1/ I am still measuring and calculating the surface acre footprint of anthropogenic impoundments. 3/4's done and I am showing that impoundments are roughly half the size of GSL's current footprint. When I say humans have been moving the shores of GSL to different locations, I'm not kidding.

The hard part in writing a scientific paper is not gathering the evidence and data, It's the damn computer work🤢

Bravo! UPR's Erin Lewis Finally, quality GSL reporting minus exaggerated fearmongering from speculation. Keep up the good work Erin.🏆 #GreatSaltLake #Utahmedia #Utah www.upr.org/environment/...

#GreatSaltLake fuel forecast More snow today, 2.5"❄️ so far on GSL👏👏 11/2M, 11/5-7L-H❄️❄️❄️ Adding to Nov. accumulation!! Good start to Dec.! #utwx #cowx #Idwx #wywx #SKI #Skiutah #skiIdaho #skicolorado #skiwyoming #nvwx #mtwx #CAwx #azwx www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNba...

For 3 years we have been hearing bitching and moaning about #GreatSaltLake plight. What we have not heard is any plan to get more water to the lake. Not 1 single effective measure. Water conservation = reservoir storage. Water donations = loans repaid in spring. Cloud seeding = reservoir storage.

Agriculture is not the largest human consumption. I’ve measured >300,814 impoundment surface acres subject to evaporation, annually depleting 902,000–1,500,000 acre‑feet, with another ~1.5 million acre‑feet of non‑return flow. This is independently verifiable, and I welcome it. #GreatSaltLake

Statistics for the GSL do not add up. Depletion estimates exceed yield; this is not possible. I suspect yield underestimated and human consumption I know is overestimated

1/ Outdated science needs re-examination. Estimated agriculture depletion ranges from 945,000 to 1,330,000. Estimated Human impoundment evaporation depletions range from 876,000 to 1,460,000. Unlike agriculture, impoundments also carry non-return storage.

1/ Agriculture depletion is probably 2nd to depletion from human water retention. I'll explain the "probably" later. I have spent many hours measuring and quantifying surface acreage of human-built water impoundments upstream of the #GreatSaltLake ranging from 30 acres to 90,000 acres.

Vent Shitty science based in assumptions, approximations, exaggerations, omissions, miscommunications are doing more harm to the GSL than good. Appeal to authority drives the narrative even though some of them don't really know shit about the lake but they sound authoritative, silver tongue devils.

🥳 Benches above Farmington Bay received over an inch of precipitation! #utwx #GreatSaltLake #utah Other than marsh impoundments, water managers can't intercept this water from making it to GSL. 👏👏👏

Because the GSL narrative and this report rely heavily on assumptions, people think they’re helping the Great Salt Lake when in fact they’re harming it. The audit captions make that clear.

Truth is like a lion, set it free and it will defend itself Water conservation increases upstream retention by reducing inflows to #GreatSaltLake.

3 years in and I am seeing some public perception change🥳 Assumptions about conservation helping GSL are being replaced by evidence of management malpractice. If we can change the false narrative we can bring positive change to inflows. Then we can help mother nature rebuild elevation.

Derivative Junk Science. If the first layer is already pseudoscience, and subsequent layers build on it, some critics call this “meta-pseudoscience” or “derivative junk science. Find empirical dirt →speculate effects →Fabricate costs. #UofU has issues. A peer review process could fix.

Audit of UTDNR, M&I water conservation opportunity document. Designed to influence #GreatSaltLake water policy. This has taken a few weeks to work through with AI help. should have significant ramifications. for how to proceed. #utah #utpol #utleg drive.google.com/file/d/1W6GE...

Auditing the M&I Water Conservation Opportunities report. I have a lot of editing to do before release-this should be a hint😉 If anyone listens, it could save taxpayers millions.

1/ 178 years is GSL's recorded history, a tiny fraction of its life. Yet, it is used as a baseline for projecting its health status.

as far as I can tell nobody reads me here, so I use this place to put together thoughts. I am going through the M&I document put out by UTDNR. I realize they are trying to retrofit decades worth of supply side water management into the new Great Salt Lake narrative. but it doesn't fit.

It appears to me that there really has not been a solid Great Salt Lake study. The USU study was on saline lakes in general, but each lake has its own nuances. BYU study took generalized information from Colorado river and else ware and applied it to the GSL. Nothing strictly GSL hydrology.

A list of reservoirs in the GSL basin. Looking at this list exemplifies how problematic past #GreatSaltLake studies have been in omitting their retention and evaporation as a large portion of flows missing from GSL. It has let policy make decisions on half of the information needed.

Gov. Cox unveiled plans for 2,600 miles of trails in #Utah . Asan e-biker, this is awesome!

1/ Understanding return to flow. When you take a shower, press the plug down and allow the water to build up, notice how much water accumulates. when you pull the plug that water drains to the GSL after sanitation. That is return to flow.

There are 3 ways it can playout. Cap reservoirs and see positive change over time. Weather steps in and delivers more precipitation than reservoirs can retain. Continue water conservation as is, which depletes return flows and watch the lake diminish over time.

#GreatSaltLake management has opportunity to effect positive change through informed and innovative practice of capping reservoir storage. #utah #slowtheflow #waterwise #utpol #utleg

3 years ago, UTDNR claimed "GSL could dry up in 5 years", I knew they were full of shit. That started me on my journey of investigating everything GSL related. UTDNR claimed water conservation, especially agriculture could "save" the lake, instead, that turned out to be a net negative.

Concerning the #GreatSaltLake news media If it does not meet the metric of acre-feet of water to the lake, it is Great Salt Lake theater.

1/ The bragging has been done. The berm was raised. The metric was not met - acre feet to the lake. The lowering of salinity in the south arm is not guaranteed. The rise of salinity to the north arm is the most likely outcome.

just the last couple weeks In our area of Utah Trump supporters have been removing their Trump flags. I suspect this is due to what happened to Kirk.

Going forward if the Utah media is mentioning the GSL but not talking about excessive reservoir storage and acre-feet to the lake, just know it is click bait. All the rest is theatrics.

Utah Division of natural Recourses published Municiple and Industrial: Water Conservation opportunities. I did a review of the information on twitter. It was if there were no hydrology involved. Propaganda to sway politicians in order to increase funding.

#GreatSaltLake water year end 2025 GSL lost 1.5' year over year. Still a gain of 2.5' over 2022' low elevation of 4188.5' Average snowpack, below average summer precipitation ending at 85% of median.

Sooner or later policy makers are going to have to meet me at capping reservoir storage. Otherwise, status quo will continue, and the lake will slowly decline more. Let's hope they come to their senses sooner than later. If they don't it could get really costly to taxpayers and the GSL ecosystem.

#GreatSaltLake fuel forecast Raining cats and dogs today! More on the way💦 #utwx #cowx #Idwx #wywx #SKI #Skiutah #skiIdaho #skicolorado #skiwyoming #nvwx #azwx #mtwx #CAwx www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZVr...

#GreatSaltLlake Hydrology 101 Diversion ≠ Depletion Imagine you scoop water from a stream into a bucket. If you pour some of it on a plant, that portion is gone. But if you dump the rest back into the stream, that portion keeps flowing. That’s the difference

#GreatSaltLake fuel forecast Scattered mountain snow, valley rain, active pattern #utwx #cowx #Idwx #wywx #SKI #Skiutah #skiIdaho #skicolorado #skiwyoming #nvwx #azwx #mtwx #CAwx youtube.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ybc...

#GreatSaltLake fuel forecast Modest precipitation to the GSL basin, but active. #utwx #cowx #Idwx #wywx #SKI #Skiutah #skiIdaho #skicolorado #skiwyoming #nvwx #azwx #mtwx #CAwx www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF48...

#GreatSaltLake needs a pivot. I understand #BYU and #UofU misdiagnosing and promoting misaligned interventions, but #USU being hydrologists escapes me. Return to flow and reservoir retention are systemic oversight that distorts the entire framing of water availability and conservation.

We can treat 53% statewide reservoir storage in 2021 as a concrete baseline for excessive retention. Even in the lowest reservoir storage year on record, Utah maintained 53% capacity — and still met municipal, agricultural, and industrial needs without major shortages.

#GreatSaltLake fuel forecast 9/28-30, 10/3, 10/5-6 precipitation events. GSL is 4191.1', 2.6' above Nov. 2022's low elevation. #utwx #cowx #Idwx #wywx #SKI #Skiutah #skiIdaho #skicolorado #skiwyoming #nvwx #azwx #mtwx #CAwx www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAZM...

#GreatSaltLake solution Cap reservoir storage Instead of filling every reservoir to capacity, cap reservoirs at 60,70, 80, 90% depending on actual needs of individual reservoirs. This would cut down on evaporation losses, allow flows to return to the GSL and make water conservation meaningful.

#GreatSaltLake narrative 3 years of platitudes, fear mongering, hundreds of millions spent and not a significant thing has actually been done to increase the elevation of the GSL. So far 2023 high precipitation for free and cloud seeding for few million have increased elevation to the lake.

#GreatSaltLake fuel forecast Active weekend. Beginning of water year coming in with a punch! #utwx #cowx #Idwx #wywx #SKI #Skiutah #skiIdaho #skicolorado #skiwyoming #nvwx #azwx #mtwx #CAwx www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Vy...

#GreatSaltLake extended winter fuel forecast Looking like above normal storm tracking for the GSL water basin👍 #utwx #cowx #Idwx #wywx #SKI #Skiutah #skiIdaho #skicolorado #skiwyoming #nvwx #azwx #mtwx #CAwx www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME2W...

#GreatSaltlake dust science is not settled science The science is lacking epistemology, proper attributions, monitoring is insufficient to justify claims made in the media. Infrequency of events, the comparable to the 178 years of the much larger Great Salt Lake desert impact have been blind spots.

GSL is losing more water to evaporation from upstream reservoirs than the lake receives from its largest tributary, and no one’s accountable for it. Excessive Reservoir retention is the largest nonessential loss to GSL's inflow system. Shallow and wide reservoirs maximize surface area and loss.

1/ After three years of pushing back on the term “toxic dust”, we finally saw a shift toward more accurate, evidence-based language. Now, another exaggeration is problematic: “dust hotspots".

New contender dominating the Scientific Gap Hurdling Championships, clearing contradictions with rose-colored glasses polished in Rose Park smog. Watch closely as they leap over inconvenient data to land attribution for #GreatSaltLake decline squarely on communities of color. #UofU

In Utah we are working towards a new legislative session. Expect to see an uptick in #GreatSaltLake misinformation and exaggeration as entities via for funding of their pet projects. Henny Penny's will be screaming about dust and dryness so they can fill their pockets with taxpayer's cash. #utpol

Well, Gov. Cox didn't get the answer to his prayers he was hoping for. DOJ cannot find a connection between Tyler and the left. Others have pointed out connections to Groypers that seem to be holding. We know he was raised in Utah, raised Mormon, raised with guns in a conservative household.