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    • Education & Information Ideas
    • Small Acreage Farms
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    • What is nonpoint source pollution?
    • Management of Utah's NPS Pollution
    • Best Management Practices
    • Assessment and Monitoring
    • The Status of Utah's Waterbodies
  • Find Your Watershed
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GREAT SALT LAKE WATERSHED
Interesting Facts

Great Salt Lake Watershed​
  • The Great Salt Lake Watershed, as referred to by DWQ, represents the West Desert portion of the watershed.
  • It is the most arid region of Utah
  • Due to the harsh nature of the basin, 88% of the population occupies only 7% of the land

Great Salt Lake
  • The Great Salt Lake is the 6th largest lake in the USA.
  • The salt content in the Great Salt Lake is 3-8 times saltier than the ocean.
  • ‰Fourth largest saline lake and terminal lake in the world ‰
  • GSL creates a lake effect by moderating local weather patterns which produces large snowfalls in the mountains ‰
  • Free from fish, the largest aquatic wildlife are brine shrimp and brine flies ‰
  • Supports between 2 and 5 million shorebirds and is part of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network
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Land Cover
  • Urban 0.1%
  • Forest 11%
  • Agriculture 2%
  • Rangeland 54%
  • Other 33%
Land Ownership
  • BLM 54%
  • State 7%
  • Forest Service 4%
  • Private 18%
  • Other 17%
Counties in this watershed
  • Box Elder 
  • Tooele
  • Juab 
  • Millard 
Sub-watersheds
  • Curlew Valley (southern half)
  • Raft (southern)
  • Goose (southern portion)
  • Northern Great Salt Lake Desert
  • Pilot-Thousand Springs, Nevada, Utah (small eastern portion)
  • Southern Great Salt Lake Desert
  • Hamlin-Snake Valleys (eastern half)
  • Tule Valley
  • Skull Valley
  • Rush-Tooele Valleys

Utah Division of Water Quality

USU Water Quality Extension

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