In 1905, dikes along the Colorado River were breached by heavy rains, and water flooded into the Salton Sink, site of an ancient sea. The entire flow of the river was periodically channeled into the valley until the construction of Hoover Dam enabled flood control. The Salton Sea was stocked with game fish and became a popular recreation site for many years, but gradually became more and more salty due to lack of an outflow and high salinity runoff from surrounding agriculture. Today, only tilapia can survive in the lake, which is nearly as salty as the Great Salt Lake, and it is ringed by dessicated fish carcasses and failed developments.
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Nice! Like the photos!
Thanks, Mark! Got tons more, especially graffiti. I need a week at Salton, at least. I only had a day.
Look forward to seeing them! Kim and I spent a few days there last year. Haven’t had a chance to do anything with the bulk of the photos, but put a few prints in Solar Culture a while back: http://markhahnphotography.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/solar-culture-gallery-salton-sea-photos/ best!
I remember seeing those. It would be fun to go image hunting with you guys some time.
At first when I looked at that photo of the fish, I thought it something from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.
Then I read your text.
Wow!
Damn shame.
There have been notions of pumping Pacific Ocean water in one end of the lake and out the other to stabilize it, or digging a canal from the ocean, which would allow for an inland port and regulation of the salinity. The second is probably more viable, but someone still has to pay for it.