New Research Indicates Salt Flat Preserving Method May Have Made Shrinking Worse

(Bonneville Salt Flats, UT) — New research indicates that the Bonneville Salt Flats preservation method may have had reverse effect. According to research published in the Utah Geological Association Journal, the laydown process that involves mixing leftover mining salts with ground water and flooding it across the flats will not fix the shrinking problem. There is not enough data available to determine if the process is helping, and some information indicates it may be actually hurting the land more. Regardless of the findings this is not a problem that will be fixed quickly as the lead researcher on the project put it, ” This is water that’s ten-to-20-thousand years old, so it’s not getting restored very quickly.”