salt pond


salt pond, originally uploaded by Farl.

The salt water is fed into evaporation ponds made of compacted soil and separated by levees. Water can only take in so much salt so upon continued evaporation, it breaches “saturation point” which technically means that the solubility limit is reached. Salting out then begins. In saturated brine, salt would remain solid and would be panned in mounds and harvested.

in the salt farms of Bima in colloidfarl.blogspot.com

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