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REESE, Utah — The Bureau of Reclamation is giving $3 million to help water managers better track Great Salt Lake’s incoming water. Water managers say the money will fund 13 new stream gates. The strea...
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SALT LAKE CITY — The long wait for new, specialty Great Salt Lake license plates is almost over. The state needed 500 applicants to start moving forward with the final design , production and distribu...
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SALT LAKE CITY — It’s safe to say the brutal start to this summer along the Wasatch Front has hit Great Salt Lake especially hard. Deputy Great Salt Lake Commissioner Tim Davis said the lake normally...
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SALT LAKE CITY — 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 forecast...
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SYRACUSE, Utah — Navigating western Davis County has been a lot easier over the past month. That’s how long the new West Davis Highway (SR 177) has been open. It’s made traveling from work to home a l...
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Editor’s note: This story has been updated for clarity. SALT LAKE CITY — Most RFA or ‘request for appropriation’ hearings on Capitol Hill involve a five-minute presentation where someone asks the stat...
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SALT LAKE CITY— Great Salt Lake Commissioner Brian Steed and his office are reaching out to reservoir managers to see if they have any water to spare for Great Salt Lake. Utah’s largest body of water...
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SALT LAKE CITY— The Great Salt Lake’s wetland areas are getting a boost. $8.5 million has been awarded to various government and nonprofit groups from Salt Lake County to Box Elder County. The money i...
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TRENTON, Utah — T Dairy sits off of a back road in the Western Cache Valley, about 52 miles by car from Bear River Bay in the Great Salt Lake . The farm, like many in Utah, gets its water from the Gre...
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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s brine shrimp fishermen are once again out on the waters of the Great Salt Lake to harvest brine shrimp cysts (or eggs) and distribute them around the world. However, this year...
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SALT LAKE CITY — In the coming months, Utah lawmakers will likely take another look at the annual water rights held by mineral companies along the Great Salt Lake. Utah House Majority Leader Mike Schu...
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SALT LAKE CITY — Five months after a study done by The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration named them as a major contributor to the gunk in Utah’s winter inversions, U.S. Magnesium said th...
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SALT LAKE CITY — The brine shrimp industry is breathing a sigh of relief thanks to the rising water level of the Great Salt Lake. And so is the shrimp industry in general, and those who eat shrimp. In...
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SALT LAKE CITY — As water managers watch the Great Salt Lake rise, they’re still battling the invasive phragmites on the Great Salt Lake shoreline. And, Ben Stireman with the Division of Forestry Fire...
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