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This week in the blogosphere …

Posted by: Maven on May 15, 2007 at 2:58 pm

This week’s travels through cyberspace have netted a few interesting blogs …

New California homes for sale! 1300 square feet for only $149,999! Where can you get such a deal? Why, next to the Salton Sea, of course! Here’s a realtor’s blog who writes:

Salton City is exploding with growth with the new Torrez-Martinez Casino scheduled to be opened by Febuary 2007, and the Salton Sea Authority is getting closer to making the final descision on the future of the Salton Sea. There is a lot of Contreversey on the clean up of the sea, well what we do know is that it will be done , because of the enviromental disaster that will happen if the sea is not cleaned or sustained. Salton City is the last city to develop in the valley. All the streets are paved and utilities are in place. With construction at full force its only a matter of time till it all comes together.

Hmmm… Aqua Blog Maven thinks that Realtor Joe may be a little over-optimistic about something being done to save the sea … But I wish Realtor Joe and his lovely wife good luck selling those homes!!!

Want to see what kind of place you’ll be living in for that price? Here’s a blog with a link to a YouTube video of someone who filmed a little bit of the Salton Sea area: click here.

Here’s a blog about saving the Salton Sea from the Ross Report: In response to this potential environmental disaster, in the words of the Los Angeles Times, (‘Salton Sea is at a crucial juncture’) the [California Department of Water Resources] has drawn up a 75-year, $6-billion draft plan [which] calls for a less salty sea about one-sixth its current size, a series of ponds for habitat restoration and up to 70 miles of canals and barriers. Assuming the state legislature gets around to approving the very expensive plan, it would still take many years to implement, more than time enough for birds who have used it as a stopover on the Pacific Flyway to disappear — because the fish they feed on have disappeared also.

While you’re on your way out to visit your new home, here’s an interesting place to stop at: ugh, 4am drive from mexicali last night – groan – almost forgot about in ko pah – high above the imperial valley desert, about 80 miles east on the 8 from San Diego, before the drop from san diego county into the imperial valley desert stands a magestic and magical part of san diego – the in-ko-pah desert tower and the “mystery caves”. take the “in-ko-pah” exit and follow the signs..

In other blog news:

Mayor Sam’s backyard posted this, from Gary L. Toebben of the LA Chamber of Commerce, regarding the need to fix levees:

All of California needs a solution that provides a consistent and stable source of reasonably priced water in order to sustain our population and forecasted growth. We cannot let our fellow Californians forget that they have as much to lose as we do in the south if there ever should be a delta collapse. Both the Bay Area and the Central Valley receive about a third of their water from the delta, just as we do. We will all feel the pain in a delta catastrophe as it sinks California’s economy by an estimated $70 billion.

Here’s a blogger that agrees with him. From the California Greening blog: The Metropolitan Water District is playing with your future. In an action that I can only define as stupid, they have chosen to take a chance that the California Delta area will never have a major earthquake. Maybe they should ask the people of Northridge if that is a good bet. A recent (04/26/07) report by Alex Breitler of the Stockton Record gives the full background on this decision. They have decided that it better to let any earthquake happen and then fix the Delta Levees rather than taking steps not to shore up the levees in anticipation that such a quake will happen.

May 15, 2007 · Filed Under Aquafornia News & Exclusives

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