The whole Utica area is now complete. Some residents were still confused Wednesday night about the details of the spraying. Thousands of mosquitoes swarmed around Joe Kearney's house on Dunham Road in South Utica all day Wednesday. He thinks the mosquitoes escaped earlier spraying just north of his neighborhood and ended up at his house, but said county officials told him that probably was not the case. He expected his area to be sprayed Wednesday night, but it wasn't.
Life's too short to be sick.
Dunn said that section of South Utica was sprayed Monday, but Kearney said the area around his home was never sprayed. Kearney said he would call the county health department today to see what could be done. More than 18,000 acres in the Rome area will be sprayed, said Sean Clive, senior sanitarian with the county health department. County Health Department Supervising Sanitarian Nick DeRosa said a tentative spray date is scheduled for Wednesday. After that, the Verona area will be sprayed, but no specific plans for that area were made by Wednesday night, DeRosa said.