Water quality at El Dorado Beach, looking North, 1965

Caption on image: Looking down toward the water, you can see the black sand above the high water line, a little bit of natural colored sand, and out beyond the water's edge the dirt and black sand being deposited on the bottom. Photograph taken May 14, 1965. This image is part of the Lake Tahoe Area Council photograph collection. The Council was a private, non-political and non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and orderly development of the Lake Tahoe Basin. It sought cooperation between private land owners and governmental agencies to solve basin-wide problems of planning, land use, park and recreation development, pollution control and soil conservation. Slide