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It's been a brutal few weeks for Utah. The state is in a declared drought emergency after the warmest winter and lowest snowpack on record, wildfires have burned more than 357,000 acres statewide, and on July 8 a dust plume off the Great Salt Lake pushed Wasatch Front air quality to hazardous levels, carrying arsenic and other metals from the exposed lakebed.
This is what a drying Great Salt Lake looks like. It's the backdrop for a permit decision that would add more industrial demand on a closed water basin and more pollution headed toward the wetlands the lake has left.
Please join us at a public hearing in two weeks that determines whether this damaging development will move forward.
The Utah Division of Water Quality has scheduled a hearing on a proposed permit that would authorize 252,000 gallons per day of industrial brine discharge—reject water from a reverse osmosis system serving a data center campus in Tooele Valley—into wetlands that drain directly to Great Salt Lake.
The discharge route enters an actively monitored Intermountain West Shorebird Survey area on the south shore of Great Salt Lake.
This industrial development is being made possible through public financing provided by the Utah Inland Port Authority (UIPA), which is modeled after the Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA).
PUBLIC HEARING: UPDESPermit UT0026409
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Come to the hearing, in person or online. Showing up builds the public record and sends a signal about who is paying attention.
To speak, sign in when you arrive. Two minutes is enough. Say you oppose the permit, name the wetlands and the birds, the cumulative impacts that this enables and ask DWQ to deny or substantially revise it.
Send a written comment by July 27. Email wqcomments@utah.gov, reference permit UT0026409. A sentence or two is fine. Your words matter more than you think.
The brine discharge contains arsenic and will enter Class 5E transitional wetlands with zero dilution
DWQ reclassified the receiving water without public notice
No pre-discharge baseline monitoring has been conducted
The full antidegradation analysis is incomplete
No air quality permit has been filed for the 500-megawatt gas power plant that would serve the data center campus
Bottom line: The Utah Division of Water Quality should not finalize this permit until the cumulative impacts, downstream protections, and real-world testing have occurred.
This is $234 million in public subsidy, UIPA tax increment financing plus tax-exempt bonds through two Public Infrastructure Districts, going to a development that begins with a diesel truck stop next to a shorebird wetland and ends with a gas-fired data center the size of a small power plant.
The hearing is the public’s opportunity to put that on the record. Please join us!
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