LAYTON area residents used to suffer each warm season time of the year from mosquitoes.
However, the Davis County Mosquito Abatement District was formed in 1953.
The Davis
County Clipper of June 5, 1953 carried a story headlined, “Petition for creation
of a mosquito abatement district.”
All 17
communities in the county (including the short-lived East Layton and Laytona
areas) were all on board to support the proposal.
This wasn’t
actually when Davis County began controlling the pesky insects though. Davis
County had begun spraying for mosquitos in 1951 with two government employees.
The 1953 proposal created a special service district for abatement and allowed
for expansion of the program.
Today the
Abatement District is headquartered in West Kaysville.
Most people
see mosquito control as the "fogging truck" that drives through their
neighborhood early in the morning or late evening spraying for adult
mosquitoes. This highly visible part of the Abatement District’s operation is
actually only about 25 to 30 percent of its control efforts. The majority of
its work takes place out on the wetlands spraying for mosquito larvae in the
water. The larvae are treated by hand sprayers, ATVs, and by airplane.
-More
information is available at: www.davismosquito.org
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