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USGS Lecture: Restoring California’s “Inland Sea” on July 30

Posted by: Maven on July 10, 2009 at 6:54 am

From the USGS:

Thursday, July 30, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
USGS, Conference Room A, Bldg 3,
Menlo Park, California

Restoring California’s “Inland Sea”
Status of efforts to restore the Salton Sea
by Lee Case, Chief Scientist, and Doug Barnum, Science Coordinator, Salton Sea Office

* The Salton Sea is California’s largest lake and has a surface elevation about 230 feet below sea level
* The Salton Sea is a terminal lake – it has no outlets, inflows are principally from agricultural drainage, and its salinity not as mercury-contaminated is about 30% greater than the Pacific Ocean
* This “inland sea”, a critical stop for migratory birds on the Pacific and Central Flyways, is used used by more than 400 species of birds
* Proposed water transfers will result in loss of aquatic aquatic and wetland habitat, increased salinity, and degraded regional air quality quality unless mitigation actions are taken

July 10, 2009 · Filed Under Events

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