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We know exactly what would happen. This actually already happened in 1905 not in Death Valley but only 300 miles south of Death Valley in the Salton Sink. A canal failed and filled part of the then dry Salton Sink which now has the Salton Sea in it. The deepest point of the Salton Sea is only 5 feet higher than the lowest point of Death Valley. The Salton Sea is about 15 miles by 35 miles and about 43 feet deep. It is the largest lake in California, 376 square miles. Tulare Lake was once the largest lake in the 19th century at 690 sq mi (about 81 miles long). But they dammed the rivers that went into the Tulare lake for agriculture and now the land is farms. The Salton Sea is a shining shimmering monument to man’s carelessness.15,000 years ago when the climate was different, there were a series of large Pleistocene lakes in the Death Valley area. If one could get water to the dry Lake Manly and other dry lakes from the Colorado, they would refill and become large salt lakes. This is exactly what happened when an accident made the Salton Sea. However, getting water from the Colorado to the Amargosa river bed so it could fill Lake Manly would mean taking that water over or under a number of difficult ranges of mountains. Some are over 7,000 to 8,000 feet high. Or you would need to pump it up hill from Needles to Baker. If there was some way to find a path so ot would flow into the Death Valley basin it would get out of control and the Colorado would go dry downstream as the old lakes filled. Maybe after time the river would form an outlet near Blyth or Parker and the Colorado would then have a new course. This would be a major and expensive and useless technical feat.Here is how the Salton Sea was created by mistake. In 1901 and 1902, a company (the CDC) built a canal to bring water from the Colorado to the area for farming. This was before the upstream dams on the Colorado. There was so much silt in the river that the canal filled up in two years. The Colorado was named that because it once was reddish with silt. Before the canal, every so often in huge snow melt and flood years the Colorado river would overflow into the Alamo river and flow back north from Mexicali and into the Salton Sink making a temporary lake.In 1904, Charles Rockwood could not clear his silted in canal and was going bankrupt. It began to strangle the canal now supplying 100,000 acres under irrigation. He ordered the breach of the bank of the Colorado river into the canal. It was later called a "blunder so serious as to be practically criminal." This was done without Mexican permission. They had to try three diversions. But as bad luck would have it, a succession of heavy rains occurring during 1905’s early El Niño season transformed this hasty solution into disaster. In the winter of 1905 heavy rain caused the headgates to be overrun. At times the whole Colorado River flowed into the Salton Sink and could not be stopped.The water flowed at more than 100,000 cubic feet per second. It cut off all of Mexico's water on the Colorado leaving dry riverbed. A large waterfall formed and began cutting upstream. It grew from 15 feet high to 80 feet high and 1,000 feet wide. People struggled to fix it. They were afraid it would cut upstream so far that it would be more than 100 feet high and impossible to fix. The soft soil eroded at a rate of one foot per second. Henry Thomas Cory, the engineer who in the end was responsible for finally stopping the flood estimated that the volume of earth washed down into the Salton Sink during nine months of flooding equaled four times the amount excavated during construction of the Panama Canal. The new Salton Sea, into which this immense volume of water was poured, rose at the rate of seven inches per day over an area of four hundred square miles.The town of Salton, which was a railroad siding, was flooded. The towns of Calexico and Mexicali were partially destroyed. Calexico hurriedly built a levee to protect the city from impending flood. In the end townspeople’s heroic efforts saved Calexico, but the neighboring city of Mexicali was left in ruins. The New Liverpool Salt Company works was destroyed, drowned under sixty feet of water. As the 1906 summer flood approached its maximum, in the latter part of June, the crevasse widened to more than half a mile, and the whole river, rushing through the break, spread out over an area eight or ten miles in width, and then, collecting in separate streams as it ran down the slope of the basin, discharged at last into the newly created Salton Sea through the flooded channel of the New River barranca. Thousands of acres of land, covered with growing crops, were inundated, and thousands of acres more were so eroded and furrowed by the torrential streams that they never could be cultivated again. 30,000 acres of cultivated land in the western part of the Valley became dry, barren and uninhabitable. Imperial Valley residents, witnessing the water coming into their valley, got anxious. Many left the area, getting little or no money for the land they had so recently settled on. They also feared running out of drinking water, since the CDC’s irrigation canals were their biggest reliable sourceThe Southern Pacific run by Edward H. Harriman was asked to help. He asked for and got assistance from President Theodore Roosevelt, who then asked Congress to help the railroad company staunch the flood. They fixed the breach in 1907, as it was going to stop the Southern Pacific Railroad, whose main line had to be moved three times to avoid being swallowed by the rapidly growing lake. The judgement against the development company in favor of the rail company triggered bankruptcy of Charles Rockwood’s company. The railroad got all the companies assets.The Southern Pacific took over the CDC and poured nearly $3 million in an effort to stop the flooding. That is about $80 million today. Under Cory's direction, a workforce of nearly 2,000 men recruited from six local tribes, area settlers and Mexican laborers built a pair of trestles that enabled the workers to move the equivalent of more than 3,000 railroad cars of timber, rock, gravel, and clay to end the flood. The quarries were up to 180 kilometers away. After three attempts, Cory and his crew finally closed the break in early 1907 and forced the river back to its former southern course towards the Gulf of California. During the repairs rail traffic in Southern California was all but suspended as Southern Pacific routed rail cars of gravel to be dumped into the breach of the Salton Basin. The last trainloads of rock were dumped, cars and all, in a last-ditch effort to quell the flow of the river. 2 million cubic feet of rock was dumped. This amount of earth would fill a football field to the height of the Washington monument. On February 10th, 1907 the deluge was officially over. In 1911 the new public Irrigation district bought all the assets of the CDC.This event created the Salton Sea. There was even a silent movie about is in 1926 with Ronald Colman and Gary Cooper.So, the same thing would most likely happen in Death Valley. The Colorado river would go dry. Dry lake beds that date from the Pleistocene would fill. Badwater Basin would become a new salt lake, and second Salton Sea. Lake Manly would re-form. However, unlike the making the Salton Sea, re-making Lake Manly would be a huge undertaking. One would need to dig tunnels or pump water over three or four ranges of mountains to get Colorado river water to the mostly dry Amargosa River so that it would run into the dry Lake Manly basin.This steamboat was left dry by the draining of the Colorado. At one time Yuma, AZ was a port and boats came up the Colorado from the sea.Here is the waterfall.And here is the movie.Here is the fictional version of the flood.

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First off, I am a conservative and railed against Obamacare for several years. My wife had what we thought was great insurance through her job even though our share was $800 per month with a max out of pocket of $10000. She retired recently and we finally were able to get health insurance through Colorado care, something connected to Obamacare. We are paying 400 per month with $4000 deductible. We will see how it pays, but this is much cheaper than what my wife had or the $1500 I paid as self-employed several years ago.Let me clarify. My personal situation has improved however I doubt the Republicans will do anything to fix the situation and will probably revert to business as usual. The Republicans will continue to repeat the fact that Obama care is a disaster without acknowledging that Obamacare is a minor step in the right direction. As a self-employed individual, I pay my taxes, plus the full cost of my insurance, no big company is negotiating price or coverage with insurance companies for me, or paying part of my premium. I am fortunate in that so far I can afford insurance and my dedictibles. Many self-employed cannot. If they face a horrific health situation, their only option is to give up and file bankruptcy. The Republicans have very little interest in helping or encouraging small business or in containing health insurance costs. Like so many things, the Republicans and Democrats will wring their hands in public, but do very little. We taxpayers will continue to foot the bill, while the lobbyists will continue to do everything in their power to preserve their enormous profits. Unless cost is addressed, by looking at over-regulation, curbing the cost of approving new drugs and treatment, tort reform, and negotiating costs, nothing will make this situation better. That is too many big oxes to gore. Trump says he wants to find a solution, but I doubt congress will do anything except repeal Obamacare.