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Hi Folks,
So what do you think of this proposed bridge across utah lake? Do we really need this or is just something for a developer? Don't know how I feel about dividing the lake. Just curious as how other folks feel.
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I have very strong feelings on this issue. Part of the reason for that is that I have worked at Pelican point a lot the last couple years. Thats about 20 miles from my home. And its a good hour to drive it. Half way around Utah Lake. A road across the lake would probably make it a 20 minute drive.
Driving through Lehi is a joke. Too many people live in Eagle Mountain, The Ranch's, Saratoga Springs,Cedar Fort and wherever else all those folks come from. The four way at Smith's is a steady stream of traffic all day. Thousands of gallons of fuel and hundreds of hours of drive time could be saved by building a road across the Lake from the old Geneva steel site to Pelican point.
I actually think a causeway would be better than a bridge. I think it would do numerous things to improve Utah Lake. It would kill wave action, if only in a small area. It would allow dredges a place to take sediment out of the lake. It would be lighted and therefore create a landmark for boaters lost at night, and it could be sealed off(somewhat) so the carp could be taken from one end at a time. A bridge or two would allow boaters to move from one end to the other without maintaining a five mile bridge across the entire lake.
Now for cost. You think it may be expensive building a road across the lake, but anywhere you build a road takes a lot of fill material. I know, I work on a rock crusher and we build roads.Add up the cost of buying all the land to build a road through the fields anywhere around Lehi. It would be costly. The lake is free land and not that deep. And there are two gravel pits at Pelican point right now and Ames is getting ready to start a third pit.They just tested the rock this week. I know because I loaded their trucks.
Even if it was a toll road, I would use it and hundreds of construction vehicles would use it every day. It would pay for itself in a few years and cut CO2 emissions drastically along the Wasatch front.
A road will be built across the lake. Either a causeway or a bridge. It has to happen sooner or later. I vote for sooner.
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Didn't we go through this topic about a month ago?[cool]
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I don't know. I've been busy. Don't just sit at my computer and read every single post on the fishing forum. So go ahead and enlighten me, did we? And, what was the verdict?
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It is in the off topic board.
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[url "http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=8499144"]10-30-09, latest update on the Utah lake bridge[/url].
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Well so far it sounds good.
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