Importing water to save the Salton Sea is long overdue. What are we waiting for?

[Disir]

...Officials at the Salton Sea are following the Owens Lake path. Their ongoing practice of digging furrows and shallow ponds to control dust as more and more lakebed is exposed is questionable. Not only are these methods ineffective, they cause more greenhouse gas emissions! The Salton Sea is three times bigger than Owens Lake, so following that path could cost an estimated $7.5 billion.

...Unlike Owens Lake, the Salton Sea has two oceans close by; there are 13 proposals to build an aqueduct to import water — either from the Sea of Cortez or the Pacific Ocean. Leaders of the Salton Sea Management Authority have considered these proposals too costly. However, a feasibility study is now being conducted by UC Santa Cruz to evaluate the effectiveness of these plans to import water. Their report will be turned over in September to the Salton Sea Management Program’s Long Range Planning Committee.

Importing water to save the Salton Sea is long overdue. What are we waiting for?

The engineering of water importation should have started with the 2003 agreement that legalized redirecting Colorado River water away from the sea.

www.desertsun.com

I know nothing of the issues with either plan. I don't live there. This plan seems more reasonable.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Let it dry up.

 

[Disir]

Let it dry up.

Ok. Why? I'm asking because I'm thinking there would be a lot of incoming money from tourism if it was filled. Like I said, I don't live there.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Ok. Why? I'm asking because I'm thinking there would be a lot of incoming money from tourism if it was filled. Like I said, I don't live there.

This is why.

Background Information on the Salton Sea

Inland Desert Region, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

wildlife.ca.gov

It was formed in 1905 from runoff and became increasingly poisonous with salinity. Let it go back to its natural state.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

...Officials at the Salton Sea are following the Owens Lake path. Their ongoing practice of digging furrows and shallow ponds to control dust as more and more lakebed is exposed is questionable. Not only are these methods ineffective, they cause more greenhouse gas emissions! The Salton Sea is three times bigger than Owens Lake, so following that path could cost an estimated $7.5 billion.

...Unlike Owens Lake, the Salton Sea has two oceans close by; there are 13 proposals to build an aqueduct to import water — either from the Sea of Cortez or the Pacific Ocean. Leaders of the Salton Sea Management Authority have considered these proposals too costly. However, a feasibility study is now being conducted by UC Santa Cruz to evaluate the effectiveness of these plans to import water. Their report will be turned over in September to the Salton Sea Management Program’s Long Range Planning Committee.

Importing water to save the Salton Sea is long overdue. What are we waiting for?

The engineering of water importation should have started with the 2003 agreement that legalized redirecting Colorado River water away from the sea.

www.desertsun.com

I know nothing of the issues with either plan. I don't live there. This plan seems more reasonable.

There are also plans to strip mine the Salton Sea for its lithium.

 

[Disir]

This is why.

Background Information on the Salton Sea

Inland Desert Region, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

wildlife.ca.gov

It was formed in 1905 from runoff and became increasingly poisonous with salinity. Let it go back to its natural state.

Ok. You've given me something to think about.

 

[Confederate Soldier]

In the grand scheme of things, does it really matter?

 

[Disir]

There are also plans to strip mine the Salton Sea for its lithium.

Are you in agreement with that?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Are you in agreement with that?

no, but that is what some people are talking about doing
it was a news story a while back

 

[1srelluc]

Well if there are billions in play you can bet a good 1/3 will be used to launder dem money. Literarily a money pit.

 

[odanny]

This is why.

Background Information on the Salton Sea

Inland Desert Region, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

wildlife.ca.gov

It was formed in 1905 from runoff and became increasingly poisonous with salinity. Let it go back to its natural state.

Dry up? Enjoy your toxic dust clouds.

Ghost towns and toxic fumes: How an idyllic California lake became a disaster

Once a hot tourist destination, California's Salton Sea has become the worst environmental and public health crisis in modern history.

www.cnbc.com

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Dry up? Enjoy your toxic dust clouds.

Ghost towns and toxic fumes: How an idyllic California lake became a disaster

Once a hot tourist destination, California's Salton Sea has become the worst environmental and public health crisis in modern history.

www.cnbc.com

Do you really think filling that poison pit with more salt water from the ocean will help? It's already so saline dead birds stink up the place. If the dust needs to be dealt with, deal with that but keeping this going can only make things worse. Nothing can live in this lake. It isn't a natural lake. Let it go.

 

[odanny]

Do you really think filling that poison pit with more salt water from the ocean will help? It's already so saline dead birds stink up the place. If the dust needs to be dealt with, deal with that but keeping this going can only make things worse. Nothing can live in this lake. It isn't a natural lake. Let it go.

Yea, they will have to implement some kind of mitigation efforts for the toxic lake bed, but it's pointless to do anything other than letting it dry up, as everything else is doing. This is not a priority with regard to drinking water.

 

[ReinyDays]

Wouldn't it make more sense to build an aqueduct between the Columbia and Sacramento Rivers? ...

 

[Meathead]

...Officials at the Salton Sea are following the Owens Lake path. Their ongoing practice of digging furrows and shallow ponds to control dust as more and more lakebed is exposed is questionable. Not only are these methods ineffective, they cause more greenhouse gas emissions! The Salton Sea is three times bigger than Owens Lake, so following that path could cost an estimated $7.5 billion.

...Unlike Owens Lake, the Salton Sea has two oceans close by; there are 13 proposals to build an aqueduct to import water — either from the Sea of Cortez or the Pacific Ocean. Leaders of the Salton Sea Management Authority have considered these proposals too costly. However, a feasibility study is now being conducted by UC Santa Cruz to evaluate the effectiveness of these plans to import water. Their report will be turned over in September to the Salton Sea Management Program’s Long Range Planning Committee.

Importing water to save the Salton Sea is long overdue. What are we waiting for?

The engineering of water importation should have started with the 2003 agreement that legalized redirecting Colorado River water away from the sea.

www.desertsun.com

I know nothing of the issues with either plan. I don't live there. This plan seems more reasonable.

I've been there. It was a dry lake bed before it was inundated by the waters irrigating the Imperial Valley. I can't imagine what they are trying to save.