Oto cud stal się na naszych oczach. Inżynierowie i robotnicy ocalili tamę i ocalili miasto poniżej tamy. Chwala wszystkim, którzy tego dokonali! The miracle happened before our eyes. The engineers and workers saved the dam and saved the city below the dam. Kudos to everyone who made it!
I was wondering what this year would do to Oroville. Good to see the Spillway working at full capacity. Also, good to see the hill filled back in and grass growing on it!
The flow through the spillway was 20,000 CUBIC FEET per second. There are 7.48052 gallons per cubic foot, thus there was nearly 150,000 gallons per second being dumped.
So, why do you think they release water now? Think a minute about it. Right. They release water now to make space for the snow melt later in the year. Why don't people get the basics of anything?
@@eily_b Oroville is almost full. With over 200% of normal snow pack right now in the Sierras all it would take is for California's temps to warm up quickly and boom! Why don't people get the basics of California's climate?
WOW! That's some absolutely stunning footage. The best that's ever been captured! I been following this spillway since it failed and was rebuilt! Awesome job!
Very thankful that the spillway was modified in 2017 to minimize cavitation (spillway damage)! With the icebergs melting and adding freshwater to the oceans, is not now the time for desalination plants on the coast to further alleviate future droughts?
Well done to the American engineers who rebuilt this in a very quick time, if this was England they would still be talking about how they were going to do it.
The second wave of dramatic music well suits when the drone got very close to the water at the diffuser! Gave me goosebumps the first time I watched it! Is that music/clips from a TH-cam library?
If the end of the spillway was a little more "human friendly", you could sell tickets to people to use as a tube slide. Maybe a very small ramp at the bottom for extra fun. Say, $5 per run. Use the money to cover maintenance costs on the dam. If it's really busy, invest some of that money back into the program for a small shuttle bus to bring people from the bottom back to the top. May need some sort of net at the bottom to ensure you don't lose tubes (and perhaps have them attached to people's ankles like surfers do with their boards).
@@gardenman3 Mother Nature is building another reservoir in the Central Valley...we have two full lakes of snow yet to melt...the deluge is coming...any confluence will probably flood
People need to conserve water and not waste it. Here in Australia we’re often on water restrictions even when the dams are full to save for the future when it doesn’t rain enough
@@narellemacpherson9759 it rains like crazy here. It’s just dumb fuck politicians in office that don’t understand we can’t grow rice here. It’s 115-120 every summer consistently.
Save taxpayer money and good land, educate the people on the definition of what a desert is and why there are a few dry days once in awhile in the DESERT SW.
@@jaycweingardt11 Still plenty of land to farm, likely with less strain on the area. Anything other than falsely building hope there is water enough water to flush the crapper more than three times a week.
That is One Million Two Hundred Thousand Gallons per minute. 1,200,000 Boy I wish there is some way that California could get the concept of "Catch and Retain." California needs a more fair and balanced system of H2O retention and distribution. Now, if this H2O release was 20,000 Cubic Feet per second (I do not know if it was gallons or cubic feet) then the H2O release would be very much more...I was born in California back in 1945, and I see this H2O situation as being CRITICAL for the future of California...it is time they got it right. Doctor George Whitehead
Actually, the morons that live in the DESERT SW need to look up the definition of desert then research how our cave dwelling ancestors knew better than to build in a place with little to no natural water resources, flood plains, below sea level, the sides of mountains . . .
Wasn’t there a plan to add 18 feet of height to this dam which would have created so many acre feet of additional storage? But Newsome killed the project?
Kalifornia just experienced a major drought, the People of Kalifornia need to pay attention to inflows and outflows, as soon as the inflow drops below the outflow, STOP, Save the Water, YOU WILL NEED IT !!!!!!!!!
Spell our name correctly or we won't give you our fruits and vegetables, and 30% of the US economic GDP and 5th largest economy on the planet. Oh...and...TRUMP LOST! hahahaha
The water is generating electricity while making room for snowmelt. Chet, you could never appreciate or afford to live in such a lovely place. Little pimple boys like you talk big and achieve little.
Could've built several dams/reservoirs and save all that water and end drought for years to come. But nope. Commifornia would rather dump it back into the ocean 😊
So, let's say they keep all the water and fill the reservoir up to max capacity. Then what happens when the weather warms up and the snow in the mountains melt? Where does that meltwater go if the reservoir is already full? How can they control the water release when it's entering the reservoir faster than they can release it? They're releasing it now to better manage future inputs.
But if I can still see the level of where it used to be, before the world was ending due to climate change. Why are they letting water out and lowering it?…….
Hoover dam also had the spillways redone due to unexpected cavitation decades ago. The incredible rains of 2017 caused unexpected soil erosion under the spillway as the methods for calculation were not as sophisticated in 1968. What state are you from? We can use mental giants like you. Fred, in reality your just a little pimple of a man that could never appreciate much less afford to live in such a lovely place.
I watched this damn almost break and they even evacuated the town LOL! this time there not taking any chances, doesn't even look filled up yet,, but then the snow hasn't even melted yet?/oh yeah it's been on my mind/ the last video of this dam it was very low and dry,,like people were going to run out of water and go thirsty,,
there's another problem it looks very serious,, still looks just as more than it did before ! even with all the construction and the new protection,, I'm seeing even a greater amount of water flow,, people down stream ,,better take a vacation and get they're boats ready,,???
Millions and millions of horsepower in the spillway water !
Oto cud stal się na naszych oczach. Inżynierowie i robotnicy ocalili tamę i ocalili miasto poniżej tamy. Chwala wszystkim, którzy tego dokonali!
The miracle happened before our eyes. The engineers and workers saved the dam and saved the city below the dam. Kudos to everyone who made it!
One day we might in the future view this video back and wish we had this again. Appreciate it.
How wonderful it must be for Californians to have their reservoirs full again. Beautiful footage.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Even after watching them rebuild this, it's still difficult to grasp the immense size of this dam.
So big it has its own rainbow. Beautiful
The dam itself is 1.2 miles wide.
The spillway is over 1/2 mile long.
Crazy to think that it still isn't big enough, this is the third time it has filled and drained in a decade, that should happen once in 100 years.
Stood on this dam bout10yrs ago and was also awestruck by its size to be made of earth
@@jaycweingardt11 who says it should happen once in a hundred years?
bless these drone makers that give the everyday guy the ability to capture perfect footage like this, cheers!
Good video. Thanks for posting it.
Impressive drone footage when flying over the spillway, to match the drone to the water. Such a impressive structure.
I was wondering what this year would do to Oroville. Good to see the Spillway working at full capacity. Also, good to see the hill filled back in and grass growing on it!
They spent a BILLION DOLLARS, a thousand million,to repair negligence & very poor engineering & extreme lack of foresight!
Awesome!
There's a whole lot more on the way. Nice video, thanks.
Feel free to share it around!
There’s a few kayakers out there salivating over this
More than a few!
Outstanding, and the musically supported flyover was nice too!! Cali needed this…..
Wow, this video gives a different meaning to the words "go with the flow" :)
The flow through the spillway was 20,000 CUBIC FEET per second. There are 7.48052 gallons per cubic foot, thus there was nearly 150,000 gallons per second being dumped.
Excellent. Thanks.
Kudos to the Oe3 folks who rebuilt the spillway !🤙
My question is how long will it be for the spillway & weir to start to wear out.
That’s a lot of water.
I love how Mother Nature can change.
"Mother nature" ",....now that is funny! Thank you heavenly Father for the snows and the rains!
It looks like a gigantic water slide! 🌊
Lots of wells to reinject too
I’d be interested in what improvements were made. The hillside next to the spillway looks quite different.
You can pretty much bet the farm that the emergency spillway will be put to the test in a couple months when all that snow starts melting!
They have tested the new spillway at 25000 cubic feet a second. it is supposed to be able to handle 150000 cfs
So, why do you think they release water now? Think a minute about it. Right. They release water now to make space for the snow melt later in the year. Why don't people get the basics of anything?
@@eily_b Oroville is almost full. With over 200% of normal snow pack right now in the Sierras all it would take is for California's temps to warm up quickly and boom! Why don't people get the basics of California's climate?
Putting it to the test.
just beautiful
That's a sight that's unique on this planet. Fantastique. Bravo California.
WOW! That's some absolutely stunning footage. The best that's ever been captured! I been following this spillway since it failed and was rebuilt! Awesome job!
That's like 10 backyard swimming pools dumped every second. It's awesome.
Absolutely stunning and the rainbow is cool!
Bet the alphabet tards liked that.
Nicely done Scott!
Great news for the SW.
Water, glorious water.
Epic
Very thankful that the spillway was modified in 2017 to minimize cavitation (spillway damage)! With the icebergs melting and adding freshwater to the oceans, is not now the time for desalination plants on the coast to further alleviate future droughts?
I love how people call the natural cycle of the weather a drought. Some of them even say there is no such thing as climate change.
Now I gotta pee.
🤣
Also I'd like to see more of the E-spillway pad and drainage system
❤
Well done to the American engineers who rebuilt this in a very quick time, if this was England they would still be talking about how they were going to do it.
Thanks for posting, the music was nice too. That's one way to clean the rocks below the spillway!
The spillway looks so long. Plus I'm glad they didn't cover the rocks up it the damaged area
This is what a billion dollars of concrete on a background of classical music looks like.
Okay I can't be the only one thinking they need to open that up for people to go down on inner tubes that would be fun or kayaks
Yeah, until you reach the end of the spillway and come to your death when you hit those monster diffusers!
You would die
I guess you don't get the scale of it. That would be a guarenteed death.
1 $billion to repair the spillway amazing
😊😊😊😊😊🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
To think i saw them rebuild this thanks to Juan Browns coverage of the whole operation.
Juan did a fine job covering this.🛩
The second wave of dramatic music well suits when the drone got very close to the water at the diffuser! Gave me goosebumps the first time I watched it! Is that music/clips from a TH-cam library?
Music from uppbeat.io
@@Slank_Daddy I see the links in the comments after I asked. Thanks!!
If the end of the spillway was a little more "human friendly", you could sell tickets to people to use as a tube slide. Maybe a very small ramp at the bottom for extra fun. Say, $5 per run. Use the money to cover maintenance costs on the dam. If it's really busy, invest some of that money back into the program for a small shuttle bus to bring people from the bottom back to the top. May need some sort of net at the bottom to ensure you don't lose tubes (and perhaps have them attached to people's ankles like surfers do with their boards).
#lakeoroville
Riding down that baby on a floaty tube would be one heck of an experience. It would be your *last* experience, but one heck of one.
Exactly where were you standing when you were flying the drone?
Multiple locations. Above and below the dam.
Might be fun to tube down, til the bottom.
It sure looks a lot different than it did in 2017.
Full effect was when they opened the gates almost fully. I don’t believe they have since as it damaged the hillside across. I walked down to watch it
A fantastic view, but there is not one person out there to see it.
A few months ago we were rationing water and begging for conservation. NOW we are dumping and wasting it. Brilliant government.
DWR better be right about letting all that water go down to the ocean. So far they have always screwed up!
do we know how fast the water is flowing down ? in kmh or mph
I miss visiting Oroville, such a pleasant town and beautiful lake.
It's easy enough to tell the water level in the reservoir is not what it should be / has been...
...thought California was in a drought...
What is that structure for a 2:45?
Water intake for power generation
Penstocks for the Hyatt Power Plant in/next to the dam.
How are you allowed to fly a drone over and around the dam?
Class G Airspace
They need to catch all of that water in other reservoirs if possible.
There is no other reservoir on the feather
@@michaelchapman1258 They need to build several more
@@gardenman3 Mother Nature is building another reservoir in the Central Valley...we have two full lakes of snow yet to melt...the deluge is coming...any confluence will probably flood
People need to conserve water and not waste it. Here in Australia we’re often on water restrictions even when the dams are full to save for the future when it doesn’t rain enough
@@narellemacpherson9759 it rains like crazy here. It’s just dumb fuck politicians in office that don’t understand we can’t grow rice here. It’s 115-120 every summer consistently.
Best spillway soundtrack on the internet.
Meh. I could have done without the music.
@@joecausey8508 That is what a MUTE button is for! :->
I would love to hit that on an inertube, lol,after being destroyed at the bottom!
Yeah, you'd most definitely hit one of those huge diffusers!
How much of that water will cali be begging for in 2 years? Build bigger/more reservoirs!
Save taxpayer money and good land, educate the people on the definition of what a desert is and why there are a few dry days once in awhile in the DESERT SW.
@@JoeOutdoors that doesn't feed people. What's the land good for if not that?
@@jaycweingardt11 Still plenty of land to farm, likely with less strain on the area.
Anything other than falsely building hope there is water enough water to flush the crapper more than three times a week.
@@JoeOutdoors Whatever, weirdo.
Save this video for the next drought. No one made plans in CA for better water storage. They had 30 years
When was the Hoover Dam built?
How many years ago?
;>)
@@JoeOutdoors 1930's
@@Armydude56 Almost 100 years to get ready . . .
@@JoeOutdoorsYes, they had too much time to make plans for water storage.
That is One Million Two Hundred Thousand Gallons per minute. 1,200,000 Boy I wish there is some way that California could get the concept of "Catch and Retain." California needs a more fair and balanced system of H2O retention and distribution. Now, if this H2O release was 20,000 Cubic Feet per second (I do not know if it was gallons or cubic feet) then the H2O release would be very much more...I was born in California back in 1945, and I see this H2O situation as being CRITICAL for the future of California...it is time they got it right. Doctor George Whitehead
Actually, the morons that live in the DESERT SW need to look up the definition of desert then research how our cave dwelling ancestors knew better than to build in a place with little to no natural water resources, flood plains, below sea level, the sides of mountains . . .
Wasn’t there a plan to add 18 feet of height to this dam which would have created so many acre feet of additional storage? But Newsome killed the project?
That does not sound reasonable. The dam would have to be made considerably larger to raise the water level by that much.
No, there wasn't
Has anyone jumped in the spillway yet?
Do it. It will be your end
Kalifornia just experienced a major drought, the People of Kalifornia need to pay attention to inflows and outflows, as soon as the inflow drops below the outflow, STOP, Save the Water, YOU WILL NEED IT !!!!!!!!!
Spell our name correctly or we won't give you our fruits and vegetables, and 30% of the US economic GDP and 5th largest economy on the planet. Oh...and...TRUMP LOST! hahahaha
The water is generating electricity while making room for snowmelt. Chet, you could never appreciate or afford to live in such a lovely place. Little pimple boys like you talk big and achieve little.
Releasing it. Not saving it.
nowhere to put it, should be pumping it to mead to fill it back up, they take from it
@@RDC_Autosportslake Mead was pumped dry on purpose. Government politics bs
more cameras than in a street in china
This isn't "full effect" that's not nearly the full outflow of over 100,000 cfs.
And it will never flow full effect because of the damaging effects it would have downstream
They never address the core issues deep below the center of the damn. Time will reviel this.
Oh, you have probabyl been there, tinfoil hat.
@@eily_b The Core admitted it. Do your research.
But now everything’s flooded all the farmland no crops for two years too much rain too much snow
Just can't make people happy . . . ;>)
Pretty sure that's 20,000cfs, not 20,000gps.
Who's counting?
Could've built several dams/reservoirs and save all that water and end drought for years to come. But nope. Commifornia would rather dump it back into the ocean 😊
So, let's say they keep all the water and fill the reservoir up to max capacity. Then what happens when the weather warms up and the snow in the mountains melt? Where does that meltwater go if the reservoir is already full? How can they control the water release when it's entering the reservoir faster than they can release it? They're releasing it now to better manage future inputs.
But if I can still see the level of where it used to be, before the world was ending due to climate change. Why are they letting water out and lowering it?…….
No need to go to Niagara Falls
They spent nearly a BILLION DOLLARS to repair negligence & very poor engineering & extreme lack of foresight!
Hoover dam also had the spillways redone due to unexpected cavitation decades ago. The incredible rains of 2017 caused unexpected soil erosion under the spillway as the methods for calculation were not as sophisticated in 1968. What state are you from? We can use mental giants like you. Fred, in reality your just a little pimple of a man that could never appreciate much less afford to live in such a lovely place.
Kill the music😮
Why the freak are they letting water out if the freaking lake is not full?
They have to make room for when the snow pack in the mountains melts. If it happens quickly, the dam would be overwhelmed. They have to keep a buffer.
United States taxpayers at work since California debt is $788 billion, $188 billion current and $600 billion in retirement and health debt.
What a waste. Great management Commiefornia.
Why are they wasting all that water...CA is such a stupid state...
Another disaster awaiting to happen....
Why add the lame drama music, we want raw sound!
Why leave lame dramatic comments when you could turn the music down?
@@Slank_Daddy "Raw sound" is that to difficult to understand??
Wow the music is awful 😅
Don't waste it all this time
I turned the volume off, lost interest and left this comment.
This is sooo idiotic. They are wasting all that water just because they MIGHT get more later on? Pathetic.
They WILL get more water later on. Have you heard of snow melt? Are you stupid?
I watched this damn almost break and they even evacuated the town LOL! this time there not taking any chances, doesn't even look filled up yet,, but then the snow hasn't even melted yet?/oh yeah it's been on my mind/ the last video of this dam it was very low and dry,,like people were going to run out of water and go thirsty,,
there's another problem it looks very serious,, still looks just as more than it did before ! even with all the construction and the new protection,, I'm seeing even a greater amount of water flow,, people down stream ,,better take a vacation and get they're boats ready,,???
No
Great! Now don’t start whining about too much water.
The result of weather modification and climate engineers at work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!