After historic snowfall over the winter, Utahns are breathing a sigh of relief about the Great Salt Lake. But they'd better not breathe too deeply — it still is blowing an immense amount of dangerous dust pollution along the Wasatch Front.
The lake is at 4,193.4 feet above sea level as of Thursday. That's about five feet higher than when it bottomed out at an all-time low in November. The lake needs to swell another six feet or so, however, before it reaches an elevation that will allow it to rise and fall, as salty terminal lakes do, without posing a threat to industry, wildlife and public health.
"We had dust being kicked up across the Great Salt Lake," Mallia said. "It looked like it was probably Farmington Bay, which would make sense since most of that part of the Great Salt Lake is exposed.""Unfortunately, it's difficult to estimate how much dust was being kicked up," Mallia said. "You'd have to run some type of numerical model. But nonetheless, the air quality looked pretty bad.
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