Columbia Drainage Vector Control

• To provide the public with the fullest measure of service for which the district was organized.
• To reach the objective of the program in such a manner as to be the least harmful to non-target organisms in the environment and the least offensive to the public.
• To keep abreast of the rapidly advancing technology involved in the suppression of disease vectors with whose control the district is charged
• To provide information and help to interested agencies and individuals to further reduce mosquito problems.
• To limit control measures to the disease vectors in the statutes under which the district was organized to suppress.

What is a vector?

• An organism that transmits a disease or parasite from one animal or plant to another.

What are you doing?

• Typically a vector control agent will be on the property checking for or treating a potential breeding site.

Who are you?

• A municipality which mandates the control or elimination of mosquito populations in within our district boundaries.

What does it cost?

• We are a special district within Columbia county. There is no direct out of pocket costs for our services. As a district we are funded through property taxes.