California Accidentally Created a Giant Lake #abandonedplaces #lostlake #toxicwaste

In 1905, the Colorado River broke through irrigation works and began pouring into California’s Salton Basin. The resulting Salton Sea eventually became a booming vacation destination — before increasing salinity, pollution, ecological collapse and a shrinking shoreline transformed the resort dream into one of California’s strangest environmental problems. And there’s a particularly good Strange Detour detail underneath all of this: the lake has no outlet. Water escapes primarily through evaporation, but the salts stay behind. That mechanism is central to why the Sea became increasingly saline. Search keywords: Salton Sea, Salton Sea California, Salton Sea history, Salton Sea disaster, accidental lake California, abandoned California resorts, Salton City, Bombay Beach, Colorado River flood 1905, California environmental disaster, abandoned resorts, strange California history, dark history, forgotten history, Strange Detour. Hashtags: #SaltonSea #CaliforniaHistory #StrangeHistory #ForgottenHistory #environmentalhistory #environmentalawareness #environmentaldisaster