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Gov. Cox orders Great Salt Lake causeway be raised again in effort to stave off ecological collapse

Sacrificing the north arm could slow further environmental implosion, but it comes with its own consequences.

(Image courtesy of the Utah Division of Water Resources) Crews raise the breach in a rock-filled causeway bisecting the Great Salt Lake in an effort to stave off rising salinity in the lake's south arm, seen here in July 2022. Gov. Spencer Cox recently ordered the breach be raised another five feet.