Teetering on the edge of disaster. What’s next for the Salton Sea?

The Salton Sea was created in 1905 when floods breached a levee on the Colorado River, sending a wall of water through Imperial Valley and to the Salton Sink, a natural desert bowl roughly 230 feet below sea level. Water accumulated there and ultimately created the Salton Sea. For decades after that Colorado River water continued to sustain the sea as it passed through Imperial Valley farms as irrigation runoff.

http://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2017/12/01/salton-sea-california-water/

Posted on December 2, 2017 08:56 AM by biohexx1