Very interesting. We def shouldn't be dumping manure or anything else for that matter into the oceans where there is a whole other world trying to survive.

It's news to me that anything even lived in that place. I've picked up produce from Coachella north of there and then down along the Western shore of the Salton Sea to get to Yuma and Nogales for years and that water has always smelled like rot to me. Going by the ocean, it's a salty smell....kinda pleasant. Driving by this when the wind was blowing the wrong way was just rank...and that, usually from a mile or more up from the water line along the highway.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if the salt level and temps alone made for a near fatal environment, like they say in the article. Then someone raising chickens or whatever the feathers came from dumped their stuff and threw it into the fatal range. Ooops... I'll bet the investigate that half to death, being Southern California. Whoever did it is in serious trouble with many 0's on the end if they figure that out.


For general information...this isn't a Sea at all, but a giant lake south of Palm Springs, Ca. It's in the middle of the desert between I-10 and I-8.

I wonder why people would dump manure when you can compost it and use it for something useful?