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Great Salt Lake water level dipping to lowest mark ever, officials express concern
The ongoing drought isn’t just threatening the green of Utah residents’ lawns.
More significantly, the conditions also figure in the declining water level at the Great Salt Lake, now about as low as it’s ever been since records were kept.
“The new normal is climate change with lower snowpacks,” said Zachary Frankel, executive director of the Utah Rivers Council, a nonprofit group that lobbies for protection of the state’s watersheds.
The upshot of that is less water flowing through the rivers that feed the Great Salt Lake and a dip in the level of the lake this week to below 4,190.8 feet above sea level, he said, the lowest it’s ever been since records started being kept. The prior low was 4,191.35 feet above sea level, registered in 1963. ............(more)
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