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Volunteer Jasper Wilson takes trash from volunteer divers while Jacob Powlison looks on. Powilson owns Jake’s Scuba Adventures, a dive shop in Coeur d'Alene, which sponsored the event. The shop is also part of Project AWARE, a nonprofit organization that works with volunteer scuba divers, and has been doing cleanups like this one for 11 years. HANNAH NEFF/Press

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Keeping our lake beautiful
December 9, 2021 1:09 a.m.

Keeping our lake beautiful

Teams pull over 2.5K pounds of trash out of Lake Cd’A

2,640 pounds of trash. Around 100 tires, sheet metal, signs, alcohol containers and more. The over 2.5K lbs. of trash extracted didn’t even make a dent in the garbage in Lake Coeur d’Alene, Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant Ryan Miller said.