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Mosquito district director outlines control methods, limits of service to Yakima County areas
Summary
Kelly Beeler, director of Mosquito Control District No. 1, gave the Yakima County Board of Commissioners an overview of the district's history, surveillance methods and treatment materials, and explained why the district cannot treat areas outside its continuous boundaries without annexation.
Kelly Beeler, director of Mosquito Control District No. 1, told the Yakima County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 27 that the district’s work centers on larval control, targeted adult treatments and public education.
Beeler said the district was formed by voter petition in 1976 and later expanded by annexations through the 1980s and early 2000s to include northern Yakima, Union Gap, North Selah and Gleed. He told commissioners that the district must be continuous — a legal limit that prevents creating isolated service pockets without including contiguous properties.
The nut graf: local mosquito control relies primarily on identifying and treating breeding water and on testing adult mosquito collections for viruses such as West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis and eastern equine encephalitis. Beeler said the district conducts…
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