This article is about the Aquamog CCX in action. The vessel is made for creating channels or getting rid of nuisance cattail growth from shorelines. This is by far the fastest and most efficient Aquamog when it comes to just emergent aquatic plants and cattail control. Where other Aquamogs need to multiple tools to do the same work, the Aquamog ccx just digs right in to make new cleared water.
The Aquamog CCX with its two independent cutter blades in the front of the barge can remove cattails to a depth of 3 feet. The blades propel the vessel as well as do the root removal task. Getting rid ofthe roots cuts down on re-growth in the area.
When the roots are removed they float on top of the water and are than easily picked up and removed from the lake using an aquatic plant harvester. The harvester transports the plant material to the shoreline for final placement and/or off site dump.
Cattails are an aquatic plant that serves many purposes in lakes. They provide filtering of nutrients and some heavy metals from lakes, as well as provide homes for birds and other wildlife.
But, if not properly controlled they can quickly turn into a huge aquatic plant problems that can be very difficult and costly to handle. That is why the Aquamog CCX was created.
The Aquamog equipment line was created in the early 1980s by Aquatics Unlimited (AU). The McNabb family formed AU in the 1970s. Both Tom and Dave McNabb developed the Aquamog brand and line of equipment through out the 80’s and 1990s while with AU. Tom continued the Aquamog line into the new century with the addition of the MarshMog. Tom’s new company Clean Lakes, Inc. (www.cleanlake.com) located in Martinez, CA and Dave’s company DK Environmental (www.dkenvironmental.com) in Lafayette, California have been working together on the Aquamog CCX project for about 10 years and in February 2009 the Aquamog CCX 238 was welcomed into into the “Mog” line.