Restoring the Salton Sea

[ElGuapo]

http://www.pe.com/articles/board-762661-state-water.html

What do you guys think. Will it ever happen. I think it could turn into a boom town if they got it back to fresh water. You could take the risk and buy a place cheap now. Could be like buying a parker riverfront lot in the 60's. I am sure some members here might remember going to Salton Sea. What are some of your memories about Salton Sea.

 

[Ziggy]

http://www.pe.com/articles/board-762661-state-water.html

What do you guys think. Will it ever happen. I think it could turn into a boom town if they got it back to fresh water. You could take the risk and buy a place cheap now. Could be like buying a parker riverfront lot in the 60's. I am sure some members here might remember going to Salton Sea. What are some of your memories about Salton Sea.

The 50's and 60's were Boom time there............I had an old customer in the 80's that tried to sell me property he had on the sea, he was so pissed his investment never came to fruition. Fresh or salt water, but somehow circulate the water in/out of there.

 

[Cole Trickle]

never going to happen....

That place is a wasteland and I just can't imagine there being enough water or $$$ available to turn that place into something people would want to visit.

 

[GRADS]

If Sonny Bono couldn't do it no one can.

 

[TPC]

I just spent 10 days there, real potential if they'd fix it.
Bonos wife took over his seat after he died and the restoration plan died with him evidently.

If I remember correctly the plan was to divide the sea into three sections.
Two of the sections would be fed clean, treated, low mineral content water.
The theory was they would flush out and spill over to the third section that would remain near full of minerals with some sort of treatment control there so it doesn't get too far out of whack.

Sad to see what remains there now.

 

[RodnJen]

There was a great thread on this awhile back with some cool pictures of its glory days.

 

[Oso Viejo]

http://www.pe.com/articles/board-762661-state-water.html
I am sure some members here might remember going to Salton Sea. What are some of your memories about Salton Sea.

Many weekends camping at Bombay Beach . . . one of the rights of passage was being old enough to ski across the Sea to Desert shores where another bunch of my parent's friends drank :drink , err, I mean camped. 100 degree summer days were considered cool :cool and when it got to be more than 120, Pop would say fuck it and we'd head home. The evaporation beds east of Bombay made for great whoopties and jumps on the family Yamaha, too. Great place for kids to turn it loose in the day but by the time we hit puberty we wanted to either go to the River or surfing on vacations. The 'sewer' was just for old farts who drank beer by the case.

 

[FreeBird236]

Not like I was a regular, but spent two or three summer weekends a year there between 1960 and 1967. Learned to double ski there behind our neighbors 16' Marline with a Merc 45, it would do about 30 to 35 I think.. Use to where tennis shoes in the water because of all the corral. Only had outhouses when we first started going, later they built the state park with showers and we were styling. Lots of good memories...:thumbup:

 

[TPC]

never going to happen....

That place is a wasteland and I just can't imagine there being enough water or $$$ available to turn that place into something people would want to visit.

Word is all the plans are figured to be screwball impractical or just way too expensive.

 

[ChevelleSB406]

I am not an expert on the subject, but I watched a documentary I seem to remember them saying that not only the water coming in is too high in minerals and pesticides from the run off of the farm lands, but also the salt is seeping in from the land the lake sits above, so even if controlling what is going in, it will continue to leach in from below. Its a bummer because something that size with fresh water a little bit closer could be really cool.

 

[Oso Viejo]

Word is all the plans are figured to be screwball impractical or just way too expensive.

Screwball as in $2.6 Billion for a high speed train from Bakersfield to Madera? :rolleyes Folks be lining up for that ride.

 

[plaster dave]

I have a piece of property my grandma left me. It's on main st. It's worth about $500.00 so I'm gonna keep it and pay taxes and roll the dice for 30-40 years see what happens. Lol

 

[shintoooo]

I have a piece of property my grandma left me. It's on main st. It's worth about $500.00 so I'm gonna keep it and pay taxes and roll the dice for 30-40 years see what happens. Lol

I'll give you $50 for it. :thumbup:

 

[plaster dave]

I'll give you $50 for it. :thumbup:

Deal $50.00 a night to camp on it. Lol

 

[River Dan]

Long time lurker, seldom a poster,
My better half has two lots left to her by her grandparents, we pay the taxes and had never seen the property. The wife thought the property was under water. This year when TDS came around we looked it up discovered that it was not under water. We went and checked it out and it is off South Marina Drive behind the Mexican restaurant with sewer and water on the property. It would be awesome to have the lake brought back. For now looks like we may be going to truck haven a few times in the winter.

 

[Oso Viejo]

I have a piece of property my grandma left me. It's on main st. It's worth about $500.00 so I'm gonna keep it and pay taxes and roll the dice for 30-40 years see what happens. Lol

Hilarious finding out so many others were sucked into the Salton Sewer land boom. Funny part of that was that the gal I married had also been left a parcel in Bombay Beach. Long about 1997 she gets a call from a guy who has two adjoining lots and wants hers as well to build his dream house. We ended up bundling her lot and the double my folk?s left and sold it all to Mr. Dreamhouse for $1275.

Probably the biggest land deal that town saw in 25 years.

 

[GRADS]

If you guys ever have an hour to kill or want to learn about the Salton Sea, this is a really interesting video on it.

[video=youtube;8TjGAWxL23c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TjGAWxL23c[/video]

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

this would be way cool , as for bb beach the gov took a lot of welfare peeps out of LA and put them ( relocated ) to Bomb Bay beach, we used to camp about 10 miles east ( a place called The Corner gone now ) just south of the boarder patrol( 10') it was dry camp but a lot of old timers /snow birds = cool peeps

 

[IN AWE]

Not like I was a regular, but spent two or three summer weekends a year there between 1960 and 1967. Learned to double ski there behind our neighbors 16' Marline with a Merc 45, it would do about 30 to 35 I think..[emoji14] Use to where tennis shoes in the water because of all the corral. Only had outhouses when we first started going, later they built the state park with showers and we were styling. Lots of good memories...[emoji106]

Corral, those are fish bones.[emoji15]

 

[pronstar]

We already have a boom town made with water we don't have, it's called "the rest of SoCal that's near the beach"

 

[FreeBird236]

Corral, those are fish bones.[emoji15]

It was something, and almost guarantee it was going to turn red...:yikes

 

[bobbytheboozer]

If you guys ever have an hour to kill or want to learn about the Salton Sea, this is a really interesting video on it.

[video=youtube;8TjGAWxL23c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TjGAWxL23c[/video]

Wow, that was pretty interesting. Thanks for putting that up [emoji106]

 

[probablecause]

Word is all the plans are figured to be screwball impractical or just way too expensive.

Do you mean like our high speed train billion dollar project?

 

[CornWater]

8-9 billion minimum. And environmental restrictions that only California can conjure. In midst of severe drought, hard to imagine utilizing more Colorado river water to maintain levels, or at least curb regression.

Will ultimately become massive dust bowl if not given priority.

 

[TPC]

If the Dutch can build dykes and claim vast amounts of land I can't see why a reclaim project at the Salton Sea wouldn't work.

 

[BajaMike]

I say build a big two way pipeline to the ocean or Gulf of California and pump fresh sea water in and pump brackish, stale water out and fill it up with sea water. Pump the stale water out 10 to 20 miles in the ocean so it's not a environmental problem. They built Lake Perris and Lake Skinner with water from Lake Havasu....they can't bring water in from the ocean???

We could fix this....doing nothing is the worst choice.


:thumbup:

 

[pronstar]

I think we have the capability, but not the political will, to clean up Salton.

 

[Old Texan]

If the Dutch can build dykes and claim vast amounts of land I can't see why a reclaim project at the Salton Sea wouldn't work.

CA/USA bureaucracy comes to mind.....The Dutch just figured the best way and did it. They didn't have the half million junk science opinions to deal with either.:rolleyes

 

[CornWater]

I say build a big two way pipeline to the ocean or Gulf of California and pump fresh sea water in and pump brackish, stale water out and fill it up with sea water. Pump the stale water out 10 to 20 miles in the ocean so it's not a environmental problem. They built Lake Perris and Lake Skinner with water from Lake Havasu....they can't bring water in from the ocean???

We could fix this....doing nothing is the worst choice.


:thumbup:

It's all cost. Option has been discussed...

 

[COCA COLA COWBOY]

Mary continued to work diligently on repairing the issues and cleaning it up, but no financial support ever came her way. In 2004, she needed 4 billion to complete the job by building a dyke through the middle, creating a environmental salt flat and wildlife sanctuary at the south end and the north end would have been cleaned up for patrons to use as watersports. Mary worked really hard and she's an awesome person in many ways, but lack of support from congress killed their dream.

In the end, they are letting it dry up and the water is receding quickly. It's just a matter of time before it becomes a major issue for the Coachella Valley as once dry and the winds shift to the northwest the old dried up chemicals that were from the crops runoff will become airborne. It's not that common that the winds run northwest, but it does happen and I think many will inevitably start getting sick and something will have to be done.

I've some time hunting, selling and flipping land around that area and always enjoyed the mysticism associated with it. If you ever have a hankering for a wild drunken time and have a good designated driver, go bar hopping around all the holes in the little shanty towns that circulate that place. There are some crazy characters with gnarly stories.

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

I say build a big two way pipeline to the ocean or Gulf of California and pump fresh sea water in and pump brackish, stale water out and fill it up with sea water. Pump the stale water out 10 to 20 miles in the ocean so it's not a environmental problem. They built Lake Perris and Lake Skinner with water from Lake Havasu....they can't bring water in from the ocean???

We could fix this....doing nothing is the worst choice.


:thumbup:

this was talked about , but problems with mexico ?

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

Bump

 

[River Runnin]

Put a Salt/Shaker Plant out there! The constant Swarm EarthQuakes could power the Saltan Salt processor!

 

[Cdog]

HAHA! Old thread.

It's dead Jim.

 

[Gelcoater]

HAHA! Old thread.

It's dead Jim.

By the smell of it, it died long ago.

Corral, those are fish bones.[emoji15]

Mollusk shell.

 

[pipemn]

By the smell of it, it died long ago. Mollusk shell.

Lived there for 46 years those were barnacles,hitched a ride in on the navy sea planes back in the forties.

 

[Mototrig]

They haven't figured out how to save Lake Elsinore and it's a small fraction of the size.of the salton sea....

 

[riverroyal]

They haven't figured out how to save Lake Elsinore and it's a small fraction of the size.of the salton sea....

Incorrect. Elsinore has been getting treated sewage for about 15 years
Its cleaner now than ever

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

Lots of geo thermal under it was a big place over by Red Hill

 

[getreal]

Saw a Documentary, the lake is going down a couple feet a year. When it dries up, the toxic dust cloud will wipe out LA.

 

[hallett21]

Just watched a documentary on it. I didn’t realize the impact it had on wild life. And the potential to turn into another Owens situation.


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[LBsuperJET]

Saw a Documentary, the lake is going down a couple feet a year. When it dries up, the toxic dust cloud will wipe out LA.

Just watched a documentary on it. I didn’t realize the impact it had on wild life. And the potential to turn into another Owens situation.


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What service are the docs on? Id like to check em out.

 

[getreal]

What service are the docs on? Id like to check em out.

Youetube

 

[707dog]

 

[grumpy88]

I was thinking you could fill it with reclaimed water . It just needs massive money to do a master planned city to go with it .

 

[LBsuperJET]

Where would the water nowadays come from tho? The Colorado river allocations prob won't ever allow that again I would think...

 

[SoCalDave]

Where would the water nowadays come from tho? The Colorado river allocations prob won't ever allow that again I would think...

Watched a documentary about this a few years ago. You have to stop the flow from Mexico before you do anything.

New River (Mexico–United States) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The New River (Spanish: Río Nuevo) flows north from near Cerro Prieto, through the city of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, into the United States through the city of Calexico, California, towards the Salton Sea. The river channel has existed since pre-historic times. However, the river as known today formed from a levee failure and massive flooding that re-created the Salton Sea.

Today, the river flow mostly consists of agricultural runoff, municipal discharge and industrial wastewater. The river has been called the most severely polluted river of its size in the United States.[2] Several projects have begun to reduce and mitigate the levels of pollution in the river, including upgrades to sewage treatment infrastructure and enclosure of the river channel.[3

 

[hallett21]

Also what happens if we have another 100 year flood? Is the Colorado river much different than when it flooded in the 70s? As far as infrastructure.

Did the same 86 Parker flood spill into the Salton Sea eventually?


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[Fastdadtsmith]

I think I saw some serious funding for this in the next plandemic relief package. Maybe time to buy some lots? Nah, more gamestop....

 

[LBsuperJET]

Watched a documentary about this a few years ago. You have to stop the flow from Mexico before you do anything.

New River (Mexico–United States) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The New River (Spanish: Río Nuevo) flows north from near Cerro Prieto, through the city of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, into the United States through the city of Calexico, California, towards the Salton Sea. The river channel has existed since pre-historic times. However, the river as known today formed from a levee failure and massive flooding that re-created the Salton Sea.

Today, the river flow mostly consists of agricultural runoff, municipal discharge and industrial wastewater. The river has been called the most severely polluted river of its size in the United States.[2] Several projects have begun to reduce and mitigate the levels of pollution in the river, including upgrades to sewage treatment infrastructure and enclosure of the river channel.[3

Didn't know of that river. That's actually really sad.