Our divers remove prodigious amounts of milfoil from the lake each week. When they are hand 
picking four divers can fill between 120 and 180 catch bags each day. Using the suction harvester they can get two or three times as much in the same time. You have probably seen the mounds of soggy milfoil accumulating on the side of the road across from the boat ramp.
Just about the only good thing about this weed is that it is excellent fertilizer! When I began working with the divers I wondered how we would get rid of it. It turns out that local farmers and gardeners are glad to take it to put on their gardens. The picture above shows how it happens. I have been told that decaying milfoil is nutritious for flowers as well as vegetables. Please feel free to help yourself.
In case you wanted to see what the “trash rack” looks like out of the water, here it is. Not shown is the portable hydraulic pump that lifts the rack like a dump truck to empty it of its heavy load of harvested milfoil.