Snippets about Lake Tahoe
• Charles Goldman will be speaking at 2pm Aug. 21 to the South Tahoe Public Utility District board of directors.
• Parade magazine picked Placerville as one of the U.S. cities with the best Main Street.
• El Dorado County Board of Supervisors will discuss the Meyers Area Plan on Oct. 28 during the annual South Shore meeting at Lake Tahoe Airport. The meeting starts at 9am.
• Sept. 27 from 9am-1pm is prescription drug take back day at Gateway Shopping Center on Donner Pass Road in Truckee and at the old fire station on North Lake Boulevard in Tahoe City.
• Tahoe Prosperity Center wants people to take a test and survey regarding high speed internet service to the Lake Tahoe Basin, Alpine Meadows and Squaw Valley.
Who is Charles Goldman ?
Dr. Charles Goldman is one of the leading limnologists in the world – [limnology being the study of inland water: lakes] – he started studying Lake Tahoe in 1958, as recording both changes in the scientific composition of Tahoe’s water, and of course introducing the now-famous Secchi disc, by which the clarity can be measured – the further down you can clearly see the disk, the better the quality of the water. . .
In 1968, that measurement was 102 ft.; by the time of the Presidential Summit (1997) it was 68 ft., representing a clarity loss of 34 feet. . .
TRPA’s work is geared to retrieving more of that clarity by increasing that number back to 100′ (or more), hence the Regional Plan (& its recent Update).
Dr. Goldman’s work was instrumental in the scientific policy of protecting Lake Tahoe’s fabled clarity. . .
Goldman was also a defense witness for illegal dredging on the west shore, in my memory. TRPA records would show when and where.