![]() ![]() Meaning, more water coming from the Silver Island Mountains. Keach believes that groundwater is the key to increasing the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats. “They’ve been doing this historically for a long time.” “You can go into Google Earth and look, in an ad hoc way, and look at the last thirty years, or forty years of imagery across the salt flat … and you see the salt flat expand and contract,” Keach said. ![]() The idea is to add more water to the surface, which leads to evaporation, and more salt “growing.”īut Keach said a more scientific approach is needed that directs how much water to lay down, and when to lay it down. Keach said that projects have been proposed that would manually pump salt water from beneath the flats to the surface of the flats. Reversing the shrinking Bonneville Salt Flats? It is located along I-80 west of the Great Salt Lake, in western Utah near the Nevada border. It eventually shrank below its outlet and so its water became salty. So how are the two related? As the Great Salt Lake decreases, and the thickness of the flats decreases, the racing distance gets shorter. The salt flats are about 12 miles long and 5 miles wide with total area coverage of just over 46 square miles. In addition, the Utah Highway Patrol has indicated that parking along I-80 to access the canals is illegal and extremely dangerous due to the proximity to the interstate highway.And the surface, which isn’t 100% dry, keeps tire temperatures down at high speeds. ![]() The flats are a broad, salt-covered playa, or dry lakebed, and dubbed flattest place on Earth. Therefore, the public should not access, swim, float, kayak, canoe, or pursue any other recreation activities in these industrial canals. The Bonneville Salt Flats extend west of Great Salt Lake to the Utah-Nevada border spanning both sides of Interstate 80. The canals are industrial facilities leased to Intrepid Potash for potash mining activities and are not designed or safe for public recreation. “The potash production canals north of Interstate 80 (I-80), located just east of the Bonneville Salt Flats, are leased and managed by Intrepid Potash and are located on a mix of private property, State of Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) land, and Bureau of Land Management-managed public lands. ![]() BLM issued the following statement about the canals: Lisa McNee, public affairs specialist with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) says unsafe recreational activity on the canals has decreased significantly over the last year. NEXT: Bonneville Salt Flats draws some of fastest land speed machines to ‘Hot Rod Mecca’ ![]()
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