In 1905, a California canal burst and flooded a town, an Indian reservation, and dozens of farms before creating the Salton Sea, California’s largest lake today

More than a century ago, what began as an engineering blunder in the California desert created one of the country's most unusual environmental challenges. What was intended as a water diversion project for irrigation instead caused flooding that formed a lake still visible today.

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