PROVO — While Utah leaders have a large goal to raise Great Salt Lake levels before the 2034 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, those who oversee Utah Lake have their own lake health goal.

They’d like to see the lake free of carp and water-stealing invasive vegetation within the next decade, said Provo Mayor Michelle Kaufusi, who is also chair of the Utah Lake Authority board.

“In Utah, we believe nothing is impossible. Carp, we are coming for you, and we won’t stop until Utah Lake’s waters are clear again,” she said at the Utah Lake Symposium on Thursday.

Carp have been a longstanding issue for the lake, as experts have pointed out that they’ve ultimately become destructive to the lake’s native vegetation since being introduced to its ecosystem in the 1880s. They became pervasive eno

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