Tahoe Keys Lagoons Long Term Water Quality Improvement Project Planning

The Tahoe Keys POA is planning, addressing technical issues, and engaging stakeholders to identify actions to improve the long-term quality and beneficial uses of waters of the Tahoe Keys Lagoons (i.e., the Marina, West, and Lake Tallac lagoons). Existing condition evaluations are focusing on non-point sources of nutrients. Future evaluations will include: 1) nutrient inputs from upgradient shallow groundwater and surface sources internal to the lagoons, 2) methods to improve the lagoons circulation and reduce algae/HABs, 3) Lake Tallac Lagoon outflow effects on Pope Marsh, 4) lagoons organic sediment nutrient contributions to water quality, and 5) possible mitigations for climate change