Experts Testing Tactics to Keep Harmful Mussels from Muscling into Western Waters - Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers a Key Component
February 24, 2012 -- A Denver-based federal team fighting invasive freshwater mussels is investigating new and hopeful treatments, including poison, blasts of ultra-violet light and shock waves, and the introduction of a mussel-destroying predatory sunfish.
The researchers testing these tactics say some seem to work and, if proved, could save tens of millions of dollars by protecting western hydropower and water delivery facilities against the proliferating Eurasian quagga and zebra mussels. Read the full story to get the details.
