SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake has fallen to a new low yet again.
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.
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Written by CARTER WILLIAMS, KSL.com.
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