““The Salton Sea is actually a MAN MADE inland sea that was created by a failure of the Colorado Levy System decades ago”
You be correct, in fact you are the only person that I have ever met? that actually knows this. At the time it was a “Manmade Disaster” that flooded a small town and created the Salton Sea. By the way the water was specifically brought in by and for the FARMERS, not city folks.”
I aware aware of this fact as well it was a fact I found curious given the courts determination to preserve it.
The other fact I found curious is the resulting nature of the sea consisting of run off guarantees it can only become more toxic over time. Sooner rather then later it will be a completely dead sea.
They should let the sea evaporate(they can’t reasonably stop it), perhaps intentionally organize it in such a way that the minerals that so pollute the sea can be easily regathered, sold off, and reused.
IIRC, the ruling was to protect the Salton Sea as a mitigation due to other habitat loss (particularly lagoons) pursuant to the Migratory Bird Treaty. This may unwittingly open the door to a market in "artificial" habitat to mitigate or offset urban impacts by which to re-establish such a use as a property right not to be regarded as the exclusive enterprise of the regulatory/academic/NGO monopoly.