MEMO TO FILE

_ Joint Environmental Protection Committee
and Parks and Recreation Committee
Meeting

Thursday, September 16, 1982

“IN ATTENDANCE:

Alderman Vater
Alderman Wright
Alderman Muldoon
-~F.E. Peters

B. Hoogendoorn

PURPOSE OF MEETING:

Field trip to examine problems resulting from two
year moratorium on pesticides in Port Coquitlam.

-PROBLEMS:

Ornamental trees at City Hall:

bare patches on blue spruce needles falling
rapidly

- caused by spruce aphid and spider mites
- malathion required

leaf curl on weeping birch.
- caused by aphids and leaf miners

-.Cygon required
- tried insecticide soap ~ didn't work

Plaving Fields:

sm -Mckean Park very bad
- Thompson Park just starting problems

“-"broad leafed plants crowding out grass, large
infestations, spreading rapidly -~ 2 years
without chemicals - clover, plantain, chickweed,
dandelion prevalent

~ weeds die in winter leaving no turf

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