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

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

The Aquamog CCX with its two separate cutter blades in the front of the machine can uproot cattails to a depth of three feet. The blades move the machine as well as do the root removal job. Removingthe roots can cut down on re-growth in the area.

When the roots are removed they remain on the surface of the water and are than easily collected and removed from the water body using an aquatic plant harvester. The harvester takes the plant material to the shoreline for final placement and/or off site land fill.

Cattails are a native plant that have alot functions in ponds. Cattails provide filtering of nutrients and some heavy metals from ponds, as well as provide habitat and shelter for birds and other animals.

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

The Aquamog was created in the early 1980′s by Aquatics Unlimited (AU). The McNabb family started AU in the 1970′s. Both Tom and Dave McNabb created the Aquamog name and line of machinery throughout the 1980s and 1990s while with Aquatics Umlimited. 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, California and Dave’s company DK Environmental (www.dkenvironmental.com) in Lafayette, California 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 “Mog” line.