California is devoting additional funding to the fight against golden mussels.
Included in the state budget Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on June 29 is a $6 million allocation meant to help slow the species before it raises household costs and creates more problems for water infrastructure.
What’s happening?
One part of Newsom’s newly approved California budget earmarks $6 million for efforts to prevent the spread of golden mussels through the state’s waterways, Stocktonia reported.
First identified in the Port of Stockton about two years ago, the species has since spread broadly, clogging pipes and fouling water systems…