The Nation - News from June 10, 1986

Water gushing through a widening breach in a Great Salt Lake dike slowed as Utah officials studied ways to protect a railroad causeway and an interstate highway on the southern shore of the inland sea. Authorities did not believe the two key transportation links between northern Utah and California’s Bay area were in immediate danger from the 700-foot hole in a 13-mile-long dike, but they feared a new storm could inflict serious damage. Officials said that more high winds could push the water over the dike and onto Interstate 80.