{"id":68382,"date":"2017-05-05T18:02:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T00:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boat-with-mussels-is-stopped-at-mcphee-boat-ramp\/"},"modified":"2017-05-06T00:02:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T00:02:54","slug":"boat-with-mussels-is-stopped-at-mcphee-boat-ramp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boat-with-mussels-is-stopped-at-mcphee-boat-ramp\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat with mussels is stopped at McPhee boat ramp"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=275e6add-5ee7-4535-b6c9-0facba7b26b0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1344\" alt=\"Harvey Baker places a tag on a boat at McPhee Reservoir after making sure it is drained to prevent invasive species.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Harvey Baker places a tag on a boat at McPhee Reservoir after making sure it is drained to prevent invasive species.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colorado Parks and Wildlife inspectors stopped the boat before it entered the water.<\/p>\n<p>Lake managers began stricter access protocols this year to prevent contamination by the mussel, which can clog irrigation equipment and cannot be eradicated from a waterway. Motorized, trailered boats can only access the lake through boat inspection stations at McPhee and House Creek boat ramps during open hours.<\/p>\n<p>The infected boat caught Friday was secured in a yard until it can be decontaminated.<\/p>\n<p>Parks and Wildlife spokesman Joe Lewandowski said the owner told officials he bought the engine on Craig\u2019s List, but became suspicious when he learned it was from Lake Powell, which is infested with the mussel.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the third boat this year that has showed up in Southwest Colorado with adult mussels. In April, Parks and Wildlife quarantined a houseboat parked on Mancos Hill,  and another boat showed up at Ridgway Reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are surrounded by states positive with the mussel, and preventing them here will take great vigilance,\u201d Lewandowski said.<\/p>\n<p>Lakes in Utah and Arizona are infected with the mussel, and some prevention regulations depend on boat owners\u2019 action.<\/p>\n<p>Boaters should  drain, clean and dry boats before and after leaving any waterway. Mussel larvae can survive 28 days in standing water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baker places a tag on a boat at McPhee Reservoir after making sure it is drained to prevent invasive species.Sam Green\/The Journal Colorado Parks and Wildlife inspectors stopped the boat before it entered the water. Lake managers began stricter access protocols this year to prevent contamination by the mussel, which can clog irrigation equipment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,44,670,280,29,2217],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-dolores","tag-invasive-species","tag-mcphee-reservoir","tag-newsletter","tag-power-boating"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68382"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}