thing to do with weeds is remove
them completely by hand-- this however get very expensive.
Situations where I think glyphosates are called for are
with really pernicious invasives like vinca major or English ivy,
where the weeds have a significant root structure that
is difficult to completely dig up by hand.

As to your recommendation of weed barrier for small areas:
My experience with porous weed cloths has been completely
negative. Strong weeds that are already growing under it
can push their way right through it,
even if it is doubled over. To remove one of these strong
weeds, you end up making a big hole in the cloth.

Weed cloth looks horrible, so when I did
try it, I covered it over with an inch or two of mulch.
Then what happened is that the annual weeds grew
in the mulch, but sent their fine roots down through the
porous cloth. When I pulled one of these weeds, it also
made a big hole in the weed cloth and displaced the mulch.
For long term maintenance, weed cloth actually makes
the situation worse.

Thank you,

John Malpas

Help bring back the fish in Santa Rosa Creek, ask to stop the spraying. We have spent many years and millions of dollars to rehabilitate the creek . Let’s end the spraying.
Some facts:
Roundup* (and other glyphosates) being sprayed in your parks and neighborhood sometimes weekly (including west county):


Thank You,

[The A Team]

<br /><br />
Hello,

Here are a few comments on this letter.
I am a home gardener, and use glyphosate herbicides
very reluctantly; they always seem to kill much more than
you intend. The best thing to do with weeds is remove
them completely by hand-- this however get very expensive.
Situations where I think glyphosates are called for are
with really pernicious invasives like vinca major or English ivy,
where the weeds have a significant root structure that
is difficult to completely dig up by hand.

As to your recommendation of weed barrier for small areas:
My experience with porous weed cloths has been completely
negative. Strong weeds that are already growing under it
can push their way right through it,
even if it is doubled over. To remove one of these strong
weeds, you end up making a big hole in the cloth.

Weed cloth looks horrible, so when I did
try it, I covered it over with an inch or two of mulch.
Then what happened is that the annual weeds grew
in the mulch, but sent their fine roots down through the
porous cloth. When I pulled one of these weeds, it also
made a big hole in the weed cloth and displaced the mulch.
For long term maintenance, weed cloth actually makes
the situation worse.

Thank you,

John Malpas

Hi,
I agree there are types of plants difficult to dig up. The areas downtown that are being sprayed have no weeds growing there or the occaisional milk weed or dandelion. These can be addressed with propane weed burners or digging.
Is it worth the risk of testicular cancer, liver failure etc. If it is a person's own yard that is their choice but in public areas it is being forced on us. Some of us don't want to be exposed to toxins.
p.s. the surfactants used in glyphosates to get them to spread evenly are far more toxic than the"weed killer" themselves.
Also, the manufacturers clearly state not to use Round Up near aquatic life-because it kills fish and plants- so why spray it along a creek or into a Laguna.
Please see some of the web sites such as Californians for Alternatives to Toxins.
Thanks,
Andrea