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Title:Powerboats
Notice:Introductions 2 /Classifieds 3 / '97 Ski Season 1267
Moderator:KWLITY::SUTER
Created:Thu May 12 1988
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1275
Total number of notes:18109

953.0. "Zebra mussel" by BTOVT::JPETERS (John Peters, DTN 266-4391) Mon Mar 09 1992 10:09

    This topic is for discussion of the zebra mussel.  Since the mussel has
    taken hold in the Great Lakes and, more recently, the upper Hudson
    River, people must have devised ways to live with or in spite of it.  
    
    What are practical ways to protect your outboard or I/O, or through
    hull penetrations, if you have a boat which is moored in waters that
    have zebra mussels?
    
    J
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953.1Other discussionBTOVT::JPETERSJohn Peters, DTN 266-4391Mon Mar 09 1992 10:111
    See also 654.*
953.3Never Sit StillGLDOA::BARTONOneMoreSnowStormPlease!!!!Tue Mar 10 1992 13:2314
    Yeah.....the best way to keep the mussels out of the outdrive is 
    to use you boat as much as possible 8^) 8^) then them little critters
    don`t have time to take root. 8^)
    
    I had my boat boat docked in Lake Erie for 3 years, and YES we have a
    lot of zebra mussels. I never saw a serious problem. I did have some of
    them in the water intake one year, but just a few with no serious
    problems. My boat was put in in early May, and was in till Oct. I used 
    it every weekend though. 
    
    Some of the boating mags advertise something that you can wash/coat you
    boat with. I think the mag was "Lakeland Boater" or "Trailer Boat."
    
    
953.4Learn about ZMs in Merrimack, NHSPARKL::JOHNHCWed Jan 12 1994 13:1213
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                           -< ZEBRA MUSSEL lecture >-
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The Merrimack River Watershed Council and the Nashua Regional Planning Commission
are co-sponsoring a lecture by George Vercelli on the impact of Zebra Mussels
on our water systems. This is a free lecture open to the public.

		Thursday Jan 27 7:30pm
		Merrimack (NH) Public Library
953.5ZMs in Lake Champlain....GEMVAX::JOHNHCTue Jun 14 1994 12:2111
    Zebra Mussels are now in Lake Champlain, according to the VT Dept. of
    Environmental Conservation (DEC).
    
    If you visit Lake Champlain with your boat, please, *please* take the
    precautions listed elsewhere in this topic before moving your boat to
    another body of water, *especially* any body of water in the Merrimack
    River Wathershed.
    
    Thanks.
    
    John H-C