California's Inland Sea Drying Up?

[River Shark]

I figured a few here might be interested in this...

Salton Sea: Is it drying up?





http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/s...215543216.html


"By the time the news cameras descend on the sea in 2018 to broadcast images of dust storms blotting out the sky and thousands of dead birds and fish along its shores, it will be far too late."




I doubt that there's anything man can do to fix this. For centuries, the salton basin has filled and drained. Just a natural cycle... The creation of the New River, Alamo River, and Salton Sea of today started in the autumn of 1904 when heavy rainfall and snow-melt caused the Colorado River to swell, overrunning a set of headgates for the Alamo Canal. The resulting flood poured down the canal and breached an Imperial Valley dike. The sudden influx of water and the lack of drainage from the basin resulted in the formation of the Salton Sea; the rivers had re-created a great inland sea in the Salton Sink, an area which had frequently been inundated before. Nearly two years passed before workers could control the Colorado River’s flow and stop the flooding, but the river was effectively dammed in the early part of 1907 and returned to its normal course. The flood significantly enlarged the channels of the New and Alamo Rivers. Some water continued to flow, even after the dike was repaired, as the larger channels collected and carried agricultural runoff to the Salton Sea.

Long before that, it was ancient Lake Cahuilla. Prehistoric Lake Cahuilla (also known as Lake LeConte and Blake Sea) was an extensive freshwater lake that filled the Coachella, Imperial, and Mexicali valleys of southeastern California and northeastern Baja California during the centuries prior to Spanish entry into the region. The Salton Sea, now about 55-kilometre (34 mi) long, 25-kilometre (16 mi) wide, and at an elevation of 69 m (226 ft) below sea level), which was accidentally created in 1905, is a much smaller analog of its prehistoric predecessor Lake Cahuilla, that was about 180-kilometre (110 mi) long, 50-kilometre (31 mi) wide, and rising to 12-metre (39 ft) above sea level, drowning the present sites of the cities of Mexicali, El Centro, and Indio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Cahuilla

[janzaldo]

Thanks for posting the article John.



jaime

[Oatums]

Good stuff there John, Thanks for the post.

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[gilmafam]

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I have done a fair amount of SEARCHING on the Sea. Cant recall when reading your article if it mentioned the water that runs into it other than the water that runs into it from rain run off. From the North, there is the White water river, and from the South, the Alamo,and New Rivers. Of the two from the South... the New is said to be the most contaminated river in US.

There are many that fish the Alamo quite regularly... Others don't talk about there fishing in the New.

[Oatums]

For a place that is drying up it sure had good talipia fishing right now. My neighbor bought home cooler full of talipia yesterday. They were some nice one too, lots of em over 12"......

[gilmafam]

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SEVERAL ON THE SITE .... have fished there a lot years ago.... Wish I had done so...

For a place that is drying up it sure had good talipia fishing right now. My neighbor bought home cooler full of talipia yesterday. They were some nice one too, lots of em over 12"......

Several years back I was going to Yuma and stopped at the Vanderlinden hot tubs for a little soak on the way to Gary's place in Yuma... Well... I noticed a woman sitting in a pickup truck off to the side in the parking lot... Later a van pulled up and they took big fish out of her ice chests, and loaded them into the van that headed down the road to the freeway.....

With the size of the fish.. and the good eats..... wonder where they were headed?



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[Oatums]

Ray...... that sound like an Asian fish market delivering van to me. Use to see truck load of fish leaving Salton Sea in the mid 90s, ask the asian guy in side n he told me his taking it to his market in Banning. The sea look much cleaner back then though.

[gilmafam]

This exchange was taking place off Interstate 8 off of the Cochella Canal....I think they were heading to Mexico or Points East into Ariz.

Ray...... that sound like an Asian fish market delivering van to me. Use to see truck load of fish leaving Salton Sea in the mid 90s, ask the asian guy in side n he told me his taking it to his market in Banning. The sea look much cleaner back then though.

[River Shark]

So could you catch talipia there and use them for bait elsewhere? I mean dead & frozen, not live.

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