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Stormwater Management
Basin Topics > Water Quality > Stormwater Management
Stormwater Management
Lake Tahoe is famous for the clarity and cobalt blue color of its waters. This renown clarity is being threatened by the pollutants carried into the lake by stormwater runoff.
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- City and County Roads
- City and County roads convey polluted runoff into Lake Tahoe causing water quality impacts. Focus of this priority is on reducing both the volume of water running off these areas, and the amount of fine sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus discharging to Lake Tahoe.
- State Highways
- There are more than one hundred highway miles surrounding Lake Tahoe. Stormwater runoff from state highways is also a major contributor to Lake Tahoe's clarity decline, similar to the city and county roads. Focus here, is again, on reducing both the volume of water running off state highways, and the amount of fine sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus in Lake Tahoe that originates from highways.
- Forest Roads
- The Forest Road network at Lake Tahoe provides important Forest management and recreational access to National Forest System Lands. Many of these roads are not paved and contribute runoff, sediment, and other pollutants to Lake Tahoe and its tributaries. The focus here is on retrofitting and/or removing certain roads to reduce strormwater runoff and associated water quality impacts.
- Public and Private Facilities
- A variety of development consisting of residential, commercial, industrial, and public service land uses exist throughout the Tahoe Basin. These developed lands contribute to stormwater runoff that conveys sediments and nutrients onto public roads and ultimately Lake Tahoe. The focus here is retrofitting developed public and private parcels with erosion control measures that eliminate runoff.
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