No-Spray Zones
How to request that county road maintenance crews refrain from
spraying herbicides on your property’s boundary.
How to request that county road maintenance crews refrain from
spraying herbicides on your property’s boundary.
Some property owners in our communities are concerned about the county’s current policy of spraying herbicides along roadsides, especially when the spraying occurs at their property boundary. For more information, see PMKCA’s June 2021 newsletter article, “Finding Alternatives to RoundUp – Maintaining roadsides without Herbicides.” by clicking here.
Hawai’i County’s Department of Public Works, Highways Division provides a form and process for identifying a “No Spray” zone along your property boundary. To help any owners who wish to mark their property boundaries as No-Spray zones, we are providing the form and process here.
Click here to get the PDF form
There are three main steps to the process: 1) informing the county Highways Division that you wish to exclude your property from county roadside spraying, 2) marking your property roadside corners with signs of a size and type required by the county and 3) maintaining the property boundary.
Requesting a No-Spray zone and receiving authorization:
Making and posting your signs according to county specifications:
Maintaining your boundary:
Hawai’i County’s Department of Public Works, Highways Division provides a form and process for identifying a “No Spray” zone along your property boundary. To help any owners who wish to mark their property boundaries as No-Spray zones, we are providing the form and process here.
Click here to get the PDF form
There are three main steps to the process: 1) informing the county Highways Division that you wish to exclude your property from county roadside spraying, 2) marking your property roadside corners with signs of a size and type required by the county and 3) maintaining the property boundary.
Requesting a No-Spray zone and receiving authorization:
- Download and fill out the No-Spray form, “Request to maintain county roadside area.”
- Provide your property’s TMK (property record) and maybe a map, marking your property boundary on the county road.
- Sign the form and mail to: DPW Highway Division, 630 E. Lanikaula St. Hilo, 96720
- The county Highway Maintenance Division sends the request to the local yard for implementation. You can contact our Hamakua Base Yard for confirmation: 775-7500.
- Note that the authorization is approved for a date range that you specify, but supposedly not longer than one year. However, the crews are likely to respect the signs for much longer.
Making and posting your signs according to county specifications:
- Create two signs:
- Sign dimensions: 6” H x 18” L.
- White background with red lettering 4” high and 1/2" thick, reading “NO SPRAYING”
- Attached to a post or stake that keeps the sign visible above vegetation.
- Place a sign at each corner of your property boundary on a county road.
Maintaining your boundary:
- Keeping vegetation from encroaching on the roadway or creating other hazards.
- There still may be non-spraying services at your property from other agencies (ex., Hawaiian Tel, HELCO for maintaining utility lines.)