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The creation of the [[New River (California)|New River]], Alamo River, and [[Salton Sea]] of today started in the autumn of 1904, when the [[Colorado River]], swollen by seasonal rainfall and snow-melt, flowed through a series of three human-engineered openings in the recently constructed levee bank of the [[Alamo Canal]].<ref name="tait">{{cite book|title=Irrigation in Imperial Valley, California: its problems and possibilities|year=1908|publisher=Washington Government Printing Office|isbn=978-1-113-10178-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ngMOAAAAYAAJ&dq=pilot%20knob%20imperial%20canal%20intake&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q=pilot%20knob%20imperial%20canal%20intake&f=false|author=Clarence Everett Tait|accessdate=26 August 2010|pages=13, 51}}</ref> The resulting flood poured down the canal and [[Dike breach|breached]] an Imperial Valley dike. The sudden influx of water and the lack of any drainage from the basin resulted in the formation of the Salton Sea; the rivers had re-created a great inland sea in an area that it had frequently inundated before, the [[Salton Sink]].
It took slightly less than two years (Mar 1905 to Feb 10, 1907) <ref name="George Kennan">{{cite web|last=Kennan|first=George|title=The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River|pages=39 and 87|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mAAOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=george+kennan+fight&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjroKSphfrZAhWj0YMKHZxWA0oQ6AEIPzAE#v=onepage&q=george%20kennan%20fight&f=false|publisher=The MacMillan Company|accessdate=
The river was named after the Spanish name for the [[populus fremontii|Fremont cottonwood]] that grows in the region.<ref name="BrightGudde1998">{{cite book|author1=William Bright|author2=Erwin Gustav Gudde|title=1500 California place names: their origin and meaning|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CET4QodMZysC|accessdate=20 January 2012|date=30 November 1998|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-21271-8|page=12}}</ref>
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