Cadiz is a narrow lakebed around ten miles long, with old salt evaporation pond clusters connected by roads and canals. The Cadiz Valley Water Company owns thousands of acres north of the lake, and has proposed using the underground aquifer to collect and store water for Los Angeles. The plan calls for a system of wells that keeps underground water from flowing towards the dry lake, where it grows salty from evaporation at the surface. A pipeline would connect the engineered aquifer to the Colorado River Aqueduct, 43 miles away.
