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Once “California’s Riviera”, the Salton Sea is now America’s worst ecological disaster.

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea

6.9 / 10 6.9 2006 57m
Documentary

The Salton Sea: An inland ocean of massive fish kills, rotting resorts, and 120 degree nights located just minutes from urban Southern California. This film details the rise and fall of the Salton Sea, from its heyday as the "California Riviera" where boaters and Beach Boys mingled in paradise to its present state of decaying, forgotten ecological disaster.

Directed by Chris Metzler

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John Waters
John WatersSelf - Narrator (voice)
Sonny Bono
Sonny BonoHimself (archival footage)
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Norm NiverHimself
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Petre MelvinHimself
Leonard Knight
Leonard KnightHimself
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Bobbie TodhunterHerself
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Steve HorvitzHimself
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Lechon RaineyHerself
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