The Aquamog CCX-238 Cutting a New Channel Through a Thick Cattail Zone

This article features the Aquamog CCX in action. The vessel is perfect for creating channels or removing nuisance cattail plants from ponds. This is by far the fastest and most efficient Aquamog when it comes to only emergent vegetation and cattail removal. Where other Aquamogs need to separate attachments to do the same work, the Aquamog ccx just digs right in to create new cleared water.

The Aquamog CCX with its two independent cutter blades in the front of the barge can displace cattails to a depth of three feet. The blades move the machine as well as do the root removal job. Getting rid ofthe roots cuts down on re-growth in the area.

Once 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 weed harvester. The harvester takes the vegetation to the shoreline for final placement and/or off site land fill.

Cattails are a native plant that serves alot functions in ponds. Cattails provide filtering of pollutants from wetlands, as well as provide nesting for birds and other animals.

However, if not properly maintained they can quickly turn into a huge aquatic weed problems that can be very hard and costly to handle. That is why the Aquamog CCX was made.

The Aquamog equipment line was created in the early 1980′s by Aquatics Unlimited (AU). The McNabb family formed Aquatics Unlimited in 1974. Both Tom and Dave McNabb developed the Aquamog name and line of equipment through the 1980s and 1990′s 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, CA have been working together on the Aquamog CCX project for about 10 years and in February 2009 the Aquamog CCX-238 was introduced into the Aquamog family.