M e a d o w s P l a c e
Mosquito Management
It’s going to take everyone’s help to keep down the mosquito population in Meadows Place this year. The city and Fort Bend County will be performing surveillance by trapping or sampling the mosquitoes and sending samples to the Health Department in Austin where they are analyzed to determine the species and checked for viruses. Step 2 is to identify their breeding areas and rectify. All property owners need to check all four sides of there houses for the following.
- Water collecting in buckets, empty pots, under back yard storage sheds.
- Fill low areas in the yard with sand.
- Remove debris piles of any kind. This is a safe place for mosquitoes to harbor until the sun goes down.
- Reduce time on your water sprinkler if water is running down the street when it is running. This only creates a breeding ground if the water ponds long enough to turn septic.
- Make repairs to leaking spigots or pool equipment such as pipe connections and pump connections that leak.
City’s Right - of - Way
- The City’s Public Works department will also be treating the entire storm water collection system with mosquito pucks.
- Removing water from bird bath puddles along the roadways with push brooms after rain events but this will also require help from the residents with push brooms to push away water after rain events, sprinkler systems over watering, washing cars and draining pools into the street.
Mosquito season for us starts in March and ends in October and mosquito surveillance will continue through these months, sampling points and frequency will be determine by results of previous sample results.
Backyard swimming pools are a big source of mosquito breeding. If you have a pool in your back yard it is you responsibility to maintain it in a clean and sanitary manner. Failure to do so may result in a city ordinance violation.
Step 3 is to fog the city and this can be avoided if we all do our part. By removing the breeding grounds for the mosquito’s we should have a very mild mosquito season and will most likely not have to fog the city which does not stop mosquitoes from breeding. If anyone needs help identifying problem areas around your home call city hall and request assistance with a yard inspection.
Daniel K. McGraw
Public Works Director
281-983-2961
281-642-7700