Colorado state inspectors are “completely over-run” by mussel-infested boats and most of those boats are coming from Lake Powell in southern Utah, officials said.
Colorado reservoirs remain mussel free, but Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) said Wednesday that it’s already intercepted 51 mussel-infested boats this year – the same amount for all of 2018, even though it’s only halfway through boating season.
Before last year, the most boats intercepted with mussels in one year was 26.
“I am just being completely over-run by mussel infested boats,” Robert Walters, CPW assistant manager for the aquatic nuisance species program, said in a news release. “We are having interceptions just about every day at waters throughout the state. And most of the boats are coming out of Lake Powell.”
