California Development Company

The California Development Company was formed in 1896 to build an irrigation system for the lower Colorado Desert in California. It constructed the Imperial Canal for that purpose in 1901. In 1905, heavy rainfall caused the canal system to fail leading to the creation of the Salton Sea.

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