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Sep 28, 2025
Sep 28, 2025 Updated Mar 17, 2026
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Hydrilla surges back to life at Smith Mountain Lake (Sept. 2025)

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An invasive underwater plant has quickly returned to Smith Mountain Lake after more than a d…

Hydrilla surges back after decade-long dormancy at Smith Mountain Lake

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An invasive underwater plant has quickly returned to Smith Mountain Lake after more than a decade, as sterile carp put in the lake in 2013 to feed are dying off.

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Sterile grass carp solved Smith Mountain Lake's invasive hydrilla problem in 2013. But as they've died out, the weed came back. Soon the carp will be back for another fight.

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