Opinion: The Salton Sea’s weirdness is what’s appealing
If the lake were to completely dry up there would be a horror to behold. While at shrinking Lake Mead a few gangster cadavers ...
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In the dust of the Coachella Valley, residents push for a park along the shrinking Salton Sea
Heavy floodwaters breached a canal system in 1905, and water rushed into the Salton Sink, according to the Salton Sea Authority. By the 1950s, the sea southeast of Palm Springs had become a desert ...
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Can the Salton Sea be saved?
It formed by accident in 1905, when the Colorado River, swollen from heavy rains, broke through a canal and flooded into the dry Salton Sink. It took two years for the breach to be fixed — but ...