Water and salt balance of Great Salt Lake, Utah, and simulation of water and salt movement through the causeway, 1987-98
Water-Resources Investigations Report
2000-4221
Prepared in cooperation with the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lakds, and Tooele County, Utah
By: Brian L. Loving, Kidd M. Waddell, and Craig W. Miller
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Abstract
The Southern Pacific Transportation Company completed a rock-fill causeway across Great Salt Lake in 1959. The effect of the causeway was to change the water and salt balance of Great Salt Lake by creating two separate but interconnected parts of the lake, with more than 95 percent of freshwater surface inflow entering the lake south of the causeway.
The water and salt balance of Great Salt Lake primarily depends on the amount of inflow from tributary streams and the conveyance properties of the causeway that divides the lake into south and north parts. The conveyance properties of the causeway consist of two 15-foot-wide culverts, a 290-foot-wide breach, and permeable rock-fill material.
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| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Water and salt balance of Great Salt Lake, Utah, and simulation of water and salt movement through the causeway, 1987-98 |
| Series title | Water-Resources Investigations Report |
| Series number | 2000-4221 |
| DOI | 10.3133/wri004221 |
| Year Published | 2000 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Publisher location | Salt Lake City, UT |
| Contributing office(s) | Utah Water Science Center |
| Description | viii, 32 p. |
| Country | United States |
| State | Utah |
| Other Geospatial | Great Salt Lake |
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