Meeting to address Lake Management Plan

Kootenai Environmental Alliance is hosting the second in a series of Community Conversations at the Coeur d'Alene Public Library at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality and the Coeur d'Alene Tribe.

"As the controversy continues to boil regarding the EPA's plan to clean up the mine wastes in the upper Coeur d'Alene River basin, the contaminate's sediments continue to flow down the river and into Lake Coeur d'Alene every year," according to a press release.

The KEA reports that, "Until the basin gets a lot cleaner than it is now, the only real tool to protect water quality in Lake Coeur d'Alene is by implementing the Coeur d'Alene Lake Management Plan, jointly administered by the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality and the Coeur d'Alene Tribe.

Glen Rothrock with DEQ and Rebecca Stevens withe the Coeur d'Alene Tribe will give an update on the state of the lake, and what is being done to implement the Lake Management Plan.

The public is welcome.