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.

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.

Savoie said with a 12-foot-wide berm, ... Those from big box stores, he said, often come from southern states and don’t acclimate well to conditions in Nebraska.