SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.
A crew for a private contractor hired by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency removed an abandoned boat from Lake Tahoe Tuesday that sank off the lake’s south shore in January and was believed to be leaking oil.
The 40-foot (12 meters) recreational vessel was first reported Jan. 15 to have sunk in about 15 feet (4.5 meters) of water about 300 yards (274 meters) offshore from Pope Beach in South Lake Tahoe, the EPA said.
The agency planned to spend about $20,000 on the effort in conjunction with the El Dorado County Sheriff, the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Office of Spill Prevention and Response.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. A private contractor hired by a federal agency removed a partially sunken boat on Tuesday that may have been leaking fluid into Lake Tahoe.
High Sierra Marine personnel on Tuesday morning start the process of removing a partially sunken boat from Lake Tahoe’s South Shore.
Bill Rozak / Tahoe Daily Tribune
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency contracted High Sierra Marine out of Tahoe City to raise a vessel that was first reported sunk in mid-January about 300 yards off the shore of Pope Beach in South Lake Tahoe.
Repeated efforts by multiple agencies to identify and contact the owner of the vessel had been unsuccessful, EPA spokeswoman Margot Perez Sullivan said.
Man Found Dead Last Week On Boat That Caught Fire, Sank Identified
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By Bay City News
A man whose body was found last week on a boat that caught fire and sank at the Bethel Island Marina has been identified by the Contra Costa County coroner s office as 56-year-old Douglas Hiles.
East Contra Costa Fire Protection District crews initially responded around 10 p.m. on Feb. 7 to a report of a boat on fire and arrived to find the vessel in flames that also spread to a dock awning.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze, but learned a man lived on the boat and his vehicle was still parked at the marina. The boat ended up sinking early the next morning, then was raised on Feb. 10 and the man, later identified as Hiles, was found dead on it, county sheriff s officials said.