Zebra Mussels

[Dewit2it]

Yes viz is improving on Winnebago.  Sheepshead, carp, bufflehead, and bluebills are predators.  Possibly sturgeon.  Weed growth has exploded with water celery at the lead followed closely by millfoil.  Spent a lot of time last summer running a water jet uprooting it.  I put nearly 2 tons of it in the compost pile from what's left of the channel.  And that's only from an area of 180' x 60'.

The water jet works great on millfoil as it uproots it without tearing the plant up much.  That helps keep the spread down.  Also the fish seemed to like the cleared out area as well.

I did try to contact Changing World Technologies about their thermal depolymerization process to see if I could build a small scale system to convert the millfoil into fuel oil.  They weren't too interested.  This system could turn the plague of millfoil into a usefull crop that could be used for fuel.  At least it could help bring fuel oil prices down a bit.