What is the Orange County Vector Control District?
The Orange County Vector Control District (OCVCD) is a special district that was established in 1947, originally as the Orange County Mosquito Abatement District. The District was responsible for protecting the growing population of Orange County from mosquitoes and mosquito-born diseases. In 1975, the Orange County Board of Supervisors conducted an efficiency study that concluded that the District could effectively assume the responsibility for comprehensive vector control, and so fly and rat control, formerly part of the Orange County Health Department, was transferred to the District. At that time the name of the District was changed to the Orange County Vector Control District. In 2004, the District reestablished a Red Imported Fire Ant program after the State quit funding the program they had established in 2000.
