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Bannock County public works reports increased mosquito control, chip-seal progress and discusses trail paving options
Summary
Public works and mosquito abatement officials told the commissioners they have treated thousands of acres with drones and truck fogging, described late-season challenges, and briefed the board on road chip-seal, weed spraying and options for trail sealing and paving.
Kyle Burmister, Bannock County Public Works, and Dana Evans, Bannock County Mosquito Abatement, gave the board an operations update covering mosquito control, road work and maintenance equipment.
Evans said mosquito crews have treated about 235 acres so far; roughly 75% of that acreage was treated using a drone. Nighttime fogging covered about 15,862 acres, Evans told the board, and she showed county officials mosquito larvae samples collected near Highland Golf Course in Pocatello. Evans said crews found large numbers of larvae in small standing-water pockets fed by golf-course runoff; she described using…
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