KSL: Engineers testing northern Utah’s Hyrum Dam – Engineers are drilling to determine the composition of the 75-year-old Hyrum Dam and whether it would hold up to a major earthquake.
Ogden Standard Examiner: Wetlands should be safe from oil leak – The 33,000 gallons of crude oil that drained into the Jordan River from a Salt Lake City creek and flowed north toward Davis County, pose very little and likely no threat to the wetlands that thousands of birds call home in Davis County.
Deseret News: Chevron replaces section of Red Butte pipe – Chevron officials have replaced a 22-foot section of the pipeline that fractured last weekend sending an estimated 33,000 gallons of crude oil into Red Butte Creek.
KCPW: Oil slick sighted in Great Salt Lake wetlands – It remains unclear whether oil sheen spotted on Great Salt Lake is linked to Saturday morning’s oil spill in Salt Lake City, though the company responsible says it’s not.
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