On its far west end the berm is designed to wrap in front of an exposed house on Marine View Drive. That amounts to about 1,500 cubic yards of sand, or 100 dump trucks worth.

Almost a year ago to the week, the city’s berm along the southern shoreline was mired in a losing battle with the relentless ...

The higher berm is expected to help the health of the lake, experts say. Crews use an excavator to move stones at the Great Salt Lake Causeway to raise the berm by 4 feet in July.

Utah land managers say they've recently raised a berm underneath the railroad causeway in an effort to thwart rising salinity levels that threaten the health of the lake.