[Greenmom]

Whenever on the road you see a number of cars with this particular sticker - Keep Tahoe Blue - and for the most part you see this sticker on SUV's. Why? What are these people trying to do, it is not even funny. Is it like a patch on ones conciseness? Enlighten me, I do not get it.

[horselover]

I'm assuming they relate to the lake. No idea why they would just be on SUV's, but maybe it's a conspiracy.

[Raptor235]

maybe they're trying to save the lake somehow? any city news saying anything about it?

[Pauline]

They have a website, Keep Tahoe Blue but why the stickers would be on SUVs is beyond me... maybe some vigilantes are putting them there when the owners aren't looking?

[Greenmom]

People choose a cause - let's say they like the lake and they want to save it but they choose not to evaluate or think about their own actions. They want to keep their little corner nice and green while trashing/polluting etc. in some other corner. Maybe they do not see it that way, but everything is related

[horselover]

Originally Posted by Pauline

They have a website, Keep Tahoe Blue but why the stickers would be on SUVs is beyond me... maybe some vigilantes are putting them there when the owners aren't looking?

I'm sure the owneers would see the stickers at some point and remove them if they didn't want them there. I wonder if there would be a way to ask someone about that.

[enviropro]

This is particularly funny to me, especially as these same vehicles are towing their boats and jet skis up to Tahoe! I've seen some of these vehicles with Bush/Cheney stickers. Preposterous!!

Cheers!

[horselover]

Crazy and sad at the same time.

[fleabitn]

it looks to me like the usual sort of fundraising, give us $20, get a sticker.

[Nate Martin]

The answer is very simple. Tahoe, both north and south shore, is experiencing a large influx of people resulting in a lot of new development around the lake. This new development results in increased amounts of impervious surface, which concentrates and redirects stormwater flows. As a result, during the stormseason, the more development is also equal to larger flows traveling into various drainage culverts. These larger flow also transport more sediment into Lake Tahoe.

Lake Tahoe has a crazy long hydraulic retention time, ie., approximately 700-year hydraulic retention time (Goldman et al., p. .  312, 1989).

If you don't know what a retention time is, it is basically the amount of time a waterbody retains physical things such as sediment, or even chemicals such as major inorganics.

In a nutshell, the more development that occurs, results in more sediment transport due to more impervious surface which results in decreasing the visibility of Lake Tahoe among many other water quality impacts such as nutrient issues.

This is why the "Keep Tahoe Blue" sticker exists. Why is it hypocritical to have so many SUVs that have the sticker? Well, simply put, it's Tahoe, and 4X4s are a necessity.


~N