Most of the 1500+ members who own homes, townhouses or vacant lots have a private boat dock and are located on numerous lagoons, canals or the Tahoe Keys Marina with its boat launching ramps.

Constructed in the 1960s, the community consists of over 1,500 homes adjacent to a series of canals.

Its construction destroyed half of the Upper Truckee Marsh, the primary filter for river water entering the lake, and has since been called the most environmentally damaging intrusion on the lakeshore in Lake Tahoe's human history.

[3] The problem is severe enough that the most common control methods have failed.

As a result there has been some controversy about whether to make special allowances for otherwise banned herbicides in Lake Tahoe.