Deer Creek Reservoir

It, it moved from the Sundance area over to, uh, the Soldier Hollow Nordic Center after, uh, the Olympics and was actually housed in some portable classrooms and, uh, the race timing building over there for several years at the state park.

But, um, after that, we've moved to, uh, a campus just, uh, south, uh, in, on the south end of the Heber Valley, um, just on the north end of Deer Creek Reservoir.

We're on 10 acres here, uh, in this beautiful area with some of the best views you could get in the Heber Valley here.

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I'm Cormick Bone in the KSL Traffic Center.

A group of veterans are cleaning up Deer Creek Reservoir by hand, but they say they need a little more help.

KSL News Radio's Cameron Elliott joins us live with details.

Cameron?

Amanda, Fathom Restoration says they have pulled 40 pounds of trash from the bottom of Deer Creek Reservoir so far, but they'll need more funding before they can start pulling the big stuff, like sunken boats and cars.

In fact, Fathom founder Jake Seawolf told the Park Record there are at least 499 sunken vehicles in Utah's waterways, and they're contaminating the water with heavy metals, fuel, and oil.

Seawolf says although many conservation groups do share the vision of cleaner water, there are few who are currently funding it.

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That's what I was like looking out the window.

Like, hey, is that Deer Creek Reservoir? I think that that's where it is.

I could be wrong.

I have no idea.