Salton Sea

The South Coast Air Quality Management District issued an odor advisory through Tuesday evening after detecting hydrogen sulfide concentrations at 53 parts per billion Monday morning in the Mecca area, which is downwind from the Salton Sea. Those numbers exceeded the state standard of 30 parts per billion. Elevated levels of the gas near the

A decade-long plan for dust suppression and habitat building projects at the Salton Sea will be fully funded, a Coachella Valley lawmaker’s office announced. Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, D-Coachella said that a “productive meeting” Thursday “between Governor Brown and representatives from our local Salton Sea Authority,” led to $280 million in funding for two park bond

Friday morning at the North Shore Yacht Club, local Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia summoned key stakeholders for a roundtable discussion on state and regional efforts to preserve the Salton Sea. Watch KESQ I-Team Investigation: Averting disaster at the Salton Sea Former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who’s looking to become governor of California, said we can’t

The State of California now has a 10-year plan to manage the shrinking Salton Sea. The stakes are very high, with tens of thousands of acres of lake bed about to be exposed over the next decade. We took a tour of the south end of the Salton Sea by airboat with Imperial Irrigation District

Researchers Wednesday, detailed their discovery of a fault line running along the eastern edge of the Salton Sea and parallel to the San Andreas Fault, near where a swarm of nearly 200 small earthquakes struck last week. The discovery of the “Salton Trough Fault,” described in the October issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological

Mere weeks after California state Senator Barbara Boxer called for “urgent” help to restore the Salton Sea, the Federal government has announced it joined forces with the state of California to create a long-term plan for the future of its largest lake. “Our conservation effort is more critical, more urgent than ever,” the President said

A Coachella Valley lawmaker’s bill allowing voluntary taxpayer contributions toward the restoration of the Salton Sea signed into law Friday. Under Senate bill 1416, authored by Sen. Jeff Stone, a check-off box will be added to income tax forms for contributions to the revive the Salton Sea fund. Taxpayers will be able to contribute amounts

U.S Senator Barbara Boxer is continuing her urgent call for help at the Salton Sea. The impacts of the sea’s problems have been prevalent this summer, with more odor advisories, dust in the air and fish die-offs. Senator Boxer says the sea is a danger to the public’s health. Today she urged local, state, and

UPDATE: 5:59 p.m. Will Lowell and his family decided to check out the Salton Sea Wednesday while visiting from San Francisco. “I’ve heard about it a lot, and I’ve seen how it used to be a playground in the 1950’s for pretty much the rich and famous,” Lowell said. But he said he noticed something

The California Natural Resource Agency is holding workshops to explain what’s being done to save the shrinking Salton Sea, and the agency is open to hearing ideas from the public. Recently the California state budget allocated more than $80 million for projects to save California’s largest lake from turning into a major health hazard. Dozens

People from across the Coachella Valley gathered Saturday to continue the effort to save the Salton Sea. A pilot project kicks off with plans to start testing water with wet labs, donated by the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians. A company called Agess Inc. is working to educate the community and develop sea agriculture and

Independent filmmaker, Franck Tabouring is trying to save the Salton Sea in his own way. Tabouring has created a short film filled with thought provoking images called, “The Useless Sea.” “You’ll be surprised but I’ve talked to many people who’ve growed up in California have lived there their entire lives, and when I mention, ‘Have

An effort to renovate a small corner of the Salton Sea is moving forward near Calipatria at the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge. The sea is in trouble, slowly evaporating as it’s water sources are being diverted. If allowed to dry up completely the shrinking sea could damage the Coachella Valley’s desert environment,

A major project is getting underway to control dust and help wildlife at the Salton Sea as it continues to shrink. The $3.5 million dollar project is centered around Red Hill Bay Marina on the south side of the sea in Calipatria. If it works, it will be repeated in other areas around California’s largest

With water levels continuing to drop at the Salton Sea, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation on Friday to add new measures to protect Salton Sea habitats and improve air quality for the towns that border the lake. “The Salton Sea has a long and storied history in California and with these key restoration projects, the

In a live newsmaker segment on CBS Local 2, newly appointed assistant secretary on Salton Sea policy Bruce Wilcox told anchor Brooke Beare new policy directive on California’s dying Salton Sea should be unveiled at a public meeting later this month. Wilcox will work for the California Natural Resources Agency, formerly serving as the environmental

Another day dawns at the Salton Sea; 350 square miles, created 110 years ago. The Colorado River breached a dike and began flooding a basin that today is 35 miles long, 15 miles wide and 50 feet deep. The sea was a bustling tourist attraction in the 50s and 60s. It attracted half a million

Federal, state, and local leaders all seem to agree on one thing here in the Coachella Valley: the Salton Sea is a ticking time bomb. We’ve been hearing the warnings for years, the Salton Sea will turn into a dangerous dust bowl. We decided to get a close look at a similar case in California

The National Weather Service in San Diego posted a photo on Facebook showing a large algae bloom in the Salton Sea. The algae bloom in the Salton Sea was clearly visible Saturday when NASA’s Terra Satellite passed over.

You know the smell well – the rotten egg one we get a whiff of when Salton Sea conditions and wind patterns create the perfect smelly storm. Last September, it got worse. “There was an event where during a windstorm , more than just the Coachella Valley was involved. People in the San Fernando valley,