‘I was blown away’: divers haul 200lb of trash from Lake Tahoe in a day
by Associated Press from on (#5HVCW)
Scuba team launches six-month effort that has already turned up fishing rods, tires and cans
Scuba divers removed about 200lb of garbage from California's Lake Tahoe on Friday, as part of a six-month effort to rid the popular lake of fishing rods, tires, aluminum cans, beer bottles and other trash accumulating underwater.
The team plans to look for trash along the entire 72 miles (115 km) of shoreline in an endeavor that could be the largest trash cleanup in the lake's history, said Colin West, a diver and film-maker who founded Clean Up the Lake, the non-profit spearheading the project.
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