Clean Up the Lake
Hundreds of aluminum cans, dozens of sunglasses, several old tires, and many other items are hidden beneath the waves of Lake Tahoe and Donner Lake.
The gems of the Sierra Nevada have long harbored a dirty secret under their pristine waters, but the nonprofit diving crew, Clean Up the Lake, has been steadily working to change that.
After a summer of diving around the shores of Donner Lake, which resulted in more than 5,100 pounds of trash removed from the lake bed, Clean Up the Lake is now taking aim at Lake Tahoe in an unprecedented effort to dive along 72 miles of shoreline.