What you need to know about Mosquito control

From the Des Moines City website....

ADULT MOSQUITO CONTROL

Once again this year, we will maintain the capability to spray for adult mosquito control as conditions warrant. Our operational procedures have been somewhat modified in an effort to reduce seasonal applications of adulticide in compliance with new Federal directives, and yet be even more responsive to citizen complaints. Within the City of Des Moines, using mosquito population data, citizen complaint calls, and a newly established electronic mapping system, we will be identifying areas most intensely affected by periods of unusually high numbers of nuisance mosquitoes, and will be targeting those areas for our adult control efforts.

When spraying is scheduled for residential neighborhoods, it will generally begin after 8:00 pm. For current scheduling information, you may call the “Mosquito Hotline” at 248-6099 after 5:00 pm. daily, or view the Mosquito Spray Map by clicking this link.

Website available here: http://www.dmgov.org/departments/communitydevelopment/pages/mosquito.aspx

Next Meeting: June (we moved from monthly to quarterly)

At our last scheduled meeting in March, the available neighbors voted to move our monthly meetings to quarterly.  The next Woodland Heights Meeting will take place on Tuesday, June 21st at 7:00 p.m. This meeting will take place at Price Chopper on Ingersoll.

Please make plans to attend - we'll be re-holding elections to fill our vacant openings.

In the interim, watch this blog for additional details.  Also, consider following us on Facebook at the new neighborhood social media site, Nextdoor.