Small diesel leak in the Tahoe Keys cleaned up; cause unknown

There has been another spill in the Tahoe Keys, this time a small diesel fuel spill in the Spinnaker Cove area between White Sands and the beach.

On Wednesday, May 25, the spill was reported at about 4:00 p.m. to the California Office of Emergency Services by the Tahoe Keys Property Owners Association (TKPOA). Employees from TKPOA immediately placed booms in the water to keep the fuel from spreading.

Clean Harbor arrived on Thursday to lay out more booms and absorbent pads on the fuel and were able to pull them out on Friday.

Nobody has claimed responsibility. In a Tahoe Keys newsletter, the announced "that some idiot drove thru the boom closest to the channel entrance spreading the slick further."

The spill was estimated to be about four gallons.

An investigation is still continuing into the April spill in the Tahoe Keys Marina that was an estimated 30 gallons of oil.