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2. Widespread flooding has created ‘ideal conditions’ for rodents

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   The National Pest Technicians Association says rats and mice are seeking out drier, elevated areas such as homes and food businesses. Widespread flooding has created ‘ideal conditions’ for rodents

3. Basement - Wikipedia

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   Rat-proofing is a thin, irregular concrete covering applied over the soil to prevent rodents from burrowing under the foundation wall and entering the crawl space. An underground crawl space (as the name implies) is a type of basement in which one cannot stand up—the height may be as little as one foot (30 cm), and the surface is often soil.

4. Basement waterproofing - Wikipedia

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   The drainage system collects any water entering the basement and drains it to an internally placed sump pump system, which will then pump the water out of the basement. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recommends basement waterproofing with a water alarm and "battery-operated backup pump" as a preventive measure against the high ...

5. Firewater (fire fighting) - Wikipedia

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   Containment of firewater is an integral component of preventing contamination of drainage and sewage systems, rivers, streams, and more. Pollution caused by firewater can last for hundreds of years following the initial use, making cost-effective and practical innovations to the current firewater containment system necessary for both the ...

6. Sewer alligator - Wikipedia

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   However, there is no mention of "blind albino" alligators, and May suggests that the baby alligators were dumped down storm drains rather than "flushed down the toilet". [7] An additional reference to the sewer alligator exists in Thomas Pynchon's first novel, V. [8] It fictionalizes the account, stating Macy's was selling them for a time for ...

7. Pest control - Wikipedia

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   An agricultural aircraft applies low-insecticide bait against western corn rootworm.. Pest control is the regulation or management of a species defined as a pest; such as any animal, plant or fungus that impacts adversely on human activities or environment. [1]