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Show The Sait Lake Tribune, Monday, August 13, 1973 IS 7 Geologist Asks for Restoration of Drained Brine at Utahs Salt Flats Continued Fiom Page 8-- 1 from the race- track area. Rainfall in that area, he said, raises the level of saturated bnne, but subsequent evaporation leaves the salt surface intact since little or no percolation iakes place through the bottom Dr. Hewitt contends (Tribune, Dec. 10, 1972) that the evidence obtained indicates the Salt Flats are a bowl of relatively pure salt contained by a layer of impermeable silts through which water passes with difficulty, if at all. Thus, he says, this bowl has its own water table independent of, and suspended above, the porous clay beds beneath it vmch drain bnne into Kaisers canals for potash extraction. Dr. Hewitt said that brine seeping into Kaisers canals apparently does not Citizen Smith salt solution represent and director of Utah Geological and Survey. The two disagree on interpretation of the study data. of the salt beds. railway-constructio- Mr. Hoagland agrees with this geologic structure on an east-wenorth of the companys canals. Bui he contends a on a northeast-southwes- t line (direction of the race track) and extending south of the highway into areas drained by the potash company, gives a factual geologic picture of the salt flats deterioration and the reasons for it. cross-sectio- cross-sectio- The companys canals (about Not n n 10 feet chloride (salt) surface necessary for the deep) in addition to highway and have, in effect, broken the south end of the salt bowl," penetrating both and clay strata and allowing salt strata to drain into the bnne collection canals Mr. Hoagland said racetrack Matter of Inches Those who "consider that several fett of salt have been removed are mistaken We are dealing in inches," Mr Hoagland A continued "The salt surface can be destroyed as a race track by a deterioration in the tcp inch or two i f salt " Racetrack Salt said the area no longer dries through evaporation but through runoff and percolation. Kaiser Chemical Co reported in a March 29. 1972. letter to Mr. Tippetts that the company discontinued pumping of brine from its triangular canal north of ihe highway in 1966. It said it had pumped from its canal paral- He "Such hydrological independence as once existed (m the salt bowl) has ben destroyed by canal, highway and Mi. Hoagland said, adding that resulting percolation of rainfall with its dissolved salt into the canals has left the southwest portion of the racetrack with a covering of gypsum and other minerals rather than the original sodium , lehng the race track only intermittent-lv- " prior to Julv, 1970, and again in July, 1972 Mr Hoagland said deterioration of the race track will contmir regardless of pumping north of the highway, adjacent to the racetrack, since he believes canals south of the highway i regularly pumped) are depleting racetracs salt surface through drainage beneath the highway and railroad beds. Drawdown on Salt "Since the static fluid lev e in the triangular and other canals is lower than the static fluid lev under the racetrack, the inescapable conclusion is that bnne moves under the highways in response to a drawdown produced by pumping south. 1 1 of the highways, Mr. Hoagland said. Dr. Hewitt said this week he feels that Mr lloaglands investigation, while thorough, did not last long enough to substantiate that conclusion. Dr. Hewitt, state geologist since July, 1961, is scheduled to retire Feb. 9, 1974. Mr Hoagland suggested in his letter Mr Dees that a sealing trenih be constructed to isolate the racetrack from the companys canals both north and south of the highways. He estimates that such a trenih, filled with conto crete slurry or s clay, would cost $141,000 and that a three-yea- r program of pumping bnne from the company's canal back onto the southwest portion of the track would cost $49,000. 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