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  • The Salton Sea, California.

    The Salton Sea is the largest body of water in California.

    This is an amazing video.

    From boom to bust in a short period of time!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otIU6...layer_embedded

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    Re: The Salton Sea, California.

    Lot's of interesting parallels.

    Issachar, thinking about real money being diverted into the world's largest sea of currency ... (sorry .. sort of .. )
    The church is on Earth to save souls from a lost world, not to save the world from lost souls.

    Man learns about history, not from history. To learn from history requires wisdom. Cut off from God, he has none, so history repeats; no new thing under the sun.

    I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken - dylan

    Psalms 122:8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

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      Re: The Salton Sea, California.

      Oh PUH-LEEEZE! Talk about “creative license”!

      The Salton Sea is my front yard. I look out the kitchen window in the front of my “trailer trash” home, and little over a mile away is the water. Although there are many lots that were never developed, there are also many that are currently occupied. Look behind the realtor’s sign (the realtor retired in her 80s, by the way), and notice the mobilehome on the right side of the screen. To the right of the mobilehome, out of the camera’s lens, is a small liquor store, and the beginnings of a “Banana Museum” that will open later this year. There are a few businesses and the historic marina building is now a newly-refurbished community center and the Salton Sea Historic Museum.

      The fish die-offs, in the years they occur, are almost always caused by algae blooms: the shallow Sea heats up in the summer sun; the algae grows exponentially, feeding on the abundant nutrients from the agricultural runoff, using up the oxygen in the water; the fish suffocate because the heated water cannot hold enough oxygen. The smell to which the narrator refers is hydrogen sulfide, a byproduct of natural organisms near the bottom of the Sea, which surfaces when wind storms stir up the water and bring the gas to the surface.

      The Salton Sea boom, which I remember from my childhood in nearby Indio, ended due to the water level of the Sea steadily rising and flooding out homes and businesses near the water’s edge. The water came from storm runoff diverted into a system of storm channels that protect the entire Coachella Valley, as well as agricultural runoff. Farmers in some parts of the Valley have to “leach” their fields yearly to prevent buildup of alkali and salts which occur naturally in some soils, and which are also imported in the canal water from the Colorado River which the farmers use to irrigate their crops. As water continues to become more scarce due to increase in population, the farmers are becoming more efficient in conserving it, so the water level in the Sea is stabilizing and will soon begin to drop. Most of the video shots of abandoned and flooded development were from areas built very close to the water’s edge, which flooded and were necessarily abandoned.

      I appreciate the cinematographers artistic craft, but it is so sad that he gives such a skewed impression of the area around the Salton Sea to the viewers. This is a beautiful area, and there are many interesting historic and geographic features to see. Accurate information is available from the Salton Sea History Museum http://www.saltonseamuseum.org/ and links provided on its website.

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        Re: The Salton Sea, California.

        Originally posted by Ridgerider View Post
        Oh PUH-LEEEZE! Talk about “creative license”!
        Thanks Ridgerider.

        I swallowed the story hook, line, sinker, and fishing pole.

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