DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES

Extended Mallee Agricultural Chemical Control Area

What you need to know An extension to the Mallee and Mid-Murray Agricultural Agricultural Chemical Control Area Chemical Control Area, effective February 2006, will help protect valuable horticultural crops. Boundary Damage caused to horticultural crops in the Mallee and Mid-Murray Agricultural Chemical Control Area, in recent years, is attributed to vapour drift from ester The combined Mallee and Mid-Murray and Extended Mallee Agricultural formulations of some types of agricultural herbicides. Chemical Control Area is defined by: These herbicides can, under certain climatic conditions, vaporise and drift many • the South - border kilometres causing unintended damage to sensitive horticultural crops. • the to Gunbower Creek at The new area, called the Extended Mallee Agricultural Chemical Control Area, has been • the point where Chick Road intersects with Gunbower Creek named to distinguish it from the existing Mallee and Mid-Murray Agricultural Chemical Control Area. • the Chick Road and Oldham Road to its intersection with the Buckland Road The chemical restrictions that apply in the Mallee and Mid-Murray Agricultural Chemical • the Buckland Road to its intersection with the -Koondrook Road Control Area will not change. • the Kerang – Koondrook Road to its intersection with the • the Murray Valley Highway to its intersection with the Kerang – Road Chemical Restrictions • the Kerang – Quambatook Road to the township of Quambatook • the Quambatook – Road to its intersection with the Dumosa – Quambatook Chemical restrictions will apply each year between Road 1 August and 30 April of the following year. • the Dumosa – Quambatook Road to its intersection with the Donald – Swan Hill Road • the Donald – Swan Hill Road in a south-westerly direction to its intersection with the Extended Mallee Agricultural Chemical Control Area – effective February 2006 Calder Highway In the Extended Mallee Agricultural Chemical Control Area, a person cannot apply an • in a northerly direction along the Calder Highway to its intersection with the Mallee agricultural chemical product that contains an ester formulation of: • 2,4-D or MCPA - by any means of application Highway • triclopyr - by aircraft or mister application. • in a westerly direction along the Mallee Highway to its intersection with the Meridian Road at Walpeup Mallee and Mid-Murray Agricultural Chemical Control Area – established 1996 • in a northerly direction along the Meridian Road to the parish of Wymlet A person must not apply an agricultural chemical product that contains: • along the western boundaries of the parishes of Wymlet, Bitternang, Carool and • an ester formulation of 2,4-D, 2,4-DB or MCPA, by any means of application • any formulation of picloram, hexazinone applied as a liquid, products containing Raak to Carwarp Road sulfometuron methyl or ester formulations of triclopyr, by aircraft or mister • west along Carwarp Road to its intersection with Yarrara South Road application. • north along Yarrara South Road and Yarrara North Road to the intersection with the A person must obtain a permit from DPI to use, by aircraft or mister application, any: • formulation of chlorsulfuron, clopyralid, glyphosate or metsulfuron methyl Sturt Highway • amine formulation of MCPA, MCPB, 2,4-D, 2,4-DB, dicamba, mecoprop or triclopyr. • west along the Sturt Highway to the point where South Australia borders Victoria.

Further Information DPI Customer Service Centre 136 186 DPI Chemical Standards website at www.dpi.vic.gov.au/chemicalstandards

Published by: Department of Primary Industries Chemical Standards Branch 475 Mickleham Road, Attwood, Victoria 3049 Australia January 2006

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