'It is probably our most expensive type of dust control coming in at $36 million a square mile' - Simply put, saving the Great Salt Lake is the only way to avoid the choice between crippling costs and unbreathable air.
The saltwater lake, just like it's giant cousin in Utah, was deceptively alive; not with fish, but with migratory birds resting on their seasonal journeys to feed on brine shrimp and insects.
In 1913, Owen's Lake was lost to the thirst of what would soon become America's second-largest metropolis: Los Angeles, which bought the water rights and diverted the Owen's River into a 230-mile long aqueduct. A system of pipes and canals built with the muscle of men and mules. The engineering marvel made modern day Los Angeles possible, but did so by creating an environmental disaster.
"The way it works really is by creating a roughened surface. It doesn’t allow any specific particle of dust on the surface to create enough acceleration to come off of that surface," said Phil Kiddoo with the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District.
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