Here's why the Great Salt Lake's northern arm didn't experience as many gains as its southern arm this year.
CORINNE, Box Elder County — While the Great Salt Lake's blue southern arm remains much higher than it was this time last year, as it neared its new all-time record low set in early November, the same can't be said about its pinkish northern arm.
But as the lake continued to decline as a result of drought and overconsumption, the much saltier northern arm began to spill over into the southern arm last year. This is also the primary reason why the two arms are at completely different water levels right now, Stireman says. The agency helped raise the berm before Utah's record snowpack began to build and then"That had an impact on the water levels of the north arm, but it did help us accomplish our goals of reducing salinity on the south arm," he said, pointing out that it also propelled the southern arm's levels over the spring and early summer.
To that end, Utah officials are equally eager to solve the northern arm's woes as the southern arm, it's just the southern arm has more pressing and immediate consequences.
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