Drop a Brick on Zebra Mussels Project

We had another great summer of success with the Drop a Brick on Zebra Mussels program. This fall, we received 37 reports from participants for the summer during 2006. All volunteers reported no zebra mussels on their bricks!

As always, it will be important to check your brick periodically throughout this upcoming summer and call the LGA immediately if you find anything. Even if you do not find zebra mussels on your brick at the end of the season, we still need to hear from you! Knowing where zebra mussels are not located is still important information.

Also, knowing where we have people monitoring helps us fill in important gaps in areas of the lake where we do not have volunteers monitoring yet.

This upcoming summer, we will be adding bricks to the Village of Lake George public docks and working to increase the number of bricks placed at private marinas and resorts around the lake.

There are bricks available at the office and the LGA is always looking for more volunteers to help monitor. The map on this page shows brick locations reported back to us in 2006. Areas such as Pilot Knob, Sabbath Day Point, and Sandy Bay, where we received no reports this year, are priorities for increasing coverage in 2007, as well as sites with high calcium levels. (See inset.)

Please consider volunteering to drop a brick and monitor for zebra mussels on Lake George next season. 

 

The 19 stream sites that might provide suitable conditions for ZMs where they enter the lake are:
Glenburnie	East Brook	Basin Bay	Silver Bay
Sunset Bay	West Brook	Finkle Brook	Holman Hill Creek
Eichlerville Bay-Huletts	English Brook	5 Mile Mountain Brook South Tributary	Cape Cod Village Brook
Butternut Brook	Smith Brook	Sabbath Day Point	Hague Brook
Dark Bay	Edmund’s Brook	South Jenkins Point