Bottom Screens

Northwest Aquatic Management offers bottom screening in the early spring and fall. This particular treatment can be very useful in areas where there is little boat traffic or an alternative to herbicides.

Bottom screen material is installed along the lake bottom in designated dimesions, set by the customer.  The barrier compressing aquatic plants while reducing or blocking light to inhibit photosynthesis.

In addition to controlling nuisance weeds around docks and in swimming beaches, bottom screening has become an important tool to help eradicate and contain early infestations of noxious weeds.