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SALTON SEA SOLAR PONDS PILOT PROJECT Agrarian Research 162 East Line Street Suite E Bishop, CA 93514 Under contract to: Goal of Salinity Management • Stabilize (or reduce slightly) the salinity of the Salton Sea by permanently removing from the Sea water all the salt that enters the Sea annually through inflowing water • Manage and stabilize Sea elevation through selective removal of excess water Scientific Goals of the Pilot Pond Project • Establish the evaporation rate from the brine • Determine the leakage rate from unlined ponds • Develop a brine concentration path that will determine the salinity at which the Salton Sea brine begins making solid salt, and which will define the chemical composition of the bittern • Determine the annual growth rate of the salt Additional Goals of the Pilot Pond Project • Develop cost-effective strategies for design, construction, operation, and maintenance of a salt removal facility • Allow for storage of the salt removed in an environmentally benign fashion • Conduct research regarding any potential environmental liabilities • Public education WHY DO A PILOT PROJECT? •On-the-ground experience •Specific data for design •Biological monitoring •Public education and stakeholder buy-in Pilot Project demonstrated feasibility in field… Solid salt beds forming in crystallizers Pilot project at Niland, CA …developed data with laboratory experiments, Accelerated evaporation of brine in the laboratory resulted in reliable data on brine chemistry and salt precipitation Evaporation data were collected on site, as well as collection and analysis of solid salt samples from the ponds …and created a laboratory for biological monitoring. GOAL Stabilize (or reduce slightly) the salinity of the Salton Sea by permanently removing from the Sea water all the salt that enters the Sea annually through inflowing water Removal of salt from the Sea is Water volume accomplished by Concentration pumping Sea brine into a series of evaporation ponds that Concentrator Concentrator Pond 1 Concentrator concentrate the Pond 2 Pond 3 brine to the Solid salt point where ponds solid salts precipitate Scientific data are needed to develop an optimum design for solar ponds • Evaporation rates • Leakage rates • Characteristics of feed brine • Brine concentration path
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