SLC in June

[Jim Ziobro]

	From the Associated Press:

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SALT LAKE CITY - The great Salt Lake swollen by two winters of record snow and
rain, has already caused more than $100 million in damage without harming homes.
Now officials say it threatens to back its tributaries into city subdivisions.

	The brackish inland sea, which covers about 10 million square acres,
has been rising constantly during two years of record rain and snowfall and
below normal evaporation.

...
	Under normal conditions, the lake surface is expected to rise as high
as 4,209 feet above sea level at its peak near the end of June ... but the
National Weather Service says precipitation could be between 110 and 130
percent of normal ... pushing the lake to its 1983 record of 4,211.6 feet.

...
	Along inundated beaches of what is one of Utah's major tourist
attractions, the onion-domed Saltair Resort has become an island.  Its
parking lots are under water. ...

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James M. Ziobro
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