Comments about ‘Proposal for treated groundwater would affect Great Salt Lake’

By their own admission this water is too unsafe to pump in the Jordan River so what makes it safe to dump in to the GSL and back in to the ground water? It sounds like they are just going to concentrate these chemicals and recycle them in concentration for further damage to future generations of people to clean up that mess too.

It's a never ending battle of business and the environment and every time the paperwork and testing has been biased and falsified. We just start to clean up the environment and create new and more dangerous problems. EPA standards are often too lenient and improperly applied with 50 year old information. Standards of a hundred years ago sounded safe too, but we have spent trillions undoing those environmental standards. The EPA standards are a minimum for business to pollute and has very little concern for human or animal life.

So using EPA standards are being abused and misleading, we should establish hazardous to human and living matter standards that supersede EPA standards. There is no law, even with the EPA that says we can't. States have the authority to have more restrictive environmental laws.

This pipe has already been distributed along the Utah Salt Lake canal system and welded together. And they want to have a hearing. Looks like the cat is already out of the bag and is in the hen house.
Suggestion!! Send this water to Las Vegas and save the money used for the studies and hearings.

I was not familiar with this proposal. Can anyine help me understand it better?

Best I can do is contaminated ground water will be pumped, piped and dumped into the Great Salt Lake. The Great Salt Lake water will be moved trough a series of evaporation ponds to concentrate the salts. Water from the Great Salt Lake will then be passed through a reverse osmosis system to "purify" the water. That treated water will then be pumped back into the underground aquifer.

I know that the concentration ponds already exist at the Great Salt Lake. Are we already pumping processed water from the process in the groundwater? Will the water being pumped from aquifers be dumped straight into the Great Salt Lake? Will it be processed first and then dumped into the Great Salt Lake? Is any part of the system being used already, or is this an entirley new system?

Thanks

If the pipe has already been welded, this state needs new management.

1. Contaminated groundwater will be removed from the southwest valley aquifer and treated through the reverse osmosis process...

2. Reject water (~3MG per day, containing the contaminants from the source water) will be pumped to the GSL via 21 miles of pipeline...

3. The cleaned water, some 4,000+ acre-feet {@325,851 gallons per acre-foot} of it, will be available to those in the SL Valley for residential/commercial/industrial uses...

4. No water from the GSL will enter the treatment system, the GSL is the receiving water body...

I believe this will be a totally new system. The treatment facility is under construction and the pipe is being readied for installation.

I guess if all else fails we can start up the GSL pumps and pump the excess to the west desert!?! ;^D

Fifty years ago no one would have believed someone describing current development in the Salt Lake valley.

A dam (causeway) cutting the Great Salt Lake in half? Pollution plumes at a huge air base from degreasers innocently dumped on the ground that would take another fifty years to clean up?

Clean water is a valuable resource.

Less water will flow into the Great Salt Lake in the future. Someday it will be the "Great Salt Flat."

Much of it is a mud flat today. The heavy metal contaminanted dust blows, across the mud flats and into the homes of the Salt Lake Valley.

What goes around, comes around.

However, that's not the problem of the developers who need water now. Just ship the poison north, and it's not our problem.

Why not pump this water out to the salt flats, into containment ponds where the water will be held and allowed to evaporate.

Then clean out the ponds every so often of the contaminates and find uses for the waste.

Pumping it into the lake only endangers it and makes it into a larger cesspool.

You would think that with $2,000,000 they could have thought of something better.

Why not pump this water out to the salt flats, into containment ponds where the water will be held and allowed to evaporate.

Then clean out the ponds every so often of the contaminates and find uses for the waste.

Pumping it into the lake only endangers it and makes it into a larger cesspool.

You would think that with $2,000,000 they could have thought of something better.

Pipe was put in place about 3 months ago, they came through a month or so ago and have it all seamed together, have pipes laying at the ends to go under the pavement where it crosses main street. Cart before the horse, or they don't really want to admit they are doing it regardless of comments.

After reading all this permit stuff and the reasons for doing this, probably ok. But How large is the area that this water will be pumped to@ 3 mil gal a day. What kind of safe guard is going to be put in place to keep people out of it if the contaminates are so dangerous. If it has Mercury in it etc.
In this article the first hearing date has already passed. know they just want us to wonder whats next, until may 5th.
Desmond: they just welded my area last week and droped the pipe3 weeks ago. I seriously think the pipe will be barried in a couple more weeks.