Decrevi
Bulldogs' QB
Joined: 18 May 2005
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Location: Alta Loma, Ca.
  
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 Posted: 17 Oct 2005 01:01 PM Post subject: Salton Sea the Dream! |
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I'm thinking this might be a good rental investment one day. Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel had a dream, let those developers dream big. I have one concern what to do with the meth labs?
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-salton17oct17,1,7290623.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Salton Sea Revival Could Include 200,000 Homes
Critics question the revitalization plan, which has housing on a former atomic test site.
By Janet Wilson
Times Staff Writer
October 17, 2005
The Salton Sea Authority is advancing a plan to build up to 200,000 homes around the state's largest lake on land that includes a former atomic weapons testing site. The plan could also move the boundaries of a national wildlife refuge, a key stopover for more than 100,000 migrating birds.
The agency wants to sell the defunct Salton Sea Test Base to developers and use the proceeds, as well as property tax revenue generated by the new houses, to pay for cleanup and restoration of the polluted, odoriferous lake.
But it is unclear whether the former base is safe for human habitation. The base was a research and testing site for the now-defunct Atomic Energy Commission until 1961 and was also used for 1,100 missile tests.
"All we want to do is create the opportunity for development to occur … to create a revenue stream for our plan," said Imperial County Supervisor Gary Wyatt, chairman of the Salton Sea Authority board. The government agency charged with revitalizing the Salton Sea includes Riverside and Imperial county water district and other officials.
"You create a lake that has good, clean water," Wyatt said.... |
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