Court orders removal of 75 tons of abandoned phone cable from Lake Tahoe
Eight miles of abandoned telephone cable laid off the West Shore of Lake Tahoe were ordered removed under a settlement, according to a federal court decree. Pac Bell stopped using the cables in the 1980s. In a suit filed by California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, the cables are leaching lead into the lake. Besides concerns over the lead in fish, the lake is a source of drinking water for residents living along its shores.