Conservancy Group Sounds Alarm Over Invasive Plant

Posted: 6:27 pm EDT June 2, 2011

BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. -- A conservancy group in Montgomery County is sounding the alarm over an invasive plant.

The Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy says the Perkiomen and Unami Creeks are under attack from the European water chestnut.

The plant spreads very rapidly and it reduces oxygen levels for native plants and animals....

...It says plants have also been found upstream in Finland, Bucks County and Deep Creek Lake.

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