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Moab's Colorado River trips will have to adjust after a live zebra mussel turns up above town - Moab Sun News

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The pipe-clogging zebra mussel has turned up in the Colorado River above Moab, and the state says the way people run the river from the Colorado line to Lake Powell will have to change. State biologists pulled a single live adult from the river below the Westwater Recreation Area on Sept.

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