Restoring the Salton Sea: An in-depth look at lithium, wetlands and the 10-year plan
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- čas přidán 16. 03. 2024
- This project was written and produced by Olivia Sandusky. The 30-minute special dives into the struggles and triumphs at the Salton Sea, including lithium, wetlands and the 10-year plan.
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Thank you for producing and posting this documentary.
Excellent, concise report on status and plans. I know we are all rooting for good solutions.
Thank you! Yes we are
There is no good solution for the Salton Sea.....it's a dump....... maybe they should just fill it in....
Thank you everyone!! Let’s hope we can change this beautiful body of water!!
Thank you for news about the sea
Good reporting. Thank you for producing this. Growing up in San Diego, my family enjoyed the vibrant Salton Sea back in the 60's and witnessed the beginning of it's decline in the 70's to present date. We still enjoy the surrounding Desert and Imperial Valley and we are encouraged with the plans the future holds for this wonderful natural resource.Combined - Helping our Our Wildlife, Improving Human Residency & Living Conditions + Recreational Enjoyment along with our GeoThermal - & growing Lithium Industry.... all can co-exist moving forward.
Olivia, your voice and cadence is amazing! Great news peace.
Thank you for your sweet comment 😊
I heard of a plan to build a 124-mile aqueduct from the Gulf of California to the Salton Sea. It would carry salt water. It would be a net downhill, with the Gulf being at sea level with tides, so it would flow into the Salton Sea. The flow would have to be regulated with no chance of an uncontrolled flow. The Sea's salinity would increase over time. I heard of another plan that would provide for simultaneous flow in the opposite direction, so that the Salton Sea would become essentially connected two-way with the ocean. It would require a lot of energy to pump the water uphill from the Sea to the ocean. If I were a billionaire and a little younger, I might try to do this and turn the Sea back into a resort and a good place to live. I would build an earthen dam to extract energy from the water falling from the Gulf and use that energy to power said pumps.
This was reporting at its finest. Great research and explanations. Kudos to the production team. My only suggestion is get rid of the chyron through the entire thing you're covering up 1/3 of everything that you produced.
Team Audubon & everyone helping restore the sea!!! ❤😊
I love taking photos of the Salton Sea. I hope all the plans work to improve the area.
Thanks Olivia, I live on the SS part time . Appreciate the thorough report. Such a complex problem with it drying up . I hope you can provide more reports in the future.
Well done.
Save the Salton Sea! Connect to the ocean
good job people... all lives matter!
Incredible journalism wonderful job!
Basically all the water from the Colorado river has and is being extracted with virtually none reaching the gulf of California, and thus has severely impacted that area as well.
Currently, the salton sea existence is owed to a man made blunder which diverted the Colorado river for a period of time. When that diversion was stopped, the sea started drying up. The diversion of the water supply for the Aral Sea resulted in it shrinking to less than 40% of its original size and has destroyed the economy of a massive region. The same thing happened to the Tulare lakes system in the San Fernando valley of California. And it’s also happening to lake walker in Nevada, the lake is shrinking and getting much saltier because of source water diversion.
Basically, when you take away the water supply, lakes dry up and die. With long term consequences.
Restoring the Salton sea should be restored to its 1850 condition
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@@Juneisthebestmonth .....correct.
Aral Sea in Kazakhstan has similar problem and is being addressed by increased plantings of Desert Tamarisk, called Saxaul. Can that tree be utilized for Salton or is it considered an invasive nuisance?
Yeah, it's quite invasive in the sonoran desert. There's already huge plains of tamarisk spreading on the some of the dried up edges at the south shore, especially around Rock Hill
And let’s remember, the San Andreas fault runs straight through this area, palm spring, etc. plan accordingly as in, do not create a dense population hub.
Great and informative news story! Thanks! With all the prospects of lithium and the money that will come from it, hopefully the "Sea to Sea" canal from th eSea of Cortez to the Salton Sea can be completed to address the toxic dust. The lithium companies could pay the Mexican government for the access rights for the canal. The canal could also benefit the Mexican economy in the area of the canal as the canal would provide good places for resort towns along it 🤷♂
If you try to suck cash from the companies extracting needed lithium from geothermal brine, they will simply find the extraction not profitable and just go to the massive new finds in tax-free Nevada. Stop with the tax/spend mentality before ALL industry moves from Califonia. That is already well along the way.
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Salton Sea has a funny shape 😝
What I thought California is all about no chemicals and no environmental damage. What happened? You can’t mandate organic firming in the area only?
Lived there. So Cal people shit in their own backyard. Back to Northern Cal where people care about the land.
They should build and aqueduct and pump sea water to refill the lake
Somebody please tell me which side of the lake the railroad track is on?
An above ground pipe installs faster then a buried system. Nearest viable water source that's not the Colorado river?
it's not impossible to reduce the issue - fist step is to reduce the dust by growing hemp, use this hemp to build buildings.
this will help pull a lot of pollution, act as wind break and help cool the ground.
saving water by direct watering. cleaning the water before it's is drained into sea...
removing the pollution be washing the soil - using this waste as carbon block... yes it can be done
I've heard many good stories about beavers being introduced into arid areas of the west to create more habitable areas for endangered species. Is this a possibility for the Salton Sea ?
Probably not for this dry of an area. The Salton Sea shouldn't even be where it is. It was manmade (by accident) 120 years ago.
Beavers would fry in the summer!
I don' tknow why anyone would live there. I've stopped there coming back from Anza Borrego and the stench is unbearable. Where people live looks like dystopian ghetto's. There will be whole neighborhoods of destroyed abandoned houses then a house with someone living in it. There is so much garbage strewn around everywhere, graffiti on almost every building, yet people live there. The whole place should be condemned, it's toxic and a garbage dump. The water is full of agricultural fertilizers, pesticides and chemicals. I've heard talk for decades about how they are going to fix it. Never going to happen, it's too massive and the cost will be too much.
It would not happen even if it were free
And yet, though it's extremely poor it doesn't look it, it's probably what you call dystopian, it's kind of out of this world and thus not really depressing, just weird.
Extracting Co2 out of Salton Sea or ocean water combined with minerals for building materials and free hydrogen gaseous fuel can be sold for transportation or electrical generation providing free desalinated ocean water as exhaust.
Ocean water has 150 times more dissolved Co2 than air contains.
What the microbiologist doesn't tell you is that the Salton Sea is above the San Andreas fault, and the weight of more water in the Salton Sea would put pressure on the San Andreas fault that is below it......then.....guess what happens when you put pressure on that earthquake fault.??!?!
Well yes he’s a microbiologist not a seismologist 😊
How bout when you REMOVE all that weight off a fault ?
What about the vibrations caused by the drilling? That , is far more dangerous
They don't have any trees like palm trees and different exotic trees like they have down there in Florida If they plant more of those kinds of trees and fertilize most of that valley and use the seawater to help all that grow then they will have that much of polluted air because it needs vegetation to grow Use the water to help it grow and fertilize it and use that water to help it grow more vegetation and that will solve your problems
I guess it is obvious they won't restore the actual sea itself. So sad. Great report, however!
can you stay in a motel here overnight is it safe
Ocean or polluted salt pond water can compete with lithium, oil, natural gas, hydro electricity or solar wind energy. The @EirexTech is 5 year old Canadian company that utilized prehistoric cavitation technology releasing highly competitive hydrogen from any type of water including waste plastic saturated with ocean water for cheap synthetic fuels. The effort to restore the Salton Sea, Laguna Salada and Death Valley with endless sources of ocean water will increase monsoonal moisture and rainfall for Colorado Basin. The old fashioned salt water desalination or electrolysis of water for hydrogen generation can't be compared to cavitation by Eirex Tech in Canada.
To learn more about Cavitation google search Pistol Shrimp that snaps it's claws to crack very hard clam shells without touching the shell with invisible cavitation bubbles. The Eirex Tech cracks any type of water molecule with powerful man made bubbles. The CZcams video by Prof. Marc Ramsey, Vanderbilt University titled "Energetic Cavitation Collapse" demonstrate the unlimited overunity energy potential of cavitation that dares to disrupt old science conclusions that many worship as religous cult members.
A small petri dish of the world bio systems !
Restoration has to be of fresh water sources.
Desalination sea of Cortes
Radiation smell volcano great idea 👍😵💫🙃🤔💩💩
Mississippi WEST spring flooding water to Colorado river !!!!
All due respect they all look so clueless in that valley All they have to do is to create a boring pipeline through that whole valley and used majority of that water from the sea to fertilize everything and plant trees and use cow manure to grow more vegetation and have that water keep flowing through there and create more vegetation and keep fertilizing that whole valley all the way up to death valley if they were very smart with this because they Should have done this two decades ago They wouldn't have these problems
No water will be added to this Mistake Lake. Plus you cannot convey ocean water in a pipeline below sea level in an active earthquake zone. HARD STOP. It will NEVER happen
it's not a sea...
I'm sorry, I forgot to say this; because I didn't see it coming until more than half way through this video, why is money such an evil thing? BECAUSE IT'S NOT! PEOPLE ARE, AND GREED IS THE OUTCOME OF MONEY
The off road vehicles tear up the ground and send dust everywhere!
To me San Diego and Imperial are like the most mystical parts of Southern California 🌬️ Together they make the 'Imperial Saints' 🤴💪
it is toxic, very toxic and has taken way too many lives of wildlife & dogs, our dog as well. Do NOT go there at all. Stay Away!
Good job. If you can bring back boating, etc you can collect money from boaters to fix the sea.
funny. there will never be any boating anymore on this toxic and temporary lake
@@Juneisthebestmonth I hope your wrong
@@charleneweege7149 It has been the plan for about 20 years to eliminate the small flow remaining from the Colorado River. The only remaining flow is from the sewage treatment plant, the highly polluted New River loaded with industrial pollutants from Mexico, and the very decreased residual of agricultural runoff. The lake will be reduced to a small 15 foot deep lagoon over the next 15 years. Remember - "restoration" does NOT mean "refilling". They are making defined wetland areas for the few remaining critters. The newly exposed playa will be hard-pan solid surface (like the Utah Salt Flats). The area is already surrounded by a vast desert that is generating the particulates, so the newly exposed playa's additions is rather insignificant compared to the local area.
You can't fix the salton sea when there is a volcano under it causing most of the problems
Restore Lake Tulare instead. How about restore the largest natural lake in California rather than restoring a man made lake created by an industrial accident.
You can build trails and parks but I doubt anyone is going to come knowing the health effects caused by the Salton sea. Imagine if California piped all the run off from all these atmospheric rivers to the Salton sea. Problem solved!
The trails are more for the locals already living in the area. And that’s a great idea!
@@oliviasandusky2440 you think it’s a good idea to be out there with all that dangerous dust flying around? Remember that the people in this area already have a higher than average asthma risk
@@kenxiong6830 it’s not a great idea, but for some locals walking is a main source of travel.
@@kenxiong6830and yes I remember that, I did this report 😊
@@oliviasandusky2440why not invest into a rural public transport system? Wouldn’t that be better than letting these folks walk in the dust? I think the trails and walkways are a good idea but the issue with the dust has to be sorted out first to minimize their exposure to dust
Slab City
Danny mullens documentary was better
None of this filters and cleans up the farming pollution. Waste of taxpayer dollars
Well since no one can comment on a truth based opinion, why the hell even put this stupid video up?? I'm outta here, but before I go; greedy people suck!!!!!