The Salton Sea occupies a much smaller footprint of what used to be Lake Cahuilla, which disappeared in the late 1500s. Then, in a wild spring runoff in 1905, the Colorado River blew out a ...
It formed by accident in 1905, when the Colorado River, swollen from heavy rains, broke through a canal and flooded into the dry Salton Sink. It took two years for the breach to be fixed — but ...
Then, in a wild spring runoff in 1905, the Colorado River blew out a diversion dam, and for the next three years the mighty Colorado drained into the Salton Sink. Agriculture runoff replenished ...
Then, in a wild spring runoff in 1905, the Colorado River blew out a diversion dam, and for the next three years, the mighty Colorado drained into the Salton Sink. Agriculture runoff replenished the ...
Then, in a wild spring runoff in 1905, the Colorado River blew out a diversion dam, and for the next three years the mighty Colorado drained into the Salton Sink. Agriculture runoff replenished ...
Then, in a wild spring runoff in 1905, the Colorado River blew out a diversion dam and for the next three years the mighty Colorado drained into the Salton Sink. Agriculture runoff replenished the ...