Herbicide Notice – August 2026

We continue to maintain our right-of-way (ROW) obligations by targeted herbicide application. If you would like to opt out from herbicide application on property you own, please complete the form below. The opt out remains in effect for one year and must be renewed annually.

Areas Set for Herbicide in late August 2026:

Please visit barcelectric.com/herbicide for specific area maps.

BARC is committed to improving the quality of life in the communities it serves. Part of that mission is ensuring the cooperative provides safe, reliable, and affordable electricity to our electric member-consumers. When outages occur, you likely have seen lineworkers and field crews making repairs to restore power. BARC’s staff and contractors continually work to maintain power lines and Rights-of-Way to assist in preventing prolonged outages on the cooperative’s electric system. In the situations when power outages occur, BARC is committed to restoring service as quickly as possible.

This is to notify you that a BARC Electric contractor will be applying herbicide to BARC ROWs in the areas mentioned above in late August 2026. This application is specifically utilized to target woody plants and is applied by foliar backpack spraying (with permission) with low volume applicators. The herbicide application process is not a wall to wall, kill everything application and its use is intended to reduce unwanted brush in the ROWs so that plants and grasses can grow to benefit the environment and reduce the number of power outages and their duration.