Utah’s Deer Creek Quagga Boating Requirements Lifted

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

HEBER CITY, Utah -(Ammoland.com)- It’ll take less time to get your boat on or off Deer Creek Reservoir this year. After three years, the reservoir is no longer suspected of having quagga mussels in it.

Nathan Owens, aquatic invasive species coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources, says quagga mussels have not been found in the reservoir since five juvenile mussels were discovered in a water sample in October 2014.

Because the reservoir has gone three years without further detection, effective Jan. 11, Deer Creek is no longer classified as a quagga-suspected water. And that means you’re no longer required to drain the water from your boat, and have staff at the park inspect it, before leaving the reservoir southwest of Heber City.

Hard Work Pays Off

With the exception of Lake Powell, which has been infested with mussels since 2013, quagga mussels have not been found in any water body in Utah since the discovery at Deer Creek in 2014.

“Our prevention and containment methods worked,” Owens says. “Decontaminating boats that arrived at Deer Creek from Lake Powell and infested waters outside the state prevented mussels from getting into the reservoir and adding to the problem. …Read the Rest

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