HUGE DAM Removal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.พ. 2022
- When a dam no longer serves its intended purpose, removing it provides an opportunity for us to return a river to its original state, where natural systems are allowed to work without barriers.
- วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
"In 2011, the massive 125-foot tall Condit Dam was removed from the waters of the White Salmon River. After more than one hundred years, the river came back to life as fish regained access to 18 miles of upstream habitat and spawning grounds, ecosystems flourished, and people flocked to boat and fish on the newly free- flowing river"
Exactly right and a great move. More needs to happen though.
Thank you!
JUST HOW MOTHER NATURE INTENDED
All dams should have been built with fish ladder until Jehovah's Day brings Paradise. Then Jehovah will let us know what he wants through the Kingdom Government like originally planned before the Garden of Eden
Thank you for that information
The dark water coming it is rich with all the upstream silts & sediments that had collected and settled at the base of the dam. For the first little while after the flood passes through, the water will be extra cloudy (turbulent), but over the next few years, the plant life along the banks will flourish, and with it, insects, birds, mammals, reptiles, and yes, fish, will also come to flourish.
Turbid, not turbulent.
Thanks Dad!
Finally a TH-cam short worth a dam
lol! I see what you did there.....
r/angryupvote
Ba dum bum tsshh. 🙄😑
The fish has a new home bigger is better.😊😊❤. The ride was awesome down the slippery slopes.
@@matthewtolbert4843 😁
That was the wildest ride those fish have ever had.
Orcas I'm told have a diet consisting mainly of salmon.
Also, no.
But idk.
Mind blown to me is more impressive that it wasn't taken.
The picture is also perfect.
Imagine you were a little tadpole chilling in the creek at the bottom of that dam...
Frogs start showing up 100 miles downstream
Как в песне Высоцкого : : Кто сказал , что земля умерла ? Нет! Она затаилась на время ".Какая мощь , какая сила !
That spillway was a really beautiful and unique looking place with the openings in the cliff and different color foliage on the walls and hill and the water running down the sides, almost has a fantasy look to it, what an incredible and beautiful place!...
The openings might have been " diversion tunnels " used to redirect the flow of water while pouring concrete for the dam .
I'm not an engineer, conservationist or geologist, but to my completely untrained and ignorant eye, releasing so much water and sediment so fast seems like a bad idea for the immediate ecosystem.
Exactly, they destroy the whole river , lots of land flooded with that toxic sediment and not talking about the sea , all that mud probably destroy miles of coast lines
I AM an engineer, and I agree with you.
I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night, and you are correct .
Yes, Because people in these last days are doing the dumbest things . The saddest part of it .
@@justtl5885 you informed me over the continental breakfast, & were very believable.
The sheer power being unleashed blows the mind 🤯
That's why it was damned. To harness the power.
Ya no thanks
@@evilchaperone
Dammed right...
That kind of power is almost comparable to post Taco Bell bowel movement
That is merely what the average person releases the morning after a midnight run to Taco Bell.
I just checked out the location on Google Maps. When they said “Dam removal”, they certainly did. All of the dam is completely removed, and there is only a short strip of concrete on one side of the overflow sluice left. Plus the large mostly tree free areas either side of the river up stream which all seem to have been replanted, and various walking/biking tracks installed. Barely know there used to be a lake there.
Location is ???
Please please
@@robertholderman7552 там👉
@@robertholderman7552 Washington state
That is good to know!! & to think fish can swim upstream again to spawn is great!
@@robertholderman7552 ok I'll
Makes you wonder how many fish were killed in flush. They could have drained the water behind the dam slower without scouring the river course below.
Dude is very relieved because after all this time he hasn't pooped for a decade
A rare short worth watching
The state fish & wild life departments have admitted they have zero evidence from 10 years of studies that the removal helped the White Salmon. It was a loss of 15MWs of clean power now replaced by gas burning plant. The sediment plume killed some aquatic life below the dam breach and displace fish as far downstream as the Bonneville dam. Fish & wild life department spent $150,000 to plant 7,000 trees in the dry lake bed only 34 trees lived passed 2 years old. I could go on and on but you prob get the point.
it was the largest dam removal effort that had ever been attempted in the United States. The company that owned the dam, PacifiCorp, estimated that it would cost three times more to update Condit Dam to the required standards than it would cost to decommission it and take it out. In 2011, 99 years after workers came to the White Salmon to build Condit Dam, crews arrived to take it down. The overall counts of returning salmon have fluctuated over the past several years. Salmon and steelhead typically live for between three to six years, in the decade since the removal of Condit Dam, there have only been a few generation cycles for biologists to study. It may just take a few more generations.
@@ThinkStatistics The main issue I had with the removal project was the dam was in fine condition just needed fish passage to pass certification. In order to install the fish passage millions had to be spent on surveys. Then the physical requirements for the fish passage were extreme overkill. In the decade since the dam was demolished we now know that run off from roads specifically chemicals in rubber tires do more harm than dams. This is why tires have increased substantially in price. New types of compounds had to be developed without these fish harming chemicals. Now that that's changed it'll skew the results for all fish surveys.
So as per usual the government paid out the ass for an environmental impact study and assessment, company(s) didn’t know, do, or reveal true impact of what would, could and did happen and wasted time, resources and a shit load of money to eff up a whole bunch of plants, fish and other animals and organisms. But Jerry’s environmental impact studies, vacuum repair and cat obedience school got paid. T.F.G.
The sudden release of water in that fashion was nothing short of delinquent. There was a significant release of sludge which I long suspected would cause considerable damage downstream.
That left an even greater quantity of sludge behind the dam which stank to high heaven for some time until it cleared through natural erosion.
It would have been better to have released the water slowly with a continuous but lower level of sludge bearing until completely empty.
Yeah, we get your point. You didn't want to see the dam demolished. At least now the ecosystem there will have the chance to restore itself.
I like the way the mud banks collapse when the pressure of the water is gone in the resovoir.
That was the best damn video ive seen in months
Ha!
One of Post 10's best uncloggings.
Was looking for this. Hey fam.
I wonder where he went lol
Did he go downstream to
Haha 😄 👏
I LOVE that guy!!! I've binged on watching him unclog culverts. It's mesmerizing. Dude really loves what he does and I love watching him.
Would hate to be the guy just peacefully fishing trout about a mile downstream.
Too bad it wasnt Biden and his cast of clowns fishing 1 mile down stream....
Mile. 10. Lol don’t matter. He dead
He better had knew what those horns meant
The image of a fisherman riding his boat like a surfboard, surfs up dudes.....
Not to worry, professional blasting Superintendent overseeing the whole operation. I THE Fisherman was issued a body board.
First thing that crossed my mind is every animal in the path of that.
El hombre aún no ha comprendido qué no puede ser el dueño de la naturaleza!!! 🌞 Montevideo 🇺🇾 Uruguay 🌞
Хороший способ удаления донных отложений, самое главное правильно сконструировать плотину.
Yeah! It's a structure 1930 years of pass century, now they changed to solat energy and finished it!
Ужас!!
When they release the water at Fontana dam in North Carolina it’s an awesome sight to see .. The blast is over 300 feet long and the noise is Like a freight train
I've been there when it was happening. My dad worked there under construction and has driven a model A up into that tunnel.....(during construction)
Any dam had a finite life span because huge amounts of sediment build up behind it, gradually reducing the flow through the turbines. The Condit Dam was 100 years old, so probably coming to or past the limit of its useful power generating life.
火も怖いけど、水の勢いが強いのも怖さを感じますね💧
Me too.
한국속담에
불은 재가 남지만
물은 아무것도 남지 않는답니다
Не бойся , это далеко.
Imagine being a fish. Just chilling. Then yeet
No, Shut up.
Waterpark
One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
when you finally bust after edging for 2 years
La potenza è la meraviglia dell' acqua 💧 dono di Dio.
That's me after Tacobell combo with fire sauce
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I Chihuahua
Wow!!!
Finally a truly amazing REAL educational video.
Thanks!!
Dammavamat
What exactly did you see EDUCATIONAL in this video?
Вот это мощь,... Нереальная красота.... Мы были как то на малой гэс когда начали сброс воды.Такую силу воды я больше никогда не видел.
Gotta admit, that must be really satisfying to hit that button and see a huge are just terraform before your eyes
1930 년대 대공항시기 건설된 댐인데 자연보호를 위해 댐을 철거하는 작업과정의 하나인 물을 빼는 작업을 하는겁니다 후반 고랑이 파진건 댐안쪽이 그동안 누적되어온 퇴적물이고 몇일후 비가 오니 자연적으로 제거가 댔습니다
댐을 관리했던 회사는 댐을 철거하고 태양광 전기생실시설로 변경했습니다
후지 댐이면 ... 저기가 어느나라 인가요?
멋지네요. 이 빌어먹을 위치가 어디였더라?
Благодарю. Разъяснил. Если перевод правильный😀
Muchas gracias por informar en español 👍🏻🇭🇳
@@pansoriman3974 China 🇨🇳
In my day we did it with Lancaster bombers.
Oh go skip a bomb!
People who thought that was smoke at first ⬇️
That time lapse is awesome footage, kinda relaxing actually lol😅
“It was as if a million earthworms had screamed out in terror”
--- Obi wan kenobi
underrated comment
@@offthewall9988 no, your comment is underrated.
@@dudedog884 no, it's yours..
Obi Worm Kenobi
Can’t imagine the ecological disaster that this caused
That’s what I was thinking. Surely the dam could have been drained in a controlled manner then demolished.
The dam would have had a lot of silt behind it. Releasing it this quickly allowed the silt to be flushed downstream. This is actually the better way to do it from an ecological standpoint. The silt will be dispersed much farther downstream.
Seems like everyone here is a certified engineer of some sort
@@oda2838 I've worked at a power plant with two hydro units for over thirty years, so I know a little about hydro.
The thermal coal industry applauds these initiatives to remove hydroelectric power from the grid.
I can't help but picturing jumping into it !!
I'm getting ready for colonoscopy, this is how I feel.
Hehehehe sory sweety.
Or overeating at Taco-bell 😂😂😂😂
😀😃😁💩
Good luck
How did it go? I mean the prep 😅
Some context: this is the old Condit Dam site on the Little White Salmon River located in Washington state. It is between Bonneville and The Dalles Dams on the Columbia River. It was removed because the relicensing was too expensive because it would have required installation of fish passage for salmon and steelhead. The dams waters produced some electricity but was mainly used for lumber. It was built in the 1930's I believe cutting off salmon migration to the upper reaches of the water shed. Much has been made regarding dam removal as a must for salmon recovery. However, it remains to be seen. This river was a test run, along with the Elwah river dams as a litmus for whether or not the environmentalists would ever be able to remove the dams from the lower Snake River and eventually the Columbia River. I, personally do not agree with all dam removals, especially not on the Snake or Columbia Rivers. However, this removal has been acceptable. The Elwah is still a work in progress and the massive return of salmon they predicted has not materialized. Yet, even here, I have accepted the removal as justifiable. However, I do not support the removal of the major dams on the Snake or Columbia Rivers and I hope they never remove them. They are vital for the local economies they serve as well as producing the vast majority of clean and reliable electricity to the Northwest US and other parts of Canada and California. Small scale systems that no longer serve a purpose are fair game.
Thanks for the info, I would have loved to see that in real life.
Thank you for being so helpful! I appreciate your time and effort you spent writing this information.
@jim carson there were websites dedicated to the removal of these dams. The images were very impressive. Bittersweet in a way, but hopefully, renewal is the result. So far, progress is slower than hoped, but in time, anything is possible.
Dams with fish ladders are a lot less objectionable than those without.
They are going to remove some dams here in California that no longer serve their purpose and help with fish migration. I’m okay with their removal too. It’s also saving money on maintenance on old infrastructure that is no longer relevant.
And this is how The White Salmon River became The Dead Salmon River
You could turn that blast noise into a tune 😂
I would rather see dams rehabilitated and generating carbon free electricity.
Carbon free doesn't exist.
That's because you don't know what is happening here.
@@markblix6880
The cry of the fool that thinks that opinions can't differ if looking at the same data.
Rehabilitated includes adding a fish ladder.
@@calvingreene90 what is a fishing ladder please?, Sorry if I sound dumb
This is what Washington DC should look like, the draining of the swamp!
Yeah GOP should be drained. Corrupt racists only caring about themselves.
😊
They are all part of the swamp. Even the ones that claim to want to drain it...
Every. Last. One.
The swamp has been drained and the orange monster is on his way to a bigly prison
@@GaiusCaesarAugustusGermanicus. trump may be out but the swamp is far from drained. So many republicans and Democrats to get rid of
L'humanité dans toutes sa splendeur 🎉
THIS DAMM GIVING ME LAST OF US VIBES
Probably floods downstream every spring again.
The greens don’t want infrastructure. They rely on it more than anyone but their religion is against it.😂😂😂
Yeppers and they don't know Why it floods now .. hmmm 🤔😂
It wasn't built for flood control. It was built for power. It's no longer necessary. It's actually bad for the environment in the area. Please do your research and know what you're talking about before you comment!
@leroy420b I'm sure it never stopped a flood....bcs they built it to generate power 🤦♂️ I bet no one ever took a boat on the lake behind it either bcs...you know power generation.
When you release all that water at once you also have a major stink that comes with it !
No choice because of all the decay that had gathered behind that dam for all these years.
They cd hv released at slower speed!
@@davidtwliew616 I imagine the water above the dam wasn't as deep as we might think, because of years of sediment buildup.
@@lorrainedsouza443 I wonder if they told anyone downstream they would be doing this?
Do you know that this stinky sediment is the best fertilizer?
Spectacular
Pretty dam huge for sure.
The smell after the water has dropped must be lovely
Now they're going to lose a danm. Lose a lake. Lose cheap hydro electricity. Lose land down river. What a waste.
They did that a few years back to a local dam. In the end, they admitted that it solved none of the fish problems even though that was the goal, it destroyed a lake that brought tourism and sustained other habitat for various critters, and lost the only method for preventing flooding on the reservation that the river runs thru and meets the straits where most of the native rez housing is located. Another environmental knee-jerk reaction gone wrong.
Sounds like the old mill pond above Metaline falls, Wa.
Big dams are actually harmful
Sounds like moncton nb and riverview causeway removal
The dam shouldn’t have been there in the first place
name the "local dam", whats the location?
Wow that's a lotta water 😮
When you shouldn'ta eaten that Taco Bell at 2 o'clock in the morning
Awesome, Thanks!
Squirrel: do you hear something
Amazing video brother
Literally anyone down stream: WTF
Depending on where these dams are being removed some may have a lot of gold flake stored in the sediment behind the dam.
I think there are a total of 2 creeks in Washington state that do not have gold flake. I suspect there was a lot in that black mud.
When your power bill doubles, you'll know why...
You know an Old Timer pocket knife has worked for me for the last 40 years.
Is it a pocketknife with a bone handle? 😅
AMAZING!! 🤩🤩🤩
Looks massive. Wish we had some scale
Look straight up from where the water comes out, on the flat concrete there are two workmen standing there next to a white gate. LOTS of water!
At that point it was nearly a silt dam anyways by the looks of it.
There’s only one word I can say: DAM
My teenage self after eating $15 worth of Taco Bell in 2003…
You would have to spend $50 now!
I was gonna say something similar Terri ! And the food is worse. I could have just bought a bag of Doritos
Shoot.... me daily living with Crohn's Disease!!!
protect this man at all costs.
Larry the catfish was never seen or heard from again
Random fish having lunch on the bottom be like- Why do I feel a a force coming?
Когда просрался после китайской лапши "Мастер Кан"😂
The water is like "I'm free" !!
So no coal, no natural gas, no oil, no nuclear and now no hydro. Doesn’t sound like a recipe for energy independence to me.
This dam was older than dirt. Was just it's time. No big deal.
Величественно пугающее и одновременно завораживающее видео силы природы 😮
The colourful plants in this area are absolutely breathtaking look at all the beautiful water plants and rainbow trees it’s insane ❤
The Power is insane~!
The waste of basically free Power; energy for people, when a fish ladder could have been built. They want us weak. Agenda 21/2030.
I was there! I even lived on the other side of the river and we'd been worried the highway would flood, it didn't.
It seems like a bunch of hooey for a very small drainage, that river drains essentially the southwestern face of Mt Adams and by vehicle, it is less than 40 miles to the summit trail parking lot.
The fish did return, quickly, but it is not like the watershed is all that bountiful, imo. The fish still have to get past the Bonneville Dam fish ladder, before even reaching this river.
The actual, stated reason the dam was removed, was because power generation alone did not offset the massive cost for not having a fish ladder, the dam was blown to end the fish ladder penalty fine.
Wow!
I wish I could pin your comment below the first "pinned"
Thanks for supplying the rest of that story. As is often the case we rarely get the whole story only whatever feeds the presenter's agenda.
The fish in that pond got some fright😂😅
Every time I see a dam video, I think of cousin Eddy from Vegas vacation.
“Where can I find the dam restroom?”
Interesting seeing all the sedimentation from the upstream camera angle that was like "where did all the water pressure/buoyancy go?" as it sloughed-down into the river, leaving bare rock behind.
I agree. Absolutely fascinating!
Wild totally wild
But why did they do this? It seems incredibly destructive to the environment to me.
@@stkyfngrszmooth yes I'm curious as to why, myself
@@stkyfngrszmooth@Kerry Pike
So that the White Salmon would return to its original river channel and that trees and other plants would regrow along its banks and natural resource managers hoped to see the number of fish, especially endangered salmon, increase and regain miles of upriver habitat. Now, a decade since the dust of the dam’s demolition settled, some of those answers are starting to be seen.
👍Excelente Vídeo 👍
Mother nature is a very powerful thing
Yea, them planting C4, then detonating it, helped her out...
it didn't do that on its' own, op.
My absolute favorite river to raft. Such a fun river. If you ever get the chance its a blast.
Me after eating Chipotle….
"Intense groaning"
Taco Hell
AHHHHHHH
And the small village down stream just got flooded
I was thinking the same thing
Did it for sure? What's the name of this small village? Well, it wasn't there before the dam was built...
No small village one Indian encampment for tribal fishing a highway and railroad bridge
These Drano commercials are getting wild
Cool.......success for "@Think..."....Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia Present
And people complained they could not charge their EVs...
Que portento de la fuerza del agua , una magnífica implosion. Muy bien controlada. Gracias!!
Damn, Jet succeeded in wiping out the town..
That's just insane demolition 😎👍
Loved it
So how am I supposed to charge my Prius?
Can you imagine all the gold that was trapped and now released. 😁😁😁🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🚚
No. Why would there be gold trapped in there and now released? Do you understand science? (don't answer that)
@@User0000000000000004
Do... Do you?
@@User0000000000000004 stupid. Gold flakes tend to move after small floods in the streams to bigger waters and get caught in silt and dirt like here
What a perfect video.
Enjoyed watching that.
Why and what for was the purpose of this
Salmon were kept from making their return run to spawn at the end of their life. Now they can complete their spawning.
Imagine riding that wave on a kayak, how awesome would that be!
The most insane idea 😁
That would feel dead, actually. And very messy!
LOL. That's a funny comment. Try surfing too.
Very cool video.
Me in the middle of the night after taco bells and some drinks.