The Great Salt Lake

It's not a lake.
It's a puddle on a plate.

Drag the slider. Watch 75 miles of shoreline vanish.

toxic dust arsenic · mercury · heavy metals — airborne 4,198 ft min. healthy 4,192 ft today ← 75 miles → 33 ft max depth 4,212 ft
75miles across
3,300sq mi
0 ftbelow 1986
0%lakebed exposed
1986
2000
today
collapse

Full pool. Seventy-five miles of water, barely thirty feet deep. The lake looks permanent.

Alfalfa consuming
0
gallons since you opened this page
Lake needs
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gallons since you opened this page

Where did all the water go?

Into 166,573 fields. We mapped every one.