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The company must obtain all necessary permits and if permitting requirements push costs above $1.5 million, the sides will need to come together to reassess, and go back to litigating if they can’t then agree, it said. Magistrate Judge Jeremy Peterson signed Nov. But Pac Bell agreed to deposit $1.5 million in an account to guard against overruns, according to the settlement U.S. Initial cost estimates for cable removal range from $275,000 to $550,000. The settlement agreement with the Stockton-based sportfishing alliance states “the parties agree that defendant makes no admission of liability or of any other issue of law … whatsoever regarding the claims made by plaintiff.” “We are disappointed to see the Alliance take such an adversarial posture after we have agreed to work with them to remove these cables.” We have agreed to remove these cables because they are no longer in use, however, we dispute any notion that they were a source of pollution,” AT&T staid in a statement. “We are committed to preserving one of the most scenic freshwater lakes in the Sierra Nevada.
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“All of the cables are damaged and discharging lead into Lake Tahoe,” the lawsuit said.ĪT&T said it hired a firm to collect water samples both close to the cables and far from them, and said the samplings did not detect any release of lead in Lake Tahoe. Lead in both solid and dissolved forms is listed as known to cause cancer and reproductive toxicity, it said. Pac Bell knew the cables they owned and operated contained lead that eventually would leak into the 1,644-foot deep lake, the lawsuit said. In addition to violating state water quality protections, the suit said the more than 3 pounds of lead per foot of cable constitutes solid waste regulated under the U.S. The abandoned cables _ replaced with fiber optic ones in the 1980s – contain more than 65 tons of toxic lead that is polluting the alpine lake on the California-Nevada line, the lawsuit said.