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poop flap rages on in Peninsula cities
"What gets into arrives a couple of minutes later plus they don't care where they're," explains an obviously frustrated Kevin Miller, chief of Foster City's Rec and Park department and commander of his city's battle from the birds.
"They go everywhere," he said. "On playing fields. On sidewalks. On park benches. On picnic tables."
Many weapons have been deployed from the poop, but few happen to be very effective. With budget cuts, there's less money than ever before to try and combat the mess.
Foster City's greatest pride its intricate network of lagoons has made it particularly susceptible to the onslaught of avian feces. The poop became such a problem that the city hired a crew of border collies to operate around the parks and scare off the birds. However, after seven years of seeing some success with this particular method, the city had to ax the dogs' $35,000 annual contract, and it is now asking its staff to try to discourage the geese whenever it can, Miller said.
The main harbour of Redwood City just employed another tactic purchasing decoy coyotes and moving them around their grassy areas in hopes the geese will skedaddle after they begin to see the predators. But port executive director Mike Giari said hello hasn't exactly solved the problem,www.artkilin.com/page/3.
"It's hard to see a direct expected outcomes but we think it's a tiny bit better," he explained, optimistically.
They haven't exhausted their options.
"There's other products available on the market we might try,canada goose outlet review, like there's a powder that can be spread around that has the aroma of animal urine," he said.
Using the limited success of deterrents, several cities have tried a form of avian birth control involving egg addling, in which the goose eggs are shaken, rotated and painted with oil, so they never hatch. But it turns out that goose nests aren't simple to find, and if they're on the protected wetland,canada goose pas cher vrai, it's illegal to the touch their eggs.
Redwood City parks chief Chris Beth said they've managed to solve their biggest poop problem,parajumpers jackets canada, which was once the geese would take to playing fields.
"We used to have kids standing and playing and falling in goose poop," he explained.
But they've recently replaced the 2 playing fields in waterfront Redwood Shores with synthetic fields which it turns out that geese snub. Since that time, things have been a little better.
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