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Beginning April 7, it will cost you $25 up to $200 to have your boat "decontaminated". See full story in link below.

NAPA COUNTY, Calif. —
Officials are working to protect a lake that provides drinking water to nearly half a million people in Solano County.

They are trying to keep golden mussels, an invasive species that was recently discovered in the Delta, out of Lake Berryessa.


In November, the Bureau of Reclamation announced it would require all boats launching at Lake Berryessa to be inspected. It requires boats to either undergo a 30-day quarantine period or a hot water decontamination performed by Solano County Water Agency staff in order to launch.

The hot water decontamination services have been available free of charge, but beginning April 7, the Solano County Water Agency says it will charge.


https://www.kcra.com/article/lake-berry ... n/64248775

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

Once one place does it, many of the others will follow.....

My son in law went thru the decontamination process at Berryessa today ( 3/26 ). His exact words " its a total joke".
He said all the decon personnel did was run water thru the motor for one minute, then sprayed water in the livewell. He was not asked to run pumps or do anything else.

So they are going to charge $25-200 for literally a two minute process ???? Sheeeesh !!!

$120 for a bass boat at Markley if I'm reading correctly.

The hot water treatment used to be free at Cachuma, and it was thorough.

Is the relaunch ban going to be reciprocal at all inland body's of water. Easy way to make this work. It's all BS but I want to fish lakes. I live in MI 8 months a year, where a $14.00 annual fee to you truck tags get you unlimited access to all DNR ramps and state parks. Almost all the lakes and rivers have a public ramp (no power loading in MI we don't have the water level fluctuation and it adores the dirt away from the end of the ramp). I guess I'll be heading to MI sooner than I want to.
Spring Small mouth fishing is the most fun I have ever had bass fishing. If you ever get a chance to fish the great lake's area and east take it.

They should make the one decontamination you get work for all of are lakes !!!!But that would be to easy the way they are doing it is just plan stupid. if you go to the delta then that's on you you'll have to do the process all over a again its not hard. And there going to have one hell of a mess on there hands when all the pleasure boaters get on the water in a mouth or so good luck with that. And I think we all know that these mussels have probably been the Delta for years already so buckle up the bureaucrats are in charge and its going to be a **** show...

We are constantly fighting invasive species
None have had the doom they would like us believe

The hyacinth in the delta is worse than any fish or mussel so far
It’s an over reaction
Of course the golden mussel has been in the delta for years
Of course boats have moved water from the delta to the lakes
Common sense is not being used. A quick inspection that reveals a clean boat is about the best we can do other than taking away boating
We know who likes to close everything down

"A quick inspection that reveals a clean boat is about the best we can do other than taking away boating" Unfortunately JV is dead on about that. That's what it comes down to- unless the various agencies are willing to invest in a serious plan to allow boating to coexist with invasive species, this is most likely to end badly for boaters.

Why can’t they use mussel sniffing dogs like they do @ Lake Sonoma and it would save us Fishermen a whole lotta down time? This is getting ridiculous!

It's all for show. Do you really think a dog can smell a mussel whether its an adult or microscopic in a bilge when the entire boat reeks of tuna? Odds are there are no mussels in CA but if there are its too late and they can't be stopped.
It's all about water control and now they finally figured out how to get it.

HawgHunter49 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 3:18 pm Why can’t they use mussel sniffing dogs like they do @ Lake Sonoma and it would save us Fishermen a whole lotta down time? This is getting ridiculous!

i believe it’s more about stopping the transfer of the mussel larva which is micro… a big wad of mussels hanging off someone’s transome would be to obvious to a boat owner ….one would think …

They make it sound like every drop of water in the delta is infested with the larva
They think we are dumb. They are right about many of us being just that dumb

Clean your boat. Be responsible. If a water agency is really that concerned check the boat for clean and dry They successfully kept the quagga out of camanche and pardee for decades with inspections so what’s the problem ?
Furthermore it’s not in the lakes that did not have inspections. Don Pedro Mc clure. Hello????
That’s all.

The whole deal is a joke!!!!
You notice how they are still planting fish in lake camanche and pardee.
What have they done to safeguard that the water they are pumping in with the fish plants is not contaminated with the microscopic golden mussels.
If you use east bay muds mentality all water is a potential threat.
Plus camanche and east bay mud won’t give your money back on their defunct season passes!!!!

Delta pumps water south to LA every day. No one seems to care if mussels are in the water.

They have strict inspections at lake del valle in Livermore
The lake gets it water from THE DELTA

Try to make it make sense