Archive 2011
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Dear Homeowners and lot owners:
This note is to alert all to a recent article in the World Herald about the discovery of zebra mussels in Lake Zorinsky. This mussel is called an invasive species to lakes as it attaches itself to rocks, concrete, or steel and competes for food with native fish by consuming large amounts of algae. The adult mussel is about one inch in length and can be easily recognized by the stripes on its shell.
Nebraska Game and Park officials fear that the mussel will spread to many popular lakes in the state. One way the mussel spreads is when larvae or adults attach to boats or get into the water in live wells and the engine compartment. Because the larvae are very small (about the diameter of a hair), detection is difficult and the larvae can travel with the flow of water.
Homeowners of Newport Landing should understand that if any of their watercraft have been used in another body of water other than Newport Landing, one needs to carefully inspect the boat for these mussels and even better, wash the boat off at a car wash and drain any water out of the live wells, the engine compartment, etc. If you can then let the the boat sit for 5 days out of the water to dry, this is even better.
For those homeowners that do not use our watercraft anywhere except Newport Landing, we do not have to do anything extra to our watercraft. If you let someone else on the lake that has boated or fished in another lake, however, you may accidentally introduce this terrible problem into our pristine lake. No live bait should ever be used at Newport Landing either since the small larvae of these mussels can be introduced this way also.
A more pressing and serious concern is the State Park lake west of Newport Landing that is heavily used by the public for fishing. We have no control over the boat usage in this body of water that drains into our Newport Landing lake. If this body of water gets contaminated, ours will most likely follow.
Local, state and federal officials are meeting to chart a course of action. When we have more information regarding this invasive species, we will pass this on. For those more interested,http://www.nationalatlas.gov/articles/biology/a_zm.html is one informative web site and many more can be found with
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Dear Homeowners and lot owners:
This note is to alert all to a recent article in the World Herald about the discovery of zebra mussels in Lake Zorinsky. This mussel is called an invasive species to lakes as it attaches itself to rocks, concrete, or steel and competes for food with native fish by consuming large amounts of algae. The adult mussel is about one inch in length and can be easily recognized by the stripes on its shell.
Nebraska Game and Park officials fear that the mussel will spread to many popular lakes in the state. One way the mussel spreads is when larvae or adults attach to boats or get into the water in live wells and the engine compartment. Because the larvae are very small (about the diameter of a hair), detection is difficult and the larvae can travel with the flow of water.
Homeowners of Newport Landing should understand that if any of their watercraft have been used in another body of water other than Newport Landing, one needs to carefully inspect the boat for these mussels and even better, wash the boat off at a car wash and drain any water out of the live wells, the engine compartment, etc. If you can then let the the boat sit for 5 days out of the water to dry, this is even better.
For those homeowners that do not use our watercraft anywhere except Newport Landing, we do not have to do anything extra to our watercraft. If you let someone else on the lake that has boated or fished in another lake, however, you may accidentally introduce this terrible problem into our pristine lake. No live bait should ever be used at Newport Landing either since the small larvae of these mussels can be introduced this way also.
A more pressing and serious concern is the State Park lake west of Newport Landing that is heavily used by the public for fishing. We have no control over the boat usage in this body of water that drains into our Newport Landing lake. If this body of water gets contaminated, ours will most likely follow.
Local, state and federal officials are meeting to chart a course of action. When we have more information regarding this invasive species, we will pass this on. For those more interested,http://www.nationalatlas.gov/articles/biology/a_zm.html is one informative web site and many more can be found with