Im glad others in the comments noted the missed opportunity to collect and recycle the trapped debris instead of multiplying it and passing it to the next generation.
The ideal place to filter out polluting plastics, but no. Kick it downstream. Let someone else deal with it. And you wonder if regulation is a bad thing.
@@lairddougal3833 If you can come up with a method of filtering out plastics at that point then do be sure to patent it, because you are likely to make money from it. Plastic pollution is caused by people who dispose of it irresponsibility. Until everyone learns and applies that, then no number of grand schemes to clean it up will ever succeed.
Regulation would be to not have it there in the first place. Why is it their responsibility when it was created by others being lazy and not properly throwing away the trash they created.
@@swizlstik Not sure how often they do this but certainly not more than every six months. Likely yearly during times of high flow. The plastic accumulation therefore represents the total for the entire length of the river/catchment area for that period.
@@jeffer1101 Plastic isn't really recycled much, but about two thirds of aluminum and paper are. A third of glass is recycled, even though it is the easiest material to process. We should do better with glass, but plastic is an almost impossible nut to crack.
@@E3ECO Yes, the metals and glass are managed well. Unfortunately, there is so much plastic though and almost none of it is recycled (even if you put it in your bin). That said, I do see a lot of companies moving to more paper/cardboard type containers to reduce plastic, which is good.
Oh this is in Laos. All the dams around where I live have giant pushers and chain link catch nets and push the debris into the backs of dump trucks. It’s pretty cool to watch
The dams in my area have areas at the dam where they can push and then remove debris like that. The debris just causes more problems down river especially if there are more dams.
Large dams have always freaked me out. I remember my first time going to the Hoover dam and peering into the spillways. I thought they were the scariest things ever. Then I looked over the edge of the dam itself and felt nauseated.
I don't care for heights, It would take a lot for me to look over the side. I felt dizzy looking over the edge of a local one... it would not set any height records, but it was certainly pretty tall. At best, you'd be Stephen Hawking without the brilliant mind if you fell.
Most of the debris appeared to be woody vegetation that was washed into the river from surrounding jungle & forested areas. In some places, the debris would be primarily plastic waste like from water bottles & various containers.
Ah yes, let's not clear the debris here at the dam, just wash it down stream and make it their problem. Don't be responsible, shove the problem on someone else.
Exactly what I was thinking. Why just open it up when you could at least clear the crap out first. >.> A little preventative might also stop this building up in the first place.
We used trash rakes and removed it from the water. After enough was piled up, it would be hauled to the dump or one of our dump sites. No need in leaving it in the water.
I c all the comments about cleaning the trash out of the debris pile but initially it starts with us not letting it get there... At 54 it seems that over the last 15-20 years the amount of trash that was thrown out of the window or blown out of the backs of pickups has gotten worse in my area. We camp quite a bit and to pass time during the day i take my bucket, trash pick and clean up our little hideout camp ground. Every time it yields 3-4 buckets of trash left behind to wash into the lake, the respect for our land seems to have diminished.
stop preaching, ya self-righteous ass. One problem does not mean the absence of another. Just because people litter does not make t OK for them just to release all that trash downstream.
It's ironic how the trash barely gets any attention while "climate change" grifters are going to save the planet from less than a 1/4 of a degree over a hundred year time period, at the cost of trillions of dollars to the consumer.
absolutely!! we need to collectively understand the value in reusable packaging, storage, and other mass-produced items!! reduce, reuse, recycle, REFUSE single-use plastics!!
@@maxwalsh234 A few hours? I think that might be a bit unrealistic. I think the answer is for people, on an individual level, to be responsible for keeping their debris out of our rivers, lakes, and oceans. I mean how hard is it for you to pick up after yourself and make sure you trash is disposed of properly? Everybody blames government and businesses but then, if they take the time and money to clean this up, their costs go up and it all ends up back at the consumer level. We, the consumers, need to take care of this problem at the most fundamental level. Pick up after yourself!
I have been on a lock and dam and the equipment to lift it out and dispose of it involves getting it to shore one excavator bucket at a time and the infrastructure to accomplish that needs to be built into the dam and gates most of which were built many years ago Just sending it down river to a place where it can be removed is often the only option and most if it ends up in the gulf Cleaning up Rivers and the ocean should be our main priority but instead we spend time and money discussing drag queens and paying off prostitutes and how many tanks and bullets to send overseas
@@kerrydowning5374 one thing you’re missing is alot off this debris is from floods. Aka garbage cans full of trash floating away, house sheds yards with debris getting swept away. It’s not all just littering…
@@kerrydowning5374 Environmentalists have seen how industry is in favor of shifting the burden for responsibility to the individual. Away from the major aggregate contributors which are the monied interests. We all share a responsibility of caretakers of the environment. If industry is to be a good neighbor, then how about the area that profits the greatest takes the lead in being a responsible member of the community.
ask yourself how long it would take and how much it would cost to hire people with the appropriate licenses and to perform all concrete steps of the process involved of transporting an island of trees and natural debris plus plastics and separate everything. How would the separation work, would it be mechanical and require human operators? How long would it take? What would the energy costs of drying the separated wood? What would be done with the leftovers and how much would it cost to dispose of it? And various costs involved. You'll find that it will be very expensive firewood, and why it isn't done.
@@AxionSmurf ok and the reason why you pollute the debris in the river and later in the ocean is it cost money and manpower. sorry, this is thinking of the 19th. century.
It needs to be cleared out of the dam itself. It's clogging any mechanisms there, and puts extra stress on the dam. If you want to capture and recover the debris, better to do it immediately downstream where there's better access and more room to work.
@Reimund Boxhammer Which century it is has nothing to do with it. Things cost money, jobs cost money. Money is about the exchange of resources. It's just obvious, basic stuff. Do the math.
Cool. I'm happy to see your solution implemented provided you pay for it. Whatever amount of money it would cost to do as you propose it would almost certainly be more beneficial to the environment to take that money and use it earlier in the "timeline" of the waste getting to the point it has by the time this video was filmed. @@reimundboxhammer1447
The lower dam won in softball last week. So let's send them thier prize, open the upper flap Bob. Let's get this done before the EPA gets here this afternoon.
Interesting redesign of the top of the pivot gate to allow the debri to be passed over,now to design a sluce to transport the litter out of the water,or a vaccume extraction system prior to debri gate.
It's a dam stupid! Conveyor belt are you nuts there is barely any trash it's all wood and sticks, make the humans who put it there in the first place take their lives at risk removing it
@@u1zha lol. There's probably already wood and debris below the dam, so now with this debris flowing over the dam there's extra debris for the guy down stream.
Who’s wondering?? We here in the developed world see what’s known as wood or branches. Plastic is not even natural in nature like the organic debris you see in this clip. And this dam doesn’t appear to be releasing into the ocean as much as it is a river. Maybe take a little time to research before making uninformed comments.
How is this considered "clearing debris" if it's not being removed from the water? Seems as this would do even more harm than good, especially for the folks downstream getting all this muck.
During his training, Luke Skywalker challenged Master Yoda to watch this video without pressing the right arrow key and skipping five seconds forward, not even one time. Master Yoda accepted Luke's challenge. Master Yoda failed. The most powerful Jedi who ever lived lacked the willpower to watch this video at normal frame speed from beginning to end.
Even more of a shame that the trash gets to the river in the first place. The natural debris should be allowed to run down stream but the rest shouldn't be there at all.
*Some 10 miles downstream, a volunteer cleaner looks over their stretch of the river...* _"Where the fu(k has all this rubbish and detritus come from?"_
Pretty satisfying! But wouldn't they want to perform this more often with smaller batches, so that they wouldn't waste so much water waiting for the mountain to get unstuck?
@@theimmux3034 In hydroelectric dams, the water upstream is routed through turbine generators within the dam. If water is allowed to flow through the spillway, that water cannot be used to generate electricity and is therefore a loss.
There are ways, it's just not profitable. If you want to fundraise and lobby for installation of extraction systems, it's good idea but not sure how many taxpayers will want to chip in.
A big vacuum to pull off the expanded Styrofoam and plastic bottles would have been nice. Much better to do pull it off now rather than the ocean going ships. OR maybe we can educate people, to not throw trash or stow materials better...
You cannot stop that from getting in there. Needs to start with people with trucks not putting crap loosly in the back of their truck or open bed vehicle. It all comes from everywhere. I do agree though while it is bound up here and just sitting there why is there not a method of a back hoe or something that can reach in there and kjust pull it out. It is going to get pilled up in the bottom of the catch basin, so just get it out now and be done with it
Only a bunch of Civil Engineers and hydrologists would lean over a railing and cheer when a swing gate dissipates backed up debris… ( I cheered, a little) 😂.
I'm pretty disappointed that, this year, workers (edit:) WERE NOT on the debris piles, jumping up and down, placing bets on which side or what part would go first. Darn. I guess that was last year's crew, huh?
Ahh yes. Nothing like inadvertently trapping tons of plastic debris - and then releasing it all directly back into the river / ocean. Gotta love humans..
Here’s some food for thought, China is damming up all their rivers for two reasons. Hydroelectric power, and the ability to take control of bordering country’s food supply
How does that differ from living on a riverbank anywhere at all? Mess that gets carried by river does float by you, yes. It's not like the dam created more mess than there was in the river...
Some countries have small trash collection nets that are retracted with motorized pulley systems down stream after the damn 😂 and some have it before i personally think we should have managed/mandatory large collection before the damn for logs and large debris that would help keep the turbines and structures safe and small trash collection for small trash and debris after the damn for environmental reasons but they won’t because it doesn’t have an immediate cost effectiveness but long term the cost of cleaning up stacks compared to if they just did it at the damns lol
To clean all that up under a bridge. Man power and time. Plus heavy equipment that needs to be brought to the site. Talking good 100 to 200 thousand dollars.
Problem shifted downstream
Thanks.
Im glad others in the comments noted the missed opportunity to collect and recycle the trapped debris instead of multiplying it and passing it to the next generation.
The perfect example of making it somebody else's problem
The ideal place to filter out polluting plastics, but no. Kick it downstream. Let someone else deal with it. And you wonder if regulation is a bad thing.
@@lairddougal3833 If you can come up with a method of filtering out plastics at that point then do be sure to patent it, because you are likely to make money from it.
Plastic pollution is caused by people who dispose of it irresponsibility. Until everyone learns and applies that, then no number of grand schemes to clean it up will ever succeed.
Regulation would be to not have it there in the first place. Why is it their responsibility when it was created by others being lazy and not properly throwing away the trash they created.
@@swizlstik Not sure how often they do this but certainly not more than every six months. Likely yearly during times of high flow.
The plastic accumulation therefore represents the total for the entire length of the river/catchment area for that period.
@@lairddougal3833 : So, you go there and clean it up.
Feel like I’m watching the quarter pushing machine
They need to combine it with a claw machine that picks up the big pieces before they let it go downstream.
Was gonna say this!
@@natehill8069yes then drop the big pieces at any time they want.
It's like the ultimate Post10 upload.
That six minutes just negated all the recycling I’ve done in my 55 years.
could theyopening up have not cleaned out the top of the spillway before opening
Don't feel bad. Most of what you recycle ends up in the landfill anyway.
@@jeffer1101 Plastic isn't really recycled much, but about two thirds of aluminum and paper are. A third of glass is recycled, even though it is the easiest material to process. We should do better with glass, but plastic is an almost impossible nut to crack.
@@E3ECO Yes, the metals and glass are managed well. Unfortunately, there is so much plastic though and almost none of it is recycled (even if you put it in your bin). That said, I do see a lot of companies moving to more paper/cardboard type containers to reduce plastic, which is good.
Recycling is bad for the planet tho soooooo ♻️ 😢
Oh this is in Laos. All the dams around where I live have giant pushers and chain link catch nets and push the debris into the backs of dump trucks. It’s pretty cool to watch
The dams in my area have areas at the dam where they can push and then remove debris like that. The debris just causes more problems down river especially if there are more dams.
dam the dams
seeing all that garbage just pisses me off, they could have removed all that..
but it wouldn't be nearly as exciting to watch.
I had to read that first sentence 5 times
Large dams have always freaked me out. I remember my first time going to the Hoover dam and peering into the spillways. I thought they were the scariest things ever. Then I looked over the edge of the dam itself and felt nauseated.
I have vertigo.
"Nauseated" is my new favorite word
I don't care for heights, It would take a lot for me to look over the side. I felt dizzy looking over the edge of a local one... it would not set any height records, but it was certainly pretty tall. At best, you'd be Stephen Hawking without the brilliant mind if you fell.
Heeeeh. Quite the experience isn't it? Been there myself. Was fun actually.
amazing microplastic production!
Thank you. I’ll see it at our coastline in about 5 years.
Yep, no need to collect it, just send it down stream, thats good foreward thinking right there 👍
Most of the debris appeared to be woody vegetation that was washed into the river from surrounding jungle & forested areas. In some places, the debris would be primarily plastic waste like from water bottles & various containers.
Look how muddy it is too probably from flood waters washing away everything on the banks.
Great system. Send all the debris down stream then it is someone else’s problem.
Ah yes, let's not clear the debris here at the dam, just wash it down stream and make it their problem. Don't be responsible, shove the problem on someone else.
They call that job security ehh
If there's no problems to fix, we won't need someone to fix em 😅😆
They could sift that off to remove plastic and grind the wood up for fire pellets instead of just sending it down stream.
"They" sure could!
Exactly what I was thinking.
Why just open it up when you could at least clear the crap out first. >.>
A little preventative might also stop this building up in the first place.
@@Kalamain you should get into water management
But this is WAY more fun!! 😃
They'd probably have to redesign the dam.
Wonder if it can be down further downstream though with less infrastructure involved.
Maybe next time clear all the debris especially plastics from re-entering the waterway?
Maybe next time just dont throw in garbage in the water?
You volunteering to get in there and do it?
We only have to do that in the west. Cuz you know….privilege.
I agree all them tree limbs and downed, by nature logs, they need to be cleared so they don’t enter the waterway. DAAAAAA
We used trash rakes and removed it from the water. After enough was piled up, it would be hauled to the dump or one of our dump sites. No need in leaving it in the water.
This video should be called “How To Pollute A River.”
all the beavers be like, DAMN!
Pardon the pun. . . . !!
I c all the comments about cleaning the trash out of the debris pile but initially it starts with us not letting it get there... At 54 it seems that over the last 15-20 years the amount of trash that was thrown out of the window or blown out of the backs of pickups has gotten worse in my area. We camp quite a bit and to pass time during the day i take my bucket, trash pick and clean up our little hideout camp ground. Every time it yields 3-4 buckets of trash left behind to wash into the lake, the respect for our land seems to have diminished.
people who drive those large trucks in this day and age are assholes anyway (professional workers who really need one excluded)
stop preaching, ya self-righteous ass. One problem does not mean the absence of another. Just because people litter does not make t OK for them just to release all that trash downstream.
I cant think of a way to prevent a dead tree from getting into a river.
It's ironic how the trash barely gets any attention while "climate change" grifters are going to save the planet from less than a 1/4 of a degree over a hundred year time period, at the cost of trillions of dollars to the consumer.
absolutely!! we need to collectively understand the value in reusable packaging, storage, and other mass-produced items!! reduce, reuse, recycle, REFUSE single-use plastics!!
Thank god those guys had their hard hats on.
Wow just moving all that trash from one centralized location to scattered along miles of the river/lake/ocean
Way to go good job
perfectly wasted opportunity to clean it up in an easy fashion. Well done! Now it's all on its way to the ocean
they literally could have taken the trash out in a few hours!!!! but I guess human decency doesn't exist in business....
@@maxwalsh234 A few hours? I think that might be a bit unrealistic. I think the answer is for people, on an individual level, to be responsible for keeping their debris out of our rivers, lakes, and oceans. I mean how hard is it for you to pick up after yourself and make sure you trash is disposed of properly? Everybody blames government and businesses but then, if they take the time and money to clean this up, their costs go up and it all ends up back at the consumer level. We, the consumers, need to take care of this problem at the most fundamental level. Pick up after yourself!
I have been on a lock and dam and the equipment to lift it out and dispose of it involves getting it to shore one excavator bucket at a time and the infrastructure to accomplish that needs to be built into the dam and gates most of which were built many years ago
Just sending it down river to a place where it can be removed is often the only option and most if it ends up in the gulf
Cleaning up Rivers and the ocean should be our main priority but instead we spend time and money discussing drag queens and paying off prostitutes and how many tanks and bullets to send overseas
@@kerrydowning5374 one thing you’re missing is alot off this debris is from floods. Aka garbage cans full of trash floating away, house sheds yards with debris getting swept away. It’s not all just littering…
@@kerrydowning5374 Environmentalists have seen how industry is in favor of shifting the burden for responsibility to the individual. Away from the major aggregate contributors which are the monied interests. We all share a responsibility of caretakers of the environment. If industry is to be a good neighbor, then how about the area that profits the greatest takes the lead in being a responsible member of the community.
SMH, y'all could've cleaned that up.💯 #SadTimes
why no crane to dig this debris out?
you can dry the wood to fire it and take out all the plastic so it dont go all the way to the oecan.
ask yourself how long it would take and how much it would cost to hire people with the appropriate licenses and to perform all concrete steps of the process involved of transporting an island of trees and natural debris plus plastics and separate everything. How would the separation work, would it be mechanical and require human operators? How long would it take? What would the energy costs of drying the separated wood? What would be done with the leftovers and how much would it cost to dispose of it? And various costs involved. You'll find that it will be very expensive firewood, and why it isn't done.
@@AxionSmurf ok and the reason why you pollute the debris in the river and later in the ocean is it cost money and manpower. sorry, this is thinking of the 19th. century.
It needs to be cleared out of the dam itself. It's clogging any mechanisms there, and puts extra stress on the dam. If you want to capture and recover the debris, better to do it immediately downstream where there's better access and more room to work.
@Reimund Boxhammer Which century it is has nothing to do with it. Things cost money, jobs cost money. Money is about the exchange of resources. It's just obvious, basic stuff. Do the math.
Cool. I'm happy to see your solution implemented provided you pay for it. Whatever amount of money it would cost to do as you propose it would almost certainly be more beneficial to the environment to take that money and use it earlier in the "timeline" of the waste getting to the point it has by the time this video was filmed. @@reimundboxhammer1447
4.08 the money shot
Thanks, Alex, for the wonderful video.
Nice to see they cleaned the land fill! Maybe we can see the dam next time!?
Can you imagine the people downstream fishing they’re like what the fuck!!!! where did all this debris come from?
Yep, that's like me tipping my garbage in my neighbours yard.
Now it's their problem. 👌🏻👌🏻
The lower dam won in softball last week. So let's send them thier prize, open the upper flap Bob. Let's get this done before the EPA gets here this afternoon.
me, after eating taco bell.
Interesting redesign of the top of the pivot gate to allow the debri to be passed over,now to design a sluce to transport the litter out of the water,or a vaccume extraction system prior to debri gate.
Exactly. Why don't they funnel the debris onto a conveyor and have the conveyor dump it into a dumpster?
It's a dam stupid! Conveyor belt are you nuts there is barely any trash it's all wood and sticks, make the humans who put it there in the first place take their lives at risk removing it
Because 95+% of it is biological. Meaning plant debris. Why waste fuel on natural detritus?
@@rael5469 +1, I've seen a small hydropower plant in Sweden equipped with remote-controlled robot arm to clear debris out onto a conveyor.
😂 cry harder
When everything finally breaks, it is like taking a really good dump in the morning. Very satisfying! :)
It's like one of those coin pusher arcade machines!
Let's waste a perfect opportunity to clean the water way up. Let the guys down river deal with an extra amount of wood and garbage.
What "extra" amount? Sticks were there in the river already, they were not created by tourists or hydroelectric turbines.
@@u1zha lol. There's probably already wood and debris below the dam, so now with this debris flowing over the dam there's extra debris for the guy down stream.
There has to be a way that this stuff can be shredded, recycled, and sold or donated to help clean up out water systems.
Then they wonder how all the plastic got in the ocean
go clean it up if it bothers you so much
It comes from 3, 3rd world countries
That was what I thought
Who’s wondering?? We here in the developed world see what’s known as wood or branches. Plastic is not even natural in nature like the organic debris you see in this clip. And this dam doesn’t appear to be releasing into the ocean as much as it is a river. Maybe take a little time to research before making uninformed comments.
@@ohandanotheronebitesthedus6247no it really doesn’t 😂
Can’t clear that crap? Why send it downstream?
Can clear that crap, and *newsflash* it costs money.
Am I the only one missing the "clearing* part?
Be a great place to practice your standup paddle boarding skills
I'm on a roll lately, I get every "dam taking a crap video" suggested to me.
And all of that debris heads down river and eventually to the ocean. Nice.
How is this considered "clearing debris" if it's not being removed from the water? Seems as this would do even more harm than good, especially for the folks downstream getting all this muck.
It doesn't get any worse than that! Why isn't the plastic removed from the river? Hundreds of people watch and rejoice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
are your hands painted on
@@ivanolsen7966 I do not know what you mean.
US men love looking at this stuff.
Clearly they said. “Not our problem, let downstream deal with it”
During his training, Luke Skywalker challenged Master Yoda to watch this video without pressing the right arrow key and skipping five seconds forward, not even one time. Master Yoda accepted Luke's challenge. Master Yoda failed. The most powerful Jedi who ever lived lacked the willpower to watch this video at normal frame speed from beginning to end.
I fail at Jedi.
Damn! I must be better than Master Yoda...
That's not cleaning, that's effectively fly tipping
That was one hell of a giant beaver.
That’s a lot of dam debris, get it 😂😂
Ведь можно пока все в одной куче вытащить чем потом собирать по всему водоему
When you finally figure out how to use the plunger correctly.
Reminds me of playing Pooh Sticks, (Winnie the Pooh chucking sticks off a bridge into a stream), with my kids when they were small!
Like a BIG version of Coin Pusher Arcade machine
It’s absolutely disgusting how people just throw trash anywhere. I keep the trash picked up at my local city park.
That looks like an island that could have been towed away and cleaned up! 😮
You came here for 3:35
the beginning of the great flush.. thank me later
Going to need the big high boots for this one.
post10 would love this !
this is how all that plastic comes in to the ocean
Not only is our precious water wasted, it gets a big does of trash as it goes down the river.
Should be under a "Not My Job" title... Thanx 😮
Seems a shame there isn't a way to remove the debris while it's trapped in the dam, instead of just sending it downstream.
Even more of a shame that the trash gets to the river in the first place. The natural debris should be allowed to run down stream but the rest shouldn't be there at all.
@@rickmiller1425so just ignore what the beavers do?
Oddly satisfying but now the detritus is spread over hundreds of miles rather than a few metres.
So much plastic trash and aluminum cans ! Horrible for put in the nature! I hope one day we all pay the price for this 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Like one of those coin pusher games but with water.
Missed the gate dropping... sad.
*Some 10 miles downstream, a volunteer cleaner looks over their stretch of the river...*
_"Where the fu(k has all this rubbish and detritus come from?"_
Homeless people
Does anyone know why there's a plastic island the size of Rhode Island in the Pacific Ocean....I'm still trying to figure it out.
where did they clear it too....
Had to laugh at all the cheers as that huge pile of trash heads downriver and becomes someone else's problem.
Pretty satisfying! But wouldn't they want to perform this more often with smaller batches, so that they wouldn't waste so much water waiting for the mountain to get unstuck?
That was accumulated within a couple of days non stop raining in the Northern part of Laos.
waste water??? it's literally water in a river
@@theimmux3034 In hydroelectric dams, the water upstream is routed through turbine generators within the dam. If water is allowed to flow through the spillway, that water cannot be used to generate electricity and is therefore a loss.
They usually wait to do this when they have to release such water
Gives the boaters downstream a chance to play log dodge
The moment of release is missing. What was the reason for that? You didn’t feel like filming that part?
Todays Driftwood tomorrows campfire.
driftwood pellets too.
Really should find a way to remove that rather than send all that trash downstream.
There are ways, it's just not profitable. If you want to fundraise and lobby for installation of extraction systems, it's good idea but not sure how many taxpayers will want to chip in.
Kind of made me a little disgusted knowing it's all going to the ocean
WHERE ?? Does all that stuff go now ??
They could do hydraulic gate system to catch that stuff
A big vacuum to pull off the expanded Styrofoam and plastic bottles would have been nice. Much better to do pull it off now rather than the ocean going ships. OR maybe we can educate people, to not throw trash or stow materials better...
You cannot stop that from getting in there. Needs to start with people with trucks not putting crap loosly in the back of their truck or open bed vehicle. It all comes from everywhere. I do agree though while it is bound up here and just sitting there why is there not a method of a back hoe or something that can reach in there and kjust pull it out. It is going to get pilled up in the bottom of the catch basin, so just get it out now and be done with it
Don't worry it's getting shredded into a million peices so you'll never see it
That should make river running pretty interesting for a while.
Only a bunch of Civil Engineers and hydrologists would lean over a railing and cheer when a swing gate dissipates backed up debris… ( I cheered, a little) 😂.
I'm pretty disappointed that, this year, workers (edit:) WERE NOT on the debris piles, jumping up and down, placing bets on which side or what part would go first. Darn. I guess that was last year's crew, huh?
Ahh yes. Nothing like inadvertently trapping tons of plastic debris - and then releasing it all directly back into the river / ocean. Gotta love humans..
would've gone downstream anyway... what would you have them do? skim off the hundreds of tons of lumber and trash off the top of the dam by hand?
Beavers: "We are pissed off"
I hope there no boaters around there, all that floating debris, potentially dangerous if hit at speed
Awesome! I could watch these kinds of videos all day.
So much debirs. Were all the debirs frum?
That's how i clean my appartment. I just throw my trash to my neighbours.
Feel bad for anyone living downstream. They will have a mess to clean up. Maybe that was their plan, to let someone else deal with it.
They have a dam downstream just for that.
Wood gets shredded and used. The garbage is pulled out and either recycled or burned.
Here’s some food for thought, China is damming up all their rivers for two reasons. Hydroelectric power, and the ability to take control of bordering country’s food supply
How does that differ from living on a riverbank anywhere at all? Mess that gets carried by river does float by you, yes. It's not like the dam created more mess than there was in the river...
Some countries have small trash collection nets that are retracted with motorized pulley systems down stream after the damn 😂 and some have it before i personally think we should have managed/mandatory large collection before the damn for logs and large debris that would help keep the turbines and structures safe and small trash collection for small trash and debris after the damn for environmental reasons but they won’t because it doesn’t have an immediate cost effectiveness but long term the cost of cleaning up stacks compared to if they just did it at the damns lol
So you collect it just to release it in bulk got it
How can you mess up the angle at just the right moment?
To clean all that up under a bridge. Man power and time. Plus heavy equipment that needs to be brought to the site. Talking good 100 to 200 thousand dollars.
Put the video on double speed. You will thank me later.
Just made my ears ring.
The whole time, jrain is thinking, "Phone Don't Die, Phone Don't Die....."!! 😂
Employee:
"Hey look; we actually by default gathered trash! What a great opportunity!"
Company:
"Definitely the last guy in the flows problem.."