Salt lakes - Bonaire - Windmills on Waymarking.com

At some places of Bonaire, you can see natural salt lakes (saliñas). Wind blows seawater on land and remains here. Water evaporates because of sunshine and salt remains. Before the sun evaporates this seawater, another amount of seawater flows by wave and tidal into the salt lake. Just before this water reaches full saturation, they pump brine into the crystallizers, which are flooded periodically to maintain a constant level of brine. They will harvest the solar salt in each crystallizer once a year, loaded into trucks and transported to a wash plant. They slurry the salt with brine and remove it from impurities. After washing, it dries for at least several months before transportation to the Eastern United States and the Caribbean.

Purpose: Water Pumping Open to the public: yes Is This Windmill Functional?: Yes! Museum on Site: no Date of Manufacture: Not listed Windmill Farm: Not Listed Cost: Not Listed

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