Rat
Facts:
• Rat
means "gnawing animal;" and rats must gnaw. Their teeth grow 5 inches
a year
and
they could not survive unless their teeth are constantly worn down.
• Rat
gnawing exerts incredible pressure: 24,000 pounds per square inch. They can cut
through
paper, rags, wood, bone, insulation of all kinds, asbestos, brick, cinder
blocks,
four-inch
thick concrete, aluminum -- even a 1/2 inch thick sheet of metal.
• A single pair of rats can multiply more
than 15,000 descendants in 1 year; 359 million
in 3 years.
• Rats transmit at least 35 diseases.
•
There are an estimated 235 million rats in the
• Rats eat 50 pounds of food a year and can
eat 1/3 of their weight a day.
•
Favorite foods: oatmeal, potatoes, meat and cooked eggs.
•
Garbage-fed city rats are considerably larger than their rural cousins.
• A
rat's sense of taste is so strong, it can detect as little as two parts per
million of
poison
in their food.
•
Rats can swim 1/2 mile in open sea and tread water for 3 days. They can dive
100
feet
underwater.
INFORMATION SHEET ON RATS
For every ton of trash there is a
rat.
If allowed Carney will transfer
1,000 tons each day
REGULATIONS
/ CRITERIA TO REFERENCE IN YOUR LETTER CONCERNING:
Please
write the below regulation number in letters referencing the problems and
epidemics
surrounding
RAT- populations and effect
16.40 (4) (g) (3) :
(g) Potential for the Creation of
Nuisances. No site shall be determined to
be suitable or be assigned as a
solid waste management facility where the
establishment or operation of the
facility would result in nuisance conditions
which would constitute a danger to
the public health, safety or the environment
taking into consideration the
following factors:
3. vermin
such as rodents and insects;
• Pack size can range from 15 to 220
individuals.
•
Social order is determined by fighting status, with the lower status kept the
farthest
from
the food supply.
• A
U.S. Government report states that each rat damages $1 to $10 worth of food and
other
material per year, and contaminates 5 to 10 times more. This means (conservatively)
200
million
•
Rats survived atomic testing on
• 5
to 25% of all unknown-cause fires are caused by rats.
• In 1972,
the U.S. Center for Disease Control warned "plague must be viewed not as a
historical
phenomenon, but as an ever-present threat, not only in the
the
world.
• Rat
Bourne Bubonic plague is far from dead and a fourth pandemic could easily
occur.
No
cases have been reported in urban
rural
areas. In 1980, there were 18 reported cases, 5 fatal. These numbers would
become
dramatic if infected rodents are driven from their homes, as they are in brush
fires
in
REFERENCE: http://rats-thefilm.com/facts.html