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mogul wrote:
It would be easy to manage if Arizona and Mexico had not filed court cases and won water rights to the Colorado and Southern California would stop filling their pools and watering their lawns. The Salton Sea is dead. I grew up in San Diego and remember the 50's and 60's when fishing was great. No one ever tested them though, I am surprised we lived with all the pollutants in that water. I do remember huge die offs of birds and fish.
You're right about the excessive diversions of Colorado River water for unsustainable landscaping. But, just to be clear, the big die offs of birds and fish were not caused by chemical pollutants. These mortality events have been caused by low oxygen levels in the water killing the fish, and the birds being killed by botulism when they ate the rotting fish and maggots. Other factors, such as toxic algal blooms, have also been implicated in the mass mortalities. Somehow you have to reconcile all the live birds in the photos I posted with your statement that "the Salton Sea is dead." Doomed if no remediation action is taken, maybe, but not dead yet. And certainly the Salton Sea is not beyond saving, nor is it not worth saving. The economic analyses have already proven that--it will cost much more to ignore it than to save it.
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