01-28-2023, 12:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-28-2023, 12:06 AM by FishfulThinkin.)
[quote="MWScott72" pid="1141553" dateline="1674862251"]
I hate it when people pick current events (such as this year's record snow so far) and they try to use it as proof that the underlying problem is non-existent. The situation the GSL is in did not come about in 1, 2 or 5 years. It's a compounding of many years where the trend is less water getting to the lake due to drought conditions. Couple that with less water getting to the lake because of human diversions, and there you have it. To look at one year as proof that there isn't a problem is foolish. We currently have environmental conditions bringing more moisture to the state. And when that pattern shifts as it surely will???
The Bonneville Flats are not the GSL proper. The Flats don't receive all the pollutants the GSL receives or has received. GSL is a terminal lake and receives pollutants generated in its watershed via its tributaries. That over several hundred years has built up toxic chemical and heavy metals in the lakebed sediments. If that sediment dries out and the wind blows, those toxic chemicals become airborne and go where the wind blows them.
FYI: I did not assert that this years record snowfall was "Proof that the underlying problem is non-existent" I simply called BS on your claim that without the lake, snowfall to the cottonwoods would decrease by half. "No lake, no lake effect, drinking water snowfall decreased by half into the cottonwood canyons." The number is nowhere near half and is estimated to be around 5%.
I hate it when people pick current events (such as this year's record snow so far) and they try to use it as proof that the underlying problem is non-existent. The situation the GSL is in did not come about in 1, 2 or 5 years. It's a compounding of many years where the trend is less water getting to the lake due to drought conditions. Couple that with less water getting to the lake because of human diversions, and there you have it. To look at one year as proof that there isn't a problem is foolish. We currently have environmental conditions bringing more moisture to the state. And when that pattern shifts as it surely will???
The Bonneville Flats are not the GSL proper. The Flats don't receive all the pollutants the GSL receives or has received. GSL is a terminal lake and receives pollutants generated in its watershed via its tributaries. That over several hundred years has built up toxic chemical and heavy metals in the lakebed sediments. If that sediment dries out and the wind blows, those toxic chemicals become airborne and go where the wind blows them.
FYI: I did not assert that this years record snowfall was "Proof that the underlying problem is non-existent" I simply called BS on your claim that without the lake, snowfall to the cottonwoods would decrease by half. "No lake, no lake effect, drinking water snowfall decreased by half into the cottonwood canyons." The number is nowhere near half and is estimated to be around 5%.