The Mosquito Cost!

So you wanna be a Trustee or the Mayor? Here is a synopsis of an interesting report all the elected's recieved from Davis Clark in Public Works from Clarke Mosquito which outlines services Clarke Mosquito does for us. I must confess I read most of it, but then I am a sucker for this stuff. But this is the sort of stuff you have to be willing to dive into!

The challenge is to read something like this and be able to recall it when someone complains about mosquitos and then yank the relevant fact out of your head (in my case right next to who played catcher for the New York Mets in 1969, Jerry Grote by the way) and be able to talk about what the village does!

Operation and Surveillance Reports: Attached is a report outlining all services performed year-to-date. These services include the following:

• Complete Site Larval Inspection Service: Inspection service of all potential mosquito larvae development sites.
• Targeted Site Larval Inspection: Inspection of all targeted larval development sites. Culex Site Inspection Service: Inspection of culex mosquito larval development sites for the prevention of West Nile Virus and other mosquito-borne diseases.
• Larval Site Service Call: Special inspection of standing water for mosquito breeding per hot line request.
• Backpack Larviciding: Backpack larviciding for biological control of mosquito larvae sites.
• Hand Larviciding: Hand equipment larviciding for biological control of mosquito larvae.
• Backyard Catch Basin Trmt: Backyard catch basin treatment for larval control.
• Catch Basin Appl: Treatment of street catch basins for seasonal control of mosquito larvae development.
• Backyard Catch Basin Touch-Up: Treatment of a backyard catch basin per the request of the community's resident.
• Helicopter Larviciding: Helicopter larvicide application for biological control of mosquitoes.
• Truck ULV: ULV application for adult mosquito control larvae.
• Truck ULV Service Call: ULV “touch-up” application for control of mosquito annoyance per citizen hotline request.

The report then went on to detail exactly what was done and where, but it was in a spreadsheet which does not work here on blogger.