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Blackwood Creek, which carries large amounts of sediment into Lake Tahoe, flows under a concrete bridge built during an earlier phase of restoration work on Blackwood Canyon.
WEST SHORE - A rugged canyon that funnels up to the skyscraping crags of Barker Pass and Twin Peaks has become one of Lake Tahoe's biggest water clarity problems.
But an enormous federal restoration effort seeks to repair the troubled watershed of Blackwood Canyon.
Blackwood Creek, the lifeblood to the 11.2-square-mile watershed three miles south of Tahoe City, deposits the most sediment, for a creek of its size, in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The sediment can contain unwanted nitrogen and phosphorus, according to the Truckee River Watershed Council's Lisa Wallace.
"These nutrients feed lake algae, and diminish lake clarity," said Rex Norman, spokesman for the Tahoe arm of the U.S. Forest Service, in a press release.
But an enormous federal restoration effort seeks to repair the troubled watershed of Blackwood Canyon.
Blackwood Creek, the lifeblood to the 11.2-square-mile watershed three miles south of Tahoe City, deposits the most sediment, for a creek of its size, in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The sediment can contain unwanted nitrogen and phosphorus, according to the Truckee River Watershed Council's Lisa Wallace.
"These nutrients feed lake algae, and diminish lake clarity," said Rex Norman, spokesman for the Tahoe arm of the U.S. Forest Service, in a press release.
