Monday April 14, 2025
FOX 11 —
A project that would restore critical marshland in South Lake Tahoe is moving forward after acquiring the necessary funding this week.
What is currently the closed Motel 6 property in South Lake Tahoe will in just a few years become acres of marshland to help feed into Lake Tahoe and keep the water there pure and filtered.
The California Tahoe Conservancy’s Upper Truckee Marsh South Project is one step closer to getting underway thanks to the Tahoe Fund reaching its fundraising goal of $200,000 to go toward the Motel 6 demolition, where the 31-acre wetland will ultimately be restored.
“What’s happened here is the motel and the parking lot have been built on about 8 to 10 feet of fill of what used to be the meadow and marsh, and over time, because of development and just natural processes, the river has down cut and become separated from the rest of the meadow and the marsh and the flood plain,” Executive Director of the California Tahoe Conservancy Jason Vasques said.