Plan proposes first ever use of herbicides in Lake Tahoe
In the Tahoe Keys—a neighborhood of houses and artificial lagoons with easy boat access to Lake Tahoe, one of America’s least polluted lakes—the water is not blue but a murky mass of green, filled with invasive weeds. Dogs have died from swimming in the canals, which is prone to toxic algae blooms. Activists want to wall the Keys off from the lake. The neighborhood association is proposing to tackle the problem with herbicides, which have never been used before in Lake Tahoe.