SprayingKeith, Odell, et al...
It's been a long time since you have heard from me regarding the
adjoining "creek/drainage ditch/garbage dump" but I have a request. With
all this rain, it has become unbearable to do anything outside due to
the mosquito infestation. I have sprayed the area several times prior to
the rain with Malathion but I suspect the ongoing rain has made it
ineffective. In spite of spraying ourselves with DEET and having a
perimeter of Citronella Tiki lights we are in a loosing battle with the
mosquitoes, especially in the afternoons. The people across the creek
appear to have started a "day-care" so I can only guess the problem they
are/will be having with the pesky bugs. Is there any way that the city
can spray this creek/channel to try and control/eradicate the
mosquitoes? In lieu of the fact that you will not control the weed
infestation, which only adds to the bug control problem, I would hope
that you can at least spray to control the bugs before we end up as a
West Nile statistic.
G C Gomez