{"id":753,"date":"2022-05-21T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=753"},"modified":"2022-05-29T20:06:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:06:33","slug":"clean-up-the-lake-tahoe-cleanup-project-divers-pull-25000-pounds-of-trash-in-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/clean-up-the-lake-tahoe-cleanup-project-divers-pull-25000-pounds-of-trash-in-one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"“Clean Up The Lake” divers pull 12 tons of trash from Lake Tahoe in year-long project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\nDivers pull 25,000 pounds of trash and some oddities from Lake Tahoe<\/a>
\nSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. \u2013 If you dropped your Blackberry while on Lake Tahoe back in 1999, it quite possibly was recovered by an organization taking significant steps to clear some of America\u2019s lakes of trash. Dive teams with Clean Up The Lake embarked on an effort last May to recover submerged litter around all 72 miles of the lake\u2019s shoreline. They collected 24,797 pieces of trash, bringing the total weight removed to 25,281 pounds.

\n\nDespite the winter weather, COVID-19 and wildfire-related challenges, divers were in the water for 12 months to complete the effort. Clean Up The Lake recovered submerged litter around all 72-miles of Lake Tahoe\u2019s shoreline. In total, they collected 24,797 pieces of litter, bringing the total weight removed to 25,281 pounds.

\n\nAside from all the accomplishments, the group has just scratched the surface. This year, they want to expand their mission by performing clean-ups across four lakes. It will include intensive monitoring projects on Lake Tahoe and Donner Lake, a circumnavigated clean-up of Fallen Leaf Lake located within the Tahoe basin, and an expansion to the Mammoth Lakes region for the clean-up of June Lake.

\n\nThey found no trace of a mythical sea monster, no sign of mobsters in concrete shoes or long-lost treasure chests.<\/a> But scuba divers who spent a year cleaning up Lake Tahoe\u2019s entire 72-mile (115-kilometer) shoreline have come away with what they hope will prove much more valuable: tons and tons of trash.

\n\nIn addition to removing 25,000 pounds (11,339 kilograms) of underwater litter since last May, divers and volunteers have been meticulously sorting and logging the types and GPS locations of the waste. The recovered debris mostly has consisted of things like bottles, tires, fishing gear and sunglasses. They\u2019ve also turned up a few \u201cNo Littering\u201d signs, engine blocks, lamp posts, a diamond ring and \u201cthose funny, fake plastic owls that sit on boats to scare off birds,\u201d West said.

\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s shocking to see how much trash has accumulated under what appears to be such a pristine lake,\u201d said Matt Levitt, founder and CEO of Tahoe Blue Vodka, which has contributed $100,000 to the cleanup. His businesses is among many \u2014 including hotels, casinos and ski resorts \u2014 dependent on the 15 million-plus people who visit annually to soak up the view Mark Twain described in \u201cRoughing It\u201d in 1872 as the \u201cfairest picture the whole earth affords.\u201d \u201cOur hope is that it will inspire greater environmental stewardship and remind those who love Lake Tahoe that it\u2019s up to all of us to take care of it,\u201d Tahoe Fund CEO Amy Berry said.

\n\nClean Up The Lake<\/a>
\nOur NPO\u2019s flagship project is the first ever human powered circumnavigation of Lake Tahoe using SCUBA, and projected to be the largest trash-clean up in Lake Tahoe\u2019s history. In 2022 we are expanding to Fallen Leaf Lake and June Lake. We are also going to be checking out hotspots on Lake Tahoe as well as re-diving the 8 miles of Donner lake that we circumnavigated in 2020.

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\n\nImage courtesy Clean Up The Lake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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