Uniquely Utah: The Great Salt Lake Pumping Station

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5 жыл бұрын

In this installment of Uniquely Utah, FOX 13's Todd Tanner takes us to a pumping station that hasn't been used in years but still costs the state $10,000/year.

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@saadr1an 2 жыл бұрын

Kinda sad, I wish the lake reached its highest level again maybe building sea walls around the wasatch front will keep the water out

@neilhigley2003 Жыл бұрын

It, 'The Lake', has the capability of rising again. For it did in my granddad and father's time, and as well fell or dried to what it is now because there were farmers that used to heard their sheep over to Fremont Island and even drove across the sand bar to Fremont as well. My granddad also mentioned that they had to go to Morgan to farm because of the rising of GSL. Don't ever discount what can happen, especially when there are water lines still visible alongside the Wasatch front mountains.

@Devo1987 2 жыл бұрын

GPS location ?

@redxxxxxxx Жыл бұрын

You might need it this year 2023

@chrishayes8197 3 жыл бұрын

who is the guy interviewed?

@JG-tt4sz 3 жыл бұрын

A clerk at the Maverick.

@frankensteinbottle7515 2 жыл бұрын

some guy protecting his salary.

@kscottlawrence5491 2 жыл бұрын

We have pumps to pump water from the Mississippi to the Colorado!

@yoyo123323 4 жыл бұрын

It was absolutely NOT supported by everyone. Utahns were pissed and those who remember it still are. It was forced on the public by Norm Bangerter and the airport. It was the biggest waste of tax payer dollars and has been swept under the table ever since. Having lived in the heart of this when it happened, I was in the pulse of this. I attended ALL of the meetings concerning this matter, and it was definitely NOT supported by everyone. It was forced on everyone and did very little good.

@dethray1000 2 жыл бұрын

crybaby

@relentlessmadman Жыл бұрын

Norm Bangerter was govener at the time and some of the contract work, went to relatives? for this they named a highway after him!?!?!

@cliffordnelson8454 2 жыл бұрын

Now they wish they had extended the pumping station to a source or water...LOL

@thomasmorgenstern9204 3 жыл бұрын

Utah really squandered this resource. Time for you to leave it alone.

@robertshrewsbury4241 Жыл бұрын

The water pipeline from California to Utah? (for The Great Salt Lake) makes no sense, when The Great Salt Lake is only 60 miles (as a crow fly's) from an fresh-water Aquifer on the Utah/Nevada border. This Aquifer comes out of Canada (Calgary area) and ends up emptying in The Sea of Cortez, Mexico to the Ocean salt water, waisted. It is known that this Aquifer has a water flow as large as the Amazon River in South America. And the Grand Stair Case is also an enormous (underground) body of water, see the Oren Hatch report on this. "Don't hunt for Deer in Africa, when we already have plenty of Deer close by" I am a profesional in Mineral/Water Detection and have already verified this enormous body of water myself.

@camrenhansen6715 2 жыл бұрын

What a waste of money.

@DustinBKerensky97 4 жыл бұрын

It would cost $140,000 to build new. It costs $10,000 a year to maintain. So after 14 years we're losing money. And they've been sitting idle for 33 years...

@samanthathompson817 4 жыл бұрын

The video actually says that it would cost 140 million dollars (140,000,000), not 140 thousand (140,000) dollars to build one today. You are missing three zeros, that makes a big difference in your calculations.

@JG-tt4sz 3 жыл бұрын

Nice one genius.

@jmd1743 Жыл бұрын

Most home owners will never need to use fire insurance but they still have it.

@smolpener7430 11 ай бұрын

You're missing a few zeros buddy, 14000 years.