Restoring the Salton Sea Part Two: Communities, quakes and preservation

In the second part of this series, NBC Palm Springs anchor Olivia Sandusky continues an in-depth report on efforts to restore the Salton Sea. In this report, we focus on the Desert Shores Channel Restoration project, earthquake activity, the proposed Chuckwalla Monument and popular attractions around the sea.
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[@michaelb503]

I'm sure the residents of Desert Shores and Bombay Beach appreciate this story. Great reporting! ❤

[@slowjamastan]

Brilliant reporting. Thank you, Olivia! ¡VIVA SLOWJAMASTAN!

[@timcantrell9673]

Excellent report! I grew up there in the sixties when everyone and everything from farms to desert to Joshua Tree to hwy 10 as a two laner was totally beautiful. There is volcanoes in the area and one topic not focused on is that volcanic structure underneath the Salton sea to El Centro. The San Andreas fault line is home to many volcanoes that have been rearranged because the fault line moves north and south. When I was kid, we went to the hot springs along the Andreas and sat in booths or went swimming at Desert Hot Springs that had like 3 giant hot spring pools.

[@macking104]

The May 18th earthquake swarm south of the Salton Sea were near the Imperial Fault.

[@eutimiochavez415]

U did a great report thank you❤❤❤❤

[@joeyl6911]

Dad took us fishing and camping in the mid 70's. Great memories, but now its just terrible and nearly a ghost town. Makes no sense you restore the channels since the big problem is the Salton Sea. Still gonna have the stench of the SS hitting the channels. Just tap into the Colorado to continue drawing fresh water. Good luck SS.

[@greyjackson2159]

I hope the well is good and it works out for all of you!

[@eutimiochavez415]

I hope that they do restore the lake use to be a great place to go ❤❤❤

[@ElleryOmur]

There's talk about building a canal from the Guld of California to the Laguna Salada, in Mexico, and then from there into the Salton Sea. Another option is to build a berm around the middle of the Salton Sea, causing runoff to flood the shoreline of the Salton Sea, while allowing the middle of the Salton Sea to evaporate. This would provide a bird habitat encircling the Salton Sea, due to less salt, due to more fresh water, while the center of the Salton Sea would become highly dense in salt.

[@jondurr]

Good luck, dreamers!

[@jagpilotohio]

Impossible. Not enough water.

[@reblzbackjack]

It’s is a very unique area.

[@jeffarcher400]

I've always dreamed of using the over 200 foot below sea level position to be a source of potential energy. A canal or pipeline from the Gulf side could bring salt water up through Laguna Salida to the Salton sea. This cleaner salt water could be used to generate power using the last hundred feet of drop and then spread into covered shallow evaporation ponds to create fresh water. Other ponds could be left open to create rain and counter sea level rise. This will also cool the area. One pond and pipe system could be used just for getting power from the tidal flow. Finally something has to be done about the pollution in the Salton sea. You could add clean salt water and hope it flushes out but it really needs an enema. Create a lined trench connecting filtration ponds with gravel bar and water hyacinth biofilters. Hopefully after three or four ponds it'll be clean enough to reuse or make a separate lake. Then fill up the Salton sea with clean saltwater. I'd love to get the water from out by Catalina where it's blue and clean but that's a trip over mountains. Years from now when we have a National water management plan we can control our rivers flooding and use the freshwater to flush out the saltwater. We could have a huge inland freshwater sea.

[@donnasloane9031]

The land there is producing lithium.....Anyone profiting?

[@jwfinley7808]

Property owners would love to make money on their worthless property?

[@addisoncoleman9571]

Why don’t they make a gate so the Colorado river feeds can it again

[@Dkrpan59]

If people here on the coast would double and even triple use our water water just maybe the two lakes that should have water that is Tulare and the Salton Sea

[@bluelava4282]

Rock on 🤘

[@slworking2]

The problem is that the county and state want the Salton Sea to go away. The last thing they want to do is restore it. Meanwhile, the IID and county love to demolish history.

[@ronentwisle5373]

Since we have all that extra water.

[@tedwalker1370]

Why can't you just bring a water pipe from the Pacific Ocean to the Salton Sea and fill it back up again? It is below sea level isn't it?

[@ElleryOmur]

There is an easy route to build a canal from the Gulf of California to the Laguna Salada, in Mexico, and then to the Salton Sea. This would be the best route, but would require two countries agreeing on many things and working together.

[@timlabell]

😊😅😅😅😅

[@jwfinley7808]

All the way to the president. That was. A waste of time?😂

[@davepage2466]

Completely. You know what takes precedence with these people-perversions of all kinds.

[@p.ipebomb]

San Diego and Imperial 🤞The Crowned Saints 🤴☀️ Please don't cover it in huge, hulking suburbs

[@tonyhammers7837]

A national monument means a Liberal landgrab by the government.

[@davepage2466]

Beat me to it. All these morons think creating monuments is a "great idea"-well ask the people that used to live near Crystal Lake up in Azusa Canyon, CA how that turned out.

[@Fudusbtjfjf]

Why if we built a big toilet around the salton sea and put a really big head in the toilet is would be pretty skibidi toilet

[@kathiebauer5165]

In the 50s & 60s it was a great place to visit, fish, ski, & camp. But the planet changes over to time. California has always miss used water. Pumping freshwater into the Salton Sea as it sits on an active volcano & the San Andreas fault is not logical.

[@alanbailey5621]

This does nothing for the problem of the Salton Sea.

[@davepage2466]

It's CA. Full of good intentions from a bunch of brain dead morons.

[@alwaysshifting9574]

No money

[@nonjoiner7580]

There are crashed warplanes and an atomic bomb at the bottom of that pool. Fact.

[@Paul-ow6of]

Please don’t make it a monument. Do you have to take all our land from us?

[@michaelross7680]

Heck yeah, use the tax payers money to fix up one little spot for one small group of people so they can live it up again. Don't worry about all the other run down places in the country & all the struggling people living in them. Sounds about right.

[@davepage2466]

Never fails to amuse me when you spot that one democrat wearing the mask. Priceless.