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. Fox13
The Great Salt Lake shows signs of improvement on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, near the outflow of the Weber River where areas that used to be bone-dry just weeks before have been covered with a few inches of water improving bird habitat and reducing dust.
“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.
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