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View Poll Results: Salton Sea: Let It Die or Rescue It?
Rescue it, even if that requires diversion of scarce water supplies from other parts of the state or from the Colorado River. 10 18.18%
Mitigate the decline with some state funded projects, but do not divert scarce water to the lake. 9 16.36%
Just let it die. The lake wasn't meant to be there, it's unsustainable and isn't worth money or water to try to save it. 36 65.45%
Voters: 55. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-16-2015, 11:27 AM
 
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They need to scrap the bullet train and put some of the yen for the Salton Sea's restoration if you ask me.
That bullet train is already ancient technology. Mr. Brown should switch the funding to Hyperloop development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
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Old 10-16-2015, 10:53 PM
 
Location: Riverside Ca
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I say rescue it. It used to be a great place for recreation. Until it got flooded with chemical runoff. And became unusable for anything. And it's a ecological disaster now.
It could become a drinking water reservoir. We could build a runoff catch system in wet seasons and a ocean water pumping system to pump water to the Salton Sea. Build a huge desalinization plant and there is water for So Cal.
But it's not gonna happen because someone somewhere us going to worry about some bug or lizard or winged toad
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Old 10-16-2015, 11:02 PM
 
Location: SW King County, WA
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It could become a drinking water reservoir. We could build a runoff catch system in wet seasons and a ocean water pumping system to pump water to the Salton Sea. Build a huge desalinization plant and there is water for So Cal
Uh... wat?

I'd like to save the sea, if for nothing than preserving the weirdness of it all, but NO. It would NOT make a good reservoir for drinking water.
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Old 10-17-2015, 07:09 PM
 
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Default Yipes!

Took a drive through there a few months ago. I heard about the fish bones everywhere, but didn't even get that far. We drove down some street with an old sign saying "beach", but saw all the graffiti and it was desolate even during the day, that we hightailed it outta there! It was way too spooky for us!
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Old 10-19-2015, 12:49 PM
 
Location: Boulder Creek, CA
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Uh... wat?

I'd like to save the sea, if for nothing than preserving the weirdness of it all, but NO. It would NOT make a good reservoir for drinking water.
But apparently it would be good enough for San Diego, so let them fill their glasses with the "special" water.
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Old 10-19-2015, 01:16 PM
 
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That bullet train is already ancient technology. Mr. Brown should switch the funding to Hyperloop development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
"Ancient"? ok...

A hyperloop is multiple (many, many multuple) decades away. There hasn't even been a prototype, let alone a massively-scaled project demonstrating that it even works.

I agree that technological progress in regards to infrastructure has stagnated for a while in the US, and I think the hyperloop idea is super cool - but if you think a hyperloop has a chance of happening anytime soon (i.e. in the timeframe that the High-Speed rail project will get built in), you're being delusional.


On topic: I don't really see what there is to save since it wasn't meant to be there in the first place. I suppose it's a bit sad for the abandoned towns that sprung up around it, and a bit sad for the wildlife that came to it - but it seems a bit misguided to divert water resources there given its history (and our lack of water in this state). It'd be one thing if it were a lake to begin with (such as owens lake - which was an ecological disaster in an opposite way).
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Old 10-19-2015, 04:07 PM
 
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It wasn't supposed to be there in the first place. Let it die.
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Old 10-19-2015, 07:32 PM
 
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Subway to the sea....the Salton sea.

Purple line extention phase 12. Nimbys already protesting.
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Old 10-20-2015, 11:41 AM
 
Location: SW King County, WA
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The funny thing is that if people just let it die, the pollution and dust from the dried up lake is going to be beyond awful. I guess people just want to ignore what happened to the Owens Valley and pretend it's not going to have a direct effect on air quality. Oh well, it won't affect me much since I live in NorCal, but I hope all you in the "let it die" camp are prepared to deal with the consequences of not trying to save the sea. You were warned.
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Old 10-20-2015, 01:05 PM
 
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I guess people just want to ignore what happened to the Owens Valley and pretend it's not going to have a direct effect on air quality.
But the Owens Valley was a natural watershed which was diverted and could be reverted back to its natural wet state. The Salton Sea is not a natural water feature, at least not since 1907. One could argue that letting it dry up is reversion back to its natural state.
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