“McConnell Springs project could help control mosquitoes: Heavy rain will test new water quality system”
Excerpt from Kentucky.com, posted Dec. 28, 2009
By Andy Mead, amead@herald-leader.com
A just-completed construction project at McConnell Springs near downtown Lexington was designed to improve water quality in the park’s unusual system of springs — and downstream.
If things go well, it also could mean the end of the “mosquito meter.”
The meter is a sign with a moveable arrow that employees put out on days when the blood-sucking insects are especially bad.
“A healthy aquatic system provides the fish, insects and other things that help take care of the mosquitoes,” said Charles Martin, director of the city’s water quality division, on a visit to the park Monday…Read more at Kentucky.com
