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Colorado River Pearce Ferry Rapid After High Flow Release From Glen Canyon Dam
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 พ.ย. 2018
- Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #255
On November 5, 2018 the Department of the Interior cranked open the spillways on the Glen Canyon Dam, from the usual 7-12,000 cfs to 38,100 cfs! They let 'er rip for 60 hours, in an effort to recreate the natural floods that used to occur before the Colorado River was dammed...and which served to clean out the silt that accumulates on the riverbed.
I went out to Pearce Ferry, where the Colorado River enters Lake Mead 300 miles downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam, to see what the rapids there looked like before the release -- and then went back a few days later to see how the release had affected them! Let me tell you...it was intense! THE MIGHTY COLORADO RAGED AGAIN...if only for a few days.
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There is something mesmerizing about the power of wild water in the desert! Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks WonderH for a great video. And yes that rock in the center was completely covered in the 80's as lake mead actually backed up into the canyon. My family and I used to drive our cabin cruiser over that area with ease and the lake was many feet deep. Since then my sons and I have taken our inflatables up and down the rapid when it was less severe, but that's been awhile. Thanks to great videos like yours, I am able to keep tabs on things out here in San Diego. Thanks again, you are great! Your enthusiasm is both cute and cool.
Truly loved your enthusiasm on this one Sarah, and if people think your weird well then I’ll take your kind of weird any day or night of the week!!! Anxiously awaiting your next video.
This is by far your best video ever to look back and see what a change the mighty Colorado can go through ,,,,,,,great job
Thanks! That was great. I am on the riverbanks downstream from you watching the river in delight and gratitude. It hasn’t been anywhere near this force or volume, so am glad to see this awesomeness.
Thank you WH for the very informative video on the Colorado River. I love the river and am very fascinated by it.
Best EVER !!!!! Thank you for taking us along !!!!!
I am really impressed with the research you do before your adventure trips. Thank you for bring so informative. And I really love the excitement and enthusiasm that you bring to your videos. Like, Yikes.... you are a pretty awesome Lady!
Waterhussy causes flood on Colorado River! Another great water winner video. You are the best WH. Keep’em Coming!
OMG - So thankful for this video. I use to own land in Meadview and spent many days on the water in this area between South Cove and Pierce Ferry. I sold my home when the lake water was 80 -90 feet higher than now. I don't even recognize this area anymore WOW! Yes the water use to be very high. We used to put our boat in at Pierce Ferry and boat up into the Grand Canyon. Back then the water was blue. We could boat to where there were beautiful waterfalls. The rafting trips used to end at Pierce Ferry and we often met many of the people as they came out of the Grand Canyon. WOW Thanks. So many good memories!
Worthy of one of your "wowzers!" You go girl!!! love love love your vids! thanks for taking me.
Hussy, you are amazing....so many places with so much information, and common sense !...voice, smarts, looks, humor, facts, insight io the Department of the Interior b s....Keep it up gal ! Great stuff. The Colorado river, Lake Mead debacle is not as drought b s we are fed....go darlin !
Thanks Hussy ! Fantastic coverage !!
Wow yeah you timed it perfectly. And you were so excited! And old guys rule! And did I mention YOU WERE SO EXCITED. YAY.
Way cool WH! Thanks for a look at an area I never managed to visit. Nothing like witnessing the raw power of a fast flowing river - always amazing!
That was pretty cool! Thank's for going out there!
Thanks for the long trip back to that spot ! This was AMAZING !!! One of your best video's !!!
June, loved this Colorado River tour, Thank you! You definitely made me want to drink more water...
Your not a nerd at all. Your awesome. Keep bringing us along on your adventures sweetie.
Wow, you did time it perfectly. That was great to see and being close to that much power is exciting. Keep up the great videos of your adventures.
I'm so glad you're a nerd about this stuff. Those of us who don't live near Vegas depend on you for these updates. Thanks.
Your so lucky that you can go to so many wonderful places ... Stay safe and keep up the great video adventures !
Fantastic video! I love how you entertain and educate at the same time. You really know your stuff. So glad you made this video. Your hard work and planning really paid off.
You have outdone yourself again! Outstanding and thank you!
Great reporting, Sarah! The footage is spectacular!!!
Thanks for an informative video magnificent always learn things you would never know without you guys that do utube thanks again! Be safe out at any adventures love your channel!
Hi Wonder Hussy, Old-timer here. What an awesome job you did putting together this before and after comparison video at Pearce Ferry Rapids. It was great meeting you and sharing info about the HFE and pictures of how it looked at Glen Canyon Dam. I'm hooked on your creative work and will be watching your other videos. Really enjoyed your enthusiasm and excitement which is expressed so well in your finished product. Great sense of humor!
Dramatic! Thanks for showing us, WH.
I saw the notice for the release, but then I forgot. Glad you’re smarter!
So interesting! Thanks for making this video!
Make the Colorado great again!
You are so funny!!!
You investigate the most amazing places and events. Love it.
Weird is, as weird does!
You are too cool.
Also, I believe lake mead was getting so low this year that is was going below the inlet pipes to feed water to your town, LV.
They were having problems with water to supply Atlanta due to low lake levels years ago, and the Governor held a prayer vigil at the state capital. The prayed for rain, and the rain came, it flooded many parts of Atlanta and many folks died in the disaster. Never underestimate God!
Great report! I’ve been to that location a few years ago and was kind of disappointed in how low the water flow was. Hopefully they will perform this release more often.
First visit to your channel. Now I’m hooked! (and in love) 😊
I like all your videos. This one is special. No,you're not crazy. I would bet, many women love to do what you do. They might not know about all the off the beat interesting places, like you do. You do a great job in presenting your videos. I thank you!
Great video ...Hi Wonderhussy!!!...i love looking at stuff....cheers
Your not the only lady that likes things like this! I love stuff like this! There’s a place on the Great Basin HWY that after a rain it looks quite similar to this....maybe not as big! It flood the desert there with tons of water.....washes away bits of the bank every time it floods. Awesome to watch! Sadly, we don’t get much rain As you know, but when we do........😱😱 it’s great!
Back in the late 80's we rode stand up jet skis from Pearce Ferry up the Grand canyon about 5 or 6 miles. Ran into the rafting group along the way. Guide told us he never saw jet skis up the canyon this far. Great experience!
Fantastic Sarah!
Pretty cool adventure, Wonderhussy. This sure is a nice departure from moldy abandoned old places.
You aren't a nerd or weird for being so enthusiastic about watching the flow of this river. This is an outstanding video that is much appreciated for its informative content. I lived in Flagstaff in the 1970's and took a lot of backpacking trips in the Grand Canyon, many on the unmaintained trails and a few into trail less areas. My first trip to the river was in October of 1972 to Hermit Rapids. The Little Colorado River was in high flood stage as a result of recent heavy rains. About a half mile from the river along Hermit Creek I began to hear what sounded like distant explosions. A more canyon experienced hiker told me that the sound was of huge boulders being bounced down the riverbed by the high flow. The power of the river and the rapid was incredible, I was as enthusiastic as you show in this video.
My career was in land management for the U.S. Forest Service and I'm very familiar with and worked with the National Park Service quite a bit as the two of the National Forests I worked on for 20 years bordered Yosemite National Park and Devils Postpile National Monument. Some might find how these flushing flows came about. The National Park Service conducted a lot of research on the effect of the Glen Canyon Dam on Colorado River riparian ecosystems and the profoundly negative effects that dam has caused. Without flushing flows not only were beaches disappearing, but those remaining were being lost to the invasive Tamarisk bush or small tree. Once the voluminous research was gathered for 30-40 years a lot of political pressure was aimed at the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), builders and operators of both the Glen Canyon and Hoover Dams. This came from multiple conservation organizations, the river recreation industry and from some of the good guys and gals in the Congress. Finally, the BOR caved and has become a little more cooperative with the National Park Service. I think some additional flushing flows have occurred in the last 10-15 years. Maybe what you witnessed is the first of its kind at this level of release.
There are additional issues resulting from Glen Canyon Dam, including profound effects to the fish population of the river. The cold water released from the bottom of Lake Powell on a constant basis has had negative effects on native fish species. Kudos to the National Park Service and a number of universities for the outstanding research done documenting what the Glen Canyon Dam has done to the river.
A secret political fact is that many in Congress wanted the Glen Canyon Dam built to hold back the sediment of the river on the bottom of Lake Powell to extend the life of Hoover Dam, which has lost about 4-5 million acre feet of storage (now about 27 million acre feet or less) since it was built up until 1963 when the Glen Canyon Dam shut off the flow. Interestingly enough Lake Powell took from 1963 to 1983 to finally fill to its maximum level. The extremely high flows of 1983 came very close to causing the failure of the Glen Canyon dam, something the BOR does not publicize widely. Lake Mead is continuing to fill up with the sediments from the Little Colorado River and the smaller amounts that flow down the side canyons in Grand Canyon. Lake Powell is losing storage at a rate higher than Lake Mead and may fail in far less than 100 years. The number of years left is controversial, but certainly not sustainable in the long run as most people agree that it is not longer than 100 years. I wish I could live long enough to experience that and what will be done as a result. I don't think much can be done according to the research papers I've read. There are seven states in the Colorado River Compact, an agreement that over allocated the flow of the river due to some very wet years in the decade or two prior to the 1922 agreement. The first state to have its allocation cut is Arizona and the Central Arizona Project, a canal that makes the population level of Phoenix and Tucson possible. The piper will have to be paid at some point, unless this drought ends, a seemingly unlikely occurrence. Tree ring records have indicated droughts of 600 years since the ice age ended 12,000 years ago.
I have done some additional research about the current storage capacity of Lake Mead. At the completion of Hoover Dam in 1936, the lake had a storage capacity of a bit over 31 million acre feet. An acre foot contains 325,851 gallons. In 2018 the storage capacity of the lake is 26.12 acre feet, this is a loss, due to sedimentation of nearly 16%. The rate of loss was slowed considerably since the completion of the Glen Canyon Dam in 1963. It has lost about 1 million acre feet of capacity since the mid 70's level of 27 million acre feet which I remembered from my time living in Arizona at the time. So it lost 4 million acre feet of capacity in the 41 years after Hoover Dam was completed, but has only lost 1 million acre feet since the mid 70's, say 1977, a period of 41 years. The difference in the rate has been absorbed by Lake Powell. Another factoid is that Lake Mead has not been filled to capacity (full pool level) since 1983, the same year Lake Powell filled for the first time following the completion of Glen Canyon Dam in 1963. The present Colorado River drought, as Wonderhussy mentioned, began in 1988.
That was very cool, thanks for the video.
Dang, Sarah! Cheer up!(8-) Just teasin', Darlin'. Love your enthusiasm, spirit, talent and efforts...and your kindness for sharing this video. Great viewing(8-).
Truly amazing!! You asked why folks, ladies, are not always interested in doing what you do. I think it has to do with your age. Girls back in the 50's on, even before that time, through the 80's, were not always encouraged to do daring things. Boys did that. Now, girls and women do many things that we would never consider and that is great. I depend on your adventures as I am not fit or young enough to do things you do. Thank goodness!
I really enjoy your videos because you do your reasearch about your surroundings you put a lot of work into your videos will always be interested in your content , Lil Hussy stay safe darlin . ; )
WH-another fantastic video-Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for taking the time to show us the major! Difference in the way the "neutered river" is missmanaged.
Great video! Keep up the good work!
This is truly amazing to see! Thanks...
Looks like it worked! Thanks for filming this before and after.
That was awesome. Thank you for sharing.
W0W! Another great video!
You are such a nut-case and I love it. Keep up the good work
I love your adventures, you are truly a remarkable young lady, keep up the good work.
You deserve a lot of credit for catching this water release near its peak🌊🌊 I think you'd fare quite well in the Old West! Your pioneer spirit and quick wit are to be celebrated🎆 Love to share a beer and a puff w u anytime🍻🌿 Thanks for all your hard work! Keep the videos coming📹👍
Loved it. Great reporting!!!!
Wonderhussy, since like the Colorado River so much and desert etc you should take a 2 week trip down the river through the Grand Canyon. It is awesome, I have gone twice now. We took out at Pearce ferry takeout which is about 1/2 mile upstream of this rapid so I did not see it either trip. Thanks for making this video and showing the rapid.
I love your videos!
Great video, the weather looks so nice out there, here in central alabama 60 degrees and raining.
love your show keep it up.
I live in the busy metropolis of Meadview! Not to many remember when Lake Mead came all the up to Pierce Ferry and you could boat upriver all the way to the Grand Canyon. They had a flush last year but I don’t think it was quite the volume or time period. Great vid!👍
Very cool, I was reading about that. Thanks for sharing.
Great video. Loved it. 😎
Thanks for being a Nerd and for making these videos.
Wow, thank you for sharing this. 👍
Interesting Sarah love the water.
The way you tryangulated your shots were awesome,,,,Tucson az
Thanks WH, for your diligence to cover that flushing flow event. So cool to see the before and after. Looks like the rapid at high flow became close to unrunnable because the sneak around on the left sorta disappeared. The best line for a kayak would be that new channel to the right I think, still a class 5 drop. Doable, but not for newbies.
If you want a relaxing river trip, check out the
San Juan near the Co/Ut line. Keep on hitting those "high" notes.
Yeah it looks like a river-wide recirculating hydraulic at that level.
again awesme video !!
Your excitement is adorable even if it makes you a nerd who cares I get really excited over that stuff just like you
Thanks for sharing.Very nice
Love your vid's
Great Video, Thanks
You are the best!!
im so happy to hear your passion for environmental education
Like your style, gr edtje 🙏
Very we done. Love the comparison edits.
Great video, keep them coming please :)
I love the Hussy! So cute! Thx Huss!
Very Nice Video , thank you .
Tripping down there looks almost as exciting as traveling with you anywhere!
Very nice video. Wish I were there. Keep going!
..... Like your smile..... Love your style......!!
I was on a private rafting trip when that whole experiment happened. We were a couple miles below lava falls when it started getting us. We just barely got our camp up to higher ground when it got to us. Such a Cooke experience already rafting the canyon but then to have that on top was epic.
Nice reporting!
I loved this video! It was so interesting and so much fun! I wonder what it looks like closer to Page💛
Your not weird, I'm a lady and I love that stuff also! You are very inspiring! In fact I've planned a girl's exploration of ghost towns where I live! Love your videos!
Was wondering how the high flow experiment would look downstream, thank you for investigating!
Hussy, that rapid was under water in 2005. I did my first motorized rafting trip with GCEX around Labor Day of that year. Our last night was at the mouth of Spencer? canyon upstream from Pearce Ferry maybe 10-20 miles. A jet boat met us and a group from Canyoneers. It was a quicker way to get us off the boats and on our way home. The guides would take the outer pontoons off to make the raft travel quicker for them but what would take us maybe an hour would take them about 6-7 hours. The jet boat took us all the way to South Cove where a bus was waiting. The jet boat guys stopped before we hit the end of the silt tongue into Lake Mead. He said he will holler out and that would should brace for a moment until we are out into the pretty blue waters of the lake. Luckily we didn't lurch into any sand bar. In 2010 I found a bargain trip and decided to go again and that's when we stopped at Pearce Ferry. This time the raft would go all the way to Pearce. That whole section from about the time you leave the GC boundary into Lake Mead boundary is very silted and the boatmen are constantly dodging underwater sandbars. I did the trip again in 2015. It's always fun stopping on the sandbar for a pee break in view of the Skywalk. :)
I spent a lot of time in the eighties and nineties exploring the upper part of Lake Mead and the lower granite gorge of the Grand Canyon with my power boat this area were there is Pierce ferry Rapids was not there this was all upper part of Lake Mead About 70' below the surface of the Lake These Rapids didn't come about until the early 2 thousands when Lake level started dropping drastically Lord granite gorge of the Grand Canyon is a beautiful place it includes Columbine falls And many side canyons I have water skied right over this area on Lake Mead back in the day Enjoyed your video Thanks sad to see the Lake so low
Your content is pretty interesting.Youre a good journalist.
It is said that life does not consist of how many breath you take how many times life takes your breath away much-loved wonderhussy
What a great video----your the coolest chick of all time. Glad you showed lake meade at the end. I was curios as to how much the lake raised. But, being so big , probably takes along time. With all the people again moving to Vegas, sadly, I doubt the lake will ever fill back up.
Your not weird your awesome, love it.
Very cool, I was waiting for you to launch yourself on an inner tube and shoot the rapids.......:) Amazing amount of water. Crazy to think it didn't raise Lake Mead more than a few inches. I read some where that if all water was shut off from Hoover Dam it would take 10 years to refill Lake Mead to full pool.
Great video :)
So my guess is that those old guys you came across have very youthful souls OR that you have an old soul with a very inquisitive mindset! Nothing compares to the feeling of the powerful raging waters of a river at your feet!
This was awesome Wonderhussy. You can see just on that midstream rock that its been underwater by the horizontal erosion lines, on the shore too.
Thank You ☺️
Thanks for this
I’m saddened that all that water hasn’t improved lake Meed
I was there in 92 and 95
Bet I wouldn’t even recognize it anymore
That was awesome! And I'm glad you didn't fall in that chocolate milk to your death...well done Sarah!
Excellent!