Willard water level

[FishfulThinkin]

I wouldn't bet on it. The news is nothing but "Save the GSL!" these days and the loudest voices would rather have brine shrimp than walleye and wipers.

You're smarter than that Rocky.  You know the huge environmental impact the lake has and you know the GSL is much more important to our way of life than some non native fish living in a mudhole.

No lake, no lake effect, drinking water snowfall decreased by half into the cottonwood canyons.  More dirt and dust on the snow covered mountain causing the snow to melt faster and leaving no reserves for August.  The dust is full of heavy metals like selenium, which is poisonous.
Lastly, the GSL is OUR desalination plant.  The moisture picked up in the winter from it's unfrozen surface is salt free although the moisture came from the lake.  Then, the non salty, pure fresh water falls as snow and becomes available to us to use.  If there is no GSL, there will be no water for Willard at all, nor many other lakes.

You picked the wrong year to use that argument. This year with the lowest recorded levels for GSL we currently have some of the highest snowpack levels on record so your theory is not very convincing to many of us. Furthermore, the lake effect is not very significant to the overall snowpack. For the mountains south and east of the GSL it is estimated that only 5% of the snow total during a year can be attributed to lake effect.