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Overall, the updated legislation prohibits the use of fertilizer containing phosphorus for home, commercial and municipal application except in the following situations:
* A soil test conducted within the past three years confirms that phosphorus is needed for the lawn.
* The fertilizer is needed for the establishment of a new lawn – either seed or sod.
* The fertilizer is a finished sewage sludge product or an organic or manipulated manure and is applied at application rates outlined in the law.
Other key points are:
* It prohibits fertilizer application on lawns within 15 feet of surface water unless there is a vegetative buffer at the shoreline or a fertilizer spreader guard, deflector, shield or a drop spreader is used.
* It prohibits cleaning of fertilizer spreaders in any manner that could result in the wash water discharging directly into water of the state, including drains.
* It requires that any fertilizer that gets onto an impervious surface (sidewalk, driveway, road, parking lot) must be promptly contained either by collecting and applying to a lawn or returning the fertilizer to an appropriate container.
* It prohibits a fertilizer application if the soil is frozen or saturated with water.
* A soil test conducted within the past three years confirms that phosphorus is needed for the lawn.
* The fertilizer is needed for the establishment of a new lawn – either seed or sod.
* The fertilizer is a finished sewage sludge product or an organic or manipulated manure and is applied at application rates outlined in the law.
Other key points are:
* It prohibits fertilizer application on lawns within 15 feet of surface water unless there is a vegetative buffer at the shoreline or a fertilizer spreader guard, deflector, shield or a drop spreader is used.
* It prohibits cleaning of fertilizer spreaders in any manner that could result in the wash water discharging directly into water of the state, including drains.
* It requires that any fertilizer that gets onto an impervious surface (sidewalk, driveway, road, parking lot) must be promptly contained either by collecting and applying to a lawn or returning the fertilizer to an appropriate container.
* It prohibits a fertilizer application if the soil is frozen or saturated with water.
