Environmental group leery of Utah Lake bridge plan

(Deseret News) Carol Walters is determined to do all she can to stop a bridge from being built across Utah Lake. The 60-year-old Provo resident said she couldn't live with herself if she just sat by and let it happen.

"I don't want to spend the rest of my life looking at a bridge across Utah Lake and knowing I didn't do anything to stop it," Walters said.

Walters along with about a dozen others from the Utah Valley Sierra Forum, a local environmental group, brought a letter to the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands Monday afternoon and pleaded for thoroughness when reviewing the Utah Lake bridge proposal.

The division has been put in charge of making the decision of whether or not to allow Utah Crossing Inc., the group that has proposed to privately build a 6-mile, $600 million bridge, to go forward.

During the meeting with the local environmental group Monday, Tim Garcia, the deputy director at FFSL, said his agency is not taking its responsibility lightly.

"We are going to take our time on this thing," Garcia told them.

He explained that his agency is still only in the second step of the process.

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