WHAT: Media are invited to a workshop and shipboard
demonstrations designed to help them understand new key
science tools that will be used to plan the long-term future
of water-quality protection and environmental restoration in
the Tahoe Basin. In particular, we will describe for the
first time a UC Davis Water Clarity Model, which gives
researchers predictions of the effects of pollutant loads on
lake clarity.


Between now and 2007, Tahoe Basin agencies will write an
extraordinary new set of environmental and management plans.
In the largest Tahoe research effort yet ($6 million), 100
additional scientists from many collaborating institutions
will provide information to help policy-makers write those
plans. One essential component of the plans will be the
establishment of a Lake Tahoe Total Maximum Daily Load
(TMDL), which determines how much pollution must be cut to
save the lake.


This workshop will explain the TMDL process and the Clarity
Model, and what scientists will be doing. We'll describe new
studies of water pollutants from sources as diverse as street
runoff, lawn fertilizers, wood stoves, snow melt and even
traffic in the Sacramento Valley and other areas.


WHO:

UC Davis scientists and their research partners in the
Tahoe Basin, including representatives from Tahoe Regional
Planning Agency, Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control
Board, California Air Resources Board, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency and the U.S. Forest Service.


WHEN:

9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, June 14.

Agenda:

9:30a.m. to 11:30 a.m.: Science explanations and Q&A sessions.

11:30 a.m. to noon: Complimentary lunch.

Noon to 1:30 p.m.:

On-the-lake research demonstrations aboard the UC Davis
research vessel John LeConte.


WHERE:

Conference room upstairs at the Tahoe City Marina,
Tahoe City, on the north shore just east of the Y
intersection of California state roads 89 and 28. After you
enter parking area from Highway 28, park at the waterfront
building on the right. Follow "Media Workshop" signs to
conference room.


RSVP REQUESTED:

RSVPs are not required but will help us order
lunch. RSVP to Sylvia Wright, below.


Additional Media Contacts:

Pam Drum, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, (775) 588-4547 ext. 237, pdrum@trpa.org