I am responding to your article of Nov. 3 regarding the Great Salt Lake. Several years ago, we visited the Dead Sea and drove by thousands of acres of barren, dry land formerly covered by water, with a dike directing what little water was left to the resort area so tourists could stay at the hotels and swim in the "smaller" Dead Sea.
Now the Great Salt Lake appears to be headed for a similar, smaller outcome — except the Dead Sea doesn't have $60 million pumps sitting high and dry in the sand that cost taxpayers thousands of dollars each year to maintain. If the Dead Sea is also our outcome, let's sell the pumps for whatever we can get and stop the yearly maintenance expense.
Dave Holbrook
Salt Lake City
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