07-17-2016, 05:14 AM
TD do you know if Utah Lake has always received treated waste water? I wondered if the algae blooms still occurred or even if they did if the blooms were less severe before treated waste water was dumped into the lake. Actually, I know the history of the lake and know it used to be allowed for raw sewage to be dumped in the lake. I think its obviously an improvement to go from raw sewage to treated waste water but I don't know if that's still good enough. I agree the low water level(partially weather and partially as a result of our politics at work) is a major factor for this occurring. However, I wonder if the bigger problem is the fact that treated waste water is going into the lake. It's not really my field of expertise on what we could do about treating waste water, however I think at minimum the waste water release could be relocated somewhere else and the Utah Lake problem could be ameliorated. I guarantee even if the treated waste water went to some wetland right by the lake that was surrounded with cat tails and wetland plants that it would drain into the ground and filter through the soil and plants. I guarantee that would be better than dumping it directly into the lake. I know we want to blame low water level(our fault and natures) but I think we should start questioning the sustainability of doing things like dumping treated waste water directly into water sources. Dumping waste water into wetlands near a water source is 1 million times better for the environment than directly dumping waste water into the water source.
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