Rats — the scourge of new York. The residents of the city plagued with more than 2 million individuals, and the population continues to grow from year to year.
To date, rats live in 15% of buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
This neighborhood is unpleasant and dangerous, because the rodents carry many serious infections and are a potential source of infestation.
The new York city government has developed a plan for the solution of a pressing problem, according to which colonies of rodents expects to reduce by 70%.
City officials plan to achieve such results by improving the sanitary conditions in the most densely populated areas of new York — Grand Concourse, Chinatown, Lower East side, East village, Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
On Wednesday, the office of bill De Blasio presented the strategy to the official web site.
To get rid of rats, you need to eliminate their main source of food is garbage. The implementation of this task will deal with a number of agencies specializing in health care and utilities. Under the plan, the performance of which the city will allocate $32 million, they will perform the following steps:
- ensure regular removal of garbage from streets and parks.
- the old bins will replace the metal containers with special devices for pressovaniya waste;
- basements will be treated with poison for rodents, clean and I’m sealing;
The plan for the extermination of rodents also includes the adoption of laws that encourage citizens to disposing of food waste in specially equipped containers, and prohibiting the homeowners for too long not to clean the trash cans in the yard.
