Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Salton Sea had some success as a resort area, with Salton City, Salton Sea Beach, and Desert Shores, on the western shore and Desert Beach, North Shore, and Bombay Beach, built on the eastern shore in the 1950s. Due to the increasing salinity and pollution of the lake over the years from agricultural runoff and other sources, the ...
Bombay Beach is a census-designated place (CDP) in Imperial County, California, United States. It is located on the Salton Sea , 4 miles (6.4 km) west-southwest of Frink [ 3 ] and is the lowest community in the United States, located 223 feet (68 m) below sea level. [ 4 ]
It took slightly less than two years (March 1905 to February 10, 1907) [5] to control the Colorado River’s inflow to the Alamo Canal and stop the uncontrolled flooding of the Salton Sink, but the canal was effectively channelized with operational headgates by early 1907. The Alamo and New Rivers continued to flow, but at a lesser rate.
The San Andreas Fault begins at Bombay Beach where the southern terminus of the San Andreas transitions into the Brawley Seismic Zone, about ten miles across the Salton Sea from Salton City. Most residents are fully accustomed to minor and moderate earthquakes, but are prepared for a large one. [citation needed]
Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea is a documentary film by Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer, with narration by John Waters and music by Friends of Dean Martinez. [2]This often humorous documentary tells the story of the accidental lake and environmental catastrophe known as the Salton Sea, located in the desert of southern California in the United States.
Populated places in the Colorado Desert of California — a Southern Californian sub−ecoregion of the Sonoran Desert ecoregion. Subcategories This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total.
Society once feared the ocean. The reason we visit to the beach today is strange one, and you'll value vacation more because of it.
Jaeger's Ferry was a major river ferry at the Yuma Crossing of the Colorado River in the 1850s until 1862, 1 mile below Fort Yuma. Early history of the site [ edit ]