Environmental Disaster Beauty by Diana Sainz

by Diana Raquel Sainz

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Environmental Disaster Beauty by Diana Sainz

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Diana Raquel Sainz

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Photograph - Photography - Digital Photography

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National Chloride Co Of America Located in Amboy, California
An Environmental Disaster contaminating our world... *** NOTE*** Plant workers do not take to kindly to one taking images... Trust me, I was followed or chased through the desert until I reached the Military Base in Twenty Nine Palms where I sought refuge until they left.
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Human Toxicity Excerpts:
/SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS/ The GI effects of oral salt administration include swollen tongue, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and thirst. Neurologic effects include thirst, irritability,weakness, headache, convulsions, and coma. Cerebral edema may occur, and muscle tremors may be notes. Cardiovascular manifestations of acute hypernatremia include both hypertension and hypotension. Tachycardia, cardiac failure, and peripheral edema may develop. Pulmonary edema and respiratory arrest may occur.
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odium chloride at concentrations much above that in tears causes a stinging sensation on contact with the eye. Solutions up to 10% do not alter the permeability of the corneal epithelium, but solutions more dilute than 0.9% sodium chloride cause increased permeability.
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Hypertonic salt solutions can produce ... a distinctive microscopic lesion of the kidney ... parenchymatous dehydration produces a shrinking which is most conspicuous in the convoluted tubules of the renal cortex. Some experimental evidence suggests that similar hypernatremic syndromes may be produced with normal salt diets if water intake is restricted.
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/a?dbs+hsdb:@term+@DOCNO+6368
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Amboy's Ghost Town was once a thriving stop along Historic Route 66. Amboy is one of the oldest towns in California and was originally a train stop and residence for the Chloride Fields that are still in production just outside town.
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1858: Amboy was founded by miners. They were tapping sodium chloride (plain old salt). Amboy did find it's reason for being from the chloride works, not from the railroad. They extract salt from the dry lakes south of the town towards 29 Palms.
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Traveling to Amboy from the Coachella Valley past the Chloride Canals
Amboy is by the Chloride Fields. The Chloride Fields are in dry lake beds and you will know you are there when you see mound after mound of what appears to be dirt, but is really chloride. Then you will see the canals on the left of the road (coming from Twentynine Palms), and if you are lucky enough to be able to turn around it is a great photo op. If you are traveling late in the afternoon, early evening, the dry lake beds look like they have snow on them as they are white. I have never seen the same sight twice as I am never there at the same time of day, but each time I have marveled at the Canals with their turquoise coloring.
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Some 6000 years ago: Amboy crater was formed
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Some 500 years ago: Amboy crater became dormant after the sixth period of eruptions.
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1776: Father Garces traveled over Indian paths from Needles towards Barstow and on to Los Angeles via Victorville and Cajon Pass. This would become a traditional route for pack trains carrying trade goods on an east-west route under the Spanish rule.
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1848: On February 2nd, Mexico surrendered California to the control of the United States.
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1850: On September 9th, 1850 (Admission Day) California was admitted in the Union.
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1854: Lieutenant A.W. Whipple crossed the desert following ancient paths to explore a route for a railroad to be built across the Mojave. He followed the Mojave road that was laid over older Indian trails. Much like the path the natives followed, the path chosen had less to do with the steepness and more to do with presence of water. Steam engines needs lots of water to run.
In 1940, industry came to Amboy: a mill was built to process gypsum and salt nearby, and the population grew to an all-time high, 600. By 1980, as mining declined, it slid to 150, and it's now estimated at about 20.

The construction of Interstate 40, about 10 miles north of Amboy, bypassed Route 66 and put an end to Burris' dreams of greatness for the town. Most of Amboy's road traffic these days is Nevada-bound from the Palm Springs area. Drivers heading north on Amboy Road on their way to Laughlin or Las Vegas save about 90 minutes they would have spent backtracking through Barstow.

All freight and passenger trains in and out of California, as many as 40 a day, pass through the center of Amboy on the Santa Fe Railroad's transcontinental main line.

The easy rail accessibility has spurred interest in several trash-by-rail ventures, the largest proposed by the Santa Fe and its partner, Waste Management of North America Inc. They want to haul 6,000 tons of trash a day to a dump site that would be built outside of Amboy, to take the pressure off rapidly filling dump sites around Los Angeles. Action on the proposals is pending.

Salt is still mined from nearby Bristol Lake by National Chloride Co., and that is just about the extent of the town's economic base.

National Chloride Co Of America
Amboy Road
Amboy, CA 92304 -

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