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The primary fianction of a mosquito control project is to 

 reduce the population of biting mosquitoes in populated areas to 

 the extent that illness, nuisance, and annoyance will be at a 

 minimum . Much has been and is being written presently on methods, 

 procedures, techniques, and programs involving mosquito control. 

 However, the basic control procedures are source reduction as well 

 as larval and adult control. Surveys seeking the sources of 

 mosquito breeding areas are continuing. More and more emphasis is 

 being placed on the elimination of breeding areas and on larval 

 control. 



Source reduction procedures are preventative in nature and 

 include filling, drainage ditching, ctream clearance and water 

 management. When these procedures are properly carried out, the 

 development of the mosquito into the adult stage is stopped. 



Project management is also complicated by those individuals 

 who insist that more extensive pesticide applications shoxild be 

 made, while on the opposite side are those who insist that no 

 pesticides of any kind be used either in the vicinity of their 

 homes or in the biosphere itself. 



The Board also advises various mimic ipal it ies not in pro- 

 jects or adjacent thereto, in mosquito control methods and has 

 issued a small booklet on proper methods of control. 



The Board also acts in a liaison capacity between the 



various projects and other state organizations such as the 



Comptroller's and Treasiorer's office, the Department of 



Corporations and Taxation, the Department of Natural Resources, 



the Waterways Division of the Department of Public Works and the 

 Attorney General's office. 



