Wes,
Does anyone have any figures on how fast the waters normally recede in the
summer if there is water on the flats? I guess I am asking if there is a
benchmark of say an inch per day or something.
Bob Denton
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From: Wester Potter <wester6935@comcast.net>
Sent: May 31, 2005 8:44 AM
To: LSR list <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Utah weather
Just what we DIDN'T need on the salt.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C600137936%2C00.html
Tooele (Two-willa) is the County Seat for Tooele County ... the salt
flats are in Tooele County and the racers pay permit fees to the
County. There's 85 miles of desert and mountains between the salt
flats and Tooele City but we had a dump of rain from Sunday evening to
Monday afternoon over the whole area. The wide area along I-80 was the
hardest hit. Draper, a city between Salt Lake and Provo received over
2" of rain, many other reporting areas received at least an inch.
Snowbird ski area (up Little Cottonwood canyon east of Draper) shut
down their lifts because they couldn't keep up with necessary grooming
of the new snow it hit so hard and fast. They are only operating on
weekends between now and July 4th. (Think about it ... lift served
skiing on the 4th of July!) I think the drought of the last six-seven
years is over.
The Great Salt Lake is experiencing the third greatest rise in depth
that has ever been recorded according to my friend Dr. Wally Gwynn,
who is an expert on the lake. Since last December the lake has risen
over three feet in depth and now we are in the middle of the spring
runoff season from snow melt. Much of the runoff ends up in the Great
Salt Lake or the Colorado River. Lake Powell, which is in that
Colorado River drainage, is up over 21 feet so far. That may mean you
people in Southern California will be able to flush this year. Arizona
will apparently benefit the most because of water rights but Lake Mead
should start to fill up too. River rafting permits between Powell and
Mead are being cancelled because of the high water and people who have
planned those raft trips for a year or more are angry.
Wes
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