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COPCO 1 DRAWDOWN DAM BLAST. Klamath River, California
January 23rd, 2024, a 12 ft. diameter tunnel was blasted at the base of the 101-year-old Copco 1 dam on the Klamath River, initiating reservoir drawdown prior to dam removal. An estimated 4000 cubic feet a second of water and sediment was released. The dam will be entirely removed by the end of 2024.
This past summer, crews blasted a 90 ft. adit tunnel at the base of the dam, inserted pipe, and armored it with boulders and 1000 yards of concrete. 800 lbs. of dynamite was used to blast the remaining concrete plug to set the river free, and a surge of water barreled several miles past the former Copco 2 dam and the majestic Wards Canyon that had been mainly dewatered for a century and into newly formed river channels in the former Iron Gate Reservoir.
This documentation is part of a 6-year independent feature film about the Undamming of the Klamath River and the 20-year campaign behind it. Our productions are made possible through grants and private donations.
Tax-deductible donations are available through The Redford Center if you are interested in supporting this work.
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Blast team: Drill Tech
Contractor: Kiewit Corporation
Blast Contractor: Mc Donegan drilling and blasting
Owners rep: McMillen Corporation
Owner: Klamath River Renewal Corporation
Film Production: Swiftwater Films
COPYRIGHT: SWIFTWATER FILMS LLC
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  • @maryvreeland6843
    @maryvreeland6843 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Non-inclusivity. Why not use the captions? Not cool

  • @acoustickittykat
    @acoustickittykat หลายเดือนก่อน

    White people angst, I love it.

  • @markdorman52
    @markdorman52 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Probably no need for reservoirs anymore for fire fighting either, right? Great Job!!

    • @ctclmichaud
      @ctclmichaud หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not these.

  • @lag9765
    @lag9765 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And the other thousands of dams n the northwest are to remain???

  • @sophiareygrace6656
    @sophiareygrace6656 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    lovelyyy

  • @AhJodie
    @AhJodie 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was fun, but I was expecting a lot more blasting and then water moving out super-fast! But it is moving fast, just hard to tell from this distance. Thank you for sharing. I am glad this is done!

  • @russellleavitt4449
    @russellleavitt4449 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Boring wtf

  • @ombhamare522
    @ombhamare522 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You should turn on comments for the other videos too.

  • @kevinferguson2131
    @kevinferguson2131 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Everything is dead now in this river.

  • @TimAllan-zt3ov
    @TimAllan-zt3ov 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    they do , because of this shit !

  • @ThomasLeonard454
    @ThomasLeonard454 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So this is the answer California has to green power. Is to destroy green power true, green power. Marxism or some other socialist move.

    • @Richard-i3f4w
      @Richard-i3f4w 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Socialism is alive and well within the Republican party !

    • @ThomasLeonard454
      @ThomasLeonard454 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Richard-i3f4w Both parties No Name

  • @randyb1890
    @randyb1890 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I watch all these videos on dams, coal and oil fired power plants all being demolished and I wonder who decided we don't need electric anymore. I guess we go back to the old days and work sun up to sun down while we have light and solar power. (unless it's cloudy). I guess flood control is no longer a thing either.

  • @thedubwhisperer2157
    @thedubwhisperer2157 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I used to work for a company called Atlas Copco. Any connection?

  • @lazaruslazuli6130
    @lazaruslazuli6130 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow, I could have grown a crop of corn between the klaxon and the blast.

    • @jasminelindros8923
      @jasminelindros8923 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's deliberate. Blasting regulations require at least a minute between alarm and blast to allow everyone to run like hell when they hear the alarm and get clear of the affected area.

  • @brucepoole8552
    @brucepoole8552 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bring back the salmon! Excellent work

  • @bigbird2451
    @bigbird2451 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow. I figured they would work from the top down. Not all at once. Physics can sometimes be so simple and sometimes so crazy.

    • @ctclmichaud
      @ctclmichaud หลายเดือนก่อน

      You can't drain a reservoir from the top down.

  • @georgea.9684
    @georgea.9684 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Rivers need to flow! 😃👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻

  • @mtv1geo280
    @mtv1geo280 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And the result was 830,000 dead salmon ..then they blamed the mass kill on bubble disease to cover up their mistake. But it made a great symbolic video, and that's what was important.

    • @georgehaydukeiii6396
      @georgehaydukeiii6396 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You don't have any idea what you're talking about do you.

    • @mtv1geo280
      @mtv1geo280 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@georgehaydukeiii6396 You're a Clown 830k salmon die post historically largest dam removal, the controversy continues Story by Sophia Bruinsma

    • @mtv1geo280
      @mtv1geo280 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@georgehaydukeiii6396 You're a Clown. 830k salmon die post historically largest dam removal, the controversy continues Story by Sophia Bruinsman MSN

    • @mtv1geo280
      @mtv1geo280 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@georgehaydukeiii6396 830k salmon die post historically largest dam removal, the controversy continues Story by Sophia Bruinsman

    • @mtv1geo280
      @mtv1geo280 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@georgehaydukeiii6396 The reporter doesn't either. 830k salmon die post historically largest dam removal, the controversy continues Story by Sophia Bruinsma

  • @Regulategoogle
    @Regulategoogle 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The dam is still standing..

  • @acyron
    @acyron 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I thought Califoney had a water shortage. Does look like a lot of water spilling downstream.

  • @davidinsocal3032
    @davidinsocal3032 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They should remove Gabbing Knewnothing and his band of Merry EnvironMENTALists before they remove these dams... The rush of water and sediment going downstream will ruin the ecological balance of the river below these dams for years. And just what is their plan to replace the lost electric generation from the hydro plants??....More environmental destruction building solar/wind farms??? And where will farmers/residents get the water they need that comes from these dams/lakes........ So typical of the left: Spend billions destroying something trying to save it; and then asking for more billions to ruin it even more, trying to save it again. Delta Smelt and the slow train to nowhere are two good examples of this.

  • @bulletscreenprinting
    @bulletscreenprinting 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for destroying yet another great fishery and silting in a river for miles. Great job dip $hits.

    • @georgehaydukeiii6396
      @georgehaydukeiii6396 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow, another clueless armchair expert. I'm sure your comment is going to age really well.

  • @wooshkabeeba132
    @wooshkabeeba132 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Scroll to 1:13 thank me later

  • @psychiatry-is-eugenics
    @psychiatry-is-eugenics 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    what was used to trigger the explosion ? i can see the wires

  • @KennyWatson-mu9to
    @KennyWatson-mu9to 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Unless you Live on the upper Klamath River. You really can't see the destruction that is as caused. The River is now become a toxic Sewer. It Sucks 😢

    • @georgehaydukeiii6396
      @georgehaydukeiii6396 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was there two days ago. You are completely wrong. The silt had all but flushed out, the water has cleared up, and trout are coming back. You couldn't be more wrong Kenny.

  • @jacibflores97209
    @jacibflores97209 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Typical California we are in a severe drought, everyone’s going to be forced to drive electric cars, pushing out agricultural, we are getting to a point of no return if stupid shit like this keeps happening

  • @ss442es
    @ss442es 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Exactly how many megawatts of electricity was lost to this? This is a huge mistake. The EPA is totally out of control. 5.2 megawatts of electrical power was lost in minutes when a massive hail storm struck Scottsbluff Nebraska, and miles of wind farms froze up and could not produce power because the blades iced up. So, it makes a lot of sense to just start blowing up dams all over the Pacific Northwest that maintain hydro-electric power. People shouldn't listen to the cult of the EPA, right now the United States Air Force is bombing the skies woth aluminum, barium and other minute metalic particles that fall into the rivers, lakes and lungs of people all over the world and think nothing about it. Neither does eliminating cheap electical power it seems. Over the years the ecology had adjusted to the dam engineering for the people of the northwest and the California basin for water to sustain agriculture.

  • @ronaldsmith6829
    @ronaldsmith6829 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A great demonstration of stupidity. Removing hydroelectric dams when the electric grid on the West Coast is short of supply for the demand. Yeah, great job Environ-mentalists!

  • @anb7408
    @anb7408 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    First, the liberals wanted to get rid of all coal and gas power plants. Now they’re wanting to get rid of dams…..that produce electricity. Pretty soon, we’ll have to rely on unicorn farts to generate power…..then again, that’s probably bad for the environment too. 😂

    • @georgehaydukeiii6396
      @georgehaydukeiii6396 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No...we just want to modernize and get rid of old, out-dated technology and replace it with state of the art power sources that don't kill entire rivers.

  • @dalevalenti6552
    @dalevalenti6552 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In a State where they struggle to provide drinking water to their citizens, blowing up dams is the exact opposite of what they should be doing. CA is it's own worst enemy.

    • @georgehaydukeiii6396
      @georgehaydukeiii6396 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Those dams didn't supply drinking water to a single person. You obviously don't have a clue what you are talking about. You sound really ignorant!

  • @flipstars
    @flipstars 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I kind of feel bad for the little fish that were chillin' in this pool right before the explosion. Like, BOOM!... What was that?! What's all this water?! Oh man, it's coming down a bit fast here. And all this sediment?!!? Getting a little cloudy. Having a hard time. Oh no! I can't breathe!!!! Ahhh!! I hit my head on a rock!!! Agragragugaguga glugga glugagaga glug But in the long run, it's going to be so awesome for the fish that do survive. Can't wait till all the dams come down.

  • @12TribesUnite
    @12TribesUnite 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cool! How old is this dam?

  • @tobewobedj
    @tobewobedj 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Worst video ever

  • @chriss1728
    @chriss1728 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sounds dumb when they have water issues and haven't built anything for years. Oh yeah I know why!!!

  • @SHC713
    @SHC713 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    An analysis was done on the outflow, lots of heavy metals, many were way beyond allowable limits.

  • @craigholbrook7420
    @craigholbrook7420 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a dam mistake.

  • @Red-et2rd
    @Red-et2rd 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It will take hundreds of years for this area to get back to the way it was before the dams. These people are totally out of there minds. The fish arent coming back just because a couple of dams are removed. People living close to this need to fight and get this reverse.

  • @RelaksasiAlam-zi9uq
    @RelaksasiAlam-zi9uq 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hadirr

  • @kevinh4631
    @kevinh4631 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    All that millions of tons of silt just getting washed down stream to smother the spawning gravel, and yet millions more tons to be washed down the rest of the year till the grasses take over on the old lake bed.

  • @rcstl8815
    @rcstl8815 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I got an idea! Let's get rid of clean means of electric production so the fishes are safe! clap,clap,clap.

  • @varukasalt
    @varukasalt 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So you say you got a sedimentation problem? No problem!

  • @ronbrusch7290
    @ronbrusch7290 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Most dams were put in as flood control measures as well as all the other uses so when the next flood

  • @natehill8069
    @natehill8069 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why did they blow it up? Didnt need so much electricity anymore, or had too much water already?

    • @DJResR420
      @DJResR420 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Old dams are flash flood waiting to happen._

    • @ktcat1
      @ktcat1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The dam was racist.

    • @DaPlenThing
      @DaPlenThing 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They were restoring the river it was blocking off

    • @jasminelindros8923
      @jasminelindros8923 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All dams have finite lifespans as they prevent sediment from moving downriver, and so the reservoir slowly fills with mud. Mud does not generate electricity, nor does it irrigate downstream crops. Eventually the cost of maintaining and repairing the dam and associated infrastructure becomes greater than the revenue generated by the dam, and dam owners are faced with the choice of removing the dam or losing money from now on.

  • @justintime41776
    @justintime41776 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Don't know how you're going to power all those electric cars. This is about as green as it gets. But it's understandable because a lot of you don't know which bathroom to use.

    • @philsalvatore3902
      @philsalvatore3902 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dams destroy salmon and steelhead runs, make downstream water too warm for salmon smelt to survive in the summer and capture all the silt that should flow downstream to maintain sand bars and beaches. Yes, hydropower is renewable and zero carbon, but dams are not often benign to the environment.

  • @scottwilson9404
    @scottwilson9404 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My parents live on the Klamath River. Yesterday my dad walked 50 yards along the river and counted more than 100 dead fish along the shore. The sediment is piled up on the shore too. Not much is going to live through this.

    • @scottwilson9404
      @scottwilson9404 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Update, one week later. 300+ fish dead on the shore. River otters are gone. Crawfish are dead. Birds of pray have left now too… Hoping the river recovers. Right now they are killing the entire eco system.

    • @jasminelindros8923
      @jasminelindros8923 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@scottwilson9404 This project is not intended to provide any benefits over the next couple of years. The project is aimed at re-establishing a stable ecosystem starting five years from now. Bring your grandkids to the river 30 years from now and describe to them how much it has improved.

  • @Skidderoperator
    @Skidderoperator 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why did the dam continue to stand?

    • @biohazard_613
      @biohazard_613 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That blast was just to draw down the lake. They’re using heavy equipment for the dam removal.

  • @flyingbieke
    @flyingbieke 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Criminal act! Disaster and devastation for animals and people.

    • @georgehaydukeiii6396
      @georgehaydukeiii6396 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nope! The exact opposite in fact. you have absolutely no idea about fish biology, Rivers, pollution, and you are living in the past!

    • @flyingbieke
      @flyingbieke 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@georgehaydukeiii6396 you are wrong. I live there NOW, and see what’s going on. Recently the river water has been warming up to about 74F in places. That’s not at the bottom but we measure it along the shoreline. Salmon likes cold water. The temps are still on the rise. I’m not going to explain it all, but it remains a covered up disaster. Although it’s clear because of all the dead animals we’ve seen since January.

  • @davidbryant3532
    @davidbryant3532 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Perfect...Californication removes yet another way to store needed water....idiots

  • @davidjohnson2989
    @davidjohnson2989 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It all bull shit

  • @elvispusley3515
    @elvispusley3515 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    California is powered by gays and transgenders