Architectural Framework for Remediating Anthropogenic Inflow Losses to Great Salt Lake
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| author | Ferrin, James |
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| contents | <p>This study presents a mechanism‑first architectural framework for understanding and remediating anthropogenic inflow losses to Great Salt Lake. Traditional accounting frameworks have focused on municipal, industrial, mineral, and agricultural depletions, leaving the largest human‑caused losses — reservoir storage, reservoir evaporation, groundwater buffering loss, and return‑flow elimination — outside formal measurement. Using basin‑scale evidence, including long‑term groundwater declines, impoundment footprints, and non‑return storage, the analysis identifies the dominant mechanisms that prevent water from reaching the lake.</p> <p>Building on the empirical findings of Ferrin (2025), the study outlines a four‑pillar remedy architecture: reservoir reallocation and evaporation reduction, groundwater discharge protection, depletion offsets, and institutional accounting reform. Together, these structural corrections realign management with hydrologic reality and provide a pathway to stabilize Great Salt Lake by restoring the mechanisms that deliver water to it.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Architectural Framework for Remediating Anthropogenic Inflow Losses to Great Salt Lake Ferrin, James Great Salt Lake, saline lakes, hydrologic mechanisms, increase flows <p>This study presents a mechanism‑first architectural framework for understanding and remediating anthropogenic inflow losses to Great Salt Lake. Traditional accounting frameworks have focused on municipal, industrial, mineral, and agricultural depletions, leaving the largest human‑caused losses — reservoir storage, reservoir evaporation, groundwater buffering loss, and return‑flow elimination — outside formal measurement. Using basin‑scale evidence, including long‑term groundwater declines, impoundment footprints, and non‑return storage, the analysis identifies the dominant mechanisms that prevent water from reaching the lake.</p> <p>Building on the empirical findings of Ferrin (2025), the study outlines a four‑pillar remedy architecture: reservoir reallocation and evaporation reduction, groundwater discharge protection, depletion offsets, and institutional accounting reform. Together, these structural corrections realign management with hydrologic reality and provide a pathway to stabilize Great Salt Lake by restoring the mechanisms that deliver water to it.</p> |
| title | Architectural Framework for Remediating Anthropogenic Inflow Losses to Great Salt Lake |
| topic | Great Salt Lake, saline lakes, hydrologic mechanisms, increase flows |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18931251 |