Now, debates over the proposal have reached a breaking point. “When you’re creating a system with so many weak links, it doesn’t take much to create a big disaster,” says Rajagopalan Balaji, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. And new residents could find themselves at the mercy of punishing floods or constant drought. Constructing a new city on the lake could lead to more pollution entering the water. Dredging it could rip apart its ecological fabric and have catastrophic effects downstream. This enterprise, they caution, could cause irreparable harm to Utah Lake. A sprawling subdivision connected by roadways and bridges would rise as hundreds of thousands of people move into newly built homes.Ī number of lake scientists and civil engineers are expressing similar doubts, albeit veiled in more diplomatic terms. Army Corps of Engineers earlier this year, this lakebed mud would then be chiseled into artificial islands, which would cover one-fifth of Utah Lake’s surface. According to an application received by the U.S. If Lake Restorations Solutions, a Utah-based business, has its way, 60 dredgers could soon be digging into the lake, scooping up enough mud to fill 300,000 Olympic swimming pools. In the coming decades, this serene place could be disrupted by the din of one of the largest development projects in Utah history. Calm waters reflect the saw-toothed silhouettes of the Wasatch Range, framed by rust-colored reeds and the feeling that - even though you are very much in the middle of a valley filled with ribbons of highways, dense housing and hundreds of thousands of people - you’re among nature. A gravel path stretches out south from the Lindon Marina, tracing a wobbly line along the eastern shore of Utah Lake.
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