Use of Secure Garbage Totes Reduces Rodent Problems in Buffalo Suburbs

Complaints about rodents declined sharply last year in suburbs that most recently implemented the use of garbage totes with lids, according to data released last week by the Erie County Health Department’s Vector Control Program.

In 2007, the Town of Amherst, Village of Williamsville and City of Tonawanda invested in totes, which first were introduced in Buffalo almost a decade earlier. The results?

Between 2006 — before totes for the suburbs — and the end of 2008, data shows:

• Rodent calls in Amherst and Williamsville went from 734 to 253, a decrease of 65.5 percent. Those numbers include cases handled by private exterminators.

• Calls in the Town and City of Tonawanda went from 973 to 248, a decrease of 74.5 percent.

• Improvement continues in the City of Buffalo, which went from 947 calls to 828, a drop of 12.6 percent.

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Source: www.buffalonews.com