Published June 09. 2021 5:13PM | Updated June 09. 2021 5:15PM
Ledge Light Health District is offering mosquito-control products and consultation services to residents in East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, Lyme, Old Lyme, New London, North Stonington, Stonington and Waterford.
Free of charge, the district will provide residents and homeowner associations with site visits to assess standing water issues and make recommendations for eliminating mosquito breeding conditions. The district also will provide free supplies of larvicidal mosquito “dunks,” which, when dropped into pools of standing water, eliminate mosquitoes before they become adults, lessening the potential for such mosquito-borne ailments as West Nile virus, eastern equine encephalitis and Zika virus.
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