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Greene site will be sprayed to kill mosquitoes

By Steve Ferris 2 min read

The fog cleared, but the mosquitoes remained at one of the two sites in Greene County where a dense insecticide fog was sprayed last week to kill mosquitoes after some infected with the West Nile Virus were discovered. State Department of Environmental Protection workers sprayed a thermal fog containing permethrin at Reeseman’s Mobile Home Park in Morgan Township and the Waynesburg sewage treatment plant in Franklin Township on Aug. 21.

The fog worked at the plant, but not at Reeseman’s, where mosquitoes collected on Aug. 5 tested positive for the virus, according to Dustin Teegarden, the county conservation district’s West Nile virus coordinator, who accompanied the DEP during the fogging.

The plant had a large population of mosquitoes, but none had the virus, he said.

Teegarden said mosquito traps set up after the fogging revealed a high number of adult mosquitoes survived the treatment at Reeseman’s.

He said details will be announced Tuesday about another attempt that will be made to kill the mosquitoes at Reeseman’s next week.

No one reported any health problems from the fogging at either place, he said.

“Everything went well. There were no reports of anyone getting sick,” Teegarden said.

He said he was standing adjacent to the DEP worker who sprayed the thick, dense fog, which rose 30 to 40 feet in the air, and he felt fine afterward.

“It stuck around for about a half-hour to 45 minutes,” Teegarden said about the fog. “I was standing next to it and no problems. Three people were in close proximity of the fogger and none experienced any health problems.”

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