The Great Salt Lake is already the highest it's been in four years and could rise by 0.4 to 1.5 feet between April and July.
Stansbury Island during a flyover of the Great Salt Lake with EcoFlight on Tuesday, April 9, 2024.The Natural Resources Conservation Service now estimates that the lake, which is already the highest it has been in four years, could gain anywhere from 600,000 to 1.42 million acre-feet of water between April and July, raising the lake’s water levels by 0.4 to 1.5 feet.
Agency officials previously wrote that the lake could gain another 1.2 feet by the end of the snowpack collection following a strong end to the meteorological winter. What helps is that last month was Utah’s 23rd-wettest March since 1895. The snowpack that feeds water within the Great Salt Lake basin rose by another 5 inches of snow-water equivalent in March, forcing the Conservation Service to adjust its lake outlook. The region’s snowpack collection reached 23.2 inches on April 1, 3.6 inches above the region’s season median.
Should the lake gain 1.5 feet over the next few months, the lake’s southern arm could reach 4,196 feet elevation for the first time since 2017. That would leave it 2 feet below its minimum healthy level before the lake is expected to drop off again during the summer.
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