Expect to see more dead fish as the weather warms, daylight lengthens, and fertilizer-nitrogen chokes waterways and litters shores with stinking slime. On Wednesday, May 15th, the Attorney General's Director of Municipal Law Unit issued the decision that the fertilizer industry's state law trumps a town's right to regulate lawn care applications. Falmouth cannot mandate citizens apply one pound nitrogen per 1,000 square feet. Instead the industry/state standard of five pounds nitrogen per 1,000 square feet should be applied. A striped bass or clean beach is a terrible thing to waste for monetary greed by one industry.
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