Return to the Creepy Dam Near Los Angeles You've Never Heard Of
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- Big Tujunga Dam, much-anticipated sequel to my first video • A creepy dam minutes f... shot in the summer of 2022. Wanted to see what the recent rains have done to a place that is creepier than before! Love that my drone is back in the air after some repairs.
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Hiker here, thank you for showing this. I’m always looking for places to explore and I loved your video showing how it is from top. Got my sub. More like this please 🙏
This video is great! You should cover Hansen Dam/ lake as well!!
Yeah I play that golf course over there quite often and have never really been up on the damn to see what's on the other side, perhaps
I grew up in the area and rode my horse in the area of Hansen Dam in the late 70’s early 80’s. Big Tajunga Dan was just seismically retrofitted and it was drained the sediment was removed from the bottom of the lake.
Hamden Dam is, as it was explained to me long ago, the last line of defense if Big Tajunga fails or must do a massive emergency release. Hansen Dam is flow through but the gates can be closed if massive flow comes down the wash.
Interesting, I have never really noticed a whole lot of water behind Hansen dam. I suppose with this dam being further upstream, that's that's the reason. Thx for watching
Flood mitigation dam… there’s several in the San Gabriel mountains. There’s another East of there above highland oaks. A large one was built in San Bernardino years back
The other one I'm going to check out and fly over is the pacoima dam, I heard about it and actually saw it while playing El cariso golf course
@@meangene5104 cool. Been there, surprisingly it survived the 71’ sylmar quake. It was upgraded as all the dams in the San Gabriel mountains were. Growing up there I spent so much time in those mountains.
Hey thanks for the follow up - great video!
Hey, thx for watching!
I hope you visit and do another video in the near future. This video appears to have been 2 months ago. Presently it is 3/28 and So-Cal has gotten a lot more rain. I’m curious to see and would love a vid if the spillway is being used 🤘
Yeah, we got hit with tons of rain since I did this video in January, I may just have to take a drive up there and check it out again, thanks for watching
No haters in the comments this time. Cool.
Yeah, I was kind of surprised by that for sure, thanks for watching
It would seem that the operators don't want the reservoir filled above where it is, or the outflow could remain the same as before, and the water level would rise.
I am impressed by the dam myself. It looks like it would handle a lot and survive.
Yeah, it certainly is an interesting place, thx for watching
Cool videos. I grew up in the S/T area and spent many hours in Big Tujunga Canyon. Never knew that the dam held that much water behind it. Are the baseball fields still at the bottom? Many Memories of that area. Thx
They should call it “Mocha Lotte Lake”
Haha, good one, thanks for watching
Well done, again, note it's the first effort in CA to recharge aquifers.
I would suggest the area is not that trashy, it is some of the visiting people who are trashy. Well done as this place has an aura about it that is so desolate and very strange to see. I wonder if this dam was built to help replenish or stabilize groundwater tables underground for the area below since most of the water submerges downstream?
yeah, good point, thanks for watching
Thanks for the info… and video. Definitely creepy lake. But I believe it is for flood control..
Yes, I believe that is part of it, thx for watching
So creepy, brackish, And mysterious, Just buzzwords I'm sure you're not trying to bash this damn. All dams are for the benefit of mankind and are surroundings.
OK, thanks for watching
Sure hope you make a 3rd video after all this rain - maybe even film it spilling! But I know it’s a big ask
I'm thinking about going up there today actually, thanks
@@meangene5104 Well it certainly is a beautiful day!
This area looks like something you'd only see flying around in a helicopter.
Yep, very true. Since I don't have a helicopter handy, this is the next best thing. Thanks for watching!
You should go back one last time. Since rain season is basically over.
I've ridden up there a few times since I posted this, looks pretty different now, may have to bring the drone up there again, thanks for watching
I hike to the back of the dam and spooked a deer that was drinking.
How did they get all that concrete down there to make the dam
Not sure, thx for watching
I installed the reinforcing for the retrofit on 2009-2010, a concrete batch plant was erected on-site, and all the aggregate for the concrete was trucked up, over 80000 yards of concrete were used in the retrofit.
Well damn...😂😂
I hike down to the little lake and this year it was full the water going in is clear clear but because it’s in the sun all day the algae grows. It’s so nice to swim in it though from the back area. I might get a raft and check the island out now. 😊 cool video though
Hope you have more fly overs of the creepy dam now that we're in April. Just would like to see your view of it.
I prefer the brown water...the green makes me nervous
as a kid I would fish behind Creepy Dam
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I've gone out to the Big Tujunga Wash several times during the summer time and there's always been at least a bit of water downstream.
Why hasn’t this area been turned into a major reservoir for Los Angeles? Give me the topology shown in your videos. This looks like it could be a much larger reservoir with a higher dam. What would prevent that? Considering how much water Los Angeles needs and how frequently drought has appeared in the past few decades, it would seem to be a no-brainer, that if this could be in large it would be.
Yeah, good point, thanks for watching
The catwalks around the gorge below the dam are crazy. It isn't clear where some of them are going.
I went back to look at that after reading your comment, I think it might be for accessing some of the areas lower down the face of the dam, thx for watching
Looks as if the depth of that lake is as deep as where the water-outflow is landing on.
Yeah, that's pretty deep! Thx for watching
Hella interesting. Hope you find out some info about it.
I certainly did after posting my first video last summer, thanks for watching
Quite an interesting video.Thanks.
Thanks for watching, appreciate it
It will definitely spill this spring if it hasn’t already.. the water is used by the municipality. This dam was retrofitted some years back to upgrade it seismically, as were all the flood mitigation dams in the San Gabriel mountains.