To the editor: I consider it’s disingenuous to write down in regards to the drying Salton Sea with out together with the truth that the desert lake will not be a naturally occurring physique of water. (“As California farms use less Colorado River water, worries grow over shrinking Salton Sea,” Oct. 13)
That is what the California Division of Fish and Wildlife says about the lake: “The present Salton Sea was fashioned when Colorado River floodwater breached an irrigation canal being constructed within the Imperial Valley in 1905 and flowed into the Salton Sink.”
Whereas true, the article’s assertion that the “Salton Sea, California’s largest lake, has lengthy been fed by agricultural runoff,” doesn’t inform anybody that that runoff is the only real supply (except for scarce rainfall) of replenishment for this man-made, by accident created lake, and that water is notoriously poisonous.
Regardless of the arguments for or towards sustaining this accident from 1905, not stating the fact of its existence looks like an oversight.
Maurice Chauvet, Venice
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To the editor: There’s an infinite supply of water that would replenish the Salton Sea. The Salton Sea is 234 ft beneath sea stage.
The New River — consisting principally of wastewater and agricultural runoff — flows from Mexicali, Mexico, to the Salton Sea. Mexicali is about 25 ft above sea stage. The Sea of Cortez is fewer than 100 miles from Mexicali.
Richard Melniker, Los Angeles