Re:GM has signed an agreement to extract lithium from beneat...
by lizknope on Saturday July 17, 2021 @01:26PM
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I drove around Slab City so that I could see Salvation Mountain. It was... interesting.
Bombay Beach was scary and depressing.
The smell was fine when I was there but there are frequent massive fish die offs.
Something has to be done about it though. If it dries up (irrigation runoff feeds the lake but irrigation is getting more efficient causing less runoff) then the dry lake bed will blow over Palm Springs and other towns in the area. It's full of toxic dust now.
Migrating birds also use it as a stopover point because we have gotten rid of so many natural wetlands.
Bombay Beach was scary and depressing.
The smell was fine when I was there but there are frequent massive fish die offs.
Something has to be done about it though. If it dries up (irrigation runoff feeds the lake but irrigation is getting more efficient causing less runoff) then the dry lake bed will blow over Palm Springs and other towns in the area. It's full of toxic dust now.
Migrating birds also use it as a stopover point because we have gotten rid of so many natural wetlands.