Tag: Clarke Mosquito Management
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Storm Drains Focus Of Attack on W. Nile Virus By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and LISA L. COLANGELO, Daily News Staff Writers
May 16, 2001 The city stepped up its war against the West Nile virus yesterday, targeting storm drains where mosquitoes breed. Thirty teams of workers fanned out across the five boroughs and dropped larvicide pellets into 8,000 storm drains. By the end of the month, about 145,000 storm drains will have been treated with larvicide.…