Greetings from Bakersfield California where the mighty Kern River speeds down the Kern Canyon from Isibella Lack and Dam. I have been sharing your tremendous progress with folks in California. God bless and keep you all 💪🏽🙏💖🐝
Hi from AZ! I am originally from Midland and spent a lot of time at Wixom growing up. It broke my heart so much when the flooding occurred and tore so many lives upside down. BUT I am SO PROUD to be from an area where so many people came together to help others in need. Thank you for your coverage, Jordan! I have followed since your first video of this tragedy and will continue to watch until its triumphant end!!
Wow!! What a Great & Awesome update!!! It was so nice to take a ride under the temporary bridge and through the gates. You finally did it!!! It's nice to see the work up close. Like the lie camera but cannot actually see everything up close like these updates. Keep up the great job!!! Stay & God Bless!!!
I wonder with all the nice weather we had if they are ahead of schedule compared to what it says on the timeline on their website. Especially with all the progress they made with all the dams this year so far.
Nice job Jordan, your videos are very informative. Will the cutoff sheet piling continue to the Park area? If not, do you happen to know why? You may have mentioned this a while back, but who owns the temporary bridge and will it be used elsewhere in the area?
Hey Jordan still doing a fantastic job ! Are you sure you read it right about Sanford lake will be filled in estimated 2025 ? I thought I read it will be filled before Wixom lake and Sanford lake will be first but thought I read Sanford lake will be filled in 2023 ?
I am confused as to why the flow is being cut off where they are doing it. Originally the area they are making the dike was covered with water(lake). Will the material being placed now have to be removed later to help restore the lake as it was? Work that will be duplicated by removing it?
Thats a good question. I am guessing this location was chosen as it was the shallowest area right before the falls so it provided a nice level work area to build the dike.
This depends on how much snow we get over winter in our spring snow melt, but could be filled in one spring if we have enough precipitation. The lakes will be refilled to their previous historic level.
I'm assuming you're just referring to recreational boat traffic? I'm not sure if there was any commercial shipping this far upstream from Midland when the dams were built in the late 1920's. That would be quite the trip though, being able to take your boat on a ride from Secord Lake down into Smallwood, Wixom and Sanford Lakes. Then down to Midland (where we'll just pretend Dow doesn't have their little dam😁) and float down to the Saginaw River and out to Lake Huron. It would be on par with the intracoastal waterway up near the tip of the mitt, maybe even longer.
@@rifleriverrat9311 Oh yeah, I COULD do that, if I were 25 years younger and 100lbs lighter. Nowadays though my boating partner has to be the equivalent of at least 25 horses.🤣🤣🤣
@@rjgoniea the the big ships could only go up the Saginaw river to Mackinaw st in Saginaw mi back in the day the only thing that can boat down the Tittabawassee is a Canoe
@@dknowles60 More than canoes did and still do use the river. There is the 120 passenger "Princess Laura" riverboat that showed up during past Midland River Days. Fishing boats with decent sized outboard motors go in and out of the water at the Golfside boat launch above the Dow Dam. Now, could a late 1920's era Great Lakes freighter navigate up to Midland? Of course not. That does not mean that there were no commercial vessels operating that far upstream. I'm having trouble finding it now, but I read an article within the last couple of years describing historic ferry service on another Saginaw river tributary, the Cass River. Flow wise, that is a much smaller river than the Tittabawassee. I would not be surprised if I dug deep in person at the Midland Historical Museum to find that there were shallow draft barges and ferries making it to at least Midland, possibly up to Averill given it's significance during the lumber era. The only real question is did they go any further upstream than that.
You mention the cost per unit of the hydroelectric turbines but you don’t mention that in cost per megawatt and efficiency of it as well. There is no comparison in efficiency of a wind turbine vs a hydroelectric turbine. Please try to separate “agendas” with facts when discussing the decision to not install power generation in the dam.
@@Hanzyscure they were small dams. dte Energy coal power plant monore makes more megawatts in 1 second then then all the boyce power dams made in a year
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Greetings from Bakersfield California where the mighty Kern River speeds down the Kern Canyon from Isibella Lack and Dam. I have been sharing your tremendous progress with folks in California. God bless and keep you all 💪🏽🙏💖🐝
Thank you!
Wow that was really cool to watch, I watch 2 times. Thanks so much Jordan!
Thank you!
Thank you!!
hallelujah!! Very exciting to see this benchmark in the progression of restoring the lake.
Good job,Jordan!!
Good going in all things
Hi from AZ! I am originally from Midland and spent a lot of time at Wixom growing up. It broke my heart so much when the flooding occurred and tore so many lives upside down. BUT I am SO PROUD to be from an area where so many people came together to help others in need. Thank you for your coverage, Jordan! I have followed since your first video of this tragedy and will continue to watch until its triumphant end!!
Thank you!
This is so great! I love these updates!
Thank you for the continuous coverage of the rebuild of this area wish you well keep the content going
Great job Jordan!!
Wow!! What a Great & Awesome update!!! It was so nice to take a ride under the temporary bridge and through the gates. You finally did it!!! It's nice to see the work up close. Like the lie camera but cannot actually see everything up close like these updates. Keep up the great job!!! Stay & God Bless!!!
Thanks so much!
Hi all!
I wonder with all the nice weather we had if they are ahead of schedule compared to what it says on the timeline on their website. Especially with all the progress they made with all the dams this year so far.
It was good thing a drought was going on to have low water flow.
Nice job Jordan, your videos are very informative. Will the cutoff sheet piling continue to the Park area? If not, do you happen to know why? You may have mentioned this a while back, but who owns the temporary bridge and will it be used elsewhere in the area?
Yes it's in the video.
Jordan, Great video. Is the CAT Dozer a D6, D7, D8? The trackhoe & dozer operators are very professional.
Hey Jordan still doing a fantastic job ! Are you sure you read it right about Sanford lake will be filled in estimated 2025 ? I thought I read it will be filled before Wixom lake and Sanford lake will be first but thought I read Sanford lake will be filled in 2023 ?
Yes Sanford lake is estimated to refill in 2025. Secord and smallwood in 2024 and wixom lake in 2026. This is directly from the fltf website.
I am confused as to why the flow is being cut off where they are doing it. Originally the area they are making the dike was covered with water(lake). Will the material being placed now have to be removed later to help restore the lake as it was? Work that will be duplicated by removing it?
Thats a good question. I am guessing this location was chosen as it was the shallowest area right before the falls so it provided a nice level work area to build the dike.
At the Dam site Sanford Dam will the lake level go back up to its original level for the community sake and recreational value
yes it will
How long will it take to fill the lake again, and will it reach its original level?
This depends on how much snow we get over winter in our spring snow melt, but could be filled in one spring if we have enough precipitation. The lakes will be refilled to their previous historic level.
Thx for the fast response! Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Its to bad they never built locks back in the day for boat traffic to go around the dams.
I'm assuming you're just referring to recreational boat traffic? I'm not sure if there was any commercial shipping this far upstream from Midland when the dams were built in the late 1920's. That would be quite the trip though, being able to take your boat on a ride from Secord Lake down into Smallwood, Wixom and Sanford Lakes. Then down to Midland (where we'll just pretend Dow doesn't have their little dam😁) and float down to the Saginaw River and out to Lake Huron. It would be on par with the intracoastal waterway up near the tip of the mitt, maybe even longer.
@@rjgoniea You could always take a canoe and portage the dams! (Well, a little rough to do now!)
@@rifleriverrat9311 Oh yeah, I COULD do that, if I were 25 years younger and 100lbs lighter. Nowadays though my boating partner has to be the equivalent of at least 25 horses.🤣🤣🤣
@@rjgoniea the the big ships could only go up the Saginaw river to Mackinaw st in Saginaw mi back in the day the only thing that can boat down the Tittabawassee is a Canoe
@@dknowles60 More than canoes did and still do use the river. There is the 120 passenger "Princess Laura" riverboat that showed up during past Midland River Days. Fishing boats with decent sized outboard motors go in and out of the water at the Golfside boat launch above the Dow Dam. Now, could a late 1920's era Great Lakes freighter navigate up to Midland? Of course not. That does not mean that there were no commercial vessels operating that far upstream. I'm having trouble finding it now, but I read an article within the last couple of years describing historic ferry service on another Saginaw river tributary, the Cass River. Flow wise, that is a much smaller river than the Tittabawassee. I would not be surprised if I dug deep in person at the Midland Historical Museum to find that there were shallow draft barges and ferries making it to at least Midland, possibly up to Averill given it's significance during the lumber era. The only real question is did they go any further upstream than that.
The trees should have been left! They make a very good fish habitat when they are flooded!
Very cool Bud, I told you once and I hope you heard what I was saying that you need to copyright your Videos.
Absolutely.
why don't they leave some trees to grow larger and cut them down for more structures in the lake so fish can hide when they they do refill the lake
They would eventually end up clogging the dams in flood conditions.
You mention the cost per unit of the hydroelectric turbines but you don’t mention that in cost per megawatt and efficiency of it as well. There is no comparison in efficiency of a wind turbine vs a hydroelectric turbine. Please try to separate “agendas” with facts when discussing the decision to not install power generation in the dam.
that Dam never made much megawatts 2 diesel locomotives make more megawatts
Wind and Solar lobbyists have made Hydro electric dams too expensive to maintain with all the Federal regulations.
@@Hanzyscure they were small dams. dte Energy coal power plant monore makes more megawatts in 1 second then then all the boyce power dams made in a year