§ 8-61. Definitions and source materials.

For the purpose of this division, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

(a)

Artificially induced mosquito breeding area means:

(1)

The occurrence of ten (10) or more immature mosquitoes in an artificial container.

(2)

An area that receives waste or process water and in which are found on three (3) successive dips with a mosquito sampling dipper not fewer than three (3) immature mosquitoes per dip or where an average of seven (7) immature mosquitoes can be collected in five (5) one-minute wand/pump samples or where a one square meter emergence trap collects adult mosquitoes at the rate of two thousand five hundred (2,500) per acre per day.

(b)

Immature mosquito means mosquito larvae or pupae.

(c)

Mosquito sampling dipper means a water dipper with a circular mouth between four (4) and five (5) inches in diameter and having a depth of not less than one and one half (1 ½) inches.

(d)

Waste water means effluent from a sewage treatment plant.

(e)

Process water means water that has been used in the production of a product.

(f)

The method for taking wand/pump samples is described in "Devices for Sampling and Sorting Immature Coquillettidia perturbans, " C.D. Morris, J. L. Callahan and R. H. Lewis, Journal of American Mosquito Control Association 1:247—250.

(g)

The method for taking emergence trap collections is described in "A Modified Pyramidal Emergence Trap for Collecting Mosquitoes," Marc Slaff, John D. Haefner, Ray E. Parsons, and Frank Wilson, Mosquito News 44:197—199.

(Ord. No. 79-7, § 1, 4-17-79; Ord. No. 88-05, § 1, 3-1-88)