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EIP 1997-2006
1997-2006 Environmental Improvement Program: Projects Overview
The Environmental Improvement Program is a strategy to achieve the environmental goals for the Lake Tahoe Basin by healing past environmental damage, one project at a time. More than 50 public and private organizations joined together nearly 10 years ago to restore and protect Lake Tahoe. Partners preserving Lake Tahoe:
- The federal government
- The states of California and Nevada
- Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
- Local governments and special districts within the Tahoe Basin
- The private sector & the Lake Tahoe community at large
The EIP established a culture of cooperation and mutual support essential to streamlining implementation of environmental restoration initiatives. While progress over the last 10 years has been significant, recent science shows more must be done to stop environmental degradation and to reach ecosystem restoration goals.
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Establishing Thresholds
In 1982, TRPA, in cooperation with the States of California and Nevada, federal government representatives, the scientific community and local stakeholders, established threshold standards for nine categories of values identified for the Lake Tahoe Region considered unique to this resource and desirable to sustain. These environmental threshold carrying capacities are defined as environmental standards necessary to maintain significant scenic, recreational, educational, scientific, or natural values of the Region or to maintain public health and safety within the Region. The threshold categories appear in the menu to the right.
In this area on TIIMS you can search and learn more about Environmental Improvement Program projects. Follow this link to get more history and background about the Environmental Improvement Program.
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