Unlike the reservoirs in the southeast and southwest regions of the country, Wisconsin’s shorelines have shoreline owners and are typically developed with docks, boat lifts and swimming rafts.

Solutions include vegetation removal, replacing private docks with boat lifts, and connecting the canal to a parallel channel. Dredging the canal was deemed ineffective, and the most impactful ...

They suspect the zebra mussels were transported to the lake this summer when the boat lift was moved in from an infested lake. “Moving docks and boat lifts from zebra mussel infested lakes to ...