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L3 The Board all agreed on that - to sit down with all of these people. Mr. Lambie said the State would be involved because of the D.E.Q.E. Mr. Smith said they pass a lot of little things down to the local level but no money or help comes from them. Mr. Lambie would like the police to get involved. He would like to sit down with the Fire Chief and Chief Corr and have some discussion. Mr. Smith said maybe for the December Meeting he has a lot going on now with clinics and things. GYPSY MOTHS Mr. Smith said Paul Mazerall has proposed three alternatives for this PROGRAM program. One - to continue program of this year with limited spraying. Two - expanded program of chemical spraying with dipel until the cater- pillars are two large to control and switch to another chemical. The cost of this program is $20,000. Three limited spray programs with aerial spray with Dipel. Do a 1000 acres of land in two applications in the thirteen most heavily infested areas. Areas not so infested could be handled by trucks. The cost of the aerial spraying is $100,000 and $10,000 for truck spraying. 1 Dipel is $80.00 a gallon. The aerial spraying is not cheap. Mr. Smith said that gypsy moths are really not a health concern with the moths themselves. It is an emotional problem with caterpillars crawl- ing all over the house outside. Dr. Erdos said there is going to be a strong concern with chemical spraying no matter what it is sprayed with. MOSQUITO Mr. Smith said that Dipel is a chemical and some people are adamant CONTROL against it. 1 Dr. Cosgrove asked what about mosquitoes? We are wasting our time. We won't see any mosquito control in 1981. Mr. Smith said you are going to see ditching and draining and lar- vaciding. A letter just went into the Reclamation Board. Dr. Cosgrove asked from whom? Mr. Smith said from the Town Mr. Lambie asked who signed it? Mr. Smith said the Town Manager did. Dr. Erdos said his concern from the health point -of -view is equine encephalitis. Dr. Erdos said the latest bulletin he saw from the Center of Disease Control there was an outbreak of encephalitis in Michigan where there were a few cases of encephalitis and two or three people died and 70-80 cases in horses. Eastern encephalitis is what we are interested here and that is what these people had.