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Air Smells Bad Again

August 12, 2024 9:32AM PDT
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Air Smells Bad Again
FILE – Oxygen-starved tilapia float in a shallow Salton Sea bay near Niland, Calif., on April 29, 2015. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, urged the federal government to withhold money for environmental cleanup at the Salton Sea until California agrees to give up more of its river water. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File) used locally Aug 12th 2024 @ap.images

The Salton Sea is wreaking havoc with our nostrils again.

 

All weekend long, the levels of hydrogen sulfide wafting from the Sea have exceeded the state limit of 30 parts per billion.  Sometimes, readings near Mecca, Indio and the Salton Sea were 3 and 4 times that high.

 

Humans can smell that rotten egg smell, at just a few parts per billion.

 

So there is an Odor Alert in effect again for Monday August 12th 2024 in the Coachella Valley.

 

 

FILE – Oxygen-starved tilapia float in a shallow Salton Sea bay near Niland, Calif., on April 29, 2015. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, urged the federal government to withhold money for environmental cleanup at the Salton Sea until California agrees to give up more of its river water. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File) used locally Aug 12th 2024

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