Gophers can wreak havoc on commercial properties, causing extensive damage through their burrowing activities.
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Their tunnels can undermine the structural integrity of landscapes, damage irrigation systems, and gnaw through utility cables, leading to costly repairs and potential safety hazards. Effective gopher management is crucial to protect your property and maintain its value.
Here is a list of damage to commercial properties that gophers can cause:
- Underground damage: Gophers dig extensive tunnel systems that can damage underground utility cables, irrigation pipes, and water lines. This can lead to costly repairs and disruptions to electrical, telecommunications, and irrigation systems.
- Structural damage: The critters can weaken the structural integrity of buildings by tunneling beneath foundations and into earthen dams. This can cause loss of water, piping through, and complete loss of a bank.
- Landscaping damage: Gophers can tear up carefully constructed landscaping by feeding on the roots and bark of plants, trees, shrubs, and more. They can also damage grass in a yard by tunneling under it.
- Personal injury: Gophers can create dangerous holes that can lead to personal injury, especially in large areas where people and pets are present.
- Disease: Gophers are wild animals that can transfer disease and cause serious health issues to occur if touched.
Gophers are difficult to control because of their rapid reproduction rate, expansive burrowing activity, and adaptive nature. Traditional methods such as trapping, fumigation, or repellent devices often fail to eradicate the problem on the first try.
To properly treat for gophers, it needs to be a constant service until you see no activity for at least 90 days.
Author: Fernando Torres is the owner of CimeX Control Pest Management. For more information call (480) 364-7499 or visit cimexcontrol.com.
