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Tuscola County Mosquito Abatement - Programs
No Spray Program
This program is for residents who wish to NOT have their property treated. The homeowner MUST file a No Spray Form with our office. if requested, reflective signs will be placed on the property to alert our drivers that you DO NOT want to be sprayed.
Farmers and beekeepers who are requesting No Spray status are encouraged to visit www.driftwatch.org to register your properties, or file a No Spray form. DriftWatch is an easy to use, reliable, accurate and secure online option for organic farmers and beekeepers to register crops and beehives. This website is utilized by pesticide applicators to ensure that your fields/properties are not sprayed with pesticides. When a property is registered with the website our office receives notice and we enter the information into our treatment software and maps. This is a voluntary option and is at no cost to you. If you choose not to use this website to register your crops and apiaries, you must fill out a "No Spray" form, which will need to be resubmitted every 3 years.
Long Driveway Program
Many homes in Tuscola County are set back from the county road and, subsequently,somewhat shielded from the benefits of the road-side adulticiding application. If requested by the owner, the property will be reviewed to see if it meets the criteria for the Long Drive program. The basic criteria for a home to be placed on the long drive list is:
- • There must be a residence on the property and the front of the home must be 300 feet or greater from the edge of the roadway.
- • There must be an adequate turnaround for our truck that does not include driving across any lawn areas.
- • The driveway must be passable with a two wheel drive vehicle, and free of any items.
- • The drive area must have significant vegetation, providing areas of mosquito harborage.
Other factors such as sensitive locations, for example No Sprays or Organic Farms or Bees adjacent to the property may exclude the property from acceptance in the program except under specific conditions. Homeowners must understand that treatment could commence as late as 1:00 a.m. and that windows should be closed prior to retiring for the night. We cannot notify residents when your property will be treated, as it is dependant on the route and the weather conditions. Once accepted to the program the property remains on the program until we are asked to discontinue by the homeowner. If you would like to request your property to be considered for this program, please call the office Monday - Friday 8:00a.m. - 4:30p.m.
Tire Drives
Free scrap tire drives are scheduled each season to help eliminate a potential breeding site for mosquitoes and to remove unwanted tires from our community, In a collaborative effort between Mosquito Abatement, local units of government and Tuscola County Recycling.
These collections are limited to Tuscola County residents only (no out of county residents, no businesses and no commercial tires). Residents are limited to bringing only seven (7) tires per vehicle. Please make sure tires are clean and that they are not attached to an axel. Please bring help to unload your tires.
Contact Tuscola County Recycling for additional information.
Tuscola County Recycling Website
Phone: (989) 672-1673
Email: recycle@tuscolacounty.org
or Mosquito Abatement @ (989) 672-3748
Citizen requests
Residents may call the office to request treatment of standing water (larviciding) on their property. These treatments are usually performed from late March to mid May.
Residents may also call to have adult mosquitoes treated (adulticiding) where a technician will visit your property between the hours of 5:00 pm and 9:00 pm to treat your yard using either a backpack sprayer, truck application or both, depending on the circumstances. Each resident is allowed 4 yard treatments per season, Long Drive participants are allowed 2 treatments per season. We ask that you give a two week notice if you have an event planned so we may adjust our schedule around the weather.