Utah County residents gathered at Utah Lake State Park to discuss balancing explosive growth and development against environment protection for the lake. In the broadest terms, it may come down to a choice between a Utah Lake causeway and the endangered June sucker.

Unified zoning laws need to be developed to protect the wetlands that surround the lake from the kind of development seen in Saratoga Springs, he said.

Most environmentalists see an east-west causeway favored by home builders as a ecological disaster. Says Webb:

I don't like the idea of dividing the lake into two. It is an ecosystem. How do you divide it without negative impacts?