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Failed Tahoe City condo project returning to marshland


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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee

Bulldozers aren’t typically welcome sights around Lake Tahoe, but just outside Tahoe City they’re being used by construction workers and engineers to restore the natural habitat – not disturb it.

The project calls for turning 35 North Shore acres prepared for a failed condominium development back into natural marshland.

At $2.6 million, the project is one of 700 identified in the Tahoe basin aimed at rectifying environmental wrongs.

Approximately 300 projects of varying complexity have been completed, officials said.

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  1. Steven says - Posted: August 15, 2010

    Let’s do this to the Keys and then “The Hole”!!

  2. Local says - Posted: August 15, 2010

    Steven,
    “The Keys” generates tremendous tax dollars for SLT City-it will never happen.

  3. Bob says - Posted: August 15, 2010

    Why isn’t the city putting money back into the Key’s – especially the roads, one crack after another?

  4. Steven says - Posted: August 15, 2010

    Are the Keys on their own water system? And why aren’t they on a water rationing program like those of us who are stuck with STPUD?

  5. dogwoman says - Posted: August 15, 2010

    The Keys has their own water system and they are too small to be required to ration.