Tahoe Keys working on aquatic weed plan
The Tahoe Keys Property Owners Association will host an independent expert panel and public workshop on Aug. 11 to discuss plans to fight aquatic invasive weeds.
TKPOA has developed an integrated weed management plan to address the growing weed problem in the Tahoe Keys, and its potential impacts in Lake Tahoe.
The meeting will be from 6-8pm at the South Tahoe Public Utility District headquarters, 1275 Meadow Crest Drive, South Lake Tahoe.
The experts include Pat Akers, California Department of Food and Agriculture; Joe DiTomaso, UC Davis; Kurt Getsinger, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Sudeep Chandra, UNR; and Joel Trumbo, California Department of Fish and Wildlife. This panel has been asked to review the plan.
The plan takes a comprehensive, holistic approach to the growing weeds problem, integrating the best science and proven techniques from elsewhere in Lake Tahoe and in the country.
The plan will need to be approved by the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board. Some aspects of the plan could be implemented as early as 2016.
Aquatic weeds have been a problem ever since the Truckee Marsh was dredged to make the Tahoe Keys.
Now we have non native fish in the canals, polluted water running into the lake. Qver watered lawns on fertilzed yards of unoccupied homes with all that water running into the lake.
One of the worst things ever, to happen to Lake Tahoe, was the construction of Tahoe Keys.
When I was kid the family went for a ride out there. No homes, no trees just dirt roads with smelly water. My Dad said” who would want to live out here?”
Take care, OLS
why don’t they use the filtration plant at the keys ?
I have asked about this about 10 times AND RECEIVED ABOUT 10 DIFFERENT ANSWERS ?
Regretfully, the plan includes dumping toxic weed killer into the water to kill the weeds, water that directly connects to Lake Tahoe and ends up as drinking water for some. And they are trying to spin this as “holistic”?
I’ve often wondered why the people who were living on the California side of the Tahoe south shore didn’t stop the Tahoe Keys from being built.
4-mer jarhead, when I moved to Tahoe from the Bay Area in 1971 and the Keys, in mid-development, were even uglier than they are now, any suggestion that development in South Lake Tahoe should be regulated, interrupted or even re-considered was seen as the work of “off-the-hill commies” and their (our?) sympathizers. It’s hard to say whether that attitude has changed, or simply been driven underground – you can still hear its echo at Council meetings (right Tommy?).
Just bad news out there in every direction you look. I was out walking the east cove yesterday, the lagoon you eventually walk up to is so thick of this lake weed, that it is all you see, can’t even fish there if you tried. Hate to say it, but I will say it again. The Tahoe Keys Development, is the most single worse irreversible environmentally disaster to ever curse Lake Tahoe. If there is a cure, it is to tear down that disastrous building development and let that land return to a it’s natural water filtering marshland that it once was. We all know this, if you don’t, your in denial!
You folks are the curse of Tahoe. Every human is. No humans and all is pristine and pure. So let’s leave yesterday.
Who has the millions/billions of $$$ to buy out all the homeowners? And the same amount of $$$ for the restoration project? And how will the City cope with the lost tax revenue?
Answers…OLS, copper, local2?
a fact is a fact, it will never be resolved with money or no money only behind closed door session politics, you know kind of like STPUD, STR, City Of SLT, TRPA the list goes on and on. BUT if you believe in Karma, I willing to bet for those developers who moved on and off of earth are paying dearly for killing one of the most pristine clear water lakes on the face of the PLANET! So Mr. Gush are you cursed? By the way Nature is pristine, pure and perfect in sinle every way right down to the cockroach, I will agree regarding humans as well as myself as a human, but a humane one who greatly respects and admires Nature in every single way.
Have a wonderful overcast day in Paradise
Local, Yes, money is always the problem to correct past mistakes like the keys and the new ones planned for the areas around the Tahoe basin in the future that often end in failure.
Maybe one of these days we will figure it out. Highly unlikely but worth a try.
Heck, we can’t even afford to get our roads overlayed and patched up as they are slowly falling apart creating cracks and potholes in our streets.
Any ideas LTN readers on how to right this ship that is the City of South Tahoe? OLS
OLS: create a tahoe ‘energy export park’ transcendent of state lines: a couple of fission plants in place of the casinos and we all have a clean environment with money to burn. larger stipend for ‘locals’ than alaska residents get for oil, with minimal carbon footprint. frankly, it’s too bad we did not get the musk installation…
I can think of one thing that will help, but will not happen. Let the lagoons dry up and turn into meadowland, basically what the east cove is doing right now where there was once 8′ of water, it’s turning itself into a beautiful meadowland with wild flowers and meadow grass starting to grow. The Tahoe Key’s boat owners can make arrangements to dock at the marina area, or anchor off shore and shuttle out to their boats. The invasive non-native fish will die off like the 10lb coy(goldfish), bass, catfish, crape and who knows what else is living in that murky filthy water that’s supporting the lake weed and algae.
The thing I noticed the most in the mutated development, besides the in-breaded ducks, are the lack of frogs, yes frogs. The presents of frogs suggests a very strong eco system, thus I have seen none, another eye opener of things to come. It would not cost a cent to let the lagoons go dry which they probably will anyway. Sorry to say close off the west keys lake access.
Keep the marina water very clean and practice good water hygiene practice and watch your sewage and gasoline spills that should never,ever happen again. Then watch mother nature improve the clarity of the lake.
Yes this will cost some doe, folks what is the lake worth to you? I believe the time has come to sacrifice some luxury over a death of a clear water lake known as Lake Tahoe.
OK bring it on, let’s hope it rains good and long today, oh, and no wildfires.
Thank you
fromform , Solar panels set up in open areas would be a big help. As far as the keys? I’m afraid we got stuck with what we got. A loss of Tahoe’s biggest filtration natural marsh area, only to be replaced by a huge ecological disaster.
Spreading milfoil all around So. Shore and into Emerald Bay, fertilizers from lawns in the keys, and raw sewage leaking into the lake from the “fresh” ketch restaurant.
I say boycott The keys marina. If you have a home out there and want to live on a dredged out marshland filled with landfill with rustting bulkheads holding up the soil, that’s fine.
Take Care, OLS
local2. I agree with your comment about the keys.
Let them dry up thru a naturual process and gradually returning it into its original condition.
A marsh! Full of wildlife and filtering the runoff snow from the snowpacked mountains that ran off into the lake!
Would’nt that be cool! A marsh at the end of the creeks and rivers filtering the that leed into the lake. Just like it used to be.
That would be great!!! OLS
Let’s start with Sierra Tract instead, let it dry up and return to granite and soil, get rid of all that smelly foul street and yard runoff, fertilizer, noise, trash and debris from the renters, return it to nature. Start with OLS street. All talk, no action.
OLS I read a post by you talking about how you had a boat in the Keys for years, don’t play both sides.
Yes I did rent a dock in the keys.It became so expensive and the water level so low, that old boat now it’s sitting on a trailer.
As far as tearing up the street I live on and return it to nature? That’s been talked about ever since the TRPA was formed. I worked with a guy named Gabby who was going to start work with TRPA after his season of working at Heavenly Valley ended.told me of the demise of several neighborhoods were planned. So maybe everything you wished for, me losing everything I’ve ever worked for will come true. Much happiness, OLS
OLS always plays both sides of any issue. I can’t tell if he’s wishy-washy or he hasn’t been taking his old man meds.
I’m just expressing my thoughts and ideas. I try not to be insulting or confrontatinal with my commets. I know some here on LTN ,that some like to tear others down for what they write about. They’re just expressing themselves and putting it in the paper.
It’s okay to change positions on a topc. Sometimes you find yourself on the wrongside of an issue and you change horses in midstream.Sometimes you dig in your heals and stick your ground …only to regret it later.
Maybe you were right, maybe you were wrong.
Sorry if I offended anyone for speaking my mind. OLS
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OLS, you’re being trolled! Ignore these punks. They are just being jerks! Your input on this site is appreciated!
Yes I concur, their punks, Sierra Track is a forest between two meadows, no harm no fowl, I suspect your in the key’s, wait for the next big earthquake to come along, watch whats going to happen to the key’s, your house foundation is only sitting on back filled sand and dirt, enjoy the ride!
1. The keys were a monumental mistake.
2. That development is never going away.
3. Move on.
There were many who supported the Keys development. Sadly the chamber of commerce was a supporter. Looking back it was a mistake.