This post is about the Aquamog CCX in action. The machine is great for creating channels or removing excess cattail growth from lakes. This is by far the fastest and most efficient Aquamog when it comes to only emergent aquatic plants and cattail removal. Where other Aquamogs need to separate tools to do the same work, the Aquamog ccx just gets after it to make new cleared water.

The Aquamog CCX with its two separate cutter blades in the front of the barge can displace cattails to a depth of three feet. The blades move the machine as well as do the root removal work. Removingthe roots limits re-growth in the area.

After the roots are removed they remain on the surface of the water and are than easily picked up and removed from the water body using an aquatic plant harvester. The harvester takes the plant material to the shore for final placement and/or off site disposal.

Cattails are a good plant that have a lot purposes in wetlands. They provide filtering of pollutants from the water, as well as provide habitat and shelter for birds and other wildlife.

However, if not properly controlled they can quickly turn into a large aquatic weed issues that can be very difficult and expensive to handle. Thus the Aquamog CCX was created.

The Aquamog was created in the early 1980s by Aquatics Unlimited (AU). The McNabb family founded Aquatics Unlimited in 1974. Both Tom and Dave McNabb developed the Aquamog brand and line of machinery through out the 1980′s and 1990s while with AU. 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, CA and Dave’s company DK Environmental (www.dkenvironmental.com) in Lafayette, CA have been working together on the Aquamog CCX project for about 10 years and in February 2009 the Aquamog CCX-238 was welcomed into into the “Mog” line.