Drag the slider. Watch 75 miles of shoreline vanish.
Full pool. Seventy-five miles of water, barely thirty feet deep. The lake looks permanent.
A few feet of drop. The shoreline retreats miles — because the bed is almost flat.
Below 4,198 ft, the ecosystem can’t sustain itself. The exposed crust dries, cracks, and goes airborne.
Twenty feet down. 800+ square miles of toxic lakebed exposed. Arsenic, mercury, heavy metals — blowing across state lines.
Four more feet. That’s the gap between today and collapse. Four feet across a plate seventy-five miles wide.
The water didn’t disappear. It was diverted.
Into 166,573 alfalfa fields — up to 93% of what the lake needs. As the bed dries, arsenic and mercury blow across state lines.
Data: Utah DWR Water Related Land Use 2024 · USGS · Methodology