from a friend....

May 24 (1 day ago)

to san pedro town board

I just barely surived a couple of minutes outside my house in San Marcos.....the mosquitos are the worst I've ever seen in 20 years!
Not your fault and I'm not complaining but hope you can schedule the sprayer soon....

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SAN PEDRO TOWN BOARD
12:27 PM (1 hour ago)

to me

Good afternoon,

Thank you for your email. We commenced the cycle spraying yesterday and will spray for two more days. If the truck is not passing by your street, kindly inform us so that we can address it.

Regards,
Patricia Verde Tillett (Mrs.)
Town Administrator
San Pedro Town Council

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1:43 PM (0 minutes ago)

to to san pedro town board

THANKS!!!
It came by last evening. Your prompt action is much appreciated by everyone around here.

WOW - there IS a new sheriff in town!

What great news. Thanks for sharing the correspondence. A change has come. I'll drink to that.

Fabulous. Really.

I was very impressed with Danny when he broke out the sprayer in APRIL of all months after we'd had a day of rain followed by a bad mosquito outbreak. He eradicated the problem pronto.

The previous mayor would have waited until June at the earliest.

It would help everything if the Town Board would pump out the puddles with standing water. We used to do that and it helps the mosquitos and roads. Also some residential lots fill up with no drainage and breed mosquitos. Mosquitos are on a two week cycle, if spraying is done every two weeks they are controlled. The ones we are killing now have laid eggs that will hatch in about two weeks. Spray on a cycle for best results.

"It would help everything if the Town Board would pump out the puddles with standing water. We used to do that and it helps the mosquitos"

1. There are thousands of puddles on this island so that's not really a practical solution especially for a town board bankrupted by the previous mayor.

2. I don't want to "help the mosquitoes." I want them dead. Spraying is fine.

Mayor Danny is doing a great job with very limited resources. And I didn't vote for him, I wish I had.

Can we get them to spray north of the bridge --- and I mean north --- not turn around at the Palapa Bar crossing.

Have you written to the SPTC? What did they say?

From a friend in Burrell Boom:

We are getting three times the rain this year as compared to last year so we can expect 3 times the mosquitoes. I am emptying all loose containers and draining all water settlement areas. Was pleasantly surprised on Friday night that ministry of health/gob sent out trucks spraying that awful chemical to preempt(sp) the mosquito explosion. And the rain keeps coming harder and longer.

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another friend....

We're making sure our ducks hatch as many ducklings as possible. They go through every pond and puddle and eat all the tasty floating larvae. I'd rather smell duck poop in the air than malathion.