The saltberg situation worries me for the long term. The thin crust (3ft thick according to Dick Wad at the BLM) delamination exposing patches of the brine dirt are not likely going to fill themselves back in this year. The surface looked good at the T&T but was only about 1/2" thick in the pit area but I expected it to be a bit thinner there since we were down near lands end. Unfortunately this still looks like the slow death of Bonneville to me. The reason the color looks better now is due to the fact that Intrepid "isn't" pumping their tailings back on to the flats & that's why the off-white look has gone away. Now all their salt harvesting is being pumped from the water table under the flats & that's why the canal that goes through the bend is flowing to capacity. There are two other canals, one closer to Wendover that I didn't get to check & the really big one down towards Floating Mt. I haven't seen that not flowing in a long time but it was pi$$ing down so bad when I went buy, just seeing the road was a challenge so I don't know for sure.
I'm planning to go down & check it after the water is gone. For anybody else wanting to check it, this is the easy way. West bound on I-80 get off at the rest stop & drive out to the dyke. The salt in there is like concrete, then just walk out to the course area.
I located the heart crystal base a few years ago then the next year had trouble even finding it again but never plotted it's total size. I want to do that again.
Sid.