As the new executive director for Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, I find myself thinking about the future of Salt Lake City and our state with regards to the healthy environment I assume we would all like to live in. Which brings me to the proposed expansion and rezoning of the Geneva Rock gravel mine located at the Point of the Mountain.
Having grown up in Salt Lake, we are all familiar with the dust clouds and the wind that never seem to stop. Geneva Rock’s mine at the Point of the Mountain has no doubt been an important part of the growth of Salt Lake City, but whose life span needs to end as the population living near it is booming.