Salton Sea

The Salton Sea Introduction The Salton Basin , a below-sea-level depression which extends on the north from Palm Springs , California, to the Gulf of California , in the south. The Salton Sea has undergone historic cycles of filling with water and later drying up. The most recent predecessor to the Sea, that being Lake Cahuilla , last filled this area between 300 to 500 years ago and at one time had a surface elevation above sea level. In 1905 the flooding of the Colorado River was accidentally

Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency and Salton Sea Authority to lead Salton Sea restoration efforts. It will create planning, technical advisory group, study groups, and any form of aid the help for the Salton Sea restoration efforts. The bill would declare that all efforts will be declared effected immediately as an urgency matter. Just a few objectives that this bill would like to be successful are “(1) protect water quality, (2) maintain the Salton Sea as a vital link along the Pacific Flyway

yachts, the Salton Sea has become an abandoned destination since the late 20th century. The Salton Sea was created by accident; with an exponential increase in precipitation, water diverted from the Colorado River to Imperial Valley creating the Salton Sea. Through its early years, the Salton Sea was a tourist attraction. It was an inland sea, allowing the public to ride boats and fish. Soon after, the Imperial Valley needed a drainage lake, and the federal government permitted the Salton Sea to be utilized

The Salton Sea is an unique location as it is one of the few environments in the world that has wildlife but also lots of impact. Hydrogen Sulfide is one of the primary chemicals that exists in this location. The Aral Sea in between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has great similarity with the Salton Sea, as it shows a possible future for the location. Hydrogen sulfide has a naturally occurring rotten egg smell which is very a clear and obvious scent to humans. Hydrogen sulfide itself exists endogenously

The terminal lake ecosystem of the Salton Sea is located in the southeastern corner of California, only 30 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border (Tetra Tech 2000). The Salton Sea lies at a nexus of bi-national water supply/quality issues. The Sea faces an uncertain future due to water delivery reductions imposed by the Interstate and Federal Quantification Settlement Agreement (QSA) of 2003 (Miles et al. 2009). Signed in 2003, the QSA was a deal between the U.S. Department of the Interior, California

Restoring The Salton Sea The Salton Sea, sits just 49 miles away from the destination city of Palm Springs, and is the largest lake in California. Once a popular weekend destination, has now become a decaying, toxic, and smelly mess at a rapid pace. The large but shallow body of water is a looming environmental hazard where troubles will grow in coming years. The first major problem is the Salton Sea is a salt lake with salinity levels 25% higher than our oceans according to a study conducted by

to get their water from the Colorado River. The resorts and businesses that were bustling before abandoned the area too, losing their businesses and a way of have a wage. There was also the heavy health impact on the people who live around the Salton Sea area, with the particulate dust having leftover residue of pesticides and hydrogen sulfide being tossed into the air and wept out to farther reaches of the region (Than, 2014) (Gottberg and Cichocki

Every year, hundreds and thousands of civilians used to vacation in a place that is now left in the dust. This specific place, not so common anymore is the Salton sea, located directly on the San Andres fault. The Salton sea is a shallow, saline, endorheic rift lake inside California's Imperial Valley and Coachella Valley. However, surrounding this site is extreme poverty and alarming rates of respiratory problems, while on the outside of this valley, face deep controversies with government spending

Results: A Strategy For Modeling Salton Sea Basin Future Climate Scenarios Based On Relationships Between Evapotranspiration And Precipitation A comparison of the averaged weather station datasets versus the historic individual weather station datasets was made for both precipitation and Eto. The averaged monthly dataset preserved seasonality for both precipitation and Eto as illustrated in the figures. Notably, for the months of February, March, and April, the average monthly precipitation volume

Throwing Our Planet in the Garbage It is something that we all have heard about. The horrific challenges we face with plastic overwhelming our oceans have created an awful picture in all of our minds at one time or another, but have you ever thought about whether or not all of our oceans are being affected? What about how much garbage is accumulating in our precious oceans and the effects that accumulation is having on us. These are questions I have always been particularly intrigued in finding