[CPEO-IRF] Salton Sea Test Base (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Salton Sea shore developers must first pick through bomb test site

Benjamin Spillman
Palm Springs Desert Sun (CA)
October 28, 2005 

EL CENTRO - The people trying to sell an economic future on the desolate
shores of the Salton Sea will first have to confront the troubled lake's
Cold War past.

Backers of a plan to use development revenue to fund a revival at the
sea bet they can build thousands of homes on a defunct testing site used
by the group that developed the atomic bomb.

They're also considering relocating some of a wildlife refuge that hosts
millions of migrating birds and converting thousands of acres of
farmland to seaside homes and businesses.

Those are just some of the obstacles to converting California's largest
- and possibly most maligned - lake from a Golden State punch line to
the economic centerpiece for a burgeoning region of more than half a
million people.

On Thursday, board members of the La Quinta-based Salton Sea Authority
arguably took a small step toward that goal when they voted to keep
talking with a group of bankers and real estate developers poised to
invest $2 million in the billion-dollar effort.

...

For the entire article, see 
http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051028/NEWS0701/510280330
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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