I have personally been to the Salton Sea and have seen first hand the horrific and immense environmental degradation of this area. There are dead and rotting fish all over the ground and in the water. Several methods to restore the Salton Sea have been thought of and looked at , but we have not come upon a perfect one that satisfies all parties involved yet. There is an abundant number of people that are eager about seeing that the Salton Sea is restored . Such people are from different organizations , companies , political parties , tribes in addition to many local citizens of Imperial and Coachella Valley.
First lets address the three major problems.
The first one is the high level of salinity, second the unstable surface elevation and third the mass contamination of the water and most of the species in and around it. There have been numerous proposals in the past twenty-five years to clean and manage the Salton Sea. I will discuss the top five options that were most highly mentioned about at the Salton Sea Symposium last month in Palm Desert , California. Pumping out option involves the pumping out of water from the Sea to a receiving body of water like the Gulf of California, Laguna Salada in Mexico, the Pacific Ocean, or some other water sink , such as a deep ground aquifer. The Diked impoundment option would provide the Sea with an artificial outlet.