With the coming deluge of snowmelt this spring, how much can we expect the Great Salt Lake to rise?
Snow coats Stansbury Island and dry sections of the Great Salt Lake on Monday February 27, 2023.The following is an excerpt from the Salt Lake Tribune’s new Open Lands newsletter, a twice a month newsletter about Utah’s land, water and air from the environment team. For a sneak peak at what we’re working on and news we’re following,There’s a gorgeous waterfall at the mouth of Ogden Canyon.
And with no one irrigating downstream just yet, all that surplus water is making it all the way down to the Great Salt Lake. The lower Weber River, just one of three tributaries to the lake, is currently gushing at 600 cubic feet per second, Paxman said, or around 270,000 gallons per minute. The Bear, Weber-Ogden, Provo-Utah Lake-Jordan and Tooele Valley-Vernon Creek watersheds fall within the Great Salt Lake basin.
Then, of course, is the catastrophic flooding of the mid-1980s that caused havoc across the Wasatch Front, including downtown Salt Lake City. That torrent came after many years of above-average snowpack, lasting from 1982 and until 1986, and it made the lake rise to its highest point in recorded history. Given our prolonged drought and meager snowfall up until this year, that scenario looks pretty unlikely.
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