Posted on 01/31/2023 8:31:11 AM PST by george76
They’re icing out rats in Battery Park City.
Local maintenance crews are dumping dry ice in the pesky rodents’ burrows in the trendy Lower Manhattan neighborhood so that when it melts, it leaves behind carbon dioxide, which suffocates them.
“Here in Battery Park City, we’re no stranger to having rodents, and so we wanted to make sure that we were able to manage them while keeping everything chemical-free,” Ryan Torres, vice president of parks operations at the Battery Park City Authority, recently told The Post.
In addition to effectively killing rats, dry ice is hailed as an environmentally sound way to nix them because it doesn’t harm other wildlife and pets, which can ingest chemicals such as pesticides used to exterminate rodents.
City agencies also use dry ice as one of many techniques to fight rats, the mayor’s office said.
The Post was invited to a demonstration where BPCA maintenance workers poured the required 2 pounds of so-called “rat ice” into the holes of local rat burrows and then immediately covered the ice with soil.
The dead rats are left in the ground to compost.
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BPCA maintenance crews eliminated 147 rat burrows last year and 62 so far this year using dry ice, Torres said.
“When the rat ice became available … we were able to utilize that, and we’ve been doing that for I would say the better part of a couple of years,” she said.
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Torres said the 92-acre BPCA, which oversees 16,169 residents in 30 buildings, 10.7 million square feet of commercial office space and 36 acres of parkland,
Mayor Eric Adams is obsessed with curbing the city’s rat population
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THAT’S CO2!!!!!!!!
THEY ARE KILLIG DA ERF!.................
OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG...Think of the CO2...OH, the Hugh Manatee!!!
To bad cant use this to eliminate the vermin in DC ........
I’ve seen the lights go out on Broadway
I’ve watched the mighty skyline fall
The boats were waiting at the battery
The union went on strike
They never sailed at all
They sent a carrier out from Norfolk
And picked the Yankees up for free
They said that Queens could stay
They blew the Bronx away
And sank Manhattan out at sea
Mayor Eric Adams is obsessed with curbing the city’s rat population
Ironic.
Is he leaving?
I had wondered if you can do that with moles
How about getting rid of all those outdoor shack restaurants which take up parking spaces? This is what started the rat population during the pandemic. Food everywhere!
Meanwhile, home owners now have to apply for a permit (deadline 2-1-23) to have garbage picked up, and can only place garbage curbside between the hours of 4 and 7 am instead of previous evening. Now supers will have to start workday at 4 am instead of 8 am. What tenant will put their garbage out at 4am?
NYC has gone rat chit crazy.
Just a minute, killing Rats is going too far. I think voting them out of office and exposing and convicting those guilty of corruption in a court of law is more appropriate.
“Chemical-free”
“I had wondered if you can do that with moles”
Last time they tried to get moles with dry ice it ended up in Pelosi’s ice cream storage area. At least it got close to the right vermin. You just cannot trust an old mole like her.
wy69
But what about the CO2 released when the dry ice sublimes? NYC may melt into the landscape. California will not build a saltwater desalination plant because it will make the Pacific ocean saltier? /sarc/
Try this at the US Capitol.
Juicy Fruit gum works best with moles or voles.
Put the stick of gum down in their hole/mound.
The eat it and can not digest it. Kills them dead.
Dry ice does not “melt”, it “sublimates”.
PETA is dead set against this.
After raising taxes, defunding police and letting criminals roam the streets unchecked, what more can you do to them?
These idiots do know that “Dry Ice” is 100% CO2...
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