Palisades Tahoe has reached an agreement with Keep Tahoe Blue and Sierra Watch to settle litigation challenging proposed development in Olympic Valley. The organizations have issued the following shared statement: “Sierra Watch, Keep Tahoe Blue, and Palisades Tahoe negotiated in good faith to find a solution that effectively ends the fourteen-year conflict over Olympic Valley while supporting the social, economic, and environmental needs of Olympic Valley and the Lake Tahoe region.” Placer County will now need to approve the revised blueprint, which would end the conservation groups’ legal challenge to the County’s 2024 approvals. … Key to Keep Tahoe Blue’s mission, the agreement cuts upwards of 38% of daily car trips, many of which would have entered the Tahoe Basin, along with preventing more traffic, air pollution, and water pollution that would have threatened the Lake’s water quality and clarity.

Other ski resort water pollution news:

• Powder magazine: Palisades Tahoe’s 14-year legal battle is over
• SFGate: ‘Finally, somebody listened’: The 14-year battle to save Tahoe’s largest ski resort
• Navajo-Hopi Observer (Williams, Ariz.): Opinion: Snowbowl continues to disregard Indigenous community