COLUMBUS, Ohio – Health department crews will be fogging or spraying in three counties this week after pools of mosquitoes tested positive for the West Nile virus.
Columbus Public Health trucks sprayed before dawn Tuesday on the South Side, in the area near Frebis Avenue and Lockbourne Road. They will be out again early Thursday in an area of the Northeast Side bounded by Blendon Woods Boulevard, Westerville Road, Shasta Avenue and Blossom Avenue. They will also target a section of Northwest Columbus south of Sawmill Meadows Avenue, west of Seddon Drive, north of Hard Road and east of Sawmill Road.
Weekly spraying areas are determined by mosquito trap results and reports from field staff, the number and type of mosquitoes trapped, the number of infected mosquitoes and evidence of human disease.
The Licking County Health Department found infected mosquitoes in traps set near the Harrison Township Community Center complex, and 100 Ecology Row in Newark. Harrison Township and the township complex area have been sprayed. The Ecology Row site and the surrounding streets are slated to be sprayed after dusk Tuesday.
The department conduct spraying in the following locations during the week:
Tuesday
Universal Veneer, Tamarack Rd., Ecology Row and surrounding streets, Pataskala section of Morse Rd., Etna Township, Wendell Rd., a portion of Palmer Rd., Brandy Mill Dr., Spring Brook Ct. and Spring Flower Way
Wednesday
Harbor Hills
Thursday
Buckeye Lake KOA Campground
The Village of Kirkersville
Buckeye Lake Estates mobile home park
The Delaware General Health District will be fogging after dusk Wednesday in the area of Polaris Parkway and Powell Road, south of Maxwell Avenue and west of I-71 because a pool of mosquitoes that tested positive for the virus was found within a mile of the district’s boundary.