By Mike Stark, Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY Hey, Great
Salt Lake: Your shoreline is showing. All summer and into the
fall, warm temperatures kept evaporation humming, drawing down
the lake to near-record low levels and exposing more shore than
normal. But the shrinking appears finally to have stopped.
Wallace Gwynn, of the Utah Geological Survey, says the current
lake level — measured at 4,194 feet above sea level — seems to
have bottomed out about 6 feet below normal. "I don't think
we're going to go a lot lower than this," Gwynn said. The lake
hasn't been this low since the early 1970s. Some speculated it
might slip past the record low of 4,191.35 feet set in 1963. But
cooler temperatures this fall are finally bringing the shrinking
to a stop. That's welcome news to boaters driven away by shallow
waters. "Six years ago, when I arrived as park manager, we had
70 sailboats in the marina," said Ron Taylor, who runs Antelope
Island State Park in the southern part of the lake. "Now we have
two." The la