Feb '24 • South Central Region
The Lost City Of Bombay
The Salton sea and lost city of Bombay is quite the story.
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Get comfortable, it’s story time.
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The city lies right in the middle of the Colorado desert, though located in Southern Cali. Back in 1905 the Colorado river swelled, breeches the levees and created the Salton sink, flowing for 2 years and creating a 35 mile by 15 mile lake named the Salton sea.
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It was paradise at first as beachgoers and boaters flocked to this vacation spot and cities began to pop up along the coast.
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Birds began to find their way here and fish , creating an ecosystem dubbed a “miracle in the desert”.
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However, this man made accident lacked a drainage outlet, and without any rainfall it was a disaster waiting to happen.
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By the 1970’s it was deteriorating rapidly as it was polluted by runoff from nearby farms , depleting oxygen in the sea and killing marine life.
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Upon visiting you’ll feel frozen in history in this apocalyptic scene as residents fleed the horrid smell and toxic fumes from the toxic lake drying up.
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Every state has its own unique history, along with now commonly known cities to explore.-
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