Ben Winslow is a reporter with FOX 13 covering a variety of topics including politics, polygamy, vice and courts.
SALT LAKE CITY — The man tasked by Utah's political leaders with helping to save the Great Salt Lake is hoping to take advantage of another strong winter snowpack to raise the levels of the lake.
"It is a big, flat lake. That lake warms up rather quickly and one of the reasons we haven’t seen more gains on the Great Salt Lake is because we had this warm and windy April. You see that evaporative loss," Steed told reporters."If that continues in the summer you will see higher evaporation losses as well. That concerns all of us and it necessitates more water in the lake."
The Great Salt Lake, which shrunk to a historic low in 2022 as a result of water diversions, drought and impacts from climate change, remains several feet below what is considered a"healthy range" ecologically. Steed said that could take years to reach even with the benefit of strong winters and is now a longer-term goal.
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