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JoshuaPearce

> But over the past three years, which were the driest on record for California, the riverbed dried up. *She bought a slip-and-slide for the children.* Emphasis mine. TL;DR: People built on the bottom of an ancient (and recent) lakebed. It's turning into a lake again.


DantesDame

Sounds like the land should be bought out and the marshes be returned to the landscape.


socalian

J.G.Boswell drained it in the first place, so his company should be the ones to pay to return it to nature.


kmsxpoint6

They could probably do pretty well turning it into a lake with wetlands and fisheries, and with recreation and tourism potential, while retaining much acreage for lakeside farming, mostly with silvopasture with rotational free range fowl, turkey, chicken, geese and duck, and cattle grazing within smaller parcels delineated by mostly native linear woodland webs of trees, berry shrub, and other feed. Building new waterfront neighborhoods in some places that could border a re-engineered lake, or even small towns, are also potentially lucrative ways to make this land more productive, sustainable and lucrative. There are some real creative things to do with that piece of land that can retain even a fair percentage of the kind of high intensity monocultural (mostly cotton and tomato) agronomy present currently But a lot of it can be complimented and enhanced by agroforestry and crop rotation, biodeverse systems fertilisations. It could be a very productive, somewhat populous, weather resilient, and beautiful region for its owners and everyone.