Item A: Use of Pesticides in City Parks and Buildings

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In addition to the applications made by POS staff, licensed commercial pesticide applicators make some applications on parklands at Laurelwood Golf Course and at the Owen Rose Garden (see details below). Contractors who make applications at the golf course or rose garden must comply with the standards and procedures in the POS Integrated Pest Management Policy and Operations Manual. Commercial applicators may also apply pesticides on City land under contract as part of a park development project or a habitat restoration or enhancement project. POS staff has requested that contracted pesticide applicators provide the information on types and amounts of chemicals applied on City lands and that information will be made available to Council when it is received from the contractors. Insecticides have not been applied to protect vegetation in Eugene’s parklands for over a decade, however small amounts of insecticides are applied with the aerosol insecticide “Wasp Blasters” used by POS staff each summer season to eradicate yellow jacket and hornet nests near playgrounds, park paths and other high-traffic areas. Herbicides are applied on parklands to control invasive weeds and other unwanted vegetation during the course of regular parkland maintenance or habitat enhancement projects. The most commonly treated weeds include aggressive invasives such as thistles, non-native grasses, Scot’s broom, Japanese knotweed, English ivy, blackberry, and poison oak. In developed parks staff may treat weeds along fence lines and in shrub beds and tree wells. The cost of pesticides, in the minimal amounts applied by POS staff, is not tracked separately from other incidental materials and supplies. Based on the totals reported to the ODA, we estimate that the total cost of the pesticides applied by POS staff in 2011 was about $2,700. B. Facility Management Division Response Pesticide Chemical Used Location Pest QuantitCost name (Active Ingredient) y of (per Chemicyear) al Imidacloprid Imidacloprid, 1-[(6-Atrium, Fire Aphids 1 gal $706 2F Chloro-3-Station No 1, pyridinyl)methyl]-N-Police nitro-2-Headquarters, imidazolidnimine Train Depot Imidacloprid Imidacloprid, 1-[(6-Downtown Aphids 18 gal $3,768 2F Chloro-3-Flower Pots pyridinyl)methyl]-N- nitro-2- imidazolidnimine Imidacloprid Imidacloprid, 1-[(6-Downtown Thrips 3 gal $2,826 2F/Conserve Chloro-3-Flower Pots pyridinyl)methyl]-N- nitro-2- imidazolidnimine/ spinosad (including 2