Salt Ponds (Newark, California)
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invisible, salt evaporation pond
These evaporative salt ponds extract salt from sea water. Cargill Salt Company.
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The red color is caused by brine shrimp that thrive at certain salinity levels.
Sea water is let into the ponds and concentrated successively to more and more saline levels. In the final pond (the white one shown here), it dries out completely in late summer. Then it is harvested using big off-road mining trucks and taken to a refinery, also on site here.
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The red color is caused by brine shrimp that thrive at certain salinity levels.
Sea water is let into the ponds and concentrated successively to more and more saline levels. In the final pond (the white one shown here), it dries out completely in late summer. Then it is harvested using big off-road mining trucks and taken to a refinery, also on site here.
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Coordinates: 37°29'59"N 122°2'44"W
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- Salt Pond A14 6.8 km
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- Salt pond A2w 6.9 km
- Salt pond A2e 7 km
- Pond 7.2 km
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