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The Salton Sea, California, U.S.A. – the air heavy with flies fighting a perpetual stagnant breeze

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The Salton Sea, California, U.S.A. – the air heavy with flies fighting a perpetual stagnant breeze



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  • karmandreyah

    I was there about 12 years ago. Dead fish all along the shore– are they not like that anymore? I’m talking a good 10′ strip, at least, from water edge.

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  • MisterChimbus

    Used to have a unique saltwater fishery (big corvina). Now it’s mostly devoid of fish except for tilapia in some limited areas

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  • Nathan-Wind

    “We look out the window, out at the uncertainty of it all. The town looks torn to hell, with the young meth heads stumbling around and giggling and scratching at itches that never go away, and the old men, rum-drunk, driving golf carts aimlessly through the rubble. No one goes near the beach. The sand beside the Salton Sea cannot be seen. This is because it is covered a foot deep in the broken skeletons of dead fish. And the stench is everywhere.” – Norm Macdonald

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  • AlsoANinja

    Can a breeze be stagnant?

    Breeze = Air moving

    Stagnant = not moving

    hmm![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|thinking_face_hmm)

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  • Glittering_Noise417

    Every few years this same topic comes up.
    Wondering if California should relook at the idea of flooding the Salton Sea with sea water from the Pacific ocean. It would restore the area, create a new micro-climate, help the local economy around the lake return. An example would be the Great Salt Lake (currently experiencing a drought), the lake fully supports and energizes the local economy.

    The Salton Sea was formed in 1905 by extreme flooding from the Colorado river and a geologic fault. Currently it is a dead lake as well as the businesses around it. Getting worse due to the to the current drought, lack of fresh inlet water and no natural outlets.

    A proposed plan was to run a 90-120 mile pipeline (depending on route) to the Pacific ocean. One path is over the mountain using pumping stations, the other a longer probably less costly one using buried pipelines through Mexico. Since the lake is below sea level it should be easy to control the height and size of the lake through large control valves. Musk has a company that specializes in drilling long tunnels, that could eliminate most pumping stations, wonder if he might consider such a joint venture?. The cost of the project and being in an earthquake prone region is probably major reasons, it has not been funded.

    But from an ecological point of view, it would be interesting, to see if the benefits out weighted the current disaster it is facing. Would turning unused wasteland that was at one time wet, back into a “managed” saltwater wetlands be beneficial?. Of course it would need to be a “managed” project, vs the current unmanaged Salton Sea.

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