Not dangerous as long as that bulkhead gate holds, not that i would be willing to go down there and do that work with out a life jacket and full scuba gear, though with the force of that water coming out of there if it does go, i think breathing will be the least of my worries, more like id be trying to work out how to swim with half my body missing. Just saying if that made 1 weird sound or groan, id be out of there faster then you could blink.
The monumental amount of pressure behind them concrete doors at 14:47 is unthinkable if it was to fall you wouldn't have time to Sh*t yourself or maybe you would but that would be the last thing you did, nothing is one hundred percent safe and everything fails eventually, Nice video plenty of detail be safe ❤
Interesting. But as a gardener, I see all that sediment and all I can think of is how fertile that is. Truly, I wish I could have a dozen bags for my tomatoes. I wonder if the organisers thought of inviting the locals to remove the blockage in bags for free soil? Probably not. But I bet good topsoil is valuable in rocky Kashmir.
One must dig out the eroded concrete and replace it with higher pressure concrete. Laying down new rebar drilled into the present concrete and replaced with higher pressure concrete on the floor of the gate. Next time it will remove the concrete and threaten the structure. Possibly even laying thick sheet metal on the floor bolted in with concrete j bolts.
It would be interesting to study the deposition just downstream after one large discharge like this. I wonder if more frequent, lower volume discharges would have less of an impact on aquatic life downstream.
it must be the chicago of the other side of the 🌏🌏🌏...but it looks otherwordly shittier than chicago.where kids get raped and sold at any truckstop.look it up.there are sum docus about it.people should look into this.pretty normal over there(pakistan)and noone does something about it .no wonder those a.....could not poor proper concrete.
Yes, I know it is in India, there are many podcasts showing barefooted workers, equipment without any safety guards, poor environments, and many other problems that would cause shutdowns of these places if they were in America. I wonder what happens when a worker gets his/her/its foot cut off in India? The thing that says INDIA is the designer garbage sacks they all wear. I worry that if I die and go to hell, hell may be India.
Reminds me of my SuPrep bowel prep that I had for my colonoscopy about a week ago. You haven't had fun until you're a guy that has to pee from the front AND the back at the same time and both are liquid. It's even less fun when you go 15-20 times in a day and a half and you have to keep drinking liquids to keep from getting dehydrated, knowing that it will go back out of the front and back again. The plus side? No cancer, polyps or IBD. The negative? Still no idea why I have abdominal pain.
I've had diarrhea for almost 2 years. At one time, it was like brown water. At times, I throw up bile with some blood in it. I had insomnia at times. Hard.to drive anywhere like that.
I got disentary once. Pooping every 30 minutes to a hour. At first it was diarrhea and then it was the rancid river of either dark brown, light brown and or light green, tasted water, then like a light brown silt sand like poop. Then I felt better after 2 weeks and change. Felt like a cleanse lol😂, and I can eat like a kid again
These are called desander bays and are constructed for removing sand/silt from water entering the tunnel to safeguard the turbine runner. The velocity of water is reduced to 0.2m/s in these bays and silt settles at bottom of these bays to flush Downstream river
These are called desander bays and are constructed for removing sand/silt from water entering the tunnel to safeguard the turbine runner. The velocity of water is reduced to 0.2m/s in these bays and silt settles at bottom of these bays to flush Downstream river
@@Kashmir_explorer786 Wow, thanks for this explanation! So the water goes from those basins where the silt can settle to the turbines? That's rather smart, had not seen an approach done this way before! Tx again, best of greetings!
It's nice to see a clean spill way compared to all the one's that are full of plastic and tons of garbage all along the river bed for miles. Nice camera to many clip's and zooming in and out. Other wise good video. Very happy though to see a clean water way. Good on your country where you are.
The “great flood” that many religious texts speak of was almost surely an asteroid impact that caused huge tsunamis in the Mediterranean area. It wasn’t a traditional “flood”.
@@johnkonstantin4277 there are a few theories. Asteroid or volcanic tsunami. Perhaps the Black Sea which was once a lake had the Mediterranean flow into it very suddenly when the land bridge at Istanbul ruptured due to rising melt water and created the Bosphorus strait in a matter of hours and flooded massive amounts of the lake shoreline very rapidly. Many thousands could have drowned in hours.
@@Look_What_You_Did yes river beds do rise above the surrounding terrain. Thats why flood banks are built. Check out New Orleans ? The Mississippi River.
When my kid was about 4 years old he asked me what was the most powerful thing on earth? I don't remember what I responded with but I certainly remember his answer, WATER!!!
EDIT: OP answered already. "Repair is in progress with High Strength Concrete using granite aggregate and epoxy chemical chemdur 42" 12:22 Is the concrete supposed to look like that? I'm no Dam expert nor a Concrete one but rebar sticking out like that can't be a good thing, right?
At 13:00 onwards, someone got confused between MPa and kPa, when ordering that concrete. Excellent recycling of everyone else's left over rebar too, why buy new.
I believe the concrete erosion is due to cavitation and not inferior product. I wondered when I first started watching if this would be a problem with the water being obstructed in different places along the spillway throughout the process. FYI, I'm not an expert but have studied the Glen Canyon Dam problem in 1983 and Oroville in 2017. Both dams were nearly lost due to this phenomenon. I don't know if much could be done to solve it other than to make the necessary repairs to the concrete between sediment releases. Check out YT vid 'Challenge at Glen Canyon, 1983'. It is wonderful.
How often is the spillway opened to facilitate sediment release (how many years worth of buildup was allowed to flow out in this particular video)? I know most of these are measured in feet above mean sea level (I live near Lake Mead), but are actual depth measurements taken? If so, what was the water depth afterwards (how tall had the sediment gotten)? The waterflow suggests a great volume of water was also released...how long does it take the reservior to refill back to the level before this maintenance? (If this process were to happen now, I can't imagine how long it would take Lake Mead to get back to the current level, at less than half pool. But even in drought conditions, dam maintenance must be just as important...so it surely must be performed. I wanna see this in person, I should check the website or call to see if/when there is one scheduled.)
Basically it is run by the river Hydropower project. Its storage capacity is 10 millions cubic meters. to check the sediments buildup we go through a hydrographic survey of the reservoir by dividing the reservoir into several cross sections. If sediments build up on the bed reaches 20m then the flushing of the reservoir is carried out in the next high flow season. Total maximum depth of the reservoir is 45m /135 feet's. And it is 1000 meters above the mean sea level
@@Kashmir_explorer786I'm so glad I took an interest in reservoirs & dams once I moved to Las Vegas; it takes the fear of drought down a notch & means I actually understood that explanation! Thank you!
Lake Mead is a totally different situation in that nearly all of the sediment deposits come from the Colorado River inflows which are many miles away from the Hoover Dam. This allows the sediment to settle long before it reaches the structure. But, up until the Glen Canyon Dam was built, about 100,000 acre-feet of deposits occurred every year. Lake Powell now absorbs more than 90% of this and since 1963, only about 7000 ac-ft deposit in Mead. This amounts to roughly 2.5M acre-feet total sedimentation in Mead (estimates have decreased due to compaction of material over time on lakebed). They also reserve about 1.5M ac-ft for emergency flood control due to the scare in 1983-84. There is an 8M ac-ft of storage below inactive level. Mead also loses nearly 1M ac-ft per year to evaporation. So, of the original 30M ac-ft design of Lake Mead, there is only 11M ac-ft usable at full pool. Mead is required to release 9M ac-ft per year by water rights compacts. Mead also receives 8M ac-ft from Lake Powell per year. Also, Mead reached levels similar to today from 1956-58, and the states were not taking their full allotments of water. Arizona didn't start until 1996 when the CAP was completed. The states have also used Mead as a 'bank' in that during wet years, when they do not need their allocations of water, they bank the balance for use in the future. This leads to heavier usage during drought years. And over 50% of the water that naturally drained from the west face of the Rockies is diverted across the continental divide to the east face. One final note, the allocations made in the early 20th century were during an unusually wet period in the region. This became apparent very early on, but allocation levels have remained the same. And scores of dams have been built upstream along the Colorado and its tributaries that contain water that was originally meant to flow down the Colorado. This, and the fact that 4 million people were supported by a river that now supports 44 million people.
The first minute, all i could imagine was the Great Floods of The Younger Drias Period 13000 yrs ago, you can see similar formations in the geography of mid/south west coast usa. The work done by Randall Carlson
And Randall Carlson was totally WRONG. There wasn’t one “flood” - there were DOZENS of glacial outbursts separated by decades. Randall Carlson started with an assertion and then lied about the actual dated data.
You need to send this video to Randall Carlson the erosion that you see on the concrete at the end of the settlement removal would be really informative to him he is a very important guy his name is Randall Carlson
@@Kashmir_explorer786 Randall Carlson kosmographia he is a man who is studying the ice age floods when the water melted showing the force of what water can do to rock and that right there shows what it does route with reinforced concrete I don't know much more information that I can give you about how to forward anything to him you would just have to watch something that he puts out and maybe you can get a comment about this event I'm not really a computer guy I'm more of a geology guy
That sediment would sure make for great planting soil! Problem is: to harvest, you´d have to be, where only some earth and concrete is between you and milliseconds away from BILLION TONS OF WATER. So I guess that settles that!
Not really...because it's already been through the gates at super high speed and pressure the vast bulk of the nutrients would have been washed out...what is mainly left after that is grit. The richest nutrient bearing sediment is much further up the river coming down at a more natural speed which gets deposited onto the fields during natural flow and during flood. The stuff you see here is mainly coarse sandy grit
Not Gonna lie. That spillway should be added to the roster of capital punishments.....wow😢, the power of that water is brutal. Couldn't imagine the horror of falling in.
There is very big Crack line under spil way please Notice this when this vidio starts😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 I appologize to concern Dam Authorities to look in this matter.it from kasmir pakistan.
The spillway base concrete got badly eroded- the might have to remove much of it to repair afresh and even that might be for just one, two gate openings
One of the gate concrete eroded and it's repair is in progress. It is due to the opening of the spillway gate for a long time with minimal opening and boulders passing over it during flushing of the reservoir
That takes some serious balls to be hanging out in front of a leaky bulkhead door. One hopes they laid new concrete over the cavitated concrete with some air slots.
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
Mc Donald's burger and peanut Butter.😢
Веселого там ничего нет, этот напор массы переломает вас за секунду,
@@ДмитрийСумароков-з2вI’m not even gonna translate it to English but I’m sure I agree!
@@ScottGunMag69 переводить ничего вам теперь не надо, переводит теперь ютуб
There is not much on earth more powerful than water over time. I have learned to have deep respect for what it does and can do.
Yes it is true. Water is the most powerful
water will always win ...
Water... . The unrelenting abrasive of earth! It's power is unknown. Hydrogen and oxygen? Why is that stuff not on fire?
@@willgaukler8979 Ahh, a Doctor Who fan?
Probably some of the BEST farming soil heading down stream.
Just add a flood
Get in there and grab it then.
@@Barbaratio tough guy
Ground-up mountains make the best chiles.
@@Asymmetrical-Saggin who
as a maintenance manager, I always like to see vegetation growing in my steel framing. It's "green" energy.
I am a maintenance manager too but at a nuclear power plant and I love to see that blue light, you can really feel the power of the atom.
@@abrunosON I've got a son that gets to go swimming in those pools, so keep it clean. I'd hate for him to turn into a "blue light special".
This is an internal representation of what happens when I wake up and start drinking coffee. 😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ya ever morning
Like Bill Engvald said, us older guys don’t drink coffee to wake up,
We drink it every morning to kickstart the colon!
Ahh the morning coffee sediment removal couldn’t get through the day without it 😂😂
yep like ol faithful
Bro! Stop playing with the zoom function!
Jhoom baaraabarr Jhoom Sharabi. ....!!!!
Hey meathead, he's not your "bro."
@@NavinBetamaxagrjdjsgrhsj ahsveoof tjejfbekthf!
Lol
Umadbro?!¡¿
We’ve all been there, like plugged up and finally breaking loose👍
How deep is the water behind the gate, please ? psi ?
Enough to blast your socks off 😁@@douglasr.c.5622
@AZAce1064 And hopefully you are at your seated position when it happens. Lol
Oh man that feels great...
🚽🤎🧻🧹
Looks dangerous going into the sluice gate like that.
My hands sweat from just watching those guys work.
Not dangerous as long as that bulkhead gate holds, not that i would be willing to go down there and do that work with out a life jacket and full scuba gear, though with the force of that water coming out of there if it does go, i think breathing will be the least of my worries, more like id be trying to work out how to swim with half my body missing.
Just saying if that made 1 weird sound or groan, id be out of there faster then you could blink.
The monumental amount of pressure behind them concrete doors at 14:47 is unthinkable if it was to fall you wouldn't have time to Sh*t yourself or maybe you would but that would be the last thing you did, nothing is one hundred percent safe and everything fails eventually, Nice video plenty of detail be safe ❤
I think its worse at 12:00 that isnt liquid coming out of there anymore its practically a gas and would cut you to ribbons if you fell into it
I wish I could have all of that dirt shipped to my property, it would make an awesome farm
Depends on the country's water. It could be completely contaminated. I wouldn't want Ganges sediment
How often do you have to remove the sediment?? I would think it builds up very quickly. But nice video.
Once in every 2 years we Drawdown the reservoir and flush sediments. It builds up quickly when flood water enters the reservoir
Thank you!
Reservoirs act as a stilling basin
I think I just got the whole dam experience. Was wondering though, is there any dam fishing ? and if so, where do I get the dam bait ?
Interesting. But as a gardener, I see all that sediment and all I can think of is how fertile that is. Truly, I wish I could have a dozen bags for my tomatoes. I wonder if the organisers thought of inviting the locals to remove the blockage in bags for free soil? Probably not. But I bet good topsoil is valuable in rocky Kashmir.
Yes but extracting this soil isn't possible because of water still over it in reservoir and with high pressure downstream of radial gate.
Why not just get it when it’s deposited downstream as opposed to putting themselves in harm’s way?
Go dive in and get it then.
When sediment flushed it goes downstream with flood water and stay n the reservoir of other dam
All that Gold in the Silt >> Unbelievable amounts !
Thanks. I was on the edge of my seat.
Does anyone know what dam this is? You would think you would put that in the description
One must dig out the eroded concrete and replace it with higher pressure concrete. Laying down new rebar drilled into the present concrete and replaced with higher pressure concrete on the floor of the gate. Next time it will remove the concrete and threaten the structure. Possibly even laying thick sheet metal on the floor bolted in with concrete j bolts.
Repair is in progress with High Strength Concrete using granite aggregate and epoxy chemical chemdur 42
@@Kashmir_explorer786 would be awesome to see footage of it, of the repairs and the final results.
@@Kashmir_explorer786 Whats the name/location of the dam?
They don't care; it's a famous communist country!
@@hectorpascale1013 Type Kashmir and you'll see where it is.
oh boy they are inside of the spillway! thats crazy :O
It would be interesting to study the deposition just downstream after one large discharge like this. I wonder if more frequent, lower volume discharges would have less of an impact on aquatic life downstream.
Silt kills the fishes and puts them outside the water
13:27 I notice the use of safety sandals. Can never have too much PPE
The Carhart work pajamas were also a nice touch.
Roaring with laughter. Well said, friend!
What great safety, people with bare feet, no shoes. Where is this, near Chicago?
Nope it's on the other side of the 🌎 🌎🌎🌍
That DEFFINATELY isn't Chicago. Too much engineering going on there to be Cjicago.
it must be the chicago of the other side of the 🌏🌏🌏...but it looks otherwordly shittier than chicago.where kids get raped and sold at any truckstop.look it up.there are sum docus about it.people should look into this.pretty normal over there(pakistan)and noone does something about it .no wonder those a.....could not poor proper concrete.
In India 😂
Yes, I know it is in India, there are many podcasts showing barefooted workers, equipment without any safety guards, poor environments, and many other problems that would cause shutdowns of these places if they were in America. I wonder what happens when a worker gets his/her/its foot cut off in India? The thing that says INDIA is the designer garbage sacks they all wear. I worry that if I die and go to hell, hell may be India.
Where was this filmed? Beautiful scenery!
Reminds me of my SuPrep bowel prep that I had for my colonoscopy about a week ago. You haven't had fun until you're a guy that has to pee from the front AND the back at the same time and both are liquid. It's even less fun when you go 15-20 times in a day and a half and you have to keep drinking liquids to keep from getting dehydrated, knowing that it will go back out of the front and back again. The plus side? No cancer, polyps or IBD. The negative? Still no idea why I have abdominal pain.
I've had diarrhea for almost 2 years. At one time, it was like brown water. At times, I throw up bile with some blood in it. I had insomnia at times. Hard.to drive anywhere like that.
Thanks for the breakdown of your experience.
I have Crohn’s disease. Not fun. I hope they diagnose your ailment soon. Good luck
Half out is from that treated city water, and the other half is from who knows what chemicals added to our food!
I got disentary once. Pooping every 30 minutes to a hour. At first it was diarrhea and then it was the rancid river of either dark brown, light brown and or light green, tasted water, then like a light brown silt sand like poop.
Then I felt better after 2 weeks and change. Felt like a cleanse lol😂, and I can eat like a kid again
Great video !
That was really interesting, thank you 👍
kewl ! but basicly moven the problem down stream where it will build up somewhere else ?
Alluvium is fine anywhere except behind the dam. In fact, between releases, downstream is being starved of deposition.
If it doesn't arrive at the coast then you get faster erosion and flooding.
This sediment is rock powder from the Himalaya?
Yes.
@@Kashmir_explorer786 Name of dam? Nearest town? River name?
Impressive! I wonder what the three long "slots" are for situated on the left @ 16:00 ?
These are called desander bays and are constructed for removing sand/silt from water entering the tunnel to safeguard the turbine runner. The velocity of water is reduced to 0.2m/s in these bays and silt settles at bottom of these bays to flush Downstream river
These are called desander bays and are constructed for removing sand/silt from water entering the tunnel to safeguard the turbine runner. The velocity of water is reduced to 0.2m/s in these bays and silt settles at bottom of these bays to flush Downstream river
@@Kashmir_explorer786 Wow, thanks for this explanation! So the water goes from those basins where the silt can settle to the turbines? That's rather smart, had not seen an approach done this way before! Tx again, best of greetings!
I wonder if there's any gold in that black sand ?
Maybe there is gold but nobody tries to extract it.
Nice steel toe boots makes total sense with the concrete is crap👏👏👏
Yea, all that exposed rebar is worrying.
Wow! Very powerful current.
It's nice to see a clean spill way compared to all the one's that are full of plastic and tons of garbage all along the river bed for miles. Nice camera to many clip's and zooming in and out. Other wise good video. Very happy though to see a clean water way. Good on your country where you are.
Thank you for for your precious time to write feed back and watching the video. I'll focus on suggestions in future
Seeing all of that sediment build up puts into prospective what the great flood may have left behind in a short period of time.
Yea, that never happened.
Comet impact due south of the Straights of Hormuz - would have had a massive impact on the Tigris/Euphrates civilisation....@@mathewmcgill6266
The “great flood” that many religious texts speak of was almost surely an asteroid impact that caused huge tsunamis in the Mediterranean area. It wasn’t a traditional “flood”.
@@jagpilotohio Sumerians also had great flood myth. There is possibility that they recall ocean level rising after the end of the last ice age.
@@johnkonstantin4277 there are a few theories. Asteroid or volcanic tsunami. Perhaps the Black Sea which was once a lake had the Mediterranean flow into it very suddenly when the land bridge at Istanbul ruptured due to rising melt water and created the Bosphorus strait in a matter of hours and flooded massive amounts of the lake shoreline very rapidly. Many thousands could have drowned in hours.
How many bodies were in all of that mud??
Dead Bodies always float in the water and recover by the rescue team.
Sweet relief when those gates were first opened. That was a healthy one. Whew.
Excellent video !
Where does all the sediment end up down stream ? It must raise the river bed ?
@@Look_What_You_Did yes river beds do rise above the surrounding terrain. Thats why flood banks are built. Check out New Orleans ? The Mississippi River.
@@Look_What_You_Did It has to arrive at the ocean. Poor dam maintenance has resulted in a lot of coastal flooding.
'The waters nice! Come on, jump on in!'
When my kid was about 4 years old he asked me what was the most powerful thing on earth? I don't remember what I responded with but I certainly remember his answer, WATER!!!
No doubt. Water is the most powerful thing
saw a demo video back in the day, of a person trying to stand still in a one inch stream of water, traveling at 30mph. you can’t.
This is a great example of how to make what should have been an interesting 5 minute video into a boring video. Stretch it to over 17 minutes.
Gathering scenes takes video for longer duration.
Bored by it? Uhhhh.......stop watching.
Man, that is one HUGE sluice gate! 😳😳😳
Where is that dam?
Gold in there spill ways
I find that frightening. 😮
Looks like the Reservoir was being drained?
How long does the pool take to refill after being drawn down?
Two days
@@Kashmir_explorer786 Wow! That is quick!
I wonder what is in the sediment is there pieces of gold at the bottom and is the sediment toxic?
Asphalt on spillway pave?
Beautiful!
If you think that muck is bad, you should see what it's like to clean the Quagga Mussels from the tunnels.
Once I saw all the trash everywhere I knew the flip flops were coming.
🤣
Hydraulic Pressure and Power is Amazing
The dam: Yeah sorry, I had the xtra spicey curry. Aaah🤤
I feel so much better now
At the start the sediment looks like it's being squeezed out so hard the water has all been forced out of it.
EDIT: OP answered already. "Repair is in progress with High Strength Concrete using granite aggregate and epoxy chemical chemdur 42"
12:22 Is the concrete supposed to look like that? I'm no Dam expert nor a Concrete one but rebar sticking out like that can't be a good thing, right?
Chipping of concrete done and rebars replaced by new bars. This time we use a very high strength chemical repair that will last for some years.
Looked quite a bit overdue for this process.
Thank you for the informative video, I enjoyed it.
I don’t see the LOCATION of this dam , if in U S, or other nation????
Kashmir
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The power of water is terrifying!
Concrete washed away like dirt should tell you something about the pressure at the bottom
At 13:00 onwards, someone got confused between MPa and kPa, when ordering that concrete. Excellent recycling of everyone else's left over rebar too, why buy new.
Not only steel rebars the sill beam is also flushed with sediments.
I believe the concrete erosion is due to cavitation and not inferior product. I wondered when I first started watching if this would be a problem with the water being obstructed in different places along the spillway throughout the process. FYI, I'm not an expert but have studied the Glen Canyon Dam problem in 1983 and Oroville in 2017. Both dams were nearly lost due to this phenomenon. I don't know if much could be done to solve it other than to make the necessary repairs to the concrete between sediment releases. Check out YT vid 'Challenge at Glen Canyon, 1983'. It is wonderful.
What happens to the debris.???
THX for this Video👍
How often is the spillway opened to facilitate sediment release (how many years worth of buildup was allowed to flow out in this particular video)? I know most of these are measured in feet above mean sea level (I live near Lake Mead), but are actual depth measurements taken? If so, what was the water depth afterwards (how tall had the sediment gotten)? The waterflow suggests a great volume of water was also released...how long does it take the reservior to refill back to the level before this maintenance? (If this process were to happen now, I can't imagine how long it would take Lake Mead to get back to the current level, at less than half pool. But even in drought conditions, dam maintenance must be just as important...so it surely must be performed. I wanna see this in person, I should check the website or call to see if/when there is one scheduled.)
Basically it is run by the river Hydropower project. Its storage capacity is 10 millions cubic meters. to check the sediments buildup we go through a hydrographic survey of the reservoir by dividing the reservoir into several cross sections. If sediments build up on the bed reaches 20m then the flushing of the reservoir is carried out in the next high flow season. Total maximum depth of the reservoir is 45m /135 feet's. And it is 1000 meters above the mean sea level
@@Kashmir_explorer786I'm so glad I took an interest in reservoirs & dams once I moved to Las Vegas; it takes the fear of drought down a notch & means I actually understood that explanation! Thank you!
Lake Mead is a totally different situation in that nearly all of the sediment deposits come from the Colorado River inflows which are many miles away from the Hoover Dam. This allows the sediment to settle long before it reaches the structure. But, up until the Glen Canyon Dam was built, about 100,000 acre-feet of deposits occurred every year. Lake Powell now absorbs more than 90% of this and since 1963, only about 7000 ac-ft deposit in Mead. This amounts to roughly 2.5M acre-feet total sedimentation in Mead (estimates have decreased due to compaction of material over time on lakebed). They also reserve about 1.5M ac-ft for emergency flood control due to the scare in 1983-84. There is an 8M ac-ft of storage below inactive level. Mead also loses nearly 1M ac-ft per year to evaporation. So, of the original 30M ac-ft design of Lake Mead, there is only 11M ac-ft usable at full pool. Mead is required to release 9M ac-ft per year by water rights compacts. Mead also receives 8M ac-ft from Lake Powell per year.
Also, Mead reached levels similar to today from 1956-58, and the states were not taking their full allotments of water. Arizona didn't start until 1996 when the CAP was completed.
The states have also used Mead as a 'bank' in that during wet years, when they do not need their allocations of water, they bank the balance for use in the future. This leads to heavier usage during drought years. And over 50% of the water that naturally drained from the west face of the Rockies is diverted across the continental divide to the east face.
One final note, the allocations made in the early 20th century were during an unusually wet period in the region. This became apparent very early on, but allocation levels have remained the same.
And scores of dams have been built upstream along the Colorado and its tributaries that contain water that was originally meant to flow down the Colorado.
This, and the fact that 4 million people were supported by a river that now supports 44 million people.
which river is it?. Pakistan or indian kashmir?
It is up to you to find
The first minute, all i could imagine was the Great Floods of The Younger Drias Period 13000 yrs ago, you can see similar formations in the geography of mid/south west coast usa. The work done by Randall Carlson
Bonneville and another one.. moved giant hills. Emptied a giant lake, two different times. The drone footage is epic in that region.
And Randall Carlson was totally WRONG. There wasn’t one “flood” - there were DOZENS of glacial outbursts separated by decades.
Randall Carlson started with an assertion and then lied about the actual dated data.
@@lfrankowBonneville had over forty outbursts.
I wonder if there's gold in that mud
More likely the gold would settle at the bottom of the dam since its heavy. But good wish.
What does that do to native fish and amphibian populations?
Don’t worry about the concrete being abraded away like that. It’s fine.
There are places in the world one does not want to be. Down there is one of them.
You need to send this video to Randall Carlson the erosion that you see on the concrete at the end of the settlement removal would be really informative to him he is a very important guy his name is Randall Carlson
@@jimmysorrells3888 give me his profile link so I can share to the right person
@@Kashmir_explorer786 Randall Carlson kosmographia he is a man who is studying the ice age floods when the water melted showing the force of what water can do to rock and that right there shows what it does route with reinforced concrete I don't know much more information that I can give you about how to forward anything to him you would just have to watch something that he puts out and maybe you can get a comment about this event I'm not really a computer guy I'm more of a geology guy
@@jimmysorrells3888 не думаю что она построена правильно - неужели вы думаете что специалисты которые проектировали плотину не знают об возможном
That is one very old and worn dam. You can see the eroded concrete has exposed rebar.
Heck! that rebar isn't exposed. It's stand tall and proud!
@@garyradtke3252 hahahaha, at least it's lasted this long.
That sediment would sure make for great planting soil! Problem is: to harvest, you´d have to be, where only some earth and concrete is between you and milliseconds away from BILLION TONS OF WATER. So I guess that settles that!
Probably not since it full of heavy metals and trash.
Not really...because it's already been through the gates at super high speed and pressure the vast bulk of the nutrients would have been washed out...what is mainly left after that is grit. The richest nutrient bearing sediment is much further up the river coming down at a more natural speed which gets deposited onto the fields during natural flow and during flood. The stuff you see here is mainly coarse sandy grit
Very cool, thanks for the video
The Power of Water. Insane.
The sediment isn't being removed properly, it's being flushed into the spillway which will soon build up and become dangerously clogged.
No. It flushed away from the dam area with pressured water released from Spillway gate during High flow season
Not Gonna lie. That spillway should be added to the roster of capital punishments.....wow😢, the power of that water is brutal. Couldn't imagine the horror of falling in.
like the terminator park scene, but with water..
i wonder how much gold could be recovered from that?
Now you see why they use all that hydrolic power to spin turbines and make electricity. I wonder if there any tubines there?
No turbines are far away from the dam site connected with 39km tunneling.
They should open it more often 🙂
It cost more because the water that we released from the radial gate wasn't used for power generation
This is you when you arrive in Delhi and eat your first curry 🍛 😋 😀
There is very big Crack line under spil way please Notice this when this vidio starts😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I appologize to concern Dam Authorities to look in this matter.it from kasmir pakistan.
Sediment this bad this far up the dam wall suggests the lake bed has filled up with sludge. Its water storage capacity is seriously reduced.
This is the run of the river project not a storage dam. Sediments build up at the river bed level and flushed downstream annually.
how shallow is that rebar in that concrete 😮
The spillway base concrete got badly eroded- the might have to remove much of it to repair afresh and even that might be for just one, two gate openings
One of the gate concrete eroded and it's repair is in progress. It is due to the opening of the spillway gate for a long time with minimal opening and boulders passing over it during flushing of the reservoir
@@Kashmir_explorer786 Cavitation?
That takes some serious balls to be hanging out in front of a leaky bulkhead door. One hopes they laid new concrete over the cavitated concrete with some air slots.
impacted by this
Where they steeling those bolts?
Replacing the seal damaged by water
A repair of the spillway is highly demanded.
Me in the gym bathroom when the pre workout does its magic
Why do you empty your beautiful reservoir?
Where is this?
If the Labor Inspectorate sees that we are not wearing safety shoes and a helmet, we will receive a hefty fine😂
And safety glasses. Don't want to put an eye out!
Me after eating Taco Bell
Quit eating that shit. It's not even real food 😂
Мимо проплывала рыбка. С каким диким ускорением ее переместило
All of our dams have a siren sound system when dam spillway opens.
Impressive 😮
With that much exposed rebar on the chutes. I wonder how much decay is in the rest of the structure you don't see. Mmmm.
I'm seeing every aspect of structure found no decay to show in the videos. If there is something interesting I'll share 😀
I wonder if anyone has ever gone and checked the cracks in the spillway for gold? After they have released!
That first cup of coffee in the morning