Equipment
Equipment used by the District. Not everything we use is listed, but the main tools and vehicles used in district operations are below.
- ¾ ton four wheel drive Chevy trucks with utility boxes
- Toyota four-wheel drive crew cab trucks
- Argo ATV
- Polaris ATV
- Truck mounted London Fog and Microgen ultra-low volume sprayers
- Truck mounted tank and hose reel sprayers
- 17-foot boat
- 5-gallon backpack sprayers
- CDC carbon dioxide mosquito traps
- New Jersey mosquito light traps
- Hand held 1-pint sampling dippers
- Safety gear (gloves, eye wear, coveralls, ear plugs, etc.)
- Shovels, pick-ax, handsaws, chain saws, pruners
- Stihl gas powered weed cutter
- Welders, grinders, shop tools for equipment fabrication and repair
- Live chickens (sentinel mosquito-borne virus testing program)
Mosquito predators used by the District:
Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)
Pesticides used by the District:
(includes but is not limited to)
- Bti (Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis, inactivated bacterial spores)
- Bs (Bacillus sphaericus, live bacterium)
- Methoprene (insect growth regulator)
- Pyrethrin (dust and liquid formulations)
- BVA-2 petroleum distillate (surfactant)
- Synthetic Pyrethroids (dust and liquid formulations)
- Spinosad (bacterial byproduct)