Just Wait and You'll See...

From July 26, 1991 (update #9)

RED WING, Minn. -- Power plants and municipalities that take a wait-and-see attitude risk getting hit with a zebra mussel population explosion and a big clean-up bill. That was the warning delivered by Louise Barton, a biologist at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant on zebra mussel-infested Lake Erie, to an audience of industrial and municipal water users at a recent workshop at the Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant on the Mississippi River. Early detection of zebra mussel larvae and adults is crucial to successfully controlling an infestation, Barton said. While zebra mussels have not yet reached the Mississippi, Minnesota Sea Grant Extension Agent Jeff Gunderson warned the audience that it was "only a matter of time." The workshop was organized by Minnesota Sea Grant and hosted by Northern States Power.

ID: 19910726-10.

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.