For the Great Salt Lake to survive, Utah leaders must stop water diversion and enforce tougher restrictions. A recent report predicted it will completely dry in five years.
The Great Salt Lake is roughly 8-9 feet lower than it should be. A snowy winter recently has helped lake levels some.The Great Salt Lake is roughly 8-9 feet lower than it should be. A snowy winter recently has helped lake levels some.Trekking along the shoreline of the Great Salt Lake — the largest remaining saltwater lake in the western hemisphere — can feel eerie and lonely.
Lucky? Maybe one small bright spot in an otherwise grim story of a looming ecological disaster. The lake doesn't really stink anymore because it's drying ... and dying. Once a week they hike out to try to collect brine fly larva samples, with the idea that they could keep some alive in their lab back in the city should more water re-enter the lake in the near future.
"If the lake bed dries up, and we're having winds blowing dust storms into our neighborhood, the heavy metals are going to land right on top of this neighborhood," says Turner Bitton, a community activist in Glendale, a traditionally working class neighborhood in Salt Lake City's west valley. The majority of Utah's 3.3 million population lives near the lake, just to the east along the Wasatch Mountains. The lake is about nine feet lower than normal. And locals are already complaining of dust storms. Moench counted more than a dozen in the past year - when a decade ago there were none.
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