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On the road from Borrego Springs to the Salton Sea Beach and surrounds, this area is under heavily depression and abandonment, a searing portrait of America in 2010 and the recent past of 30 years or so. There is some money here but not much.
The vague historical knowledge I have is that this area was originally pinned as an alternative to Palm Springs Resort area, which lay nestled on the edge of the Salton Sea Lake, and as the developers were carving up the area and building the requisite Californian specifics like roads and communications and basic drainage, the local area farmers to the south and to the north were redirecting the precious water to irrigate their crops and as the water level dropped so did the purchasing interest as the salt precipitation rose. Now Google Maps will show your the streets, but the eye will show you the void.
In so many ways this area is absolutely stunningly beautiful to me.
20101207.RT.SSB.06
On the road from Borrego Springs to the Salton Sea Beach and surrounds, this area is under heavily depression and abandonment, a searing portrait of America in 2010 and the recent past of 30 years or so. There is some money here but not much.
The vague historical knowledge I have is that this area was originally pinned as an alternative to Palm Springs Resort area, which lay nestled on the edge of the Salton Sea Lake, and as the developers were carving up the area and building the requisite Californian specifics like roads and communications and basic drainage, the local area farmers to the south and to the north were redirecting the precious water to irrigate their crops and as the water level dropped so did the purchasing interest as the salt precipitation rose. Now Google Maps will show your the streets, but the eye will show you the void.
In so many ways this area is absolutely stunningly beautiful to me.