The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced July 27 that zebra mussels have been found in Comfort Lake near Wyoming. Bill Keilty, longtime Comfort Lake resident and a board member on the Comfort Lakes Association, confirmed that the zebra mussels found only affected Comfort Lake, not Little Comfort Lake.
The CLA first got word of a possible mussel infestation shortly after July 4, when a lakeshore owner took a picture of a small creature she thought might be a zebra mussel and sent it to Keilty.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“I looked at it and I said, ‘It (doesn’t) look like a zebra mussel,’ but then we shared it with the Watershed ,” Keilty said, referring to the Comfort Lake – Forest Lake Watershed District. “They in turn shared it with (lake scientist) Steve McComas and the DNR, and they thought it was.”
In late July, he said, McComas and the DNR were out on the lake
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