Five conservation groups are banding together in a lawsuit against Utah's natural resource leaders, arguing that they aren't doing enough to get water to the struggling Great Salt Lake.
as a result of Utah's record snowpack and an efficient snowmelt. It topped out at about 4,194.1 feet elevation at the Great Salt Lake State Park marina in June and is now listed at 4,192.6 feet elevation, about 4 feet above last year's record low,Its current levels remain below the minimum "healthy" level for the lake, which the Great Salt Lake Strike Team listed as 4,198 feet elevation.
The conservation groups said more lakebed dust containing arsenic, mercury and other pollutants is exposed as the lake shrinks. NASAthat found more than half of the lakebed became exposed, which poses a threat for more dust storms that will "particularly impact residents of Tooele County and the west side of Salt Lake City."
The groups add the lake's salinity increases to levels that threaten important brine shrimp when the lake remains below 4,198 feet elevation. In addition, they write that it makes it easier for invasive plant species to grow and predators to threaten important wildlife species, and more difficult for people to boat on the lake.
These, they say, are examples that Utah has "failed to undertake all feasible means of maintaining" the Great Salt Lake to a level that is "consistent with protecting trust uses."
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