Colorado Parks and Wildlife decontaminated more mussel-infested boats in 2019 than in 2018, but inspectors again kept the invasive and destructive mussels out of the state’s lakes and reservoirs.
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist holds a dead spike mussel, the same species of freshwater mussel studied by researchers at Penn State. Credit: Meagan Racey/USFWS Fracking’s Forever Problem: ...
It's not true that the mussels automatically shut off the city's water supply. When the mussels' shell movements trigger an alarm, human specialists conduct further testing before any action is taken.