It is comparable the main difference is that we had a a nuclear test lab instead of a biolab.
there was a lost atomic bomb, and many planes, tonnes of tungsten, and today tons of chemicals and pesticides from agricultural runoff.
I read of plans to try and fix it, but who knows if that will ever happen.
they could easily build a dual pipeline to the ocean one sucking water and one pushing ocean water into the sea. (the sea is saltier than the ocean currently)
Isn’t the Salton Sea still a recreational water body?
Not even remotely.
[snip] In December 1944, Tibbets, of the 393rd Heavy Bombardment Squadron, was put in command of the newly formed 509th Composite Group.
That month, the 509th, based at Wendover Air Base on the Utah-Nevada border, flew practice runs to the Salton Sea Naval Base, dropping prototype bombs — called “pumpkins” — made of cast iron, basalt rock and concrete, Harold Williamson, former president and director of the Palm Springs Air Museum, told The Desert Sun in a 2010 interview.
The dummy weapons resembled the shapes of the real atomic bombs and weighed about 10,000 pounds each, Williamson said. [/snip]