Mosquito spraying

[CopperCanyonResident]

Mayor Sue & Town Council:

Please consider how the town can use town funds to cut down on the mosquito population by spraying insecticide in Copper Canyon.

Neighboring towns are spraying to reduce the mosquito population. I realize our town is not as densely populated as neighboring towns, but a well considered plan to spray as effectively as possible is not a bad idea given current circumstances. West Nile Virus infections in our town are to be avoided.

If our town government exists to serve the people, then our tax dollars really should be spent on projects aimed at protecting the citizens from disease.

I checked the town website and did not see anything that addressed this important topic.

Would you rather spend our tax dollars on Tex-Mex Food for Copper Canyon hosted parties?

Feeding the local great and good, or protecting the citizens of CC? What is the better use of our tax dollars?

Please consider the importance of this issue. The health of our town's populace is paramount.

Thank you for considering my point of view,

CCR

[JKTex]

I'm hoping that's just a copy of something you sent directly to them?

[CopperCanyonResident]

Two months after this issue was raised in this forum, and after residents have become ill from infected mosquito bites, NOW the town invests in their stupid signs!

What an ineffectual waste of tax payers' money!

God help me, but my blood boiled when I saw the stupid propaganda signs sprouting up around town like mushrooms after a spring rain.

Just spray to kill the mosquitos damnit! Don't waste our money on signs, just get to business and kill mosquitos. This is not rocket science, and shame on you for taking so long to address this issue.

Let's set up luncheons galore for the local great and good, but let us not worry about matters of life or death in Copper Canyon.

[JKTex]

What kind of signs?

[skiing1974]

Red one with white letters like the one on Copper Canyon Rd. as you turn from 407. Telling you to spray yourself, dusk dawn crap, etc.

[JKTex]

Red one with white letters like the one on Copper Canyon Rd. as you turn from 407. Telling you to spray yourself, dusk dawn crap, etc.

Do they need one with when to blow your nose, or wipe your.....never mind. Glad Mama is taking care of the kids.

[CopperCanyonResident]

Red one with white letters like the one on Copper Canyon Rd. as you turn from 407. Telling you to spray yourself, dusk dawn crap, etc.

Do they need one with when to blow your nose, or wipe your.....never mind. Glad Mama is taking care of the kids.

Who needs Big Brother when you have Big Momma!

Her Majesty is so damned stubborn! She spent two months thinking this was only an issue of folks taking responsibility for the problem by keeping their pools treated, their stock ponds dunked, and their various recepticles free of water!

I am 100% in agreement with the mayor on personal responsibility, but this issue goes well beyond folks turning over water laden flower pots! We are still semi rural here, and our town is contiguous to the land controlled by the Corp of Engineers. There is so much land and water that is not directly controlled by homeowners that it is not realistic to believe that we can tackle the problem merely by turning over containers or putting dunks in stock ponds.

We defeated malaria in this country by the copious use of insecticides. There is NO reason for our citizens to become ill and risk death because our mayor is stubborn enough to think this is solely an issue of personal responsibility.

She can take her damned signs - which are a total waste of money - and go "dunk" them, and her stubborn, willful head, into the mosquito larvae infested waters of Copper Canyon.

In the meantime I am thankful both for the beneficial effects of the spraying (while being mindful of the negative effects), and for the advent of autumn, which will hopefully bring an early, and exceedingly hard, frost.

[JKTex]

I saw the signs.......no comment.

[CopperCanyonResident]

I saw the signs.......no comment.

I would appreciate it if you would chime in.

What would you think if your town leaders invested in such signs?

I would really appreciate your views, since you live in a neighboring town.

Is it just me, or is this not nonsense?

Before those signs went up, and before the spraying was approved, folks grew ill from the bites of those little demons flying about in our town.

[JKTex]

Uh, they're huge, state the obvious, and can't be left up for long, can they?

I also bet it would have been cheaper to pay for 2 or 3 of the passes the sprayer truck has made past my house in the last 2 nights (yep again tonight, after 3 times last night) and let the FM trucks pass through CC.

[CopperCanyonResident]

Uh, they're huge, state the obvious, and can't be left up for long, can they?

I also bet it would have been cheaper to pay for 2 or 3 of the passes the sprayer truck has made past my house in the last 2 nights (yep again tonight, after 3 times last night) and let the FM trucks pass through CC.

Bingo!

Thank you sir!

Praying for an early frost over in CC,

CCR

[JKTex]

Make that 5 passes in 48 hours...yes, 3 nights in a row we had sprayer trucks come by the house. I wold have donated 3 of my passes to CC.

[admin]

From the Town of Copper Canyon:

DENTON COUNTY'S NEW WEST NILE VIRUS CASES ARE 20% of the 49 NEW CASES in ALL OF TEXAS this past week!

Denton County had 51 WNND (plus 2 for the week) and 120 WN fever cases (+7 for the week), for a total number of confirmed cases of 171 (+9 for the past week.)

Tarrant County (Fort Worth) had 1 new death and 8 new cases. El Paso had 1 new death and 1 new case.

Counties that did not gain any new cases this past week:

North Texas counties (Collin, Dallas, and Ellis), Harris County (Houston), Travis County (Austin), Victoria County, and McClennan County

Total number of West Nile illnesses reported in 2012 is now 1,660 (765 neuroinvasive and 895 fever.) There are 49 new cases in Texas. 771 (+19 new cases this past week) neuro invasive cases in 93 counties - and 912 (+ 30 cases this past week) fever cases in 96 counties.

1381 mosquito pools have tested positive for the virus in 20 counties (+ 11 for the past week). There were 85 horse cases in 53 counties (+6 this past week.)

The North Texas Poison Control Center received 1767 calls from August 13 to September 20, 2012. No calls concerned exposure to the West Nile Virus spray.

Fellow neighbors and friends: Pray for a hard freeze in our general area to kill the West Nile Virus infected mosquitoes. Until then, please continue to practice the four "D's" of prevention on our big red billboard signs. Once we have a hard freeze in our area, the signs will be retired - until next spring.

Sue Tejml, Mayor

Update is according to Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Division of Emergency Management, State Situation Report #29, as of Monday October 22, 2012.

[CopperCanyonResident]

The signs are too little, too late and are largely ineffectual.

The mayor should have taken heed of my request when I wrote it on the 22nd of July.

I have been praying for a hard freeze for a month, now. It cannot come soon enough.