Flood mitigation and preserving the Great Salt Lake are at the top of mind for many in the state, but fortunately, one is greatly helping the other. (story via Fox13)
The Weber Basin Water Conservancy District is sending millions of gallons from Willard Bay into the Great Salt Lake.Flood mitigation and preserving the Great Salt Lake are at the top of mind for many in the state, but fortunately, one is greatly helping the other.
“It’s dumping about 650 million gallons per day and that’s significant. Right now we’re delivering the entire Ogden and Weber River, which is 3.3 billion gallons per day,” he added. “I don’t know how many swimming pools that is, but I think that’s about 21,000.”“It helps freshen that water and provides the kind of environment where vegetation can thrive, and we have the vertebrates these species need,” said Marcelle Shoop, director of the National Audubon Society’s Saline Lakes Program.
“Infrastructure that was built in the ‘60s is allowing us to still get that water directly into the Great Salt Lake,” helping to reduce flooding in Western Weber County, he said. “We can’t create any more water. What we can do is conserve, and the infrastructure to conserve water,” Schultz said.
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