Helping make sure the water from this year’s historic snow season can get to the Great Salt Lake and help the ecosystems that depend on it is the goal of a repair project in Ogden Bay.
“If we weren’t doing this project right now, there’s a really chance we would lose this dike, and lose the ability to control all the water at the Ogden Bay waterfowl management area," said Rich Hansen, manager of the area.“That is important to the hundreds of thousands of birds – shorebirds or waterfowls – on both the spring and fall migrations," Hansen explained,"and we also are a very important area for nesting.
The was constructed in the 1930s and has eroded over the decades. Ducks Unlimited stepped in with federal funds to help construction. Hansen says crews will go about 200 yards more and pause the project until July because the spring runoff will make it tricky to work. The water in Ogden Bay comes through an area to feed into the Great Salt Lake. So repairing the dikes and infrastructure helps make it more efficient to convey water and increase the lake levels, especially with seasonal runoffs.
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