Dike it, dye it or blow a hole in the bottom? Pumping came out the winner in ideas to tame lake

Though ridiculed by some as (Gov. Norm) Bangerter's Folly, the Great Salt Lake pumping project was selected by the Utah Legislature in 1986 from among dozens of proposals to subdue a ravening lake that had risen to nearly 4,212 feet and was inches away from causing over $1 billion in damage....