A Utah legislative commission voted to study the possibility of building a pipeline from the Pacific Ocean to the drying lake.
ndustries around the lake, like shrimp farming and mineral extraction, rake in some $1.3 billion each year, while lake tourism is also. A larger area of dry lakebed could also be bad news for air quality when dust is stirred up.
The Lake’s plummeting levels seem to have sounded serious alarm bells in the Legislature. “We’re dead serious about this,” Commission co-chair Rep. Joel Ferry Fox 13 reporter Ben Winslow when asked if the commission was serious about studying a pipeline. “I mean, Ben, desperate times call for desperate measures and all options are on the table.”wo experts I called—neither of whom had heard of the idea of a lake-to-ocean pipeline until I reached out—seemed to agree that the situation was dire enough to warrant at least exploring the possibility.
“I’m not the least bit surprised to hear about a proposal like that,” said Jim Steenburgh, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Utah. Steenburgh emphasized that he’s not a hydrologist, so can’t comment on the efficacy or possible mechanics of the plan, but he did paint a pretty dire picture for the lake’s future.“We’re just getting started” with seeing the impacts of climate change and drought on the lake, Steenburgh said. “We have to have a solution where more water goes to the Great Salt Lake, either through natural stream flow or, you know, now we’re hearing about this pipeline proposal.
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