Rotenone eradication is impossible. The presence of the June Sucker, the sheer

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Mar 21, 2017
12:06:47pm

Backcountry All-American

Rotenone eradication is impossible. The presence of the June Sucker, the sheer

size of the lake, and large number of tributaries and springs feeding the lake ensure that treatment will never happen. The best bet really is carp elimination. I doubt it will work. Those nasty things are just too prolific and too well suited to that lake. It's a shame. MAssive environmental disaster.,

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Drain Utah lake and develop it

jrifkin48

3/20/17 10:04pm

RELATED: Let's xeriscape all our lawns.

Wadds

3/20/17 10:06pm

How about quit building houses on the West side of the lake....done

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

3/20/17 10:06pm

I've been tucked away in Sugar house for 8 years. One day I drove through that

Cougarfan777

3/20/17 10:09pm

I'm still kicking myself for not buying 1000 acres or so over there...I'd be CB

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

3/20/17 10:13pm

Where else are they supposed to be built?

southernfriedcougar

3/20/17 10:11pm

Texas

chilango

3/20/17 10:14pm

If you understood the infrastructure issues in the area you'd say stop building

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

3/20/17 10:16pm

There are these things called humans inhabiting the world. More all the time

southernfriedcougar

3/20/17 10:22pm

There's this thing called water...and the last few years the area is running out

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

3/20/17 10:29pm

It's not as bad as you are thinking it is. Nothing that other booming Utah areas haven't dealt with before.

cougarnerd

3/20/17 10:54pm

It actually is. The guy who buys water rights is a friend. It could get bad

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

3/21/17 11:14am

YAHTZEE!!!

crazY

3/20/17 10:09pm

Meh. Not impressed.

yahtzee

3/21/17 12:30am

Sounds affordable

friscokid

3/20/17 10:09pm

Fill it with dirt and it will move north and flood slc

wapiti

3/20/17 10:10pm

all you have to do to accomplish that is blow up the dam in Lehi

Nat Gas Man

3/20/17 10:22pm

What dam would that be?

BYU Grounds

3/21/17 10:07am

there is a small control dam on the Jordan River that regulates how much water

Nat Gas Man

3/21/17 10:15am

LOL, "Build roads for more Houses for more people for more cars

Downtown

3/20/17 10:11pm

Better solution...actually do some city planning.

Downtown

3/20/17 10:15pm

As beautiful as Europe? Riiiight.

Kerbouchard

3/20/17 10:17pm

Depends on what part of Europe.

chilango

3/20/17 10:19pm

Ask Europeans where they think the most beautiful place is.

Downtown

3/20/17 10:30pm

And the answer won't be Utah County, that's for sure.

Kerbouchard

3/20/17 10:49pm

Comparing a 2,000 square mile county to a continent...

Caboom

3/20/17 10:41pm

Yes, lame comparison. As beautiful as parts of arid southern Spain? Sure.

Kerbouchard

3/20/17 10:51pm

Yeah, that's what I meant...actually I meant Kauai

Downtown

3/20/17 10:52pm

yes, Kauai is as beautiful as certain parts of Europe.

Kerbouchard

3/21/17 7:10am

I wouldn't mind exploring an option to dredge the bottom and deepen the lake

gmj81

3/20/17 10:14pm

The real problem is when the early pioneers brought carp.

Downtown

3/20/17 10:16pm

yep, gotta get rid of the carp that forage off of all the underwater vegetation

gmj81

3/20/17 10:16pm

Friggin pioneers

maxpowers

3/20/17 11:11pm

Here is a cool video. Just watch the first 90 seconds:

Brisco

3/20/17 11:45pm

Just blow it up. That'll kill all the carp.

3/21/17 5:14pm

If Utah Lake (and connecting canals, etc.) was magically free of carp right now...

Brisco

3/20/17 11:53pm

Just image a nice, clean Utah Lake. That would be a real boon to the area.

mudpupper

3/21/17 8:23am

If the lake was half the size but twice as deep it would be a real boon to Utah

HootnHoller

3/21/17 8:48am

If they only filled Provo and Goshen Bay, it would be an improvement...

gmj81

3/21/17 9:58am

As far as lakes go, it's pretty ugly.

OpusX

3/20/17 10:18pm

Its really not though. If you are any distance away its generally fine

Dissenter

3/21/17 7:43am

'Allegedly' put a man on the moon...

BYUtka

3/20/17 10:20pm

Why is that in quotes? Are you quoting yourself?

Martin Van Nostrand

3/20/17 10:33pm

The Russians.

Kerbouchard

3/20/17 10:51pm

Because. No.

BYUtka

3/21/17 9:35am

Turn it into a wiper and pike fishery. The June sucker is toast regardless.

Backcountry

3/21/17 1:15am

No thanks.

ByuImaginesDragons

3/21/17 1:45am

That sounds like it would really help inversion.

mpfunk

3/21/17 7:13am

Can't wait for all those dust storms in summer. We can be Phoenix.

byuluvr

3/21/17 7:41am

^^This^^ - the local climate would be changed, and not in a good way.

3/21/17 4:29pm

Just poison all the fish and start over again with new fish and no carp

viper

3/21/17 10:54am

Rotenone eradication is impossible. The presence of the June Sucker, the sheer

Backcountry

3/21/17 12:06pm

Can't....June Sucker is a protected species

HootnHoller

3/21/17 12:21pm

Might be easier to catch as many June suckers as possible and then poison the

Nat Gas Man

3/21/17 2:56pm

Maybe Trump would allow it

Chambana Coug

3/21/17 7:24pm

The trout are gone for good unfortunately. And there is already a captive

Backcountry

3/21/17 8:09pm

There isn't enough poison in the world to make that work

MapCoug

3/21/17 4:53pm

Yeah, who needs water???

Nagurski

3/21/17 2:49pm

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