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This is huge - Lake Mead is filled with these things and they are clogging intake channels and ruining shorelines. The toll they have taken on the lake is insan
by lvspiff 6y ago
This is huge - Lake Mead is filled with these things and they are clogging intake channels and ruining shorelines. The toll they have taken on the lake is insane. Don't let these things grow - wipe them out - for the sake of lakes and ponds everywhere!
- LeifCarrotson 6y agoFilled with zebra mussels, you mean, not aquarium moss balls. Invasive species are all over the place here in Michigan, too. We've got purple loosestrife, Eurasian milfoil, zebra and quagga mussels, and others at an ever-growing subset of our lakes. Many of these are isolated glacial kettle lakes, swamp- or spring-fed, with fast-flowing outlet streams that keep invasive species downstream until humans introduce them. The problem with these aquatic hitch-hikers is that it only takes one fool to purge his boat live well or dump an unwanted aquarium fish 'humanely' into the lake to ruin it for everyone. I can be super careful, purging the freshwater cooling system of my boat motor between lakes, but it's a battle you only have to loose once; I don't know of any lake that's been successful in removing zebra mussels after they've established themselves. As a child, one of five lakes we visited regularly had zebra mussels coating every rock. Now four of those five have succumbed. I know it wasn't me in recent years - I powerwash the boat exterior and purge the freshwater cooling system every time - but a lot of people here don't believe that humans can have a significant detrimental effect on the environment, so I fear all my efforts are for naught.