The Seagrass Isn't Always Greener...

From February 19, 1992 (update #12)

Florida Power's two Crystal River power generating stations were taken off line in August after their intakes were clogged, not by zebra mussels, but by tons of seagrass and sargassum, according to an article in the Utility Environment Report. The article reported that the cost of cleaning up the seagrass and sargassum, along with repairing damage to trash racks and intake screens, will total several hundred thousand dollars. The article quoted a Florida Power representative as saying the power plants "have never had the problem of this magnitude before.".

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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.