[calcowgirl]

Infrastructure?

  (f) Lake Tahoe water quality improvements. Not less than two
hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) of the funds made available by
this article shall be for projects to meet state obligations under
the Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Plan.

[goldstategop]

In plain English, no dams on the rivers feeding Lake Tahoe - and no water reservoirs to hold the run-off in anticipation of the cruel vagaries of Mother Nature. We're a desert state faced with perpetual water shortages and droughts. So are they actually planning to store water for lean times? No, if what the Lake Tahoe money is any indication, its not going to go to dams or to build water reservoirs. Neither object is even mentioned in the authorizing clause. What was that again about infrastructure? This one is good for a laugh.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[SierraWasp]

This just adds on to the multi-millions currently used to fund Eldorado County's on-going program of Tahoe basin drainage projects to "KEEP TAHOE BLUE." (that's the bumpersnicker) They build settlement basins along the roads, rock line ditches and mucho stuff like that to slow down the erosion into the lake to retain the clarity levels that fluctuate no matter what they do!!!

IMO it's a flat boondawgle that El Dorado County loves as it keeps people on the payroll that they can borrow from for other projects as needed and keeps their little empire at county DOT intact!!!

I told you guys they'd use these bonds for envirowhacko crappola! And what doesn't get squandered on non-science non-sense will be blown on EnvironMental Impact Reports (EIR's) to comply with the CA EnvironMental Quality Act (CEQA) and EnvironMental Impact Statements (EIS's) to comply with the National EnvironMental Protection Act (NEPA) and to pay for EnvironMental Attorney's FEEs for their pissant lawsuits, whether they win, lose, or draw... or for EnvironMental Consulting Firms that have sweetheart non-bid contracts with cities, counties or special districts!!!

It's just gonna squander the whole bogus wad of bizzare bondage!!! BOHICA!!!

Oh! By the way... the clarity of Lake Tahoe is damaged far more from the high protein of pine tree pollen washing down into the lake from both the impervious surfaces of parking lots AND saturated undeveloped slopes.

And one other thing about erosion... How do you think all the buildable land in the Tahoe Basin go to be there in the first place... Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm???