This season’s record snowpack means good news for the Great Salt Lake. It has already risen a few feet, and the runoff has barely just started.
“Definitely a sigh of relief to see more water, and parts that were previously dry are now covered in water, so definitely a happy time,” said Marisa Weinberg, the interim Great Salt Lake coordinator with the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands.
“You go out there now and you see water kind of almost everywhere,” said Timothy Hawkes, a former legislator and general counsel for the Great Salt Lake Brine Shrimp Cooperative. “It’s very thin, but it’s out there. And that’s just really great to see.”“It’s incredible to see water now spilling over the berm and into the north arm, and knowing that we have so much snow that is yet to melt and we’re just going to see it continue to rise,” said Weinberg.
“It was kind of devastating to see so many areas of the lake desiccated,” Katie Newburn with Friends of Great Salt Lake. “Today to see those areas that were all exposed just a few months ago now covered back over with water… that is just so encouraging to see.”
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