- Salt Lake City airport has safeguards against chemical spills but risks remain.
- Since 2019, seven incidents of chemical spills, containing PFAS, occurred.
- In 2019, 10,000 gallons reached the Great Salt Lake, causing environmental concerns.
Editor’s note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about the plight of the Great Salt Lake.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake City airport covers more than 8,000 acres and serves tens of millions of passengers a year. Most of them come and go without thinking much about the airport itself or the land around it, including sensitive wetlands and a canal that feeds directly into the Great Salt Lake.
But Kevin Staples thinks about it a lot. As the environmental program manager for the airport, it’s his job…