The shores of the Great Salt Lake near Syracuse are pictured on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)
A Utah professor is laying out solutions to help keep dust containing heavy metals in the bed of the Great Salt Lake and out of the lungs of 2.5 million people living along the Wasatch Front.
Kevin Perry says the state could water the bare lakebed like a lawn, create a sea of solar panels, or till it like a farm. Workers could scatter seeds for tall grass or seal it with brine. They could also flood it with water or lay down gravel and brush piles…