A plan to dredge Utah’s largest freshwater lake and build islands with the spoils appears officially scrapped. And the controversial company, Lake Restoration Solutions, also appears to be defunct.
Controversial company Lake Restoration Solutions appears to be defunct, and so does their dredging project.A plan to dredge Utah’s largest freshwater lake and build islands with the spoils appears officially scrapped.
The move leaves no viable developer willing to pursue a controversial public-private partnership Utah lawmakers once championed. The dredging idea first became public in 2017 when Lake Restoration Solutions, LLC offered to deepen Utah Lake by 7 feet and build islands with the dredged muck — along with homes for up to 500,000 residents on top of them — in exchange for privatizing 16,000 acres of the lakebed.
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