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Anti-fogging debate already in the air
Residents begin push to end buffer zones
A worker sprays for mosquitoes. (MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES)
Norma Shrimpton has mosquitoes on her mind.
Winnipeg is just emerging from the latest blast of Arctic air, but Shrimpton is dreading the scourge of a different season.
For the last several summers, city crews spraying for mosquitoes have avoided a section of Shrimpton's street in Windsor Park because one resident has requested a fog-free buffer zone.
Such zones extend 100 metres on either side of an applicant's property.
Residents of a North Kildonan neighbourhood filed a petition to city hall last year demanding an end to buffer zones. A committee rejected their appeal.
Shrimpton said she and some of her neighbours believe it isn't too soon to begin the debate over such buffer zones again.
"It's getting close," a perhaps hopeful Shrimpton said, of summer. "March is here. Then the summer comes quickly once the weather gets warmer. I just don't want to be sitting in the house."
Shrimpton said she has an allergic reaction to mosquito bites. Her skin around a bite swells considerably.
"I want my share of mosquito fogging!" she said in an email to the Free Press. "Hey! We pay our taxes too!"
About 3,800 people have registered on the city's website to receive emailed notification of mosquito fogging, said a city spokeswoman.
Details about this year's mosquito control measures should come out early this month, she added.
To request a 100-metre buffer zone for mosquito spraying -- or a 30-metre cankerworm buffer zone -- people should go to the Community Services department web page and then to the Insect Control section, the spokeswoman said.
But residents who live within a buffer zone and actually want their property sprayed are on their own, the city's entomologist suggested.
"If a resident lives in a registrant's 100-metre buffer zone, the city cannot treat it with an adulticide," Taz Stuart said in an email. "If a resident wants to treat their individual property with an adulticide, they have the right to do so at their own expense."
joe.paraskevas@freepress.mb.ca
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 2, 2009 B2
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