Homewood is doing some simple, but powerful, things to keep Tahoe blue.

They’ve begun an effort to keep sediment from running right down the hill and into the lake.  If you haven’t been to Homewood, it sits right across the street from Lake Tahoe, so any intense rain washes sediment from the hill down into the water.  It seems they are making a real effort to curb the problem. Kudos!

It also sounds like Homewood has an aggressive growth plan. It’s good to know they have good environmental stewardship at the helm as they push their West Shore boundaries.

From Tahoe Daily Tribune:

By using wood chips from Meeks Bay Fire Protection District’s thinning operations to till into the earth, Hogan said his crew is creating a cheap disposal for the fire hazard reducing process, improving erosion at Homewood and even sinking carbon stores into the soil, a benefit for global warming.

“If we don’t incorporate climate change into every project we are going to miss the boat,” Hogan said.

While the standard anti-erosion technique has been to spray hydromulch — a slurry of seed, hay and mulch — to cover up eroding hillsides, Hogan has taken a variety of tactics, from filling in old, worn-down roads to tilling the earth and mixing in organic material.