Deep Debate | Poisons tested at Lake Tahoe

[@sstrange1973]

Why this Lake wasn't protected and turned into a National Park in the early 1900s is just a blemish in our history as a country. Several presidents at that time saw the need to preserve - but Tahoe should have been at the top of their list.

[@Mrbfgray]

National parks ruin the places with excessive traffic and development too. Wilderness designation, keeping out all mechanization including such as bicycles is far more effective, much of the Sierras is so designated, you have to hike for days to get to the best places and it's that great filter, the lack of easy access that's the key. Tahoe hasn't been anywhere near as pristine as the backcountry since the first road to it.

[@ShuKatashSam]

Tahoe Keys is what caused the degradation(An ecological disaster) and also allowed a great place for invasive species like the weeds. Everyone knows it. Wall it off from the lake. Boats with oil leak into the water, you can see the weeds follow the boat routes. The old marsh where Tahoe Keys is today, filtered the water. There are no two sides to this. Tahoe Keys and the HOA are the issue.

[@tahoetom9932]

I guess just tear down the 1200 million dollar homes in the keys. And let it go back to a swamp.

[@Garbagejuicewaterfall]

1200 million? That’s like $70

[@seeharvester]

Excellent idea, but I fear it's too late for the lake.

[@MrMountain707]

Go back to school@@Garbagejuicewaterfall

[@davidpak271]

Seems to me like the biggest weed are the humans living there

[@LydiaSings]

Too bad Lake Tahoe was not preserved as a National Park.😥

[@carolynw-z2o]

I don't understand the claim about property rights? The owners own the land not the lake water ? The Keys is ground zero for spreading noxious weeds throughout Lake Tahoe

[@MarioCañez-v1t]

Too many houses surrounded the lake,,now its way too lake to fix the problem,,its always about money,,greedy people

[@Itsmedicinal]

$2 billion dollars worth of real estate but them private roads look like trash😂

[@boblatkey7160]

50 year old EPA approved herbicides. OK now I feel much much better! 😂

[@joannepackus5736]

Those herbicides are slowly killing us all. EPA approved means nothing! They can be bought!!!

[@nightowl6260]

Has the overdevelopment also brought in excessive septic systems that "fertilize" the plant growth? We have seen this in lakes in Michigan. Massive plant overgrowth after the lake is overdeveloped by vacation homes.

[@FreedomAtRisk]

Tahoe Keys realtors be like 🙈

[@Foodmeow]

Tahoe keys should be held accountable and solve it now.

[@irvinholbrook2012]

Sad,saw the lake before all the developers ruined it.

[@Mrbfgray]

No development is possible without individual home owners demand.

[@mikejones8866]

This scenario can be summed up in 3 words *Short Sighted GREED.*

[@outdoorsantman]

As a local fisherman here in south lake I cannot tell you how great this is for us. Way to put the keys on blast. Unfortunately hasn’t been easy to get anything by them as they run as an HOA. I’ve caught 8 pound large mouth bass in the keys it’s a breeding ground for ALL warm water inland species. WALLING IT OFF IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF OUR GENERATION FOR THE FUTURE OF THE LAKE. Exponential damage. Getting worse by the day

[@meep2253]

HOAs are terrible down in Southern California canyon lake is completely closed off by a gated community and they won’t even let you on the shore to clean up the trash left further downstream by the property owners

[@Daniel-ey2gf]

Realtors and developers control too much power in this country and nature is suffering everywhere, as a result. The Lake Tahoe I knew from 30 years ago is already gone and will never come back. Allowing noisy, reveling visitors to come by the millions and use this place without paying anything, encourages destructive behavior and leaves local communities burdened with the bill to repair and clean up after them. These visitors leave mountains of trash, fill the air and water with vehicle and boat emissions, trample forests and meadows, and choke the basin with traffic. Those who say humanity has no impact on the planet are complete morons.

[@DemPilafian]

I don't trust either side. The property owners cannot be trusted to act in the Lake's best interest (as made VERY CLEAR when the property owner with the L.L.Bean _"Keep Tahoe Blue"_ jacket emphasized his "property rights" as if his property extended out into the Lake). The Sierra Club has their heart in the right place, but they get *irrationally emotional about everything.* They oppose green sustainable high-density development because they are anti-everything. Ugh.

[@harleyv1969]

Please don't poison the lake

[@MarioCañez-v1t]

Yeah,,move all does houses away from the lake,,that ain't gonna happen,,sick people in power

[@UncleT0ny]

close off tahoe keys, they can have their own little lake

[@GhostScout42]

ABC10 is fantastic. i think the best thing to do is to emminent domain the place, and any other destroyed wetlands. the rich are much more hardy than our ecology. more people rely on tahoe than a few thousand families. dont build a house in a wetland. dont build a house in a lake bed. it shouldnt be our problem that they will be put into a harder position.

[@erinmcdonald7781]

Well said! IMHO the rights of landowners ends when their actions impact the greater good/health of the environment. The original development shouldn't have been allowed. These folks boats from outside shouldn't have been allowed, and the invasive species, goldfish, large mouth bass, need to be fished out as much as possible. I had no idea this disaster was unfolding in our pristine lake.💔

[@caddy1001]

Tell Mark Zuckerberg that the Gov is taking his property...that is rich lol.

[@GhostScout42]

@@caddy1001 mark z can get the wall for his contributuion to society

[@ytstsysjs]

Please don't poison the lake

[@SaraJean85]

Property rights OVER nature's ORIGINAL ones? Seriously? .....who had the power to take those rights away. Who's the representative and how did they address the check when that land was owned by natives and mother earth?? Just cus its land and lake there doesn't mean it's unclaimed land to buy and destroy... it should b walled off while any cleaning or whatever is done cus they messed up so bad that something needs to b done it finished-but why risk the whole huge area connected to the lake far far away??

[@Xfishf00D]

It wouldn't be the 1st time I've seen homeowners destroy a lake Because they don't want aquatic vegetation around their property.. aquatic vegetation like millfoil won't hurt the lake at all it's the people that ruin everything

[@DemPilafian]

In general, your statement is correct. However, this particular aquatic vegetation in Lake Tahoe is very damaging and needs to be destroyed somehow.

[@mitchkorcyl5398]

You do great work on these topics.

[@brandonrittiman4026]

Thanks much!

[@AshGreen359]

Perhaps build a new marsh further upstream, above the housing development?

[@calilife805]

So the people living in the bay that caused the disaster are crying about it the most ? Hmmm

[@travisk5589]

Maybe they should have never let vail in to tahoe

[@serajane7]

Lake Taco

[@russellzauner]

We've killed lakes before but you really can't just keep it up as well as increasing the rate and expect them to keep recovering in time for us to continue to survive as a species.

[@tammipineda4121]

This makes me sad

[@danielsandborn8247]

What inflammatory clickbait! I suggest the producers take the time to speak to environmental toxicologists before putting out such media lacking in scientific context.

[@barbarashults1713]

Hell No!! If a Homeowners Association is allowed to do this what else will they be able to do!! No Chemo. Look for other answers.!!!

[@dawnanewday9671]

The recent Supreme Court decision condemns this lake. Human ignorance is destroying us.

[@mtn1793]

Seems like the invasive milfoil is an immediate threat that should be treated. Would returning marsh land where possible do anything to stop the weeds?

[@ShuKatashSam]

Well, no boats going in/out of the Nursery for invasive species(Tahoe Keys), that would reduce the spread of the weeds/Zebra mussels(Not here yet) Asian Clam etc. Wall it off from the open lake seems wisest.

[@stevebridges2049]

California State Government approved and permitted this debacle decades ago and now bears some responsibility for its poor decision. Regretfully, it is now hiding behind the curtain.

[@BrwnShinobi]

well if it isn't the consequences of their own actions.

[@raywright4799]

Greed. 😢

[@BlazingShackles]

This isnt the biggest ecological disaster in California. Clear Lake was completely overrun by algae a long time ago. The Salton Sea is an even bigger disaster and is getting worse.

[@Jose-np1zq]

So that's what the sticker means

[@rajbanwait325]

NIMBY

[@freeandindependenttorres2233]

Lawsuit

[@ronaldluning4010]

So the trashing of lake tahoe started way before the fourth of july celebration this year!

[@redjetsen1002]

Traditional Muir environmentalists live in the past. The "no touch rule" doesn't mitigate the damage that has been done. Alum seems to work in lakes for this problem.

[@MrMountain707]

Tear down the KEYS!

[@uptone12111]

Turn the waterways in the keys into a nice fingered native plant natural park.Use the money spent to fight the invasive plants to reimburse the Keys homeowners

[@leddygee1896]

Where were the Greenpeace Tree huggers when this development happened? Huh? They Quashed The Auburn Dam Project In the 1970s above Folsom Lake, Now California has record drought because of failed policies from 50 years ago. but no, The Sierra Club stepped in and said, No, No, No...

[@imagelush5146]

you are no supposed cut weeds, you pull them out to stop them... IQ much?

[@phil8102]

Thé main solution is to built a sewage pipe and pump all the wastewater up to a treatment plant and treat all pollutant mainly phosphorus . They did this in France at lac d’Annecy . Never used pesticides ! Completely crazy

[@jillm4406]

Close the exit to the lake. You'll be living on a marsh. A very fail. Sorry for your loss.

[@islandbirdw]

Inevitable

[@DR_SOLO]

With so many computer simulations and tests that we trained Personnel military, or whether for the government or private sector whether it's for commercial aircraft pilots or person aircraft bpilot's we have boating simulation, jet simulation ,even space travel simulation. Why do you need to go to the lake and actually put chemicals in the water when you can do a simulation or you can have a computer programs that can almost without any error produce data that is is closest to the real thing as possible? Scoop some of that water out go put it in the pool somewhere and then you could run your tests. People want to go and terraform Mars but we can't terraform ourself a river science project here on Earth??🙄😒

[@seeharvester]

"They're really not that dangerous." Famous last words.

[@PS-mv7it]

They are going to turn that place I to another Clear Lake messing around like that....

[@thuggoe]

i would have the development destroyed

[@TerriYoung-n4h]

😢😢😢😢😢❤😢😢😢😢

[@emmanuelvacakis4463]

All chemicals are extremely dangerous

[@DemPilafian]

You are literally made up of chemicals. Biology is just a cycle of chemical reactions.

[@dboyette42]

Corp of engineers did the same thing to the Indian River in Florida. Red Tide

[@Living_Despite]

Humans are the issue. There is no hope for the lake. RIP Lake Tahoe

[@GeorgeGeorge-yb2sz]

A perfect example of "cutting off your nose to spite your face!" It couldn't happen to a more deserving organization than the Sierra Club! Remember, you reap what you sow!