In The News – Cornerstone Lake Tahoe clarity program shields iconic lake from record amount of runoff
August 7, 2026 | Member Submitted
Originally published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, 8/7/2026, Staff Report
Protecting Lake Tahoe’s iconic water quality, a joint California-Nevada effort, prevented a record quantity of fine-grained sediment and other pollutants from reaching the lake’s dazzling blue waters in 2025, according to an annual performance report released today.
By restoring wetlands and streams, limiting dust from roads and construction sites, and improving stormwater systems and other anti-pollution actions, partners in the Lake Tahoe Total Maximum Daily Load Program (TMDL program) kept an estimated 736,600 pounds of sediment known to harm clarity and water quality out of the lake.