Subj : Triumphant Return
To   : Gary Gilmore
From : Rich Lockyer
Date : Fri May 11 2001 05:16 pm

Gary Gilmore wrote in a message to Tom Engle:

 TE>  the desert around the the Salton Sea and it was just over 100 degrees.

 GG> Isn't that the place that used to be a town, then flooded for some
 GG> reason?  I remember hearing of it, and even seeing a picture of a
 GG> Texaco sign (one of the tall ones) sticking about 5 feet out of the
 GG> water.  (Mind you, the complete sign was probably 30' tall)

 GG> What was the deal with that place?

Originally, a natural lake began to form in 1891... it dried up in a year.  It 
started to form again in 1893.

Some genius decided that he was going to divert the Colorado through a series 
of canals to irrigate the Imperial Valley.

Problem was, he forgot that the Imperial valley was over almost 300 feet below 
seal level (current lake surface altitude is -200).  Coupled with the river 
going into a flood stage, the ENTIRE river diverted and rapidly flooded the 
valley.
It has very little natural feed (runoff from the desert, including streams from 
Mexico), and NO natural outlet, so evaporation constantly increases the 
salinity and levels of DDT, DDE, Selenium, and other bullshit.


  
C-ya!  Rich
   
--- timEd 1.10.y2k
 * Origin: Colossus Galactica, Chino CA (1:218/704)

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