SHOULD PUBLIC AGENCIES BE ABOVE THE LAW? I THINK NOT!

PHRAGMITES NEAR THE LAKE THAT HAVE BEEN SPRAYED WITH HERBICIDE photo 9/25/15

SAME AREA, END OF FRIENDLY VALLEY ROAD,  photo 8/20/15

Saturday, 8:45 AM. 58 degrees F at the ferry dock, 55 on the back porch.  Wind light and variable.  There is dense fog everywhere and the fog horns are moaning.  The humidity is 98% and the barometer  is plummeting, now at 30.31".  The fog should lift by afternoon and tomorrow be a sunny day.
   Five weeks ago, before I went into the hospital, I took a photo of a row of Phragmites reed growing along the parking area of the beach, at the end of Friendly Valley Road, which I thought had been sprayed.  I took another look yesterday and another photo, and that is definitely the case.
   I reiterate now what I alluded to then;  public agencies and their volunteers should be under the same restrictions and follow the same rules that are demanded of the general public.  Public meetings should be held on each major initiative; signs indicating the spray material used, precautions to be met (such as using Roundup near water) and date applied should be posted at obvious intervals, and the need for controls should be made known and obvious to the public (here there is only a narrow band of Phragmites near the road, probably planted years ago to reinforce the roadside ditch.  Is eradication really necessary?).
  In this case, little or none of that has been done.  Should public agencies be above the law?  I think not!