GSL Slip Renters. As most of you know, we had a slow start to the winter. This changed mid-winter and the snowpack recovered by March with snowpack totals for the Great Salt Lake drainage area exceeding 110% most of the early spring. But this was not enough to repair the damage done to ground water tables and reservoirs. And the lake came in just short of my predicted high lake level of 4195.4. This creates some problems I think you all deserve to be made aware of: First of all, if you have a boat with a fixed keel at the Antelope Island Marina, get it out of there now. Bring it down to the GSL Marina. If you have a swing keel boat, you have probably until mid-July before you will not be able to utilize the launch ramp up there. Second, The Great Salt Lake Marina mouth will become shallow this fall. The depth is likely to be between 4' to 3.7' this fall. This will also be true for a portion of the Deep Channel parallel to the break wall. Third, many of you with deeper draft keels will have your keels in the mud this fall and a portion of the winter until runoff starts coming down in earnest sometime in February. Right now I am predicting a low lake level of this fall being around 4193.1' This is about a half foot lower than our low of four years ago. The predicted low lake level can be affected in a couple of ways though. If we have a wet summer, it can mitigate some of the evaporation effect. If we have a cooler than normal summer this can also help mitigate the damage. But if we have a longer, hotter, dryer than normal summer it could bring that predicted lake level even lower by about 3/10ths of a foot. But not is all dire news though. The Great Salt Lake Drainage area is no longer in a drought as the rest of Utah is. We have pulled out of the drought. The problem is that ground water levels and reservoir levels were so low that the snowpack ran into the ground and reservoirs. Those areas have replenished their supplies. And NOAA is predicting normal temperatures for summer with above average precipitation. It appears the storm tracks are expected to stay over the Great Salt Lake Drainage area as well as hotter temperatures staying to the south of us. If this holds to be true for summer and fall it could set the lake up for increasing lake levels next winter. We will be sounding the whole marina over the next few days to see what impact the lower levels will have for boats on particular docks. Thank you. Dave Dave Shearer Harbor Master Great Salt Lake State Marina Antelope Island State Marina 801-250-1898