Boat inspection stations opening at Lake Tahoe
Roadside stations for inspections and decontamination of motorized boats and watercraft are opening in Lake Tahoe.
Locations, hours of operation and opening dates are:
Now open —
8:30am-5:30pm, seven days a week
Meyers: at the junction of highways 50 and 89
Spooner Summit: at the junction of highways 50 and 28
Alpine Meadows: Highway 89, off Alpine Meadows Road north of Tahoe City
Opening May 22 —
8:30am-5:30pm, Thursday-Sunday
Northstar: Highway 267, at Northstar Drive south of Truckee
All motorized boats and watercraft require inspection for aquatic invasive species prior to launching into Lake Tahoe. Invasive species, such as Quagga mussels, New Zealand mudsnails or hydrilla, are known to multiply quickly and colonize underwater surfaces, including docks and piers, water supply and filtration systems, buoys, moored boats and even the beautiful rocky shoreline.
For more info, call 888.824.6267.
Another year of inspections held no where close to the marinas. So if a tourist spending money in Tahoe waits an hour to launch their boat is rejected at the Marina, their boat day is ruined as now they have to drive all the way to an Inspection, wait in line, drive back to the marina, wait in line again, or, leave with a bad taste of Tahoe. I get the inspection. I don;t get the process!
I totally agree. The inspections should go all the way to dark. Plenty of boats coming over the pass as people leave Sac or the Bay area after work.
However, in the back rooms of TRPA, my guess is they really, really want to reduce boats on Tahoe, and this obviously has that potential.
Aside from the time involved, the outright expense just to get a boat to tahoe, and into the water is large and will cause many to go somewhere else, or leave the boat at home. Consider the fuel burned just tramming your boat around for the inspection, launch, parking and retrieving, you would think TRPA would be more active in reducing vehicle miles by more hours available at inspection stations.
People. Do you want more invasives in Lake Tahoe or upset tourists?
I don’t want any more invasive species entering Lake Tahoe to further destroy it in a similar or worse manner than the milfoil has already done. Boat inspections to prevent the entry of Quagga and zebra mussels have been going on for at least two years so anyone having a boat should know by this time that an inspection must be performed and that those take time. People owning boats should schedule their time accordingly and demonstrate that they care about the Lake. If not then stay home or take your uninspected boat elsewhere for who knows what type of infestation.
Catering to people who only care about their own needs becomes very tiresome.