S. Tahoe hotel fined for pool water discharge
Lake Tahoe Vacation Resort in South Lake Tahoe has been fined $10,000 by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency for illegally discharging pool water earlier this year.
The Governing Board on Oct. 22 approved the agreement.
The staff report says, “… Diamond Resorts staff emptied a portion of the pool water by draining it onto an area of the Diamond Resorts property, instead of the preferred method for pools on commercial properties of draining into the sanitary sewer. The pool water overflowed the area of the Diamond Resorts property and flowed into the neighboring stream environment zone property, causing a slight sediment discharge as well as the possibility of polluting the ground water with treated pool water. In addition to the unauthorized discharge, the pool draining was done without the installation of any temporary BMPs.”
The Ski Run Boulevard hotel has since revised its policy regarding draining the pool.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
I may be wrong but I remember that the tahoe keys marina that spilled raw sewage into lake tahoe got a fine of ” 0 ” for their problem. I also recall that there was nothing posted by the TRPA in regards to the spillage at the keys marina. Hummmm, something about this stinks (pun intended).
As usual we are doing what we can to piss off the big corporations because they are easy money. While criminals at the keys marina destroy our economy and environment without any ramafacations
What no public hanging? Boy did they get off easy?