Filtering the Flow As You Go

From January, 1996 (Update #26)

Although many companies have created products for preventing zebra mussel infestations, one boat manufacturer has devised a product designed to help prevent recreational boaters from spreading them to new locations. MirroCraft Boats is marketing an environmentally friendly recreational boat that comes with a filtration system designed to remove zebra mussel veligers from "live well" intake water. Wisconsin boater advisory guidelines recommend that water in the live wells of recreational boats be drained when moving from one lake to another to avoid transporting veligers. Company vice president Dan Boettcher said the live well pump intake system includes afilter that should remove particulate material less than 30 microns in size. Wisconsin Sea Grant staff plans to test the effectiveness of this system next summer.

ID: 199601-12.

The Zebra Mussel Update was a 4- to 8-page quarterly national newsletter published by the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute from May 1990 through May 1997. The ZMU documented the spread of the zebra mussel -- an exotic nuisance mussel -- through North America's freshwater environments, especially the Great Lakes, and on efforts to control it.