Phill Kiddoo News Today

Experts say the Great Salt Lake isnt the leading cause of dust in Utah. Desert playas where other lakes have already dried up \u2014 including the Great Salt Lake Desert to the west of the lake itself \u2014 along with gravel operations, construction and drought also cause dust storms.

The U.S. military is all in on helping to preserve landscapes and the lake with the designation of the Great Salt Lake Sentinel Basin

For decades, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has relied on long-standing water rights to divert from the streams that feed Mono Lake.

Great Basin’s air pollution control officer Phill Kiddoo stated via e-mail, “I recently reached out and asked Paul Liu, LADWP Owens Lake Dust Mitigation

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power began siphoning the waters of the 110-square-mile Owens Lake in 1913. Within 13 short years, the California lake went dry.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power began siphoning the waters of the 110-square-mile Owens Lake in 1913. Within 13 short years, the California lake went dry.

As the Great Salt Lake has dropped to historically low levels, could dust impact Utah’s military installations?

Terminal waters like Owens and Mono lakes in California or the Great Salt Lake in Utah rise and fall, responding to the rhythms of their climate. There have been periods in prehistory that they have dried completely for a spell. But fill them with water, and they come alive again.

The dust is kicking up on the Great Salt Lakes ever-expanding dry lakebed, raising fears about the air millions breathe along the Wasatch Front. Just a few states away, however, Los Angeles has spent decades figuring out how to get a handle a very similar problem.

Mono Lake’s advocates successfully argued that protecting natural public resources held equal importance to LA’s need to export water. Advocates say “every drop matters.”