The roughly 250 daily commuters who use the Green River Ferry in Mammoth Cave National Park will notice some service interruptions in the coming days.
The ferry will be closed to all vehicular traffic May 20- 22. The closure will be in effect from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. to allow the park to complete a freshwater mussel relocation project.
The Green River in Mammoth Cave National Park contains some of the most diverse populations of freshwater mussels in the world. Over 50 species are found in the park and ten of those are included on the federally endangered list.
The relocation project will involve a specially trained dive team that will collect the mussels and re-plant them in the riverbed either above or below the Green River Ferry crossing. The mussels are being relocated to protect them from construction work that will extend the ferry’s access ramps. That construction will closure the ferry from approximately June 17 to Nov. 15.
