By Patrick Book

Regina passes motion to put more toward mosquito prevention

Jul 5, 2011 | 6:48 AM

The city is hoping $200,000 will help to curb the amount of mosquitos in Regina even though summer is already upon us.

There have been more of the nuisance bugs around this summer due to elevated water levels and a reduced level of mosquito control measures. Pest control crews haven't been able to treat as much standing water as they have in previous years without mosquito control money previously provided by the provincial government.

Fred Clipsham insists the areas up to ten kilometres outside city limits are in need of treatment to prevent larvae from developing into full-grown mosquitos.

“There's a lot of water in the ditches and the sloughs out there that, if we can put the larvicide in there, that'll reduce the impact in the city as well,” he explained to reporters after Monday night's meeting.

The motion was introduced by councillor Mike O'Donnell. He also included a resolution to have the city create a pest control reserve fund that can be used in the future to help deal with such situations.

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“I don't think anyone was expecting that we'd get as much rain in June as we did,” he said. “The hope is that come next year we'll have $300,000 sitting in a reserve fund so if we find that the year is going to be a wet one or there's gophers there or whatever it happens to be then early in May we can start attacking them and there won't be those kinds of issues.”

The city will put $300,000 in next year's budget deliberations into the fund.

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