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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) A private contractor hired by the Environmental Protection Agency has removed an abandoned boat from Lake Tahoe that sank in January and believed to be leaking oil.The raising of the 40-foot recreational vessel was completed Tuesday afternoon.The EPA says it was first reported Jan. 15 to have sunk in 15 feet of water about 300 yards offshore from South Lake Tahoe's Pope Beach.EPA planned to spend about $20,000 on the effort in conjunction with others, including the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Office of Spill Prevention and Response.Repeated efforts by multiple agencies to identify the boat's owner failed.
Councilman, advocates call for change after latest Chevron refinery spill
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RICHMOND, Calif. - Richmond residents deserve more answers from Chevron and public agencies about an oil spill earlier this month and the community needs to discuss a future without the oil giant s refinery operating there, city officials and local advocates said Tuesday.
The Feb. 9 leak of several hundred gallons at the refinery s long wharf in Richmond caused a sheen of oil that spread from Point Molate to Brooks Island, according to a unified command for the spill that involved Chevron, according to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife s Office of Spill Prevention and Response, Contra Costa Health Services and the U.S. Coast Guard.
EPA steps in to extract boat possibly leaking oil in Lake Tahoe Reno-Gazette-Journal 2/25/2021
Video: Sunken boat pulled out of Lake Tahoe
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A submerged boat that was allegedly leaking oil was extracted Tuesday from Lake Tahoe.
After local and state agencies struggled for a month to locate the owner of a boat submerged off the shore of Lake Tahoe and enough funding to removal the vessel, the Environmental Protection Agency stepped in to remove the boat after someone reported on Facebook that it was leaking oil.
The EPA contracted with High Sierra Marine Inc. for $20,000 to extract the nearly 40-foot cabin cruiser, which sunk about 300 yards offshore from Pope Beach Road in South Lake Tahoe between the Tahoe Keys and Emerald Bay.