Zebra Mussels in Lake Winnebago? - NOT!

Zebra Mussels in Lake Winnebago? - NOT!

From March 23, 1993 (Update #16)

To paraphrase Mark Twain, the published reports of zebra mussels in Lake Winnebago are premature. During an Appleton Common Council discussion in mid-January of plans to implement zebra mussel controls for the city's water intake, a local alderman said that zebra mussels had already been found in Lake Winnebago, according to a report in the Appleton Post-Crescent. The council subsequently approved spending $55,000 to install a chlorine/ammonia injection system in the city's main water intake pipe on Lake Winnebago.

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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.