Some Dallas residents are circulating a petition to stop aerial spraying, saying it will do more harm than good.
Lake Highlands is among the Dallas areas that the city will “aggressively” spray from ground trucks, beginning tonight and continuing through Wednesday, in an effort to reduce the mosquito population and thus the deadly West Nile Virus, as contributor Carol Toler pointed out earlier today.
The insecticide is considered safe, but keep your pets inside and wash your skin if you come in contact with it, a city notice warns.
Meanwhile, a Dallas County judge has given aerial spraying the OK. City officials reportedly are deciding when and if to disperse as many as five planes, which are ready to go as soon as Thursday.
Around the social-mediasphere, Dallas residents are circulating and collecting signatures on this online petition to stop the mosquito spraying, saying there are better ways to eradicate mosquitos than using mass quantities of deadly poison. Petitioners argue mosquitos will not be the only life form to suffer and/or die.
So far, some 730 people have signed.
