Update on Tahoe EPDM Use

Early in July, a team of University of California, Davis, scientists rolled out a series of 100-foot by 10-foot rubber mats and spread them over a half acre of the bottom of Lake Tahoe in the vicinity of Round Hill Pines Beach and Marina, where Asian clam populations have grown in recent years. The barriers are a 45-millimeter thick pond liner that deprive organisms of oxygen. Allen was on the principal dive team responsible for rolling out the barriers. “It definitely wasn’t easy,” Tahoe biologist Brant Allen said. “I was pretty tired at the end of the day, but the UC Davis engineering team did a great job of making our job as easy as possible.”