California’s largest lake is shrinking and migratory birds are disappearing as its water is now too salty for fish -- an environmental disaster and a health hazard for humans.
@@aelsi1337 • The best thing that could happen is for the lake to dry up, it would force the military to cleanup the mess they made in the first place, before anyone can actually see the amount of toxic metals they dumped in that lake, including a nuke that they never recovered.
My sentiments exactly. While I understand people's sentimental feelings about wildlife, the environment they depend on now hadn't existed for thousands of years...
I was thinking the same thing. I know about by driving through the area and camping there for a night or two about 30 years ago. I didn’t think fish even lived in it because it was saltier than the ocean back then.
That place is hell in the desert! All the monies raised for restoration projects have been consumed by politician owned consulting groups, any future planning & promises to restore the salton sea is just a big money grab by local governments & politicians! We’ve seen this scam time & time again over the years, I don’t believe Californians are stupid enough to fall for it again... or are they?!
The bottom of the Salton Sea is littered with the wreckage of military aircraft. There are also munitions on the sea bed, some of them nuclear. For many years, the military used the sea as a training facility for bombing runs and low altitude flying. If the sea dries up, all of those munitions will be exposed, and some of the dust will be radioactive. Not a word in the documentary, about this hazard.
Yes it is was an accidental irrigation breach. Although large seas have cyclically formed and dried over historic time in the basin due to natural flooding from the Colorado River, the current Salton Sea was formed when Colorado River floodwater breached an irrigation canal being constructed in the Imperial Valley in 1905 and flowed into the Salton Sink.
Except where they went before, Tulare Lake, south end San Joaquin Valley, is not there anymore. See this vid and note the comments re what the early Spanish explorers saw: ruclips.net/video/I5uloOJ5m1o/видео.html
Not to mention the further it goes down, it’ll reveal a bunch of airplanes, wwii birds, the crews, as well as lead, bombs, uranium, and possibly a nuke that was never recovered. For some reason I’ve been fascinated by the Salton Sea. I’d hate to see it go.
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The Salton Sea will dry up soon and be gone as Cal has no way to divert clean, usable water to a dead lake to simply evaporate and do nothing. The lake was a mistake that's fixing itself now. If people want to live by a lake, there's the Great Lakes which aren't going anywhere.
Wait,,,,, we’re worried about a lake disappearing that was created by accident just over 100 years ago? It drying up would return things to the way it was supposed to be. Funny what we freak out about.
You don’t seem to understand that this accident inadvertently created a new ecosystem that needs to be taken care of. Back in the 50s and 60s the lake was full of a variety fish and now there’s been a 97% decrease in the fish population. This affects the avian population as well that feeds off the fish, and the more this lake dries up the more toxic dust will be exposed and blown away into neighboring communities, this isn’t something we can just let die out now
Yep. We forced the farmers to use less water which results in less farm water drainage into the Salton and therefore less Sea. The birds will find other places to stop in their migration.
@@mr.anderson2241 No, Sir. I understand fully. But when man creates the problem, man needs to suffer the problem. That’s all. Period. End of story. Life will always find a way to endure.
@@sar4x474 so then rather than attempting to resolve something we simply let it run its course and just allow it to do whatever terrible thing will happen as a consequence for not intervening?
@@bangryman100 lol my car was made on purpose. It wasn't cause some engineer screwed up and a car just appeared all of a sudden.. unlike this lake 😂 go read a book lol
Nice to see how you left out the proposal to cut the lake in half and restore the Native lands back to the Torres Martines Indian Tribe, one of the poorest tribes in California.
One of the major sources of water is raw sewage from Mexicali, Mexico, via Rio Nuevo. The US funded a major sewage treatment plant that cut down (but did not eliminate) the flow. What people don't understand, and what was not mentioned is this inland sea is below sea level, there is no drain. Therefore contaminants have been accumulating for 100 years. As for the birds they are ONLY there because of a man made disaster they will leave as this disaster is mitigated. This sea does not belong there, the land will need to be mitigated with a sea of gravel. The true cost of this disaster has yet to be paid.
Yeah, the "New River" is practically Chernobyl at this point. This doc is the worst example of "heart-sleeves" environmentalism. Unrealistic environmentalism. Dumb environmentalism.
@@SETTLETHEBEEF The dust all over the valley is toxic because of the chemicals used in all of the agriculture there. It’s not just a salton sea issue as this reporter makes it out to be. The birds will go somewhere else. They are not dying out.
that furrowing is very important, breaking the salt pan, we have regenerated huge areas of salt pan in other places with this, it will catch seeds and hold the soil, the seeds will help draw out the set and it will hold bigger plants. it is so good to see them in so soon, and with water stil, relativity near by, will help. there is always hope.
What needs to be done is a partition dam. One side could be the salt lake, perhaps growing fresher over time, the other side becoming a series of brine ponds.
She has no idea... The things that are or have been in that water... Must remember it was R&D Naval Base during the making of the Fat Man and Little Boy... and a test range well into the 60's with large amounts of depleted uranium and lead ballast... so whats in the dust. They did try to clean it up but what was in the water has been forgotten like the more than a dozen lost military aircraft some with crew still inside that that Navy refuses to recover because they considered them Lost at Sea.
Just saw a report on the military actions in that area in the 1960- plus....there is all kinds of bombs/pieces at the bottom...some contained uranium...
Salton Sea wasn't there 120 years ago and won't be the a 100 years from now. The sea level was at Monroe an I-10 in Indio - 400 years ago, then a big Earthquake and cut off the area from the Gulf of California. Sea of Cortez.
You forgot to mention the undeternated bomb from ww2 that was accidentally released instead of the fake one whilst the were target practicing aint that a major radiation concern 🤔
Since the Salton Sea is approx. 230feet below sea level, piping in water from the Pacific to replenish it would help. This would drop the salinity of the sea and fill it up again. BUT in this intense heat a lot of water will evaporate and salinity will gradually go up again. So there is no permanent solution for this problem - unless one would use the energy generated by the gravity flow of Pacific water into the Salton Sea to pump high salinity water out again and back into the Pacific. In fact, as with the pumped storage lakes in the Alps, the same machinery could be used to first generate energy during the day when energy prices are high, by letting water from the Pacific turn power generating turbines on its way to the Salton Sea. Then at night when energy prices are lower the power generating turbines could become power consuming pumps that would return high salinity water to the Pacific.This would be a permanent solution stabilizing the Sea, which could even generate income that might, over time, pay for its installation. Of course installation costs would be high as there is quite a distance between the Pacific and the Salton Sea. Plus there's the Sierra Nevada to cross. Here tunnels at or close to the base of the mountains could transport the water through this obstacle. Alternatively, import of Pacific water from the South i.e. the Gulf of California or the North i.e. via Palm Springs-LA might be possible as the mountains on this approach are not as high as those of the Sierra Nevada blocking the direct route from around San Diego. This solution would eventually stabilize the Salton Sea at a salinity that is equal to that of the Pacific with a more or less constant water level. In smaller lakes, pumped storage used in the way described above, leads to substantial daily fluctuation in the water level of the reservoirs (here, only the Salton Sea is concerned). Since the Salton Sea is voluminous with a large surface these fluctuations would probably by quite small and would not impact wildlife in or around the lake. The best solution for the entire water-starved South West (including the neighboring Mexico) would of course be NAWAPA, which would bring ample fresh water to the entire region to not only fill up depressions like the Salton Sea but many other half or entirely dried-out lakes there as well.
The Sierra Nevada range is much further north. There will be no aqueducts going through private and tribal property in southern California. I find that people who don't live here talk the most about aqueducts. Never ever happen. One possible way would be using the local volcanic activity as a geothermal power source for massive de-salination plants. Sounds kinda pie-in-the-sky for America in 2021, a now 2nd rate "world power". The lake is going away, in all likelihood.
@@classiclife7204 Well, I live far away from the Salton Sea. If this thing dries out you'll have tons of toxic dust in the air around this former body of water. I can only say suit yourself to those tribes and private land owners who try to obstruct solutions. Drown in toxic dust if that's what you want. And as far as your desalination plants are concerned read up on desalination plants. They are only viable right next to the Ocean because they use a huge amounts of sea water and produce a large amounts of waste water with high salinity. So where are you going to dump this waste water? Have to transport it back to the Ocean. So without a connection to the Ocean you can do nada. Except NAWAPA.
@@wkgurr LMAO they're not my desalination plants; I called them pie-in-the-sky. Only about 10% of water, if that much, will remain because the State will create a few wetland areas, mostly as a sop to environmentalists crying about birds. The real work is dust mitigation using furrowing and whatever else they do. The State has given up on complete Sea solutions. Think of it as "Salton Tiny Lakes" rather than "Salton Sea". As I said, we're a 2nd rate power; we don't do big projects anymore.
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Yes and no. The Sea's current incarnation was an ecological accident to begin with but the real point is that people depended on the South Aral for a living. That was never quite the case with the Salton. It was briefly a resort area for about 10 or 15 years, some real estate agents made a small killing off it, but it died pretty quickly. It was already fading by the late 60s because by then the Sea was already starting to stink. The South Aral had been there - and naturally - for thousands of years. It was almost the reverse of the Salton, where water had been "unnaturally" fed. The Aral had water "unnaturally" diverted. The toxic dust though? Yeah that'll be the same
The Salton Sea is a human-made mistake. We shouldn't waste money trying to save it; it's not sustainable. Although large seas have cyclically formed and dried over historic time in the basin due to natural flooding from the Colorado River, the current Salton Sea was formed when Colorado River floodwater breached an irrigation canal constructed in the Imperial Valley in 1905 and flowed into the Salton Sink.
It's already "hypersaline". It's also polluted with over a century of ag runoff and possibly radioactive crap the military was testing things in back when they owned it prior to 1961.
10,000 tons of salt has been delivered to the Salton Sea everyday for over 60 years in the form of farm runoff. As the concentration of salinity increases wildlife will decline in numbers. The Salton Sea exists because of farming. Without the Salton Sea as a designated depository for salty farm runoff, 500,000 acres in the Imperial Irrigation District could not be farmed.
congratulations! you have just won an award for the most absurd comment of the year. I invite you to take some water samples and run it through a refractometer to measure the index and report the salinity.
I think that, in the end, it will take something drastic to make people understand that you can't endlessly expand cities and/or farmland in the desert. The Salton Sea is just a symptom of the overall problem of overuse of scarce resources. There may come a day when desert communities may have to say no to developers wanting to build new homes and/or commercial properties. That they can't expand the water district any more than it is and that the area can no longer support any more growth that increases water demand.
The Salton Sea was created by an engineering error 120 years ago, it is returning to its natural state. Building the Hoover Dam spelled the end of the Salton Sea as it prevented the occasional floods and destruction in the area.
Correct. But the salts taken out of the water become a waste. Nobody wants it, and supposedly the ocean can't handle it. Figure that out and desal is a winner.
This lake was not supposed to be there it was created by mismanaging the environment and a flood at the same time. I think the birds can just go back to what they were doing before there was a lake. give me a break. I don't want to pay for your accident! This is like the news we used to watch: ruclips.net/video/EpZUtvkvQIc/видео.html
Used to go there to campsite near Salton City with my dad in the late 60’s. They had issues even then concerning ‘fertilizer’ chemicals run off from the Indio date palm orchards. I believe another issue concerning declining water and quality can be attributed to increasing demands from Cal. and Las Vegas being placed on the Colorado river. Mexico is allowed fresh water allotments from the Colorado river. Even as a kid, I thought that the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of Baja) is not that far, come to a deal with Mexico and back flood sea water from the Gulf!
There's a relatively simple solution. It won't be cost free but is doable and would not require a lot of changes to current farms or industries. Just divert more of the Colorado River water into the Salton Sea to stabilize or maybe expand the water levels. Build new water desalination plants for LA and San Diego to make up for the lost water. This would preserve the sea and enable those cities to still have the drinking water they need.
The Colorado River has lost most of its flow due to long-term droughts. Adding water to a heavily polluted lake is completely senseless. Due to the salt residue from inland seas of eons ago, even if you made the Salton Sea completely pure it would quickly dissolve the underlying salts and be self-polluting once again. There is an existing desalination plant in San Diego - it makes some of the most expensive water in the world. Why dump clean water (that could be used elsewhere) into a Mistake Lake? It was created in error 120 years ago.
Good video, but what about ALL the radioactive materials from all the government testing back in the 50's...this place is forgotten by the Feds for a reason...
The farmers dumped loads of chemicals in there, that’s why the dust is deadly. This video is good but really avoiding one of the major environmental problems being the farms.
Farmers didn't ''dump'' loads of chemicals there as you said. Pesticides are used in farming so that we can have food that we ALL consume. Saying they ''dumped'' chemicals is ignorant at best and a flat out lie at worst.
or maybe the birds have adapted to the change and gone to where the food is!? omg iI figured it out there's no fish to eat so the birds have gone else where to find more fish. and the birds a happy at there new place because the don't care about where they are.
@@alicehallam7949 Nice to see you, Alice! Yes. As a Native Californian for 82 years, I considered the Salton Sea a "Natural Wonder" for us; a special place that had no parallel. I hope to see it flourish again in the not-to-distant future. Take care, Dear! 🤗
@@CarolWorth I grew up far from Cali, but it's been on my list of fantasy locales (to live) since early adulthood. I make "digital field trips" there (or "here," lol) on RUclips now whenever I can. I binge watched dozens of Sea videos during a recent illness when I couldn't work, and I FINALLY was able to educate myself pretty well on the Sea's long history, the towns then and now, and "Sea news" related to the Quantification Agreement changes (how, why the farm water inflows stopped). Also about what will be happening with the still-existing inflows and the planned Habitat areas.
@@alicehallam7949 Wow! You are far ahead of me, Alice! The last time I visited the Salton Sea was in 1979. It was just an overnight stay at a crummy motel but we'd had a long drive from Northern Arizona and the kids were tired and we were all hungry and tired so we weren't too picky. The swimming pool was full of bugs and not too inviting. We left pretty early the next morning. I was pretty disappointed when we saw the Sea as it did not meet our expectations. 🙄 And, that was 41 years ago! We can only hope that a miracle will happen to rectify what crooked political dealings have wrought! Take care, Friend. 😘
The entire desert was pretty wet until about 8,000 years ago when it began drying out. The tiny little Salton sea is hardly representative of dramatic "climate change". The American desert exists because of a gradually changing climate over millennia. Things don't exist in stasis. They change. That's what they do.
@@grumbazor I get a lot more about it than you think. This climate "paranoia" were it based on actual science, wouldn't exist. There is absolutely no need for it. But, people are fear and panic addicts. It's the new religion. And, just like religious fundamentalists who constantly preach an end-date for the world and are laughed at when it passes and nothing happens, climate zealots keep on moving the goalposts of "Armageddon" to suit their crazed ideology. Of course, one day we won't be here anymore. That's the cycle. The planet has been through countless cycles of destruction and climate change in its history, and that doesn't stop just because we're here. One day will be our last, just like an individual's lifespan, so will ours collectively come to an end. And a million years from now sonething else will be here in our place. It's all temporary. People need to abandon these absurd notions of control.
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The atomic bomb they accidentally dropped in the Salton Sea was bigger than the one they dropped on Hiroshima. Yes it is still there, it's never been recovered.
that massive general area of southern California is actually a desert. residents that chose to live there complaining about water issues in that area is like someone that lives in Alaska complaining about snow... If global warming would hurry up and get here sooner, the increase in temperature around the world will cause greater evaporation from oceans, resulting in greater rainfall, some of which will rain in an area beneficial to Southern California, Either by increased snowfall at higher elevations, which will melt and flow through the rivers feeding that area, or rainfall on the area itself. when I was in school the benefits of global warming were outlined in one of my courses. A longer growing season north of the 38th parallel, reduced usage of natural gas oil and coal for home heating, which will lower the CO2 in the atmosphere,.Milder winter’s north of the 38th parallel will put less freeze/thaw damage on infrastructure like buildings, bridges, highways, And it will reduce the use of road salt on roads & bridges , Making them last much longer, and, reducing damage caused by runoff salt into streams & rivers to wildlife & crops.. I have a warming will also enable farmers to plant crops that need 120 days growing season north of the 38th parallel, greatly improving farmers ability to feed the world.. Not just in the United States but in arid places such as Australia, argentina, mongolia,and Africa can benefit greatly from increased rainfall which will result from higher evaporation rates due to global warming.. This is not a guarantee that global warming will take place. Because according to the geological for historical record, ice ages occur like clockwork every 10 to 12,000 years, the last Ice Age is the one that carved out the great lakes. The ice was up to 2 miles thick. The issue is, we are overdue for the next Ice Age right now, we have been for about 1000 years. So which will it be?? Only our great great great great Great great great great great great great great great Grand children may find out update as of March 2021. Signs of the approaching next Ice Age have occurred over the past month in the United States. Look what happened to Texas. They had a very long spell there below freezing and actually below zero in some areas in Texas which is just about unheard of and recorded times. A further indication of that schedule that mother nature has, and that is, ice ages occur on this planet like clockwork approximately every 10,000 years. The core samples of the geological record don’t lie. another thing carbon dating and the geological record has shown which is quite a surprise. Is that the magnetic poles of the earth have switched places 180° several times. In other words, compass is pointed to the south pole during those flips in the magnetic field. There’s a whole lot more that we don’t know than what we do know.. but one thing is for certain, we are overdue for the next Ice Age, and maybe the beginnings of that are here, just ask people in Texas. The next indication of the approaching Ice Age is, the great lakes will have thicker ice that will melt later and later in the season. Hudson Bay will begin to not fall out completely over the summers. Greenland already has an ice pack that is over 1 mile thick and 1000 miles long. it would be a good thing to tap into that water/ice on Greenland because that will be some of the purest water on this planet. That water is thousands of years old that is frozen on Greenland, that ice was created before man put airborne chemicals in the atmosphere.. No one living on earth right now will witness to mile thick ice covering Canada just yet. But the glaciers that carved out the great lakes during the ladt ice age were over 2 miles thick in parts.., Like the ice on greenland right now
Lots of disinformation and erroneous implications. If you watch this video, also learn the history of the Salton Sea. It is NOT a natural feature; it is NOT a mismanaged lake. It is not even the only short-term Colorado River overspill. Once the Salton Sea finally evaporates completely it will become one of many in the geology of the area. It is pretty easy to tell garbage pseudo-reports like this when they begin with blatantly incorrect statements such as placing the Salton Sea in the southwest corner of the state. Get a map! Learn something before preaching about it.
Reporter says "Due to changes in the management of the Colorado River every day it is shrinking." I'm looking at the surrounding areas with Google map. The area I'm seeing has resorts and golf courses, green areas which canal in a lot of water. Yes, I'd say it's shrinking. Where are people getting their drinking water?
Gail, I understand that Palm Springs/Indio (north) has underground water. The SS has survived by farm drainage from the Brawley area (south) BIG FARMS after the farms took water via a canal from the Colorado River, since around 1900. New water edIcts from State of California require the farms to pump ALL of their drainage (unabsorbed water leaving their fields) into a canal that ends in San Diego County. State did this to allow growth in San Diego, but they betrayed Imperial County homeowners who've lived/live around the Sea for several generations now, and who have to watch the Sea shrink to perhaps half if it's former size.
California stupidity at its finest! The environment! Hahahaha They didn't have any problems with the environment when the government was dropping ten tons of depleted uranium at a time into the sea. And they dropped thousands of them in there. Then there's all the lead they dropped as well. And the thirty some aircraft crashed and sank to the body still filled with their crews. Think that might be the reason one of the plans is to "make islands"? So as the wrecks become visible the government can just cover them up? Or cover the possible unexploded nuke in there? But poor California and their precious water Oasis! Hahahaha It's a Superfund hazardous waste site!!!!!
You can't make this stuff up, Californians create an inland sea on accident 120 years ago, and now one of their biggest worries is for the avian population that never existed before they created the sea. I say since you seem to love to fuck with nature out there why don't you talk Mexico into digging a ditch from the Gulf of California up to the border west of Mexicali. The deepest part would not be over 40 feet deep and the total length would be less than 100 miles. That should do it, just let her go and see what you get. Your inland sea will quickly become the north end of the Gulf of California. Sure you will lose a little farm land and El Centro but what the hell, the migratory birds will still have their place north of the present day Gulf of California by a couple hundred miles that they have gotten used to over the last century or so and all that farm water can be diverted to San Diego.
Give it up Leroy - changing your name slightly doesn't change your infantile guesses about what can be done. How's that criminal company going that you were touting for 5 years? LOLOLOL
This is the most intriguing and unique place in California. I am coming to visit after the 2nd season of 2021. I live in NEW YORK CITY and I love Salton Sea.
The political interests of the San Diego area were able to persuade the State of California to steal this area's water. Of course, it's a little more complicated than that but Imperial County farmers are still getting their farm water. They just have to send any water that they recover to San Diego now. So the homeowner constituents of the Sea area were let down by Imperial County and the State of California. Approximately 9,000 residents in the area's towns.
@@alicehallam7949 There was no natural lake there at the time. It was created by an accident. There are natural lakes from time to time but its not the Salton's time right now.
@@alicehallam7949 if you would read the history of the lake you will find that canals were dug to irrigate farm land, massive rains caused the canals to fail and the salton sea was created in 1905, it has not been for eons, please try to keep up
This video is ridiculous. The Salton Sea isn't even supposed to be there. The birds can move a little east to the next lake, one that's actually supposed to be there. Thumbs down for lying.
The sea needs to be saved-by building a canal to the Gulf and pumping in seawater. For what we blow on a month in the ME, we could prevent this disaster, and actually turn the sea back into a valuable resource. But better to blow 100's of billion$$ on the "High Speed rail to Nowhere"-that nobody will ride!
There is a nuclear bomb at the bottom and downed planes with remains still in them.....people need to be relocated and "lake bed" cleaned up. This was accidentally created anyway that is now a manmade disaster.
The Sea was never that valuable a resource. The biggest resource was the hyped-up land that clever real estate agents made a killing off of in the 50s and 60s. You must not live in SoCal because surely you'd know that the land is all private and tribal property. An aqueduct will not happen. Desalination plants run on the geothermal power in the area is a possibility, but ... expense? Where do you store the salt (considered toxic waste as well, esp. with how dirty Salton is)? Dust mitigation as the Sea evaporates is the only practical solution.
How is anybody really surprised about the Salton Sea? Really? The Salton Sea is a man-made lake caused by farm runoff back in the early 1900s. It’s not supposed to be there. It drying up is actually a good thing. I don’t know why anybody lives there. It was a ghost town at the beginning of the 70s when the lake started drying up and turning salty extremely salty because it’s all farm runoff and hasFertilizers from the farms along with other contaminants mixed in the water which eventually created such a mineral rich water the fish could not survive. There’s no reason to preserve the lake because it’s supposed to be a dry riverbed. Where are the pelicans going to go? really? Salton sea it’s between the gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean. Where are they going to go are you seriously saying this? They’re going to go to the freaking ocean you idiot .. like they used to.
I agree about the pelicans, LOL. I say this a tree-hugging environmentalist (but not an idiotic one): this sort of cheap emotional appeal - "THINK OF THE PELICANS!" - is the worst sort of environmentalism there is and cheapens the movement.
WTF if that was STILL a dry desert and you told the Democrat bird people you want to create a man made lake Those SAME bird people would scream NO NO you cant the desert bird would be endangered blah blah, Then the stupid question " what will the migrating birds do when the lake dries up" HELLO the same thing the birds did before 1909 FLY BY as usual!! This is why Democrats look like Loons..
Democrat FAKE NEWS Prior to 1909 the "Salton sea" was dry desert, an old DRY lake IN 1909 an engineering accident diverted water overflow from the Colorado river into the dry desert for 2 years creating the "Salton sea" The Democrats on this vid act like the lake was there all the time LIARS The you hear ooohh the birds dramatically declined WTF if there wasn't an accident in 1909 that area would NATURALLY be a DRY desert, So what the the Dems point
The lake refilled after the man-made levee was removed by Nature herself, after a high flood period of the Colorado River (due to heavy waterflow further north). The Salton Sea "sink" has been a NATURAL LAKE, by geologic processes (landmass evolution), and by natural processes (rainfall and snowfall, combined with gravity) many times.
Right, these people act like something's being let go, however that something was never supposed to be there to begin with...
@@aelsi1337 • The best thing that could happen is for the lake to dry up, it would force the military to cleanup the mess they made in the first place, before anyone can actually see the amount of toxic metals they dumped in that lake, including a nuke that they never recovered.
My sentiments exactly. While I understand people's sentimental feelings about wildlife, the environment they depend on now hadn't existed for thousands of years...
I was thinking the same thing. I know about by driving through the area and camping there for a night or two about 30 years ago. I didn’t think fish even lived in it because it was saltier than the ocean back then.
Yes, mist of us know about the American canal connection creating a lake.
I understand a part of it was a test site and there is a lot of bad stuff in it. I think the were using it as late as 1975. Not sure.
Man made problem. Every step to fix the original mistake causes more problems.
Right you are sir
That place is hell in the desert! All the monies raised for restoration projects have been consumed by politician owned consulting groups, any future planning & promises to restore the salton sea is just a big money grab by local governments & politicians! We’ve seen this scam time & time again over the years, I don’t believe Californians are stupid enough to fall for it again... or are they?!
Let nature take its course and dry up the lake so the area slowly returns to its natural state before its creation.
The bottom of the Salton Sea is littered with the wreckage of military aircraft. There are also munitions on the sea bed, some of them nuclear. For many years, the military used the sea as a training facility for bombing runs and low altitude flying. If the sea dries up, all of those munitions
will be exposed, and some of the dust will be radioactive. Not a word in the documentary, about this hazard.
Wasn't it made by accident? They did not mention pesticide chemicals that are in the Salton Sea
Yes it is was an accidental irrigation breach.
Although large seas have cyclically formed and dried over historic time in the basin due to natural flooding from the Colorado River, the current Salton Sea was formed when Colorado River floodwater breached an irrigation canal being constructed in the Imperial Valley in 1905 and flowed into the Salton Sink.
Nor the unexploded nuclear bomb.
@Dusti Summerset Heck yeah, let's all invade people's privacy! Sounds like all sorts of fun! F*CK OFF ASSH0L5
...or weapons testing in early 1/2 of 1900's.
@@martinphilip8998 exactly.
This "lake" didn't exist prior to 1905. The birds have returned to wherever they went prior to the Salton Sea's existence.
Except where they went before, Tulare Lake, south end San Joaquin Valley, is not there anymore. See this vid and note the comments re what the early Spanish explorers saw: ruclips.net/video/I5uloOJ5m1o/видео.html
In the October of 2020, this is the most recent report I've seen on the current environment of the Salton Sea. And good job, nice video.
Not to mention the further it goes down, it’ll reveal a bunch of airplanes, wwii birds, the crews, as well as lead, bombs, uranium, and possibly a nuke that was never recovered.
For some reason I’ve been fascinated by the Salton Sea. I’d hate to see it go.
Never knew aircrews are still there😬
Yeah seems not to many folk know about all that stuff tho.
What’s crazy is that the same people that are complaining are the same people that created this problem.
Exactly Damn democrats!
@@jonmacdonald5345 Damn white supremacist and they are on all sides and that includes the middle.
@@turquoiseaqua8312 As a black man I cannot agree more with you
@@turquoiseaqua8312 Democrats started the KKK and wanted to continue with slavery !
@@jonmacdonald5345 You're all the same people dems, rep. kkk, oh i like how you put that respect on the klan with the capitalization of it. It doesn't matter that they were in the south or that they were democrats...the fact is every white person benefits from white supremacy around the globe, but especially in amerikka. There is no separating you by party.
Clear Lake in California is the actually the largest freshwater lake. Salton Sea is largest saline body of water in California.
Clear lake is all fucked up nothing but tweekers and hicks
@@jonmacdonald5345 such a nasty place, not "clear" at all!
The Salton Sea will dry up soon and be gone as Cal has no way to divert clean, usable water to a dead lake to simply evaporate and do nothing. The lake was a mistake that's fixing itself now. If people want to live by a lake, there's the Great Lakes which aren't going anywhere.
Wait,,,,, we’re worried about a lake disappearing that was created by accident just over 100 years ago? It drying up would return things to the way it was supposed to be. Funny what we freak out about.
You don’t seem to understand that this accident inadvertently created a new ecosystem that needs to be taken care of. Back in the 50s and 60s the lake was full of a variety fish and now there’s been a 97% decrease in the fish population. This affects the avian population as well that feeds off the fish, and the more this lake dries up the more toxic dust will be exposed and blown away into neighboring communities, this isn’t something we can just let die out now
Yep. We forced the farmers to use less water which results in less farm water drainage into the Salton and therefore less Sea.
The birds will find other places to stop in their migration.
@@mr.anderson2241 No, Sir. I understand fully. But when man creates the problem, man needs to suffer the problem. That’s all. Period. End of story. Life will always find a way to endure.
@@sar4x474 so then rather than attempting to resolve something we simply let it run its course and just allow it to do whatever terrible thing will happen as a consequence for not intervening?
That sounds like my wife. She’s always worried about things I’m not
This lake isn't even supposed to be there. It's man-made
And an accident at that.
And your point is????
Isnt your car man made too?
@@bangryman100 lol my car was made on purpose. It wasn't cause some engineer screwed up and a car just appeared all of a sudden.. unlike this lake 😂 go read a book lol
@@bangryman100 His car wan’t made by accident.
Google Lake Cahuilla.
Nice to see how you left out the proposal to cut the lake in half and restore the Native lands back to the Torres Martines Indian Tribe, one of the poorest tribes in California.
One of the major sources of water is raw sewage from Mexicali, Mexico, via Rio Nuevo. The US funded a major sewage treatment plant that cut down (but did not eliminate) the flow. What people don't understand, and what was not mentioned is this inland sea is below sea level, there is no drain. Therefore contaminants have been accumulating for 100 years. As for the birds they are ONLY there because of a man made disaster they will leave as this disaster is mitigated. This sea does not belong there, the land will need to be mitigated with a sea of gravel. The true cost of this disaster has yet to be paid.
Yeah, the "New River" is practically Chernobyl at this point. This doc is the worst example of "heart-sleeves" environmentalism. Unrealistic environmentalism. Dumb environmentalism.
They will be even more shocked to hear that there is a very strong possibility of a unexploded nuclear weapon somewhere in the sea!
The birds will migrate elsewhere just like they did when they original showed up after the accidental creation of the Salton Sea in the first place.
let it dry up and return to its natural state(desert) like it was 120 yr.s ago-problem solved.thanks no charge
Umm the dust is really toxic and the birds that fly through there will die out more than they already are
@@SETTLETHEBEEF if it dries up the birds will go other places and it will become desert where not many people will go
@@williamfowler616 It was a desert before where not many people ever went. The birds will go some place else.
@@SETTLETHEBEEF The dust all over the valley is toxic because of the chemicals used in all of the agriculture there. It’s not just a salton sea issue as this reporter makes it out to be. The birds will go somewhere else. They are not dying out.
Yeah.. You might wanna look into what's at the bottom.
Used to go there all the time when I was little with my parents ❤
How come they don’t make like a small river to the salton sea from the Colorado river and fill it back up
That "river" no longer has water, it all diverts to city water for San Diego, Tijuana and Los Angeles. Literally all of it.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA……………
that furrowing is very important, breaking the salt pan, we have regenerated huge areas of salt pan in other places with this, it will catch seeds and hold the soil, the seeds will help draw out the set and it will hold bigger plants. it is so good to see them in so soon, and with water stil, relativity near by, will help. there is always hope.
What needs to be done is a partition dam. One side could be the salt lake, perhaps growing fresher over time, the other side becoming a series of brine ponds.
"The Salton Sea used to be right over this ledge". You wanna know what it used to be? A huge desert with no sea.
She has no idea... The things that are or have been in that water... Must remember it was R&D Naval Base during the making of the Fat Man and Little Boy... and a test range well into the 60's with large amounts of depleted uranium and lead ballast... so whats in the dust.
They did try to clean it up but what was in the water has been forgotten like the more than a dozen lost military aircraft some with crew still inside that that Navy refuses to recover because they considered them Lost at Sea.
Just saw a report on the military actions in that area in the 1960- plus....there is all kinds of bombs/pieces at the bottom...some contained uranium...
Eventually it's going to end up to a dry lake bed🐈
Agricultural runoff has chemicals so that wasn’t a good option from the start. They also forgot to mention the radioactive dust.
That 'dust' is glyphosate(Roundup) from the Industrial Agriculture runoff, & it just killed my dog. I'm outa here as soon as I get my check.✌
Salton Sea wasn't there 120 years ago and won't be the a 100 years from now. The sea level was at Monroe an I-10 in Indio - 400 years ago, then a big Earthquake and cut off the area from the Gulf of California. Sea of Cortez.
You forgot to mention the undeternated bomb from ww2 that was accidentally released instead of the fake one whilst the were target practicing aint that a major radiation concern 🤔
Since the Salton Sea is approx. 230feet below sea level, piping in water from the Pacific to replenish it would help. This would drop the salinity of the sea and fill it up again. BUT in this intense heat a lot of water will evaporate and salinity will gradually go up again. So there is no permanent solution for this problem - unless one would use the energy generated by the gravity flow of Pacific water into the Salton Sea to pump high salinity water out again and back into the Pacific. In fact, as with the pumped storage lakes in the Alps, the same machinery could be used to first generate energy during the day when energy prices are high, by letting water from the Pacific turn power generating turbines on its way to the Salton Sea. Then at night when energy prices are lower the power generating turbines could become power consuming pumps that would return high salinity water to the Pacific.This would be a permanent solution stabilizing the Sea, which could even generate income that might, over time, pay for its installation.
Of course installation costs would be high as there is quite a distance between the Pacific and the Salton Sea. Plus there's the Sierra Nevada to cross. Here tunnels at or close to the base of the mountains could transport the water through this obstacle. Alternatively, import of Pacific water from the South i.e. the Gulf of California or the North i.e. via Palm Springs-LA might be possible as the mountains on this approach are not as high as those of the Sierra Nevada blocking the direct route from around San Diego.
This solution would eventually stabilize the Salton Sea at a salinity that is equal to that of the Pacific with a more or less constant water level. In smaller lakes, pumped storage used in the way described above, leads to substantial daily fluctuation in the water level of the reservoirs (here, only the Salton Sea is concerned). Since the Salton Sea is voluminous with a large surface these fluctuations would probably by quite small and would not impact wildlife in or around the lake.
The best solution for the entire water-starved South West (including the neighboring Mexico) would of course be NAWAPA, which would bring ample fresh water to the entire region to not only fill up depressions like the Salton Sea but many other half or entirely dried-out lakes there as well.
The Sierra Nevada range is much further north.
There will be no aqueducts going through private and tribal property in southern California. I find that people who don't live here talk the most about aqueducts. Never ever happen.
One possible way would be using the local volcanic activity as a geothermal power source for massive de-salination plants. Sounds kinda pie-in-the-sky for America in 2021, a now 2nd rate "world power". The lake is going away, in all likelihood.
@@classiclife7204 Well, I live far away from the Salton Sea. If this thing dries out you'll have tons of toxic dust in the air around this former body of water. I can only say suit yourself to those tribes and private land owners who try to obstruct solutions. Drown in toxic dust if that's what you want. And as far as your desalination plants are concerned read up on desalination plants. They are only viable right next to the Ocean because they use a huge amounts of sea water and produce a large amounts of waste water with high salinity. So where are you going to dump this waste water? Have to transport it back to the Ocean. So without a connection to the Ocean you can do nada. Except NAWAPA.
@@wkgurr LMAO they're not my desalination plants; I called them pie-in-the-sky.
Only about 10% of water, if that much, will remain because the State will create a few wetland areas, mostly as a sop to environmentalists crying about birds. The real work is dust mitigation using furrowing and whatever else they do. The State has given up on complete Sea solutions. Think of it as "Salton Tiny Lakes" rather than "Salton Sea".
As I said, we're a 2nd rate power; we don't do big projects anymore.
So this is were M😴👽🌽🤣😎🔻🚫🌃👽✔️👽👽👽🌎🌽🌾🌾🌽🌾🌽🌾🚣🚣🏊🤽Mad Max lives in America and Elvis left the Lake and they drained it for The Vegetable Garden of America...........
Supposed to be there or not, it is and it needs to be saved for several reasons. I was just there 2/21 and it can be a beautiful place.
Ummm no! It is a waste of money.
America's equivalent of the aral sea
Yes and no. The Sea's current incarnation was an ecological accident to begin with but the real point is that people depended on the South Aral for a living. That was never quite the case with the Salton. It was briefly a resort area for about 10 or 15 years, some real estate agents made a small killing off it, but it died pretty quickly. It was already fading by the late 60s because by then the Sea was already starting to stink. The South Aral had been there - and naturally - for thousands of years. It was almost the reverse of the Salton, where water had been "unnaturally" fed. The Aral had water "unnaturally" diverted. The toxic dust though? Yeah that'll be the same
Beauty? WTF are they saying? Its not a real lake. Made by a mistake, its a cesspool of hazardous waste. A perfect example of mankind at its finest
Wonder if the navy and army got all the dead bodys and test nukes out of it? From WW2
Great video. Hope we get an update on a future date.
The Salton Sea is a human-made mistake. We shouldn't waste money trying to save it; it's not sustainable.
Although large seas have cyclically formed and dried over historic time in the basin due to natural flooding from the Colorado River, the current Salton Sea was formed when Colorado River floodwater breached an irrigation canal constructed in the Imperial Valley in 1905 and flowed into the Salton Sink.
it's turning into the US dead sea
Not a word of pesticides why not
Flood it with seawater and let it turn into a hypersaline lake. Eventually it would just be a salt pan as the salt level increases.
The birds that go through it would die out and the ppl in southern cali would get more breathing problems or lung problems
@@SETTLETHEBEEF The air quality of the salt flats in Utah is fine. Probably better than Imperial Valley now.
It's already "hypersaline". It's also polluted with over a century of ag runoff and possibly radioactive crap the military was testing things in back when they owned it prior to 1961.
I think I would pass by the salton sea when ever I go to San Felipe
Is the Salton Sea supposed to be there..?
The Salton Sea is the US version of the Aral Sea.
10,000 tons of salt has been delivered to the Salton Sea everyday for over 60 years in the form of farm runoff. As the concentration of salinity increases wildlife will decline in numbers. The Salton Sea exists because of farming. Without the Salton Sea as a designated depository for salty farm runoff, 500,000 acres in the Imperial Irrigation District could not be farmed.
congratulations! you have just won an award for the most absurd comment of the year. I invite you to take some water samples and run it through a refractometer to measure the index and report the salinity.
It does need more media attention. Esp. if you live in Southern California.
I think that, in the end, it will take something drastic to make people understand that you can't endlessly expand cities and/or farmland in the desert. The Salton Sea is just a symptom of the overall problem of overuse of scarce resources. There may come a day when desert communities may have to say no to developers wanting to build new homes and/or commercial properties. That they can't expand the water district any more than it is and that the area can no longer support any more growth that increases water demand.
The Salton Sea was created by an engineering error 120 years ago, it is returning to its natural state. Building the Hoover Dam spelled the end of the Salton Sea as it prevented the occasional floods and destruction in the area.
Desalinization for San Diego is the answer.
Could even use desalinization plant at the Lake to reduce the salt 🤔
Correct. But the salts taken out of the water become a waste. Nobody wants it, and supposedly the ocean can't handle it. Figure that out and desal is a winner.
With what? Monopoly money?
This lake was not supposed to be there it was created by mismanaging the environment and a flood at the same time. I think the birds can just go back to what they were doing before there was a lake. give me a break. I don't want to pay for your accident!
This is like the news we used to watch:
ruclips.net/video/EpZUtvkvQIc/видео.html
I have dumb idea, the world's gonna flooded soon, why not pump the sea water to the lake
the salton sea as a dead sea
Used to go there to campsite near Salton City with my dad in the late 60’s. They had issues even then concerning ‘fertilizer’ chemicals run off from the Indio date palm orchards.
I believe another issue concerning declining water and quality can be attributed to increasing demands from Cal. and Las Vegas being placed on the Colorado river.
Mexico is allowed fresh water allotments from the Colorado river. Even as a kid, I thought that the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of Baja) is not that far, come to a deal with Mexico and back flood sea water from the Gulf!
Volcano surrounding it as well.
There's a relatively simple solution. It won't be cost free but is doable and would not require a lot of changes to current farms or industries. Just divert more of the Colorado River water into the Salton Sea to stabilize or maybe expand the water levels. Build new water desalination plants for LA and San Diego to make up for the lost water. This would preserve the sea and enable those cities to still have the drinking water they need.
The Colorado River has lost most of its flow due to long-term droughts. Adding water to a heavily polluted lake is completely senseless. Due to the salt residue from inland seas of eons ago, even if you made the Salton Sea completely pure it would quickly dissolve the underlying salts and be self-polluting once again. There is an existing desalination plant in San Diego - it makes some of the most expensive water in the world. Why dump clean water (that could be used elsewhere) into a Mistake Lake? It was created in error 120 years ago.
Good video, but what about ALL the radioactive materials from all the government testing back in the 50's...this place is forgotten by the Feds for a reason...
Ice caps melting?🤔
What?
@@adamwaishwile706 To replenish the Saltern Sea Vladimir, just an 💡 idea🙂
WELL DONE AND THE POWERS THAT BE DO NOT GAF
Let it dry up . It wasn't supposed to be there naturally . Don't try to have it both ways . Don't try to tell me what I can do on my land .
There are mud volcanos on the southern side of the lake. Could there be a benefit of the water evaporating because water and magma do not mix well?
Lol hahaha you're a special kind
There's one SAD fact that caused this. Too many turds in L.A. !
I want to see water pumped in from the Sea of Cortez.
The farmers dumped loads of chemicals in there, that’s why the dust is deadly. This video is good but really avoiding one of the major environmental problems being the farms.
Farmers didn't ''dump'' loads of chemicals there as you said. Pesticides are used in farming so that we can have food that we ALL consume. Saying they ''dumped'' chemicals is ignorant at best and a flat out lie at worst.
or maybe the birds have adapted to the change and gone to where the food is!? omg iI figured it out there's no fish to eat so the birds have gone else where to find more fish. and the birds a happy at there new place because the don't care about where they are.
That is exactly what has happened!
Really sad. 😭
Carol Worth
Hello, Miss Carol. 🙂 I am a very big fan of the Sea. How about you?
@@alicehallam7949 Nice to see you, Alice! Yes. As a Native Californian for 82 years, I considered the Salton Sea a "Natural Wonder" for us; a special place that had no parallel. I hope to see it flourish again in the not-to-distant future. Take care, Dear! 🤗
@@CarolWorth
I grew up far from Cali, but it's been on my list of fantasy locales (to live) since early adulthood. I make "digital field trips" there (or "here," lol) on RUclips now whenever I can.
I binge watched dozens of Sea videos during a recent illness when I couldn't work, and I FINALLY was able to educate myself pretty well on the Sea's long history, the towns then and now, and "Sea news" related to the Quantification Agreement changes (how, why the farm water inflows stopped). Also about what will be happening with the still-existing inflows and the planned Habitat areas.
@@CarolWorth so you visit the Sea?
@@alicehallam7949 Wow! You are far ahead of me, Alice! The last time I visited the Salton Sea was in 1979. It was just an overnight stay at a crummy motel but we'd had a long drive from Northern Arizona and the kids were tired and we were all hungry and tired so we weren't too picky. The swimming pool was full of bugs and not too inviting. We left pretty early the next morning. I was pretty disappointed when we saw the Sea as it did not meet our expectations. 🙄 And, that was 41 years ago! We can only hope that a miracle will happen to rectify what crooked political dealings have wrought! Take care, Friend. 😘
But we can afford to go to Mars!
The entire desert was pretty wet until about 8,000 years ago when it began drying out. The tiny little Salton sea is hardly representative of dramatic "climate change". The American desert exists because of a gradually changing climate over millennia. Things don't exist in stasis. They change. That's what they do.
you can change the speed of the car you sit in by gently applying the brake. Or hit a wall with 150mph. get it?
@@grumbazor I get a lot more about it than you think. This climate "paranoia" were it based on actual science, wouldn't exist. There is absolutely no need for it. But, people are fear and panic addicts. It's the new religion. And, just like religious fundamentalists who constantly preach an end-date for the world and are laughed at when it passes and nothing happens, climate zealots keep on moving the goalposts of "Armageddon" to suit their crazed ideology. Of course, one day we won't be here anymore. That's the cycle. The planet has been through countless cycles of destruction and climate change in its history, and that doesn't stop just because we're here. One day will be our last, just like an individual's lifespan, so will ours collectively come to an end. And a million years from now sonething else will be here in our place. It's all temporary. People need to abandon these absurd notions of control.
Somewhere in that lake is a nuke. We gotta find it.
There is no live radioactive material in the lake. There were concrete filled bombs used for practice.
Imma go to Salton sea this weekend!
LOL CARAJO. GOOD LUCK BRO THIS EARTH IS BEAUTIFUL NO MATTER WHAT BUT PREPARE FOR FLIES IN THE AM AND HEAT EVERYTHING ABANDONED BUT I LOVE BEING FREE EXPLORING.
We are renting an rv and going there next month!
Get me some meth, eh
With the rest of the commenters on this. It’s a fluke to begin with and environmentalists are concerned?
The atomic bomb they accidentally dropped in the Salton Sea was bigger than the one they dropped on Hiroshima. Yes it is still there, it's never been recovered.
There's like 25 military planes too. Hundreds of test bombs with depleted uranium ballast too. Agriculture run-off is only a portion of the disaster.
that massive general area of southern California is actually a desert. residents that chose to live there complaining about water issues in that area is like someone that lives in Alaska complaining about snow...
If global warming would hurry up and get here sooner, the increase in temperature around the world will cause greater evaporation from oceans, resulting in greater rainfall, some of which will rain in an area beneficial to Southern California, Either by increased snowfall at higher elevations, which will melt and flow through the rivers feeding that area, or rainfall on the area itself.
when I was in school the benefits of global warming were outlined in one of my courses. A longer growing season north of the 38th parallel, reduced usage of natural gas oil and coal for home heating, which will lower the CO2 in the atmosphere,.Milder winter’s north of the 38th parallel will put less freeze/thaw damage on infrastructure like buildings, bridges, highways, And it will reduce the use of road salt on roads & bridges , Making them last much longer, and, reducing damage caused by runoff salt into streams & rivers to wildlife & crops..
I have a warming will also enable farmers to plant crops that need 120 days growing season north of the 38th parallel, greatly improving farmers ability to feed the world..
Not just in the United States but in arid places such as Australia, argentina, mongolia,and Africa can benefit greatly from increased rainfall which will result from higher evaporation rates due to global warming..
This is not a guarantee that global warming will take place. Because according to the geological for historical record, ice ages occur like clockwork every 10 to 12,000 years, the last Ice Age is the one that carved out the great lakes. The ice was up to 2 miles thick. The issue is, we are overdue for the next Ice Age right now, we have been for about 1000 years. So which will it be?? Only our great great great great Great great great great great great great great great Grand children may find out
update as of March 2021. Signs of the approaching next Ice Age have occurred over the past month in the United States. Look what happened to Texas. They had a very long spell there below freezing and actually below zero in some areas in Texas which is just about unheard of and recorded times. A further indication of that schedule that mother nature has, and that is, ice ages occur on this planet like clockwork approximately every 10,000 years. The core samples of the geological record don’t lie.
another thing carbon dating and the geological record has shown which is quite a surprise. Is that the magnetic poles of the earth have switched places 180° several times. In other words, compass is pointed to the south pole during those flips in the magnetic field. There’s a whole lot more that we don’t know than what we do know.. but one thing is for certain, we are overdue for the next Ice Age, and maybe the beginnings of that are here, just ask people in Texas. The next indication of the approaching Ice Age is, the great lakes will have thicker ice that will melt later and later in the season. Hudson Bay will begin to not fall out completely over the summers. Greenland already has an ice pack that is over 1 mile thick and 1000 miles long. it would be a good thing to tap into that water/ice on Greenland because that will be some of the purest water on this planet. That water is thousands of years old that is frozen on Greenland, that ice was created before man put airborne chemicals in the atmosphere..
No one living on earth right now will witness to mile thick ice covering Canada just yet. But the glaciers that carved out the great lakes during the ladt ice age were over 2 miles thick in parts.., Like the ice on greenland right now
Dang u put some thought into this comment
We are going into a grand solar minimum and we won’t be able to grow crops above the 40.
Global warming is bs 🤔
Lol. The lady spilled food on her shirt.
Why don't you build a tunnel to the Pacific Ocean ... and pollute also the Ocean?
Lots of disinformation and erroneous implications. If you watch this video, also learn the history of the Salton Sea. It is NOT a natural feature; it is NOT a mismanaged lake. It is not even the only short-term Colorado River overspill. Once the Salton Sea finally evaporates completely it will become one of many in the geology of the area. It is pretty easy to tell garbage pseudo-reports like this when they begin with blatantly incorrect statements such as placing the Salton Sea in the southwest corner of the state. Get a map! Learn something before preaching about it.
go to the top please
Let those California cities dry up!
That ain't the half of it.
Talk to ELON and have him find out how to desalt water. !!
Reporter says "Due to changes in the management of the Colorado River every day it is shrinking." I'm looking at the surrounding areas with Google map. The area I'm seeing has resorts and golf courses, green areas which canal in a lot of water. Yes, I'd say it's shrinking. Where are people getting their drinking water?
Gail, I understand that Palm Springs/Indio (north) has underground water. The SS has survived by farm drainage from the Brawley area (south) BIG FARMS after the farms took water via a canal from the Colorado River, since around 1900.
New water edIcts from State of California require the farms to pump ALL of their drainage (unabsorbed water leaving their fields) into a canal that ends in San Diego County. State did this to allow growth in San Diego, but they betrayed Imperial County homeowners who've lived/live around the Sea for several generations now, and who have to watch the Sea shrink to perhaps half if it's former size.
California stupidity at its finest!
The environment!
Hahahaha
They didn't have any problems with the environment when the government was dropping ten tons of depleted uranium at a time into the sea. And they dropped thousands of them in there.
Then there's all the lead they dropped as well.
And the thirty some aircraft crashed and sank to the body still filled with their crews.
Think that might be the reason one of the plans is to "make islands"?
So as the wrecks become visible the government can just cover them up?
Or cover the possible unexploded nuke in there?
But poor California and their precious water Oasis!
Hahahaha
It's a Superfund hazardous waste site!!!!!
They're not piping in Salton Sea water.
If it wasn't for the pesticide deposits, as a Californian myself, I don't care if it disappeared because it was man made to begin with.
Stupid
Really?
What about the bombs, planes., their CREWS & the RADIATION that is there??
Kinda (TOTALLY) slack on your reporting, eh?
It's a man made lake not a natural lake, it didn't exist in the 1800.
You can't make this stuff up, Californians create an inland sea on accident 120 years ago, and now one of their biggest worries is for the avian population that never existed before they created the sea. I say since you seem to love to fuck with nature out there why don't you talk Mexico into digging a ditch from the Gulf of California up to the border west of Mexicali. The deepest part would not be over 40 feet deep and the total length would be less than 100 miles. That should do it, just let her go and see what you get. Your inland sea will quickly become the north end of the Gulf of California.
Sure you will lose a little farm land and El Centro but what the hell, the migratory birds will still have their place north of the present day Gulf of California by a couple hundred miles that they have gotten used to over the last century or so and all that farm water can be diverted to San Diego.
He and they count every single bird ,Ahahahahaha what a dodo 🐦.
There are so many ignorant comments
Great reporting
paint it red then we have the new dead sea
Increase evaporation and rainfall by importing gravity fed ocean water into Salton Sea.
Give it up Leroy - changing your name slightly doesn't change your infantile guesses about what can be done. How's that criminal company going that you were touting for 5 years? LOLOLOL
And theres a couple nukes in there no big deal
Someone please help those birds!!!
come visit and fall in love .
This is the most intriguing and unique place in California. I am coming to visit after the 2nd season of 2021. I live in NEW YORK CITY and I love Salton Sea.
The political interests of the San Diego area were able to persuade the State of California to steal this area's water. Of course, it's a little more complicated than that but Imperial County farmers are still getting their farm water. They just have to send any water that they recover to San Diego now.
So the homeowner constituents of the Sea area were let down by Imperial County and the State of California. Approximately 9,000 residents in the area's towns.
steal from a lake that isnt supposed to be there in the first place.
@@archieames1968
the lake has been there for eons. The humans built a dam but nature knocked the dam out of the way and the lake refilled
@@alicehallam7949 There was no natural lake there at the time. It was created by an accident. There are natural lakes from time to time but its not the Salton's time right now.
@@archieames1968
It's a natural sink. The humans put up a dam that apparently meets with your approval. But the water belongs there.
@@alicehallam7949 if you would read the history of the lake you will find that canals were dug to irrigate farm land, massive rains caused the canals to fail and the salton sea was created in 1905, it has not been for eons, please try to keep up
This video is ridiculous. The Salton Sea isn't even supposed to be there. The birds can move a little east to the next lake, one that's actually supposed to be there. Thumbs down for lying.
Sad
The sea needs to be saved-by building a canal to the Gulf and pumping in seawater. For what we blow on a month in the ME, we could prevent this disaster, and actually turn the sea back into a valuable resource. But better to blow 100's of billion$$ on the "High Speed rail to Nowhere"-that nobody will ride!
There is a nuclear bomb at the bottom and downed planes with remains still in them.....people need to be relocated and "lake bed" cleaned up. This was accidentally created anyway that is now a manmade disaster.
The Sea was never that valuable a resource. The biggest resource was the hyped-up land that clever real estate agents made a killing off of in the 50s and 60s. You must not live in SoCal because surely you'd know that the land is all private and tribal property. An aqueduct will not happen. Desalination plants run on the geothermal power in the area is a possibility, but ... expense? Where do you store the salt (considered toxic waste as well, esp. with how dirty Salton is)? Dust mitigation as the Sea evaporates is the only practical solution.
How is anybody really surprised about the Salton Sea? Really? The Salton Sea is a man-made lake caused by farm runoff back in the early 1900s. It’s not supposed to be there. It drying up is actually a good thing. I don’t know why anybody lives there. It was a ghost town at the beginning of the 70s when the lake started drying up and turning salty extremely salty because it’s all farm runoff and hasFertilizers from the farms along with other contaminants mixed in the water which eventually created such a mineral rich water the fish could not survive. There’s no reason to preserve the lake because it’s supposed to be a dry riverbed.
Where are the pelicans going to go? really? Salton sea it’s between the gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean. Where are they going to go are you seriously saying this? They’re going to go to the freaking ocean you idiot .. like they used to.
I agree about the pelicans, LOL. I say this a tree-hugging environmentalist (but not an idiotic one): this sort of cheap emotional appeal - "THINK OF THE PELICANS!" - is the worst sort of environmentalism there is and cheapens the movement.
Dig across the desert to the ocean
WTF if that was STILL a dry desert and you told the Democrat bird people you want to create a man made lake Those SAME bird people would scream NO NO you cant the desert bird would be endangered blah blah, Then the stupid question " what will the migrating birds do when the lake dries up" HELLO the same thing the birds did before 1909 FLY BY as usual!! This is why Democrats look like Loons..
USA president don't do anything for salton sea.if ask South Korea Or Japan or even China will figure out
Well, we know what to do, but it's all too expensive. Say thanks to China for us, though!
Democrat FAKE NEWS Prior to 1909 the "Salton sea" was dry desert, an old DRY lake IN 1909 an engineering accident diverted water overflow from the Colorado river into the dry desert for 2 years creating the "Salton sea" The Democrats on this vid act like the lake was there all the time LIARS The you hear ooohh the birds dramatically declined WTF if there wasn't an accident in 1909 that area would NATURALLY be a DRY desert, So what the the Dems point
The lake refilled after the man-made levee was removed by Nature herself, after a high flood period of the Colorado River (due to heavy waterflow further north). The Salton Sea "sink" has been a NATURAL LAKE, by geologic processes (landmass evolution), and by natural processes (rainfall and snowfall, combined with gravity) many times.