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Help KSL understand your concerns about the Jordan River

Aug 22, 2025, 3:00 PM

The Gadsby Plant is seen along with a town house complex beside the Jordan River in Salt Lake City ...

The Gadsby Plant is seen along with a town house complex beside the Jordan River in Salt Lake City on Friday, July 25, 2025. (Bethany Baker, The Salt Lake Tribune)

(Bethany Baker, The Salt Lake Tribune)

This is a project of the Great Salt Lake Collaborative,a group of local newsrooms that work together to cover water issues and report on potential solutions.


KSL NewsRadio wants to hear from you about how you enjoy, visit and use the Jordan River and the Jordan River Trail.

It’s widely known that water quality is a major deterrent to folks enjoying the river corridor. So, we also want to know how water quality affects how you use the river.

The information you provide will be used in research and could potentially be included in stories that could appear in media along the Wasatch Front. Your personal stories could also be featured on our website and in our free newsletter.

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Many see the Jordan River and its corridor of parks and trails as an urban oasis in the middle of the Salt Lake Valley.

But the river corridor still requires more care. The waterway itself has low dissolved oxygen levels, experiences harmful algae blooms and carries more E. coli than water quality standards allow. Along its banks, unsheltered homelessness, trash and aging park amenities have forced some to change how and when they use the Jordan River Trail.

We are embarking on a new reporting project to learn more about the Jordan River’s flows and possible solutions to its vexing water quality issues.

If you’d like to share a photo of yourself that could be featured in the reporting project, visit tinyurl.com/2xzaxvfd.


Contributing: Jose Davila IV, Salt Lake Tribune

We want to hear from you.

Have a story idea or tip? Send it to the KSL NewsRadio team here.

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Help KSL understand your concerns about the Jordan River