If you want to enhance the watertable is to harvest rainwater via small frequent bioswales, swales, checkdams, bunds, etc made from onsite materials. Brad Lancaster's books are a great source for strategies in rural, urban and suburban areas. Switching to largely restoration ag farming practices developed by Mark Shepard is also key to preserving groundwater. Avoid bare ground (due to plowing/fallow)/monoculture practices. Giving preference to healthy soil and polycultures of perennials, trees, vines and shrubs while avoiding pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers also reduces costs and vulnerabilities to weather. Andrew Millison advocates keeping tree cover on hills/mountains where the site is too steep for water retaining structures. Ranching is better done by employing Allen Savory's methods, but Mark Shepards are more food dense. Avoid CAFO beef and beef on overgrazed land at all costs. These reduce evaporation losses, recharge the aquifer but also recharges lakes creek and rivers for much longer periods. This also reduces electrical needs to pump water to maintain landscaping, crop moisture. Trees are good because the moisture they give off combines with the water they transpire to create rain. These strategies mitigate flooding, drought and fire events as well. They improve the watertable/aquifer and purify both water and air. They reduce electrical and other costs as well. Win-Win-Win!
LAST year was a a "normal" winter here in the region. Most all of that snow pack and water went into the ground. It's a safe bet that this lake will rise higher than the pros predicted. Our rain months haven't started yet and that will play into the overall lake levels. Like myself and everyone else. It truly is difficult to tell how the watershed in the lakes will be once summer kicks in. Mother Nature has her own ideas. All we can do it wait and watch. Also, currently there are a lot of reports of flooding along the Wasatch front. When flooding happens that water gets a go right on ahead to the GSL.
