How did Zebra mussels a non-factor in Josh Billings runaground?
Zebra mussels a non-factor in Josh Billings Run A ground By Derek Gentile, Berkshire Eagle Staff Berkshire Eagle Updated:09/14/2009 03:47:54 AM EDT Monday, Sept. 14 LENOX — The one topic everyone was talking about at this year’s Josh Billings RunAground was a topic that no one was talking about at last year’s race. Zebra mussels. But organizers Sunday said they were confident that, despite several hundred canoes and kayaks hitting the waters of the Stockbridge Bowl, those boats were all mussel-free. “It went absolutely perfectly,” said race director Patty Spector. “People were so aware of the issue that I don’t believe we had to wash one boat. Everyone was very conscious of the situation.” Spector said she was confident that every boat that went into the water was clean. “If there are mussels in the [Stockbridge] Bowl, it wasn’t us,” she said. The tiny, thumbnail-sized creatures, first seen in upstate New York in this country, were discovered earlier this summer in Laurel Lake in Lee.
LENOX — The one topic everyone was talking about at this year’s Josh Billings RunAground was a topic that no one was talking about at last year’s race. Zebra mussels. But organizers Sunday said they were confident that, despite several hundred canoes and kayaks hitting the waters of the Stockbridge Bowl, those boats were all mussel-free. “It went absolutely perfectly,” said race director Patty Spector. “People were so aware of the issue that I don’t believe we had to wash one boat. Everyone was very conscious of the situation.” Spector said she was confident that every boat that went into the water was clean. “If there are mussels in the [Stockbridge] Bowl, it wasn’t us,” she said. The tiny, thumbnail-sized creatures, first seen in upstate New York in this country, were discovered earlier this summer in Laurel Lake in Lee. Such is their potential for destroying the ecosystem of a body of water that several towns, including Stockbridge, took measures that seemed to some to be overly re
