Pacbell to Remove Toxic Underwater Cable from Lake Tahoe’s Waters 63 Tons of Lead in Long-Abandoned Telecom Lines OAKLAND, CA – AT&T’s PacBell subsidiary will pull eight miles of decrepit telephone cable out of Lake Tahoe, where it has been leaching toxic lead into the lake’s water for decades, under a settlement agreement finalized last week in federal court in Sacramento. Local divers discovered the abandoned cables years ago while removing other trash from the lake bottom, and the non-profit California Sportfishing Protection…