2018-08-07 Services and Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                              7 AUGUST 2018


BRANCH ACTIVITIES              RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                          CURRENT PRIORITIES                        THE NEXT QUARTER
Vector Management
Business as Usual activities        Aerial Treatments – 7 treatments           Managing burial and ashes               Prepare for mosquito treatment
Vector Control                        done, approx. 1680 Hectares of               internments while the                     and trapping programs
                                      Mozzie breeding area treated.                cemetery officer is involved in           commencing in the 2nd quarter
                                    Light traps – Trapping carried out           ensuring our actual burial sites        Liaise with QLD Health on any
                                      from September to May- approx                ashes internments sites match             trapping programs scheduled for
                                      2600 mozzies caught in traps                 our corporate records.                    the next season
                                      over that time - slightly down
                                      compared to other years.
                                      (2014/15 caught approx. 5000)
                                    FTA Cards - Within the traps we
                                      had the FTA Card - the blue sticky
                                      cards that the trapped mossies
                                      feed on. We send these cards off
                                      to QLD Health to test for Ross
                                      River Virus & Barmah Forrest.
                                      Approx 192 cards sent for testing.
                                      Only 1 came back as Ross River
                                      positive (Peregian beach light
                                      trap).
                                    OVI Trapping- A project with Qld
                                      Health – We put out Ovi traps to
                                      collect eggs & look for the Aedes
                                      aegypti mosquito (responsible for
                                      Dengue Fever transmission).
                                      Traps are out for 2 weeks - 10 x
                                      traps per town in Tewantin,
                                      Cooroy & Pomona. This
                                      commenced in January. We send
                                      the Ovi Strips to Qld Health for
                                      testing. At the end of the program,
                                      we had ZERO detections NB: this
                                      particular mosquito has not been
                                      trapped this far south but is seen
                                      in Goomeri which is not far away.
                                    Land & River Surveys – Surveyed
                                      the known breeding sites on a
                                      weekly basis looking for breeding
                                      after tides & rain events.

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