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Article: Businessman's knowledge of Great Salt Lake legendary.
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- The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Byline: Mike Gorrell
Dec. 1--Peter Behrens understood the Great Salt Lake as well as anyone, from years of observing how its rise and fall affected the ability of his company, Great Salt Lake Minerals and Chemicals Corp., to extract sulphate of potash from its briny waters.
Those observations prompted Behrens, who died Friday in Ogden at the age of 78, to express some of the earliest warnings about a rising lake level, nearly a decade before it reached a modern historic high in the mid-1980s.
In its climb to 4,211.6 feet above sea level, 16 feet higher than its elevation Wednesday, the lake wiped out Great Salt Lake Minerals' extraction ponds ...