Pesticide Specifications - Revised Feb 2025.pdf

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Landscape Maintenance Carter County I-64 Rest Areas Rebid
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Calloway County, Kentucky

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This document appears to be a detailed Herbicide/Insecticide Attachment specifying technical specifications for various landscape and turfgrass herbicides and insecticides. The document lists five specific chemical products with precise active ingredient compositions, including Landscape Pre-emergent Herbicides (Gallery 75DF by Dow AgroSciences), Landscape Post-emergent Herbicide (Roundup Pro by Monsanto), Turfgrass Pre-emergent Herbicide (Dimension by Dow AgroSciences), Turfgrass Post-emergent Herbicide (Spoiler by NuFarm Americas Inc.), and an Insecticide (Mavrik Aquaflow by Wellmark Inc.).

Each product is meticulously detailed with its chemical composition, including the percentage of active and inert ingredients, specific chemical names, and technical specifications such as grams per liter or pounds per U.S. gallon. The document provides flexibility by allowing "equal product" alternatives to the specified brand names, suggesting this is likely part of a competitive bidding or procurement process for landscaping or grounds maintenance chemical treatments. The technical specificity indicates a professional, likely government or large-scale institutional procurement effort that requires precise chemical formulation standards for pest and vegetation management.

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Herbicide/Insecticide Attachment:

a) Landscape Pre-emergent herbicide 1:

Active ingredient:

Isoxaben: N-[3-(1-ethyl-1-methylpropyl)-5-isoxazoly]-2,6-dimethoxybezamide ……

75.0%

Inert Ingredients ……………………………………………………………………… 25.0%

Total ………………………………………………………………………………… 100.0%

(Contains 0.75 pounds active ingredient per pound)

Herbicide will be Gallery 75DF by Dow AgroSciences or equal product.

b) Landscape Pre-Emergent Herbicide 2:

Active Ingredient:

Pendimethalin (N-(1-ethylpropyl)-3,4-dimethyl-2,6-dinitrobenzenamine ………… 38.7%

Inert Ingredients ……………………………………………………………………… 61.3%

Total ………………………………………………………………………………… 100.0%

(1 gallon contains 3.8 lbs of microencapsulated pendimethalin in an aqueous carrier.)

Herbicide will be Pendulum AquaCap by BASF or equal product

c) Landscape Post-emergent Herbicide:

Active ingredient:

*Glyphosate, N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine, in the form of its isopropylamine salt…

41.0%

Inert ingredients (including surfactant): ……………………………………………… 59.0%

Total……………………………………………………………………………………

100.0%

*Contains 480 grams per litre or 4 pounds per u.s. gallon of the active ingredient glyphosate, in the form of its isopropylamine salt. Equivalent to 356 grams per litre or 3 pounds per U.S.

gallon of the acid, glyphosate.

Herbicide will be Roundup Pro by Monsanto or equal product.

e) Insecticide:

Active Ingredient:

(∝RS,2R)-fluvalinate{(RS)-∝-cyano-3-phenoxybenzyl(R)-2-{2-chloro-4-(trifluoro-methyl)anilino}-3-methylbutanoate}* ……………………………………………… 22.3%

Inert Ingredients: ……………………………………………………………………… 77.7%

Total ………………………………………………………………………………… 100.0%

(Mavrik Aquaflow is a flowable formulation containing 2 pounds (∝RS,2R)-fluvalinate per gallon (240g/L))

Insecticide will be Mavrik Aquaflow by Wellmark Inc., or equal product.

d) Turfgrass Pre-emergent Herbicide:

Active ingredient:

*Dithiopyr, 3,5-pyridinedicarbothioic acid, 2-(difluoromethyl)-4-(2-methyl-Propyl)-6-

(trifluoromythl)- S,S-dimethyl ester …………………………………………………

12.7%

Inert ingredients …………………………………………………………………… 87.3%

Total ……………………………………………………………………………… 100.0%

(*Contains 120 grams per liter or 1 pound per U.S. gallon of the active ingredient)

Herbicide will be Dimension by Dow AgroSciences or approved equal.

b) Turfgrass Post-emergent Herbicide:

Active ingredient:

Di-methylamine Salt of 2,4 Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid …………………………

33.30%

Dimethylamine Salt of (+)-R-2-(2-Methyl-4-Chlorophenoxy) propionic Acid …….8.58%

Di-methylamine Salt of (+)-R-2-(2,4- Dichlorophenoxy) propionic Acid ……………

8.45%

Inert Ingredients ………………………………………………………………………

49.67%

Total ………………………………………………………………………………… 100.0%

By Iswomer Specific AOAC Method, Equivalent to:

2, 4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid …………………….. 27.66%, 2.69 lbs/gal

(+)-R-2-(2-Methyl-4-Chlorophenoxy) propionic Acid …. 7.09%, 0.71 lbs/gal

(=)-R-2-(2,4-Doichlorophenoxy) propionic Acid ………. 7.09%, 0.71 lbs/gal

Herbicide will be Spoiler by NuFarm Americas Inc. or equal product.

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