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| East Canyon Reservoir 8/11/11 |
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| East Canyon Reservoir 10/7/2014 |
Here is a comparison over the years of a reservoir in the Wasatch Mountains using Google Earth Pro. Google just offered their high end Google Earth Pro license free for anyone. Which means you get to use their imagery for whatever purpose you want, which in this case, is for my high end blog that is viewed by millions every day. Thanks Google!
Utah, like most of the Western US has had a hard time with a water shortage. Our dismal snowpack this year shows us that things aren't going to get better any time soon. These two images, taken at roughly the same time of year 3 years apart show the change in water level, and it doesn't look good. I measured the surface area of the water by hand using Google Earth Pro and in 2011 the surface area measured 1.04 square miles, 2014? .58 square miles, almost half. I measured it by hand, not using any fancy classification, so it's not 100% accurate, but that's still not a good sign.
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