TIIMS Partners are numerous Federal, State, tribal, and local agencies within the Lake Tahoe Basin are involved in a myriad of planning and restoration efforts throughout the watershed ranging from permitting to regulatory enforcement to maintaining and improving the quality of surface and groundwater resources.

Each entity collects, analyzes and disseminates environmental data to meet their agency´s or organization´s specific goals. Frequently, these goals overlap and one agency can benefit from the efforts of another agency. That is, instead of re-sampling, an agency can use the monitoring data of another agency.