Mosquito Spraying and The Children and Families Protection Act

For full text of the act, CPA

The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (DAR) has specific expectations for your IPM plans if you anticipate that spraying for mosquitoes might be necessary.  See Expectations  (The contact information on the DAR website, for  the Plymouth County Mosquito Control Project is not up to date.  The Project's Superintendent is Anthony Texeira.  we can be contacted by telephone at 781-585-5450 and by fax at 781-582-1276.)

If your school's IPM plan identifies mosquitoes as a pest to be controlled and the includes the pesticides listed below, you should not normally need to request an Emergency Waiver from your local board of health.  This would only be necessary if you needed to have the notification time requirements waived (at least two working days prior to spraying). 

Please be certain to have both of the below listed pesticides in your IPM plans. 

• Anvil 10 + 10, with Sumethrin and Piperonyl as the active ingredients, EPA reg. number 1020-1688-8329.

• Duet, with Prallethrin, Sumethrin and Piperonyl as the active ingredients, EPA reg. number 1021-1795-8329.  

• For your IPM record keeping product labels and MSDS sheets can be found on our website.

To make requests for spraying use the Project's Request Form.  Request Form

If you have not listed the Plymouth County Mosquito Control Project in your IPM plans, you can only be sprayed through the Emergency Waiver Process.  See Emergency Waiver Form and Explanation.

Standard Written Notification requires the distribution of three specific documents to students and staff no later than two working days prior to spraying and no earlier than seven working days prior to spraying.  There are three options for the notification process.  Schools can choose to issue hard copies of the documents.  This could mean six or seven pages/student and employee.  There are two electronic options available as well.  The first option is notification by email and the second option is notification by the school website.  For Option details select View Options.

The three required documents are the Pesticide Standard Written Notification Form (one page), the Consumer Bulletin, and the Pesticide Fact Sheet.

• The Pesticide Standard Written Notification Form is sent to you by the Project after we have received either the Request to Spray Form or the Emergency Waiver Form.  View the Form

• The Consumer Bulletin is two pages in length.  View and/or Copy Bulletin.

• The Pesticide Fact Sheet.  View and/or Copy Pesticide Fact Sheet.

Once you have completed Standard Written Notification, the law requires that we receive a signed and dated statement to this effect prior to our pesticide application.  This statement should be faxed to 781-582-1276.

Reminder of School Obligations

The law requires that each time a school requests to be sprayed, Standard Written Notification has to be given to students, parents and employees at least two working days prior to the application and no more than seven working days prior to the pesticide application.  Additionally, records of pesticide applications must be kept on file for five years.