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County health and mosquito-abatement staff press to expand drone larvicide pilot at Utah Lake
Summary
Health and mosquito-abatement officials told the commission that a drone pilot reduced mosquito larval counts at targeted sites and asked for increased funding to expand coverage and buy additional larvicide; commissioners asked for documentation and sole-source justification.
The commission held a work session on mosquito abatement where health-department staff and the mosquito-abatement director described last year's drone pilot and requested additional funding to expand it.
Dan Miller, mosquito-abatement director, described recent larval sampling results and said targeted drone treatment sharply reduced larval counts at treated sites. "We were getting 10 to 15 a dip, and we went back the next day and we had none," Miller said of a…
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