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April 26, 2004

$730M plan to save Salton Sea

DESERT SHORES, Calif. (AP) -- The Salton Sea Authority has endorsed a $730 million plan intended to create a smaller but healthier sea by shrinking it to less than half its current size.

Scientists have warned for more than 40 years that receding waters and increasing salinity would eventually kill the sea, a vital fishery and estuary that was once a tourist destination in California.

The authority hoped its endorsement would prompt state and federal officials to act.

The agency called for building a causeway across the center of the sea by 2010 that would cut off most of the water flowing to its southern section. The plan would shrink and lower the sea, and create 30 square miles of new wetlands to improve water quality.

Under the plan, power plants would have increased access to geothermal hotspots that are now underwater, creating new sources of energy.




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