Snippets about Lake Tahoe
• Does sweeping the roads of Lake Tahoe hurt or help lake clarity? Here’s what the Tahoe Pipe Club has to say.
• State Sen. Ted Gaines, R-Rocklin, has been appointed to serve as a member of the Budget and Fiscal Review, and Legislative Ethics committees for the remainder of the 2011-12 legislative session.
• Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics honored Dave Polivy, owner of Tahoe Mountain Sports in Kings Beach, as one of its extraordinary member-activists of 2011.
• Read about Random Acts of Kindness beyond the Lake Tahoe Basin.
• Results of the annual South Lake Tahoe citizens’ survey, which is randomly sent to residents and businesses, are on the city’s website.
Every year we experience the dust bowl of sand and dirt stirred up by vehicles after snow removal and when the highway warms up. I can always spot the street sweeper way ahead as there is ALWAYS a massive cloud of dirt created by an inefficient machine at work! Better than nothing I am sure but I always wonder if the truck is too full or just too weak to suck it all up? How about a city ordinance to not allow LEAF BLOWERS to clean sidewalks and parking lots!? I watch from my business windows, massive ammounts of dust and dirt blowing over to the next property or on all nearby cars! Thats where the use of a vacuum system is needed or how about brooms and shovels?
I think it’s good to sweep the streets a couple of times a year in the spring. This helps to stop mother nature from filling them back in.
This year when I run my dog at Shelly Camp I see three Caltrans trusts working to sweep the high way numerous times a week.
If you go by what the pipe club has posted, we should be washing down the streets, not sweeping them. Could be a good use of reclaimed water.
Next, lets get rid of 50% of all those county and caltrans road workers, what a waste of out tax dollars.
Do you really think street sweeping easy, look at another way, they can’t operator a snow gate, why would you think they can clean streets from dirt?
It’s not the machine fault, it’s the guy that’s doing the operating,they drive too fast in order to let the machines do the proper job,scrubbers collect move particles at certain physics.
Like throwing a pot on a potters wheel,the center has to rotate at the right speed or you lose the vessel you are forming.
Same picture in your mind, snow back in your driveway, dirt back on your cars ,living room, someone else’s property.(they look like they are doing something!)
The air dirty than you think in a dry climate,just city freaks think it’s the fresh cause they spent ton money to come waste their time.No one wants to feel like a fool!…………FOOL!
Then they drive over by the lake think there’s a forest fire cause some jokers burning in the name fire safety,all sudden they can’t say, smell those fresh pines!
Virtue in the eye of a beholder,just all the truths in peoples eye are heavily dislusion by what they want see, not what they really see.
Cheap sunglasses are poured in the same dye,mold, as expensive sun glasses, are most likley the same, only some icon commercial makes you think the more cash you spend the better the product ,not alway true,but hey if it makes you feel more “in” when you know you’er really Out. Throw your cash away.
Brooms, water,give more people something to do, spare the air, breath deep,Tahoe got a stock yard molding meadow muffens with epa written all ove them.