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I remember watching a documentary on the Salton Sea and it interviewed some residents who were holding out that eventually there was gonna be a turn around and kept buying real estate in the hope of that. I wonder how they're fairing now with this latest development

Doc in question: Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TjGAWxL23c

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I've been to the Salton Sea, it has to be seen (and smelled) in person to really capture the overwhelming apocalyptic feeling it has. The air when you're dozens of miles away becomes acrid and starts stinging your eyes and nose. It's just a total wasteland, I feel terrible for the people trapped there.

Hearing your description really makes me want to visit and experience the...dread? Similarly was a motorcycle ride I took through the Searles Valley and the town of Trona, much further north of there and near Death Valley. What an unreal setting that place is.

Yeah it's worth a trip I think. Palm Springs/Mount San Jacinto is also on the way (from LA) you can knock it all out in a single day.

My bet is little to nothing. How much of the land area around the sea will be bought? I seem to recall they were setting up on the north part, which IIRC completely uninhabited. I don't think there will be much trickle down.

Salton sea.

Trickle down.

I see what you did there.

It's never turning around. Salton Sea is literally a looming national ecological/toxic disaster with a series of triggers, one of which is potentially time-based.

Had to take it seriously as an ecological disaster when it is just returning to its natural state of a dry lake bed.

I didn't expect it to turn around. More like selling mining rights, but reading this article it seems like the mining footprint of this project is particularly small

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