USFS seeks input on Meeks Bay Resort
The. U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is taking public comment until March 18 on a proposal to make water quality, accessibility and utility improvements at Meeks Bay Resort on the West Shore.
The Forest Service wants to implement a variety of water quality best management practices, including slope stabilization using vegetation, constructing storm water infiltration basins, installing bollards or boulders to prevent parking on bare soils, regrading the drive to the main house and creating roof line drip trenches along the cabins and the main house.
The project would improve the accessibility of the parking areas and walkways and provide an accessible walkway to the beach. The Forest Service would also remove power lines from tree and retrofit utility equipment to bring it up to code.
Work could begin this May, with completion in 2012.
For more information on the proposal and how to submit comments, go online or call Ashley Sommer at (530) 543.2615 or via email at asommer@fs.fed.us.
Why would the forest service ask the public who has no experience in removing utility poles, slope stabilization, etc.? Really doesn’t make sense USFS. If it must be done….do it for the lowest costs or bring it in under budget. Am I missing something here?
The USFS is required by law, under the National Envioronmental Policy ACt (NEPA), to solicity public participation. This notice is for the 30-day public comment period. The purpose of this public participation is to identify issues that the USFS isn’t aware, not to help with design.
prevent parking on bare soils,Yea right!
Will one you U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management lazy butts please call Cal-trans, have them sweep the middle divider on highway 50….there’s tons of crap blowing around every time someone makes a left hand turn.
The busiest stretch highway in the Basin and it looks like hell.
Where’s that top Trpa head honcho ,she just wrote about needing street sweepers couple weeks ago ,Oh that’s right, she still working on figuring out pine cones makes trees!Earn your salary, try making, a call seriously.