In a couple of months, the Great Salt Lake has a chance of reaching its healthy range for the first time in over a decade.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service recently forecasted the Great Salt Lake to rise by as much as 1.5 feet from spring runoff.
Currently, the lake is at 4,194.5 feet above sea level. That’s 1.5 feet from the tail-end of its healthy range of 4,196 to 4,200 feet.thinks it’s most likely the lake will rise by just under a foot. On the low end, it thinks there’s a chance the lake could only rise by less than 6 inches. But, there’s a chance the Great Salt Lake will be “healthy” for the first time since 2013 and remarkably, not even two years since However, Ferry noted that there’s still work to do to get water to the lake.Ferry also said he’d like to see the lake closer to 4,200 feet, partly because it would cover up more of the exposed lakebed. like arsenic, mercury and selenium. It’s a key contributor to dust flying around the Wasatch Front during wind storms.
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