With the turn of a wheel, 650 million gallons of water a day will eventually travel from Willard Bay to the ailing Great Salt Lake.
Although the lake has risen 4 feet since its historic low reached in November of last year, 4 feet is not nearly enough to make the Northern Hemisphere's largest saline lake recover from years of drought and over diversion from its tributaries.The Weber Basin Water Conservancy District is using its "flood rights" over the course of the next two to four weeks, and in total will deliver 71.6 billion gallons of those water rights to the lake. This is part of the 2.
Marcelle Shoop, director of the saline lakes program for the National Audubon Society and executive director of the Great Salt Lake Enhancement Trust, said this is an important step to help connect the bays along the lake, including Bear River, Ogden and Gilbert. Tracy Hess, Weber Basin Water Conservancy District dam tender, opens the Willard Bay spillway gates for flood mitigation in Box Elder County on Thursday.
Sandall got $200 million appropriated for agricultural optimization to help farmers and ranchers conserve water more efficiently and also to allow them to lease unused portions of their water rights without having to relinquish them.There are turf buyback programs and a robust requirement of the metering of secondary water — which, in Weber and Davis counties, has resulted in consumption decreases by as much as 30%.
These are all solutions in the long term that will help tamper Utahns' water consumption and help not only the Great Salt Lake, but other reservoirs that have struggled to fill.Lawmakers and advocates as well fear this record snowpack year will result in a decreasing urgency to conserve water because of the flooding hitting many areas of the state.
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