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Re:Slab City reaches its boiling point by sidewndr46 on Saturday August 13, 2022 @11:23PM (#32456045)
It isn't really a man made lake. It's a lake in a watershed that has been substantially altered. The lake wouldn't be there naturally in the form that it started off in after the accident.

But none of the water would be diverted if it was not for human intervention. It would have followed the natural course of things.

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Re:Slab City reaches its boiling point by mullingitover on Sunday August 14, 2022 @12:54AM (#32456465)
I mean, absent humans messing around with the Colorado River, Lake Cahuilla[1] would've eventually refilled, and then dried up, and then refilled like it's done for millennia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Cahuilla#Chronology

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Re:Slab City reaches its boiling point by sidewndr46 on Sunday August 14, 2022 @09:25AM (#32459060)
Yes, this is my point exactly.
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