Damn Interesting » Sordid History of the Salton Sea

2/23/2006 – 1:31 pm

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Damn Interesting » Sordid History of the Salton Sea

An accident spawned a lake. The lake fed water to millions of acres of farmland, and was a booming tourist trap that whithered and died to leave a ghost town in its wake, all in the course of less than a century.

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