OGDEN, Utah (AP) - Great Salt Lake Minerals says it is reducing the amount of additional water it will request to take from Great Salt Lake in to produce potassium sulfate and other chemicals.
Dave Hyams, GSL's spokesman, told the Standard-Examiner of Ogden the reduction from 353,000 acre-feet per year to 150,000 is possible because of technology that will let the company increase the efficiency of its existing evaporation ponds by 60 percent.
GSL mines potassium sulfate that is used as a fertilizer from the Great Salt Lake by putting lake water in giant ponds and letting the water evaporate out.
If less water escapes, more is evaporated and more minerals are recovered.
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Information from: Standard-Examiner.
