Cache Mosquito Abatement District

Employees of CMAD are easy to spot.  They’ll be wearing bright orange shirts with this logo on the pocket.

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The CMAD was created by the voters in twelve municipalities and the county unincorporated area in November 2004. Since that time, four municipalities have requested annexation. Currently, only Logan, Paradise, and River Heights as well as the area of College Ward and Young Ward are not in the District. Funds to operate are generated solely from a property tax levy. A budget hearing, legal notice of which is given each November and December, is held in mid-December to adopt an operating budget for the coming fiscal year. The public is especially encouraged to attend and express their thoughts to the trustees on the proposed budget. The CMAD has requested and adopted, for the first time since they were created, an increase in the levy for the 2007 fiscal year in order to provide more larvaciding and surveillance services.

 

Cache MAD

PO Box 466

Hyde Park, UT 84318

 

435-764-6839

cachemosquito@cachemosquito.com

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Because CMAD started with no funds and no place to call home, we contracted with Bear River Health Department (BRHD) to provide the abatement and surveillance services since they had the equipment, buildings, and personnel to do so. It’s a natural pairing since both agencies seek to control mosquitoes; BRHD specifically to slow the spread of West Nile Virus and CMAD to control mosquitoes. CMAD sets policies for the District, and BRHD implements them through increased surveillance, greater time spent on larvaciding, and developing methods to track pesticide amounts used, district hot spots, and identification of disease (whether WNV or other mosquito-borne diseases).

The CMAD emphasizes larvaciding over spraying. Larvacide compounds such as Bti target only mosquito larva with an 80-100% kill rate. Large bodies of still water require use of another larvacide compound that affects a broader range of organisms but still can reduce mosquito larva 80-100%. By preventing larva pupating into adult mosquitoes, less spraying will need to be done. Logbooks kept by BRHD field workers show that larvaciding hours are two and a half times those spent fogging

Surveillance, consisting of carbon dioxide traps distributed throughout the District, not only tracks increased numbers of mosquitoes but also allows the mosquitoes so trapped to be identified by species and tested for the presence of WNV. Sentinel chicken flocks are bled weekly to check for WNV. We work with BRHD and local veterinarians to track horses confirmed to have WNV.

CMAD contracts with Bear River Environmental Health Department to provide surveillance and abatement treatments. By pooling the resources, a higher level of services can be provided to the District. We are coordinating with Logan and the College-Young Mosquito Abatement District to provide more comprehensive abatement efforts so that when one group sprays, we aren’t just chasing mosquitoes from one district to the other.