The Salton Sea Beginnings: History of origins documentary

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Come along as we delve into the bizarre history behind California's Salton Sea in this intriguing documentary! We'll learn the origins of this massive, 35 mile long by 15 mile wide lake anomaly located in the arid Southern California desert spanning Imperial and Riverside Counties.

This video tells the story of how this sparsely populated desert region with barely three inches of average annual rainfall somehow became home to a huge lake in the summer of 1891. Could mysterious underground springs or aquifers be responsible for this geological wonder? Or was it runoff from the faraway Great Salt Lake in Utah? The theories gripped the public imagination.

Intrepid reporter Harry Patton embarked on a dangerous journey along the unleashed Colorado River to expose the truth, navigating violent whitewater rapids carved through the bone-dry desert landscape. His dispatches revealed that eroded sections of the riverbank allowed torrents of water to flood north into the Salton Sink depression, filling it to become the Salton Sea seemingly overnight.

We'll meet Captain Thomas Fraser who sailed the sea's waters to test whether powerful ocean tides could be responsible for this flooding anomaly amidst the parched Imperial Valley. His explorations revealed key insights about the region's fragile hydrology along the Colorado River Delta.

From the Colorado's tumultuous history of flooding this desolate valley, to early attempts at reclaiming the Imperial County desert for agriculture, this documentary covers the origins of this toxic saline lake, past ruins of resort towns like Bombay Beach, and efforts to control the flooding with engineering marvels like the Hoover Dam.