Blog: Salton Sea plans face critical flaw
There is not enough water. That is the blunt assessment from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the feasibility of four modest plans intended to address environmental and health problems at the Salton Sea. The announcement came [April 30] during a community informational meeting at the North Shore Yacht Club in Mecca, one of a series of recent meetings the Corps has held on the long-standing crisis. The four plans, developed to ease the dust and air pollution created as the Salton Sea shrinks and more lakebed is exposed, share one critical flaw: none has the water needed to be viable. A hydrology study presented at the meeting concluded there is not enough water available to support even the most modest restoration alternatives.
