SaveSereneLakes.org Serene Lakes: The most endangered lakes in the Sierra.
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Save Serene Lakes
Description
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- Save Serene Lakes monitors and provides information about the proposed Royal Gorge LLC (Foster and Syme) development on Donner Summit near California's Lake Tahoe.
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SUMMARY OF THE PROPOSED ROYAL GORGE DEVELOPMENT
An aerial view of the proposed development can be found at [1]
750+ Condominium units and 250+ residential units
-More than twice as many as in Sugar
Bowl, Northstar and Squaw combined!
-More than doubles the residences in
Serene Lakes from 800 to 1800
Ski Lifts, lodge, and 650 units immediately east of the lakes
-More than 40,000 trees removed
-Hillsides stripped for ski runs
-The main Serene Lakes watershed
is paved over
-The lakes are filled by silt from
erosion
-Nights are polluted by noise and lights
from trail grooming operations
Two artificial lakes, a lodge and more housing north-west of the lakes
-Where the current Royal Gorge
Headquarters is on Pahatsi Road
-Granite glacial land is blasted for new
lakes
-Cross country trails are replaced by
roads and buildings
2,375 additional residents
-Estimate provided by the Placer
County Sheriffs Department
-Traffic will more than double,
especially on Soda Springs Road
-No new roads to provide emergency
exits, a real fire hazard
Increases the water demand on Serene Lakes from 115 acre-feet per year (AFY) to 615 or more AFY
-The water level of the lakes will drop
4 to 5 feet every year
-The channel between the lakes will
become impassable
-The shoreline will recede by 20 feet,
and in some places 50 to 100 feet
-The docks, including Ice Lake Lodge's
will be high and dry
-Over 30% of the lakes area will dry up
Requires doubling the capacity of the sewage treatment plant
-More treated sewage water dumped into the South Yuba River -Requires new sewage pumping stations in Serene Lakes -Pumping failures will dump sewage directly into Serene Lakes
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- Alexa: SaveSereneLakes.org
