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Show What To Do With Rising Lake? Send In Your Suggestions There's a lot of concern about ab-out what will happen when the iGreat Salt Lake reaches an all-time all-time high water level - which could very well be during the peak runoff this spring. :'. THE ANTICIPATED damage dam-age to lakeshore businesses could be devestating -- almost .unbelievable. (See story, this page). Lakeshore businesses : will be forced to close, putting hundreds of employees out of . work and causing an economic Joss surging into the hundreds of millions of dollars. . What, if anything, can be done to prevent this catastrophe catas-trophe before it happens? How much will even the least feasible feasi-ble preventive project cost? ARE THE preventative programs being suggested really feasible, and will they do the job? Are they "one-shot" - bandaide-type proposals that will do a partial service today, but be inaffective next year? Questions without answers, because no one really knows. No one knows how much the lake level will rise this year, or how much it will recede during the summer evaporation period. ARE WE in a wet cycle? Are the back-to-back near-record snowfalls sign of what's to come? Or will the weather pattern pat-tern return to normal, or below normal snowfall and reduce the spring runoff? Historically, the signs point to a continued wet cycle. If this is the cause, what can be done to stabilize the level of the Great Salt Lake? DAVIS COUNTY newspapers newspap-ers and the Sunset News are asking for your suggestions. We would also like to hear your comments about the Great Salt Lake Proposal being recommended to Gov. Scott Matheson by John W. Palmer, of Val Verda. (See lead story, front page.) Please type your comments and suggestions and mail them to Gary Blodgett, News Editor, Edi-tor, Davis County Clipper, 76 South Main, Bountiful, Utah 84010. Legitimate comments and suggestions received before be-fore March 1 will be reviewed and printed in an upcoming edition of the Davis County newspapers. |