AUSTIN, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reported that Fort Phantom Hill Lake was designated as "positive" for zebra mussels.

Officials with the TPWD said that has been multiple detections of the mussel in Fort Phantom Hill Lake, near Abilene, with additional evidence needed to determine if the species is fully established.

Official said in August TPWD received a report of a single adult zebra mussel next to a dock. Analysis of the routine plankton samples from the lake found two confirmed microscopic zebra mussels veliger larvae from a sample taken near the site of the adult zebra mussel.

The TPWD said extensive survey of the shoreline and associated infrastructure found no additional settled mussels and zebra mussel. Larvae were not detected in samples taken

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