Best Management Practices (BMPs)

Current TRPA regulations require all homeowners in the Tahoe Basin to retrofit and maintain their properties with Best Management Practices, or BMPs. The deadline to install BMPs in Tahoma is October 15, 2006.

To schedule your BMP property evaluation, please call:
(530) 543-1501 x 113

If you missed the annual General Meeting in August, then you missed our speaker, Eben Swain, from the Tahoe Resouce Conservation District, which is helping property owners with the BMP process. He assured us that the TRPA wants compliance much more than fines, and if you are taking steps towards completing your BMPs, it would be at least several years before TRPA starts assessing any penalties. For example, the area, which includes Meek's Bay, with the first BMP deadline was required to comply by October 2000. They have not been assessed any penalties yet.

If you are just getting started with the BMP process, we have several resources available for you:

NEW! The Tahoe Resource Conversation District website now offers a Self-Evaluation BMP guide to get everyone started who is waiting for their callback and site evaluation. Click here for the BMP Self Evaluation Guide (PDF file).

Here are some websites with more information on BMP's:
http://www.tahoebmp.org/
http://tahoercd.org/BMP_Step1.php

Click here for an article on BMPs published in the Winter 2006 Tahoma Tattler and authored by TCPOA Board Member Tom Smith.

Click here for paving companies near Tahoma.
Click here for BMP specialists for hire.