Freshwater under Great Salt Lake playa
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Freshwater under Great Salt Lake playa
March 23, 2026
Above: A helicopter crew prepares to fly airborne electromagnetic survey equipment from a staging area on Antelope Island on Feb. 28, 2025. Photo credit: Brian Maffly, University of Utah.
In a first of its kind breakthrough, U geophysicists used electromagnetic data from airborne surveys to characterize a deep freshwater reservoir under Farmington Bay.
A potentially huge underground reservoir of freshwater beneath the Great Salt Lake is...