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The Great Salt Lake Files

Sources: Utah Legislature · Office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner · Division of Water Rights · Division of Water Resources · USGS · Great Salt Lake Strike Team · Utah DEQ — 88 primary documents mirrored, checksum-verified, and unmodified. Measured data is labeled separately from advocacy claims and political framing. How we built this →

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Search inside all 88 documents

All 1,995 pages — enrolled bills, fiscal notes, the Commissioner's strategic plan, the Compass Minerals agreement, the distribution management plan, Strike Team data reports, and peer-reviewed dust science — are full-text searchable, with computer-vision OCR applied to scanned bills. Try acre-feet, severance tax, 4198, brine shrimp, or arsenic.

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The Documents

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Understanding the Record

What the record shows — and what it does not

The Great Salt Lake terrain

The basin as a three-dimensional object, built from public elevation data with satellite imagery draped over it — the same model that ships inside the Utah News iOS app. Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom.

Three-dimensional terrain model of the Great Salt Lake basin viewed from the south: two blue lake lobes split by the railroad causeway, ringed by a wide band of pale exposed lakebed, with the Wasatch Range rising along the eastern edge.

On iPhone and iPad, tap the AR button to place the lake on a table in front of you.

Terrain elevation: USGS/SRTM. Surface imagery: USDA NAIP. The water surface is a modeled plane included for shape and orientation — it is not a measurement of any particular year's lake level. For measured elevations, see the USGS records in the documents above.

Watch & Listen

Briefings, documentaries, and the live data

Official briefings from the Commissioner and the Strike Team, public-media documentaries, and satellite imagery of four decades of change. Inclusion is not endorsement.