Proponents of a controversial dredging project argue Utah Lake’s environmental problems are so widespread that fixing them requires massive reengineering of the lakebed.
Environmental Consultants to design the project and shepherd it through a rigorous analysis, which the Army Corps will now oversee.
While the lake continues to suffer, these investments are paying off and its ecology is on the mend, experts say. The once-proliferating Asian carp, introduced as a food source in the 1880s, no longer dominate the waters and native June sucker have rebounded from near extinction. Central to the island forming process are massive “geotextile” tubes that would be pumped full of dredged sediments, according to Geosyntec principal Rudy Bonaparte.
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