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Task 10: Management Plan Report

Executive Summary
arrow Overview

The Suffolk County Vector Control and Wetlands Management Long-Term Plan includes two additional documents; the Revised Wetlands Management Plan (Oct 2006) and its appendix, the Revised Salt Marsh Management - Best Management Practices (BMP) - Manual (Oct 2006).                             

The Overview of the Long Term Plan provides details of the key elements of the plan. The full text can be downloaded in PDF format.

  TABLE OF CONTENTS  
  List of Abbreviations and Acronyms ix .
  Overview of the Plan 1  
  Executive Summary 3  
  Overview of the Plan 11  
  1.    Goals and Objectives 29  
  1.1   Goals of the Long-Term Plan..............................................................................................
            1.2   Discussion..............................................................................................................
            1.3   Objectives..............................................................................................................
            1.4   Mosquitoes of Suffolk County................................................................................
            1.5   Environmental Settings of Concern.........................................................................
            1.6   Legal Authority for Mosquito Management............................................................
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  2.     Public Education and Outreach 55  
  2.1   Public Education....................................................................................................................
            2.2   No-Spray Registry....................................................................................................
            2.3   Notification................................................................................................................
            2.4   Website.....................................................................................................................
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  3.     Surveillance 65  
  3.1   Background..........................................................................................................................
            3.2   Larval Mosquito Populations.....................................................................................
            3.3   Adult Mosquito Populations.......................................................................................
            3.4   Complaint Reporting and Hotline Response.................................................................
            3.5   Disease Monitoring......................................................................................................
            3.6   Mosquito Surveillance and Control Unit Upgrades......................................................
            3.7   Data Management.......................................................................................................
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  4.     Source Reduction 95  
              4.1   Background................................................................................................................
            4.2   Household and Institutional Source Reduction...........................................................
            4.3   Water Management....................................................................................................
            4.4   Source Reduction Summary......................................................................................
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  5.     Biocontrols 137  
              5.1   Introduction................................................................................................................
            5.2   Vertebrate Predators................................................................................................
            5.3   Non-Vertebrate Control Agents................................................................................
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  6.    Larval Mosquito Control........................................................................................................ 143  
  6.1   Background Information........................................................................................................
            6.2   Surveillance...............................................................................................................
            6.3   Mosquito Problem Identification.................................................................................
            6.4   Larval Treatment Selection.........................................................................................
            6.5   Selected Compounds.................................................................................................
            6.6   Formulations and Uses...............................................................................................
            6.7   Efficacy Measurements..............................................................................................
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  7.    Control of Adult Mosquitoes.................................................................................................. 171  
  7.1   Background Information.......................................................................................................
            7.2   Alternatives to Adulticides.........................................................................................
            7.3   Treatment Decisions..................................................................................................
            7.4   Selected Pesticides....................................................................................................
            7.5   Formulations..............................................................................................................
            7.6   Application Methods.................................................................................................
            7.7   Resistance Concerns...............................................................................................
            7.8   Efficacy and Efficacy Testing..................................................................................
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  8.    Administration........................................................................................................................ 227  
  8.1   Organization........................................................................................................................
            8.2   Professional Education............................................................................................
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  9.    Technology Assessment...................................................................................................... 243  
  9.1   Data Management...............................................................................................................
            9.2   Wetlands Equipment Needs.......................................................................................
            9.3   Adulticiding Issues.....................................................................................................
            9.4   Laboratory Issues......................................................................................................
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  10.    Adaptive Management.........................................................................................................
            10.1   Introduction.............................................................................................................
            10.2   Structures and Mechanisms....................................................................................
            10.3   Examples of Areas of Adaptive Management........................................................

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  11.  Resource Commitments..........................................................................................................
            11.1  Personnel.................................................................................................................
            11.2  Equipment and Other Capital Needs.........................................................................
            11.3  Ancillary Funding......................................................................................................
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  12.  Implementation Recommendations............................................................................................
            12.1  Actions by County Program Managers in SCDPW and SCDHS..................................
            12.2  Actions by County Executive and Legislature...........................................................
            12.3  Actions by Other Local Government.........................................................................
            12.4  Actions by State or Federal Governments.................................................................
            12.5  Actions by Other Interested Parties...........................................................................
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  TABLE OF TABLES    
 

Overview Table 1:  Adulticide Decision Parameters....................................................................
Overview Table 2:  Long-Term Plan Accomplishments to Date (October 2006).........................
Table 1:   Mosquitoes of Suffolk County......................................................................................
Table 2:   Mosquito Species of Concern in Suffolk County..........................................................
Table 3:   Geographic Designations for Larval Surveillance........................................................
Table 4:   Landing Rate and Bite Count Data Collection Protocol.................................................
Table 5:   Service Requests, 2000-2005.....................................................................................
Table 6:   Fresh Water Wetlands with a History of EEE...............................................................
Table 7:   Fresh Water Wetlands with a History of WNV............................................................
Table 8:   Location and Trap Types Used in Mosquito Surveillance at FINS.................................
Table 9:   Proposed First-Order Indices for Marsh Health in Suffolk County...............................
Table 10: Management Activities with No or Minimal Impacts......................................................
Table 11: Management Activities with Minor Impacts...................................................................
Table 12: Management Activities with Potentially Significant Impacts..........................................
Table 13: Management Activities with Potential Major Impacts.....................................................
Table 14: Interim Management/Ongoing Maintenance Actions.....................................................
Table 15: Source Reduction Summary.........................................................................................
Table 16: Summary of the Human Health Risk Assessment for Larvicides................................
Table 17: Summary of the Ecological Risk Assessment for Larvicides......................................
Table 18: Larvicide Decision Table.............................................................................................
Table 19: Adulticide Decision Parameters..................................................................................
Table 20.  Acres Treated with Adulticide under Vector Control Determinations........................
Table 21: NYSDOH Four-Tiered WNV Strategy..........................................................................
Table 22: Summary of the Human Health Risk Assessment for Adulticides..............................
Table 23: Summary of the Ecological Risk Assessment for Adulticides....................................
Table 24: Action Items Summary..............................................................................................

 

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  TABLE OF FIGURES    
  Figure 1:  Surveillance Sites........................................................................................................
Figure 2:  New Jersey Light Trap Locations...............................................................................
Figure 3:  CDC Trap Locations....................................................................................................
Figure 4:  Overall Wetlands Management...................................................................................
Figure 5:  Vector Control Decision Tree......................................................................................
Figure 6.  2003 Vector Control Applications...............................................................................
Figure 7: 2005 Vector Control Applications and Biting Mosquito Complaints..............................
Figure 8:  Health Emergency Decision Tree................................................................................
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APPENDICES
Appendix 1.  Pesticide Labeling Requirements

The Revised Wetlands Management Plan (October 2006) is appended by reference.

   

 


 

 

 

 
 
 
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