Metro’s Lake Riley gets Minnesota’s first-ever whole-lake copper treatment to combat zebra mussels

As Olivia Nyffeler stepped onto a boat along the shores of Minnesota’s roughly 300-acre Lake Riley, she clapped and raised her hands in celebration.
“All right,” she yelled, barely able to contain her enthusiasm. “Here we go!”
Nyffeler, a University of Minnesota Ph.D. student working with the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center (MAISRC), was heading out on the southwest Twin Cities metro lake to witness the first-ever, whole-lake application of copper sulfate in the battle against invasive zebra mussels.

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