At the Skinner Fish Facility near Byron, water for 27 million Californians and hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland passes through. … Early this year, golden mussels began clogging the system. … Pam Marrone, cofounder of the Invasive Species Corporation, has studied invasive species extensively. Earlier this year, she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. … Already, she’s created a product that kills Quagga and Zebra mussels. Zequanox is being used across the country. In the last few months, her team has been experimenting with Zequanox and found it can kill golden mussels, but not at as high a rate as they would like. … She said golden mussels are much tougher to kill than Quagga and Zebra mussels. 

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