Great Salt Lake
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Salt Lake City to bump diciest issues to 2010...future development across a massive swath of the city's northwest corner, extending to the Davis County line and the edge of the Great Salt Lake. "It's pretty substantive," Christensen says. "It will set some pretty significant policy... In this article: Salt Lake City and Revenue |
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The Dallas Morning News | November 18, 2009
High sodium levels found in water sample from Barnett Shale drilling in Flower Mound
...analysis. "Basically, we're talking about salt water," Swan said. One expert agrees, comparing the water to the salinity of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The sample "strikes me as a rather benign oilfield byproduct," wrote Tom Brikowski,...
In this article: Flower Mound, Benzene, Calcium, and Boron
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Deseret News | November 18, 2009
Hike of the week: Frary Peak Trail - Antelope Island State Park, Davis County
At 1.4 miles you leave the switchbacks and the trail turns east across the grassy hillside. When you are able to view the east side of the Great Salt Lake, the trail turns southwest and snakes up to the top ridge before the peak. You reach...
In this article: Antelope Island State Park, E mail, Syracuse, and Utah
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Swan-hunting season under way
...coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources, counted 23,606 swans in marshes along the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake during his latest survey on Nov. 3. Most of the swans Aldrich spotted that day were on Unit 1...
In this article: Utah, E mail, Tundra Swan, and Brigham City
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Miami Herald - Breaking News | November 15, 2009
Frontier refinery plans to fight $6.8M EPA fine
EPA adds US Magnesium to Superfund site list The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added the U.S. Magnesium site near Utah's Great Salt Lake to the federal Superfund list. The EPA's announcement Monday makes the Tooele County...
In this article: EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, Florida, Coal, Toxic waste, Hazardous waste, Pollution, Waste, Uncontrolled waste, and Arsenic
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The Salt Lake Tribune | November 13, 2009
Back on the range: Bighorn sheep get some help to survive on the Stansbury
...officials began a series of transplants that eventually would move 93 Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep from Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake to the Stansbury Mountains in Tooele County. The move was initiated to reduce an ever-growing...
In this article: Bighorn Sheep, Lion, Cougar, Antelope Island, Mule deer, and Utah
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Put water deal on hold
...fragile greasewood shrubs die, thus leading to loose soil and more frequent dust storms? Would pumping allow contaminated water near the Great Salt Lake to spread underground, leaving the soil above contaminated, as well? The only...
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Utah's US Magnesium named a federal toxic emergency cleanup site
...Protracted battle between regulators, company Click photo to enlarge Aerial view of MagCorp magnesium plant on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake, just north of Interstate 80. Utah has a new Superfund toxic cleanup site, the...
In this article: EPA, Utah, Magnesium, Dioxin, Toxic waste, Hazardous waste, Hexachlorobenzene, and Cancer
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US Magnesium put on EPA's Superfund priority list
Designation will help accelerate cleanup at at facility near Great Salt Lake Published: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 12:15 a.m. MST E-mail story It's easy. Send a link to the story you were just reading to a friend. Just fill out the form on...
In this article: EPA, Toxin, Magnesium, Tooele County, E mail, Toxic waste, and Hexachlorobenzene
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Weber professor says the Great Salt Lake could be dying
...it is considered private information; see Privacy policy. Is America's "Dead Sea" - The Great Salt Lake - dying? Although the Great Salt Lake hasn't dried up - yet, a Weber State University geography professor has concluded it is...
In this article: Aral Sea, Geography, E mail, Environmental degradation, and Weber State University
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Scientists find patterns in Utah's wet-dry cycles
...say Pacific Ocean temps echo, years later, across the northern part of the state. Updated: 11/02/2009 12:57:35 PM MST The Great Salt Lake photographed Saturday. Studies by USU that show distinct climate cycles of about 12 years...
In this article: Utah, Pacific Ocean, Salt Lake City, Journal of Climate, Utah State University, and National Weather Service
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Description from Wikipedia:
Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt lake in the western hemisphere, the fourth-largest terminal lake in the world, and the 37th-largest lake on Earth. In an average year the lake covers an area of around 1700 sqmi, but the lake's size fluctuates substantially due to its shallowness. For instance, in 1963 it reached its lowest recorded level at 950 square miles (2,460 km²), but in 1987 the surface area was at the historic high of 3300 sqmi(8,547 km²).
The lake is the largest remnant of Lake Bonneville, a pluvial lake which covered much of western Utah in prehistoric times. The Great Salt Lake is endorheic (has no outlet besides evaporation) and has very high salinity, far saltier than sea water. The Jordan, Weber, and Bear rivers (the three major tributaries) deposit around 1.1 million tons of minerals in the lake each year, and the balance of evaporated water is mineral-free, concentrating the lake further. Because of its unusually high salt concentration, most people can easily float in the lake as a result of the higher density of the water, particularly in the saltier north arm of the lake, Gunnison Bay. The lake's shallow, warm waters cause frequent, sometimes heavy lake-effect snows during late fall, early winter, and spring.
Although it has been called "America's Dead Sea", the lake provides habitat for millions of native birds, brine shrimp, shorebirds, and waterfowl, including the largest staging population of Wilson's Phalarope in the world.
- Name:
- Great Salt Lake
- Type:
- Endorheic, hypersaline
- Location City:
- Salt Lake and Ogden metropolitan areas.
- Area:
- ~1,700 sq mi (~4,400 km²)
- Elevation:
- historical average of 4,200 feet (1,283 m), 4,196.6 feet (1,279 m) as of 2006 August 24
- Depth (Max.):
- 33 ft (10 m) average, high of 45 ft in 1987, low of 24 ft in 1963
- Basin Countries:
- United States
- Inflow:
- Bear, Jordan, Weber rivers
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