European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                National geographic the liquid assets of Developer Watty Wright include the flooded dance floor of the great Salt Lake resort he revived in great Salt Lake on the Rise Shes a mean old Gale National geographic when mormon settlers arrived at utahs great Salt Lake in it stood at feet Twenty six years later it had risen to its historic High of causing mormon Leader Brigham Young to propose spilling its water into the the great Salt Lake is on the Rise again record rain and snowfall have caused it to swell almost 9 feet in Only two this years reached in late was once people Are talking about flooding acres of some officials fear that the Lake could reach its historic at that experts the Lake would begin to inundate parts of Salt Lake state Fred Finlinson says that without the scheme to pump water West into the the Southern Pacific Railroad would have to shut its and Union Pacific would have to interstate the main East West would also have to be rerouted on higher a remnant of ancient Lake the great Salt Lake has risen and fallen for in 1963 its historic Low some utans believed the Lake would dry but wet Winters and Cloudy Summers have since increased its surface area from 900 to Square since the Lake has expanded from 80 to 110 percent the size of reported Rick Gore in the june National officials believe that a return to the historic High of feet would spell disaster for the waste treatment and Public facilities that have been built in recent years on the lakes Shes a mean old says hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on flood to keep ahead of the encroaching Railroad companies have been forced to elevate teams of bulldozers have hurriedly built dikes and raised i80 against Waters that Lap its thousands of acres of pasture and cropland have been and Mineral companies tha process the lakes brine have repeatedly elevated and repaired tourism at great Salt Lake Park is off Many beaches Are flooded and the Lake has claimed some of the wests most valuable wildlife weve lost almost All our says Tim who worked 17 years in the states waterfowl the Are just acres of Salty millions upon August 1985 millions of migrating Birds used to linger Here for feeding and now id say 90 percent of them bypass the largest Lake West of the Mississippi the great Salt Lake once had a salinity exceeding 20 percent it was so buoyant that a person could read a newspaper while floating on his in 1959 the Southern Pacific Railroad built an earthen causeway across the Middle of the cutting off its Northwest Arm from the Freshwater flow of the three main tributaries the and Jordan thus the Northwest Arm grew while the flush with River flow grew the recent inflow of fresh water has mixed quickly in the shallow dropping salinity in the Southern Arm to less than 6 seawater averages theres water flowing into the Lake 365 Days a says hydrologist Ted Arnow of the geological its like a big Bathtub without a water can Only get out one it mostly in the the Lake is Salty because evaporation leaves continued on Page 14 the stars and stripes Page 13