(Salt Lake City, UT) — The state Senate committee is giving its approval to the man selected to be the first Great Salt Lake commissioner. Brian Steed was confirmed by the Senate Natural Resources Committee yesterday. Steed will be in charge of implementing policies designed to put water back into […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The U.S. Senate passed a bill yesterday in hopes of saving the Great Salt Lake. The Great Salt Lake Act asks the federal government for ten-million-dollars to study the current historic drought conditions to find solutions to the shrinking lake and others in the Great […]
(Washington, DC) — Utah’s congressional delegation introduced legislation that could pipe more water into the Great Salt Lake. Republican Senator Mitt Romney and Congressmen Chris Stewart and Burgess Owens are pushing the Great Salt Lake Recovery Act. The bill would direct the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to monitor and […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox says pumping more water into the Great Salt Lake will not have an impact on efforts to address decreasing water levels on Lake Powell in southern Utah. Governor Cox says the watersheds are different and adds the effort in the south needs […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson is beginning an effort to help secure more water for the Great Salt Lake. Wilson introduced House Bill 410 yesterday. In addition to trying to secure more water rights, the 40-million dollars set aside in the bill would go toward […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah lawmakers are going to get a birds-eye view of the damage the drought has done to the Great Salt Lake. Beginning today, the Utah Air National Guard will be taking lawmakers on a flyover of the lake using Blackhawk helicopters. State Representative Doug Owens […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 includes 45-million dollars to help preserve and protect the Great Sale Lake. It’s part of his 25-billion-dollar state budget that also features a half-billion in water conservation measures and a 160-million-dollar grocery tax credit. At a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The water levels at the Great Salt Lake have hit a historic low, a grim milestone for the largest natural lake west of the Mississippi River. On Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey announced average daily water levels had dropped about an inch below the previous […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Tiny shrimp eggs have been showing in such huge numbers in Utah’s Great Salt Lake that some parts of the water looked covered with an oil slick. Cold weather in fall or winter causes the lake’s small brine shrimp to produce the eggs, or cysts. […]
HOOPER, Utah (AP) — The Great Salt Lake’s third-largest island, Fremont Island, was once the possible destination for thousands of new homes but will now be preserved in its natural state after being sold to an undisclosed nonprofit group. The Deseret News reports the majority owner had initially contemplated a […]
