In the Twin Cities metro area, 78 percent of the salt applied to roads stays within the region’s watershed. Chloride from road salt is washed away into our lakes ... that soak up salty water ...

Clocking in at roughly 35 miles wide and 75 miles long, the Great Salt Lake is the largest natural saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere. The lake's name comes from the nature of the water ...

The Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake ... record low volume in 2022," Bigalke said. The decline in lake levels leading up to 2022 has been widely attributed to low stream flows from ...