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Advisory council greenlights data compilation to quantify salts removed by mineral-extraction operations
Summary
Council members discussed a proposed $27,000 scoped study to compile public and confidential mineral-extraction data (pumping volumes, diversion points, return flows) from companies including Mort's Salt, US Magnesium, Cargill and Compass to better quantify salts removed from the lake.
The advisory council reviewed a short work plan to compile and evaluate mineral-extraction data aimed at quantifying water and salt removed from Great Salt Lake by commercial operations.
Speaker 5 outlined a scoped, short-term data-compilation effort tailored to the council’s earlier concept, noting the work would focus on publicly available records and on obtaining non-public company data in aggregated…
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