I came across this on Google map. Anyone have any idea what it might be?

Where the desert goes to do its make up?

toxic waste?

aquaculture?

very large vat of jello?

Just a guess, but they look very much like settling ponds.

At a quick glance, methinks it's either a desalination or sewage treatment plant.

The lack of rivers near Paita makes me think it's desalination, though.


I quickly became distracted by the neat wave-dominated delta near here.

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I realize that. I'm at work now and I don't have time to find another, but I think that the article I linked to only discusses a possible desalination plant and not an actual one.

Yeah, this would be my guess.

Some kind of water treatment reservoir.

I love how much you love geology.

Holy crap... you're not going to believe this, but I think what you're seeing there is part of the fishing port just to the north of it.

I was googling stuff and it MIGHT be a blood water processing plant. When they process the fish, they used to just dump the bloody water back into the ocean but now they process it to get back some of the organic matter for fertilizer, etc and not to disrupt the ecosystem of the ocean around the port.

I'll keep digging...

Edit: Okay, I could probably sit here for hours reading this stuff. The best I could tell that's a water treatment plant which treats water from everywhere in the area, not just the fishery. But the fishery probably accounts for the reddish color in some of the reservoirs.

hmmm...

wikimapia perhaps?

abandoned missle silos

My question is: what are all the boats in the water? There are so many of them.

So all my research was for nothing?

Son of a...

Now I want to find out where the water treatment stuff I read about is located.

If you go a little to the west, there are these colored sticks. There are trucks next to them, a stick is as wide as an 18wheeler and about 2-3 times as long.
this is the link to it Any idea what this is?

I SO thought this was something you Photoshopped!

Apparently I can't get driving directions there from Washington state. :)

ginormous crayons maybe?

I figured it out!

"linky"

Maybe it's the pigments they use for the huge eyeshadow pallet.

Wow where in washington state do you live?

Nah, it's the stock yard of a giant Play Doh mine.