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Division of TECH: Power Plant Program: Zebra Mussels Research Guide
Research and Resource Connections for the Power Plant Technology Program
National Geographic 2020-10-27
The zebra mussels not only edge out native mussels, but they also attach en masse to any human-made structure, disrupting municipal systems for drinking.
Zebra mussels and quagga mussels are virtually identical both physically and behaviorally. Originally from Eastern Europe, these tiny trespassers were picked up in the ballast water of ocean-going ships and brought to the Great Lakes in the 1980s. By 1990 zebra mussels and quagga mussels had infested all of the Great Lakes.
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Fox 7 Austin, TX 2020-10-25
(VIDEO) Austin Water hopes to officially declare its internal flare raw intake pipes will be free of zebra mussels by the end of the year.
KELO (Sioux Falls, SD) 2019-9-26
"As design work continues on a $37 million drinking water treatment plant in Pierre, officials are looking at how to keep a new threat under control; the zebra mussel."
KPVI (Pocatello, Idaho) 2019-5-4
"Perhaps the most remarked upon feature of the bill is a fee levied on utility companies that own non-federal hydroelectric facilities."
Fox 44- KWKT (Nexstar Broadcasting) 2018-5-26
"Lake Waco is a drinking source, you know, for the City of Waco," Heuring says. "So if we get zebra mussels problems, we are going to have a lot of issues with our pipes..."
WTOL 11 (Toledo, OH) 2018-1-22
"A chemical meant to manage the zebra mussel population may also help tackle the harmful algae around the City of Toledo's water intake crib."
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