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Dredging the great salt lake
Dredging the great salt lake




Low water forced owners to pull their sailboats from the slips at the dock last year. The Salt Lake Yacht Club has lost a lot of its membership," said Shearer, the harbor master who has lived on site for more than 17 years, as he maneuvered the boat through the extremely shallow waters of the harbor. "It's had a huge impact on morale, on the sailing community out here. The mud, the smell, the dreary line of dry-docked sailboats helps to etch Dave Shearer's wind-weathered face into an expression of near hopelessness, of being beaten down - not by the elements of sun and sea but by staring every day at a marina that does not function. GREAT SALT LAKE - Along with black mud churned up by the whirling propellers of the state park's patrol boat, the machinery digging into the lake bed unleashed an awful, nauseating smell of decaying brine shrimp Friday.






Dredging the great salt lake