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Clean Up the Lake outlines underwater litter removal, finds thousands of pounds at Donner Lake
Summary
Clean Up the Lake described multi-year scuba cleanup work and data showing tens of thousands of pounds of submerged litter removed across Sierra lakes and more than 14,000 pounds recovered from Donner Lake.
Colin West, founder and CEO of Clean Up the Lake, summarized the nonprofit’s dive-based litter-removal work and data from Donner Lake and Lake Tahoe. West said the organization has removed over 82,000 pounds of submerged litter across its projects in about four-and-a-half years and that more than 14,000 pounds of that total came from Donner Lake.
West said Clean Up the Lake has developed a data-driven categorization system for submerged litter and that volunteers and staff have surveyed and cleaned more than 130 miles of subsurface…
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