June 11, 2008--Jefferson Lake steps up fight (Denver Post)
Finding a place to drop the props, throttle up the outboard and rip across the water is getting hard in Colorado, as Jefferson Lake joins the list of lakes restricting or banning motorboats to fight zebra mussels. Officials can't say how long the battle against the invasive species will last. A few dead mussels were discovered on a boat from Michigan at Pueblo Reservoir in January. Officials are concerned about the species being transported by recreational boats to other lakes.
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