Posted on 10/03/2020 5:39:16 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
I find the Salton Sea a gorgeous place. I would live there if I could. Its history and the tragedy combined make it a poet’s love.
I am no poet, but its story still drives me to distraction. The scenery and bone beaches are indescribably compelling.
I am seriously considering retiring there for winter.
Magnificent desolation...
The beauty of impermanence...
Oh, and yes, I HAVE been there. A few times.
>the Colorado River overran two dykes
Only in California...
That is within the next 7 days. If I remember that last time there was a swarm there they made similar predictions. And same as this time, last time they said, or the swarm would just go away. As it did last time.
Use nukes to blast a canal from the Sea of Cortez to the Salton Sea basin. It’s only 44ft above sea level between the Ocean and the Salton Sea.
Magnificent desolation...
The beauty of impermanence...
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You’re a poet
And you don’t even know it.
Neither one of those phrases is my own. Thanks for the attempt at encouragement, but a man’s got to know his limitations...
“I’m more interested in those Chocolate Mountains...”
I have done a lot of “Jeeping” in that area and took a friend on a Jeep trip in the Chocolate Mountains. He said he now knows why there are called the Chocolate Mountains.
“Use nukes to blast a canal from the Sea of Cortez to the Salton Sea basin. It’s only 44ft above sea level between the Ocean and the Salton Sea.”
It used to be that way eons ago.
Look at the top left where the Salton Sea is above Mexicali, and then look at the northern end of Baja as it's jetting towards the Salton Sea just below Mexicali. It's 2020 so don't be surprised if Baja splits all the way to the Salton Sea.
And it’s only 90 miles from the southern end of the Salton Sea.
“San Andreas Fault”? “Imperial Fault”? They’ll call it Trump’s Fault. Pulling out of the Paris Accords made the seismically-sensitive zones heat up and expand.
The depression is nearly as deep as Death Valley, but the well-intentioned irrigation project worked for not very long, as someone quoted/noted above. Unusually high seasonal flooding broke through and filled the newly productive irrigated farmland, and the waters absorbed the agriculture chemicals as well as leaching out various salts and crud in the subsoil. For a long period though Salton Sea was a popular spot for Californian and other SW vacationers.
Eventually the waters stank of fish that succumbed to the contaminants and probably the additional human wastes that somehow or other (koff koff) made it into the lake. If a borehole downhill into the Pacific (Gulf of California) were made, and survived the probable small quakes from the weight shift of the water, over time the Salton would turn into a clean inland saltwater sea, but likely destroying any existing freshwater aquifers in the process.
Sparsely populated area. Lots of irrigation fed reclaimed-desert-farmland. Population of Brawley is about 26,000.
All they need to do is pipe in the ocean water from the Gulf of Baja. It is all downhill after a short lift.
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