‘Not the type of record we like to break’: Great Salt Lake hits all-time low, again

In this file photo, Ruben Gyoeltsyan walks across a sand bar at the receding edge of the Great Salt Lake Thursday, March 3, 2022, near Salt Lake City, Utah | Associated Press file photo by Rick Bowmer, St. George News

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake has fallen to a new low yet again.

The Great Salt Lake is shown in the background of the earthwork Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, on northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah. Last year the Great Salt Lake matched a 170-year record low and kept dropping, hitting a new low of 4,190.2 feet (1,277.2 meters) in October | Associated Press file photo by Rick Bowmer, St. George News

The lake’s average daily surface water elevation dropped to 4,190.1 feet at the Saltair station, U.S. Geological Survey officials said Tuesday. This is 0.1 feet below the record set in October of last year. Lake level data dates back to 1847.

“This is not the type of record we like to break,” said Joel Ferry, the new executive director of the Utah Department of Natural Resources, in a statement.

Department officials projected that the record would be broken again this year based on low snowpack projections and other variables, including human water consumption that diverts water from entering the lake.

Read the full story here:  KSL News.

Written by CARTER WILLIAMS, KSL.com.

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