“I think it’s the dumbest idea,” Holdaway says. On top of all that, the company posits that the real estate opportunities would provide a private funding mechanism and take some of the pressure off a tense housing market.īut many, including Jacob Holdaway, a shoreline landowner conducting a wetland restoration project on his property, are calling the project a smoke and mirrors operation that would leave the state worse than it found it. Lake Restoration Solutions says this radical overhaul could cure the lake of a bad case of algal blooms, turn its water from turbid to pristine and improve its storage capacity - an arresting proposition in a fast-growing state in the throes of a megadrought. A sprawling subdivision connected by roadways and bridges would rise as hundreds of thousands of people move into newly built homes. Army Corps of Engineers earlier this year, this lakebed mud would then be chiseled into artificial islands, which would cover one-fifth of Utah Lake’s surface. According to an application received by the U.S. If Lake Restorations Solutions, a Utah-based business, has its way, 60 dredgers could soon be digging into the lake, scooping up enough mud to fill 300,000 Olympic swimming pools. In the coming decades, this serene place could be disrupted by the din of one of the largest development projects in Utah history. Calm waters reflect the saw-toothed silhouettes of the Wasatch Range, framed by rust-colored reeds and the feeling that - even though you are very much in the middle of a valley filled with ribbons of highways, dense housing and hundreds of thousands of people - you’re among nature. A gravel path stretches out south from the Lindon Marina, tracing a wobbly line along the eastern shore of Utah Lake.
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