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Old 04-14-2011, 07:58 PM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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Old 04-14-2011, 08:04 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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It's a fascinating place for those of us who like the "days of former glory" and "what might have been" stuff. Salton City, Bombay Beach, Desert Shores... Characters live out there, and I'm not using that word pejoratively. Fascinating characters, real people. Desert people.
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Old 04-14-2011, 09:08 PM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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I saw this yesterday. In reality there is no cure for the Salton sea short of a super expensive double canal system (one bringing in fresh water or sea water into the Salton sea and another taking the old water out to the Gulf of California). Neither will get funded so instead it will continue to become an even worse open sewer.
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Old 04-14-2011, 10:38 PM
 
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I saw this yesterday. In reality there is no cure for the Salton sea short of a super expensive double canal system (one bringing in fresh water or sea water into the Salton sea and another taking the old water out to the Gulf of California). Neither will get funded so instead it will continue to become an even worse open sewer.

Are you suggesting "we humans" should interfere in the natural process of increasing salinity of this particular isolated Sea?

Maybe we should "interfere" with the Dead Sea as well?

Great Salt Lake?
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Old 04-14-2011, 10:55 PM
 
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Are you suggesting "we humans" should interfere in the natural process of increasing salinity of this particular isolated Sea?

Maybe we should "interfere" with the Dead Sea as well?

Great Salt Lake?
I don't think we should do anything necessarily. But there is a big difference: the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake have been around for eons. The Salton Sea was formed in 1905.
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Old 04-14-2011, 11:05 PM
 
Location: Cali
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Well hopefully they will be able to salvage the Salton Sea in some manner. Sonny Bono was very committed to saving it as well.

We ought to just scrap the 30 billion dollar high-speed rail thing and concentrate on our aquaducts, canals, and maybe build some desalination facilities.
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Old 04-14-2011, 11:40 PM
 
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I don't think we should do anything necessarily. But there is a big difference: the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake have been around for eons. The Salton Sea was formed in 1905.

Hmmm...


"It is estimated that for 3 million years, at least through all the years of the Pleistocene glacial age, the Colorado River worked to build its delta in the southern region of the Imperial Valley. Eventually, the delta had reached the western shore of the Gulf of California (the Sea of Cortez/Cortés) creating a massive dam which excluded the Salton Sea from the northern reaches of the Gulf.[2] As a result, the Salton Sink or Salton Basin has long been alternately a fresh water lake and a dry desert basin, depending on random river flows and the balance between inflow and evaporative loss. A lake would exist only when it was replenished by the river and rainfall, a cycle that repeated itself countless times over hundreds of thousands of years - most recently when the lake was recreated in 1905.[3]"


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea


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Old 04-15-2011, 12:38 AM
 
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Well hopefully they will be able to salvage the Salton Sea in some manner. Sonny Bono was very committed to saving it as well.

We ought to just scrap the 30 billion dollar high-speed rail thing and concentrate on our aquaducts, canals, and maybe build some desalination facilities.

The first part, I could not disagree with more... The hubris. Also, I don't believe you add credibility by citing Sonny Bono.


The second part, I could not agree with more... Bravo! Mankind taking control of his environment, shaping it to suit his needs and desires, creating the facilities to grow and prosper... Imagine, the future, better!



Contradiction? Not really. Consider what I value more.
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Old 04-15-2011, 05:33 AM
 
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Great movie...
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Old 04-15-2011, 07:45 AM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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The Salton Sea gets water from the New River, one of the worst polluted rivers in the country, its pollution originates from the maquiladoras across the border that make products for the US.

Cleaning the river should be a priority.

As for saving the Salton Sea, there isn't enough water left in the Colorado to reach the ocean most years. It would be problematic to divert water to it.

It is likely to disappear.
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