More dust storms could blow into the Wasatch Front as a result of increasingly exposed lake bed, state leaders are warning.
"It’s common sense that when you expose another 300 to 400 square miles of lake bed and the wind kicks up, you’re going to have more dust," House Speaker Brad Wilson, R-Kaysville, said in an interview with FOX 13 News following his recent appearance at the Friends of Great Salt Lake's summit on the health and future of the massive lake."More exposed lake bed increases the potential for windblown dust.
The Davis County Health Department said research is currently being conducted on the dust from the exposed lake bed. "If you are not putting your water to beneficial use, it’s considered to be wasted and therefore should be available to other people in the system to put to beneficial use," said Emily Lewis, a water rights attorney for the law firm Clyde Snow.
Where water was once considered"wasted" and to have"no beneficial use" once it hits the terminal basin that is the Great Salt Lake, that viewpoint is changing. The Great Salt Lake helps generate snowpack, is a refuge for millions of birds, and generates billions in economic impact for the state, said Lynn de Freitas, Friends of Great Salt Lake's executive director.
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