Action Alert! Fogging to begin THIS Monday, July 13th in Mountain View and Palo Alto. Please help us distribute flyers in the targeted area Sat/Sun

West Nile fogging begins July 13, 2015 for the summer of 2015 signaling another summer of pesticide terror, especially for pregnant women, small children, anyone who hopes to have children in the future, and chemically sensitized people.

The Board of Supervisors is on vacation until August 11, 2015. Last fall the Vector Control District was given explicit instructions by the Board to find non-toxic alternatives to the pesticide spraying. Nevertheless and absolutely against the Board directives, and with the Board on vacation, Vector Control is now scheduling massive pesticide fogging for parts of Mountain View and Palo Alto to occur on Monday night-Tuesday morning. The details and map they have related are here.

These are zip code areas 94043, 94303, and 94306.

The pesticide they are using, Zenivex E4 is 96% undisclosed trade secret. It kills bees and the predators of mosquitoes: frogs, fish, birds, mosquito eaters, dragonflies, other mosquito predators including likely bats, leaving just the mosquitoes and black flies to multiply without predators. It does not kill the mosquito larva so mosquitoes rebound within hours. It is 100% counterproductive.

After Judge Huber denied our key points, but not the whole case, HAP appealed his partial decision. Our case on these key items is still waiting before the 6th District Appellate Court.At this particular time, there is no Board to turn to and no court to turn to. We cannot stop this poisoning. Flyers are being printed today. No official notice will even tell the residents to close their windows! Children walking to school Tuesday morning will be poisoned.

More Background: Last summer, 2014, Vector Control poison-fogged 79 square miles of Santa Clara County urban area killing birds, bees, many insects including mosquito predators such as dragonflies, frogs, and the fish in Vasona Reservoir, in addition to poisoning the population. All this with no Environmental Impact Report.

In spite of our law suit, Judge Joseph Huber is letting them do this.

Only by acting together can we stop this. Action: Several of us will be distributing flyers in the targeted area on Saturday. Please help if you can, either Saturday or Sunday. If you can help, call Cheriel 408 379-930-0463 between 9 AM and 9 PM Friday to coordinate getting flyers and map.

Please read the article in the Mercury News and voice your opposition on the fogging in the comment section!
Virus-laden mosquitoes spur year’s first fogging
http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_28454685/virus-laden-mosquitoes-spur-years-first-fogging?source=infinite