Pesticides and
Protecting Our Water

Fertilizers and pesticides may help your lawn and garden grow, but used improperly they can end up in our wells, reservoirs or the water where we swim or fish.

What you can do.

- Try organic fertilizers
- Use compost in your soil
- Use ladybugs and spiders or bug repellent plants such as marigolds to rid your flowers of pests.
- Insecticidal soap, baking soda or water AND a touch of dishwashing liquid fight black spot and aphids. 

Call the Westchester County Department of Health at 813-5000 for information.

More links on this and related topics...

• Garden Guide from the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Cornell Cooperative Extension
• Pesticide Database
• NYC Department of 
  Environmental Protection
• Alternatives to Pesticides
• A Pesticide Primer
• Department of Environmental Conservation