07/01/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/01/2024 10:56
Alachua County's landscape fertilizer regulations prohibit using landscape fertilizers with nitrogen or phosphorus from July through February. Vegetable gardens and fruit trees are exempt from these limitations. Signage about the fertilizer rules must be displayed at all stores that sell fertilizer. Alachua County Environmental Protection staff are currently distributing signage.
These regulations protect the county's water resources from fertilizer pollution during our rainy season and through the winter months - when landscape fertilizer is easily washed away instead of being absorbed by plants.
The ordinance also includes the following standards:
"Fertilizers are a source of pollution to our surface waters, groundwater, and springs, so we want to ensure that citizens are aware of the fertilizer ban," said Stacie Greco, the water resources program manager for Alachua County's Environmental Protection Department. "In a recent survey, the percentage of residents reporting they don't use fertilizers at all has increased from 55% to 68%."
Learn more about the landscape fertilizer ban.
To request signage or to report the absence of signage, contact Luke Sekula at 352-264-6822 or [email protected].
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