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EPA steps in to extract boat possibly leaking oil in Lake Tahoe Reno-Gazette-Journal 2/25/2021
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A submerged boat that was allegedly leaking oil was extracted Tuesday from Lake Tahoe.
After local and state agencies struggled for a month to locate the owner of a boat submerged off the shore of Lake Tahoe and enough funding to removal the vessel, the Environmental Protection Agency stepped in to remove the boat after someone reported on Facebook that it was leaking oil.
The EPA contracted with High Sierra Marine Inc. for $20,000 to extract the nearly 40-foot cabin cruiser, which sunk about 300 yards offshore from Pope Beach Road in South Lake Tahoe between the Tahoe Keys and Emerald Bay.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.
A crew for a private contractor hired by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency removed an abandoned boat from Lake Tahoe Tuesday that sank off the lake’s south shore in January and was believed to be leaking oil.
The 40-foot (12 meters) recreational vessel was first reported Jan. 15 to have sunk in about 15 feet (4.5 meters) of water about 300 yards (274 meters) offshore from Pope Beach in South Lake Tahoe, the EPA said.
The agency planned to spend about $20,000 on the effort in conjunction with the El Dorado County Sheriff, the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Office of Spill Prevention and Response.