"No-one alive could recall what the river looked like before the dam, but the river remembered" oh boy... "yo we need a deep line at the end to finish this story" "Agottcha"
Oh yes...and Marmots are also irrelavent as well...that name however..."marmot"...that sort of sounds like some kind of pest or critter that me as a farmer would really WANT to get rid of, eradicate and kill off completely...
Growing up near a river (not nearly as powerful as the Sandy) I noticed as a kid how sediment and rock and rip rap would change in less than a day. Never under estimate the power of flowing water.
Lame man. I thought this was about how marmots can make dams and humans came in to clear it. I was like, "Whoa, marmots are like beavers?" Nice marmot.
I like to see dam breaking videos and watch nature return to normal. Just like man used to think that forest fires were bad, they thought that river flooding was bad as well. Well, just like forests need to burn, rivers need to flood as well.
Just think how happy those fish are finding their new but ancestral home. We need to support and step up the pace of dam removal for the health of our environment.
The sandy river never had a lake. 🤔. I used to fish this dam for steelhead. It was slower moving water but never a lake. The dam was basically a waterfall and fish even sat jumping trying to get past it. It didn’t have a ladder either it had a lift trap that fish got caught in and they would lift it up and over the dam.
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@@upfrontgaming8889 Who cares ? Are these the only fish in the river ? Stop the predators from eating the fish of you are so concerned about the numbers. Ever heard of "restocking."
@@CynicalDad81 the problem is that while this river is returned to a natural state, most places are just getting worse because we just keep building and polluting everything, a river that hasn't had toxic chemicals and other things of a similar nature poured into it will be fine but a lot of places have been used as dumping grounds for waste and other crap. people are messing shit up
@@Murtagh653 the only issue with your argument is that we really can't do much more about it, the western hemisphere is the cause of less than 20% of the overall pollution on the planet like 80% is China and India and the remainder are the remaining countries around the world, its all well and good to care about the environment but you're preaching to the wrong people if you want sources it'll take me some time to find them again
Ohhhhh so it's ok for the government to release 1,000,000 cu yds of sediment and rock but I would get a $70,000 fine if I remove 1 yd of material to rebuild my creek crossing.
Any self-respecting fluvial geomorphologist would have easily predicted the entire sediment load would be washed away promptly. These doofuses are just putting on a show
If this is what a small-ish river did I can only imagine what an outburst mega flood must of looked like and how fast it must of carved away the land. I'm think something like the glacial lake outburst floods.
It's good to see humanity doing the right thing. For the longest time our countries highest goal was to "master nature" those are the words they used. To make nature work for us. It was what is call, "Hubris, excessive pride or self-confidence" Nature will have her way whether it is to our collective destruction or is allowed to be the tender mother that provides all we NEED. I used the word need in caps to draw our over use of Want.
If a private person allowed the old sediment to remain on their own property like this the EPA would be all over them. All that dirt and sediment probably killed every fish down stream afterwards
Shawn The sediment likely had a small effect on fish populations as the high sedimentation loads were only present for a short time of a day or two and fish like salmon can naturally deal with high turbidity in short periods of time. Ever seen streams or rivers like this during a flood? They are usually very turbid( high level of suspended solids in the water).
Did you watch the video? They said the salmon were going upstream three days later. They captured some before the removal to protect them also. I'm sure there were plenty of casualties, but in the longer term, a much healthier population is now ensured.
Nice to see the river flow free for boaters and fishing. I fully expected the whole dam to go is less time than it did. I expected it to liquefy and go all at once after the initial overflow. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
The calculations probably assumed the sediment was naturally compacted, but behind manmade dams its not really compacted at all allowing for easier flow.
Whos the loon in the yellow mac ? the local 'special' ? "Hey, Dwayne, go pull yer brother Cletus back. He be getting all muddy". "Ok, Ma, Cletus you 'tard get over here next to the Chevy afore I come whip yer arse, and for godsake put it away and pull yer britches up".
It makes you wonder if maybe this "clean" energy was a bad idea in the first place. There is fossil fuels enough to supply our electricity for hundreds of years or more, with the added benefit of releasing the trapped carbon that can now be used by plants and algae to green the planet. Maybe it's time to free all the rivers!
These guys study the flow of water. . Are surprised that a flood of water wipes out a dam in a number of hours. They should go check out mount Saint Helens, that canyon happened in a couple of days.
I fished that section of the Sandy for decades, caught more sucker fish than salmon or trout. with the dam gone those sucker fish can swim all the way to the new spawning grounds, nothing improved for the salmon.
What a collection of platitudes and nonsense. An actually renewable that is cost effective must go because they would not build a fish ladder....years ago.
The fella that is doing all, All the high volume excitedly talking, is happier than a pack of 10 year olds turned loose in any mall and told, “TAKE ANYTHING YOU WANT. AS MUCH AS YOU WANT FOR 6 HOURS.”
When the Expert says "What disappeared in a night, i expected in a whole winter in flood"....I would be fucking petrified of what winter will do. At best its ill-thought through at worst whole sections of land/ road / Infrastructure could be under cut.
I had no idea marmots were dam builders, but we have a few grizzly in Canada we could send down. They LOVE those furry little chunks of meat. Crunchy on the inside, fluffy on the outside.
Silly Environmentalists. There was a real earthen dam on Quail Lake Utah that went out like this. They might have looked for other occurances instead of modeling? Oh well?
How can a professional geologist be so far off? It took 24 hours to move all that crap, and they thought it would take months? I will give them some slack because it's never been done before, but that is a hell of an error. That would be like a weatherman saying it's going to be sunny and 90° and it turns out to be 2 feet of snow and -20° below zero.
Good determiner of the conditions if a land slide occurred somewhere along the river. There was a very large landslide in the American river along Highway 50 in the Sierra Nevada mountains years ago. Seems that nature will just compensate as well as the creatures. Humans get all bent out of shape when nature happens and are determined to study it for whatever reason. There was a 80 yo dam removal in Italy or Spain on TH-cam that they just let the river wash the sediment away.
The model shows the coffer dam washing out from below, so where do they put the forklift? Hey the dam might wash out under me, but don't be silly I'm still gonna send ittttt.
You just hit the bulls eye. Truer words have never been spoken. Humanity believes that we are the Rulers Of Earth, the Controllers Of Destiny, the Masters Of Time & Space. In truth, we are just one more organism on this planet that has no more significance than a T-Rex, a Wombat, a tiger, a slug, an amoeba. And like the dinosaurs of ancient earth, we too will be gone forever from this beautiful planet. Just one more failed mutation, joining a long list of past life. Who will dig up our fossils? What species will unearth the remnants of a shopping mall and speculate on the culture that once lived there, as we now do with the Mayans, Incas, Aztecs? It warms the heart to know the earth can shake us off like a dog that shed fleas.
As usual the people who don’t do this for a living guessed wrong ask one of the guys run and the bulldozer he’ll tell you it probably down within moments how long it’ll take to clear out the silt
Put one from Washington State down to the bottom of California too. Keep those libtards there instead of ruining places like Texas, Montana, Idaho, etc.
Get you a partner that loves you like that hydrologist loves his job.
"No-one alive could recall what the river looked like before the dam, but the river remembered"
oh boy...
"yo we need a deep line at the end to finish this story"
"Agottcha"
That would have been a perfect ending...
I don't get it, what does agottcha mean
Rofl exactly.
That one guy is too excited to see a dam burst xD
DID HE SHOOT HIS LOAD
I didn't even know marmots built dams. Looks a lot more solid than a beaver dam.
good one.
Robert Coates
Oh yes...and Marmots are also irrelavent as well...that name however..."marmot"...that sort of sounds like some kind of pest or critter that me as a farmer would really WANT to get rid of, eradicate and kill off completely...
they are amazing creatures. i love them
Never met a dam beaver i didn,t like. Lol. Mark.
The notch becomes a full fledged waterfall…
and the forklift operator is off to one side changing his trousers and hosing off his ass and thighs.
Yeah he was beyond useless some time prior, just a liability.
One of the coolest damn removals I have seen so far. Very interesting approach, well done!
The genuine excitement someone can have is lovely to see :D
Growing up near a river (not nearly as powerful as the Sandy) I noticed as a kid how sediment and rock and rip rap would change in less than a day. Never under estimate the power of flowing water.
Lame man. I thought this was about how marmots can make dams and humans came in to clear it. I was like, "Whoa, marmots are like beavers?" Nice marmot.
I like to see dam breaking videos and watch nature return to normal. Just like man used to think that forest fires were bad, they thought that river flooding was bad as well. Well, just like forests need to burn, rivers need to flood as well.
Just think how happy those fish are finding their new but ancestral home. We need to support and step up the pace of dam removal for the health of our environment.
I caught a nice wild above the dam a few years back. They are liking it
You tube really screwed up the comments by taking them out of order, responses make no sense.
I like how existed he got. Obviously they have small models but seeing it in real world is always better. Assume it's a first for him.
Look at all the experts in the comments.
That lake was completely silted in anyway. Manmade lakes are only good for about 80 years.
The sandy river never had a lake. 🤔. I used to fish this dam for steelhead. It was slower moving water but never a lake. The dam was basically a waterfall and fish even sat jumping trying to get past it. It didn’t have a ladder either it had a lift trap that fish got caught in and they would lift it up and over the dam.
The coloured smoke isn't "special effects", it's nitric oxide
generated by the incomplete combustion of the ANFO used for the shot.
С Лёвой стороны 2 экскаваторами за 3 часа прорыть канал !!!
Река дальше промоет сама !!!
3 суток и 1000 & все стоило бы )))
Умеют осваивать деньги в Дженирал электрик )))
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💪🏿
That was loose soil. Of course it would wash it out. It’s like taking a garden hose to an ant pile
Sometimes it really is amazing how quickly the Earth will fix itself once humans stop fucking around with it.
Just shows that we aren’t really messing anything up too bad by our activities. Tree-Huggers all upset about nothin.
How m@ny fish did the sediment kill though and change their habitat that they adapted to
@@upfrontgaming8889 Who cares ? Are these the only fish in the river ? Stop the predators from eating the fish of you are so concerned about the numbers. Ever heard of "restocking."
@@CynicalDad81 the problem is that while this river is returned to a natural state, most places are just getting worse because we just keep building and polluting everything, a river that hasn't had toxic chemicals and other things of a similar nature poured into it will be fine but a lot of places have been used as dumping grounds for waste and other crap. people are messing shit up
@@Murtagh653 the only issue with your argument is that we really can't do much more about it, the western hemisphere is the cause of less than 20% of the overall pollution on the planet like 80% is China and India and the remainder are the remaining countries around the world, its all well and good to care about the environment but you're preaching to the wrong people
if you want sources it'll take me some time to find them again
"release the river !!!"
Always loved the Ents saying that.
Nobody heard about the Clean Water Act on this job? Avoidable discharges of earthen fill material? Hello?
they need to let the loacol miners and gold sifters in there first.
Ohhhhh so it's ok for the government to release 1,000,000 cu yds of sediment and rock but I would get a $70,000 fine if I remove 1 yd of material to rebuild my creek crossing.
That's government for ya
I doubt i was the only one who clicked to see little rodents building a damn. Oh well.
Guilty...I was thinking...marmots build dams?
That was very cool. Shows the power of water as well. Fascinating how quickly it cleared that sediment.
No Marmots were harmed during the filming of this presentation.
Any self-respecting fluvial geomorphologist would have easily predicted the entire sediment load would be washed away promptly. These doofuses are just putting on a show
This has been done before in Southern California; letting the new flow wash away sediment downstream (after damn removal).
I saw the title...and thought...."MARMOTS MAKE DAMS?"
Thay explosion didn't loosen anything up. Great publicity stunt though.
When we were young, we did the best we could with what we knew. When we knew better , we did better. .... (paraphrasing Maya Angelou )
Anyone thought of running that sediment through a trommel? There’s has to be a build up of gold over the century the dam was there
Good thinking, but there are no mineral deposits in the area.
"He.. hey man, this is a private residence.... nice marmot."
Nice marmot! ,Uhhh ahhh far out mannn, fcking faaar out!
If this is what a small-ish river did I can only imagine what an outburst mega flood must of looked like and how fast it must of carved away the land. I'm think something like the glacial lake outburst floods.
A solid blend of engineering and geology porn
It's good to see humanity doing the right thing. For the longest time our countries highest goal was to "master nature" those are the words they used. To make nature work for us. It was what is call, "Hubris, excessive pride or self-confidence" Nature will have her way whether it is to our collective destruction or is allowed to be the tender mother that provides all we NEED. I used the word need in caps to draw our over use of Want.
Great project! Good to give it back to nature.
Gonna assume that dude with the chubby over the dam collapse is single...
If a private person allowed the old sediment to remain on their own property like this the EPA would be all over them.
All that dirt and sediment probably killed every fish down stream afterwards
Shawn The sediment likely had a small effect on fish populations as the high sedimentation loads were only present for a short time of a day or two and fish like salmon can naturally deal with high turbidity in short periods of time. Ever seen streams or rivers like this during a flood? They are usually very turbid( high level of suspended solids in the water).
Did you watch the video? They said the salmon were going upstream three days later. They captured some before the removal to protect them also. I'm sure there were plenty of casualties, but in the longer term, a much healthier population is now ensured.
The engineer is getting his cookies off - what a jerk!
Is the Narrator Danny Harmon? Sounds like him from some of the Train Watching videos I've seen...........
Water is powerful and dangerous. Cool to watch!
Ruined fishing spots all over the river :(
ahahahahhahaha
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.
Great show thanks for posting!
Nice to see the river flow free for boaters and fishing. I fully expected the whole dam to go is less time than it did. I expected it to liquefy and go all at once after the initial overflow. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
THAT GUY IS SO EXCITED, LOVE TO SEE HIM AT A STRIP CLUB
Now capture the water before it spills into the Pacific, and redirect to natural aquifers inland. Fresh water is gold.
Imagine the amount of gold accumulate in those gravel and black sand!
Colorful special effects for the TV news cameras Its called dirt and dust. WTF was he talking about???
The calculations probably assumed the sediment was naturally compacted, but behind manmade dams its not really compacted at all allowing for easier flow.
damnit why did they have to 'help' the damn breach? ruined the show.
They made it much easier for the excavator blocking the diversion channel, otherwise he would be working against rising water levels.
Whos the loon in the yellow mac ? the local 'special' ? "Hey, Dwayne, go pull yer brother Cletus back. He be getting all muddy". "Ok, Ma, Cletus you 'tard get over here next to the Chevy afore I come whip yer arse, and for godsake put it away and pull yer britches up".
That was pretty neat to watch thanks
Nice :) River back to natural quite quick. Lets hope it remains wild and pure a very long time!!
When Mother Nature wants something, she'll get it, even if it takes her awhile.
It makes you wonder if maybe this "clean" energy was a bad idea in the first place. There is fossil fuels enough to supply our electricity for hundreds of years or more, with the added benefit of releasing the trapped carbon that can now be used by plants and algae to green the planet. Maybe it's time to free all the rivers!
These guys study the flow of water. . Are surprised that a flood of water wipes out a dam in a number of hours. They should go check out mount Saint Helens, that canyon happened in a couple of days.
cool dam removal...the "expert" is a bit cringe...nothing about this would have been a surprise if they had studied the Condit dam removal
I fished that section of the Sandy for decades, caught more sucker fish than salmon or trout. with the dam gone those sucker fish can swim all the way to the new spawning grounds, nothing improved for the salmon.
go to 6:57 and turn the playback speed to .25
What a collection of platitudes and nonsense. An actually renewable that is cost effective must go because they would not build a fish ladder....years ago.
The fella that is doing all, All the high volume excitedly talking, is happier than a pack of 10 year olds turned loose in any mall and told,
“TAKE ANYTHING YOU WANT. AS MUCH AS YOU WANT FOR 6 HOURS.”
this just goes to show how limited so called experts are...you are an expert only 1% of the time when you get it right the other 99% belongs to nature
When the Expert says "What disappeared in a night, i expected in a whole winter in flood"....I would be fucking petrified of what winter will do. At best its ill-thought through at worst whole sections of land/ road / Infrastructure could be under cut.
I had no idea marmots were dam builders, but we have a few grizzly in Canada we could send down. They LOVE those furry little chunks of meat. Crunchy on the inside, fluffy on the outside.
6:01” the last heavy machine happens to be a forklift” so the 2 excavator’s must have been light weight toys
You lie, it was not profitable to put it back where it came from
Sad to see its removal. Destroyed an upstream eco system and thousands of fish were killed not to mention the down stream destruction for the silt.
Silly Environmentalists. There was a real earthen dam on Quail Lake Utah that went out like this. They might have looked for other occurances instead of modeling? Oh well?
all these hippies so happy for the fish, they even saved some from "drowning". Not a reason to destroy a dam. what a waste.
How can a professional geologist be so far off? It took 24 hours to move all that crap, and they thought it would take months? I will give them some slack because it's never been done before, but that is a hell of an error. That would be like a weatherman saying it's going to be sunny and 90° and it turns out to be 2 feet of snow and -20° below zero.
Oh, so you mean like a professional meteorologist 70% of the time?
I'd cut them a little slack. Dam removal is a fairly recent thing and there's not much data to base predictions upon.
That one guy is really glassin'
On the Trans-Canada Highway!
Good determiner of the conditions if a land slide occurred somewhere along the river. There was a very large landslide in the American river along Highway 50 in the Sierra Nevada mountains years ago. Seems that nature will just compensate as well as the creatures. Humans get all bent out of shape when nature happens and are determined to study it for whatever reason. There was a 80 yo dam removal in Italy or Spain on TH-cam that they just let the river wash the sediment away.
0:48 that should have been me
The model shows the coffer dam washing out from below, so where do they put the forklift? Hey the dam might wash out under me, but don't be silly I'm still gonna send ittttt.
All these so-called "experts" with their fancy, expensive MODELS.... useless!
Not sad at all.
It served a purpose. At great environmental cost. And now it’s useless.
Us humans think we're so smart, but mostly we don't know shit when it comes to how the Earth works.
This is just awesome my paycheck is going to be big after this cancel that matters
Good to know that nature can eliminate the petty work of humans in a short time.
You just hit the bulls eye. Truer words have never been spoken. Humanity believes that we are the Rulers Of Earth, the Controllers Of Destiny, the Masters Of Time & Space. In truth, we are just one more organism on this planet that has no more significance than a T-Rex, a Wombat, a tiger, a slug, an amoeba. And like the dinosaurs of ancient earth, we too will be gone forever from this beautiful planet. Just one more failed mutation, joining a long list of past life. Who will dig up our fossils? What species will unearth the remnants of a shopping mall and speculate on the culture that once lived there, as we now do with the Mayans, Incas, Aztecs? It warms the heart to know the earth can shake us off like a dog that shed fleas.
congrats, you just proved that climate change shit is a scam. you played yourself
Awesome until the guy in the forklift gets swept downstream!
Just like the Grand Canyon. Not millions of years.
the most interesting thing was that the model really works, it happens the same way they predict, good job
8:05
As usual the people who don’t do this for a living guessed wrong ask one of the guys run and the bulldozer he’ll tell you it probably down within moments how long it’ll take to clear out the silt
Felt very sorry for the marmots watching this......... :(
I caught a 24# steelhead just below marmot damn 15 years ago.
Maybe they should use it to build the wall.
Put one from Washington State down to the bottom of California too. Keep those libtards there instead of ruining places like Texas, Montana, Idaho, etc.
this would be really fun to do and watch. It's like playing in the creek x1000
A reminder not to trust the radical environmentalist who say things like "This (insert name here) may never fully recover."
A good example of how the Missoula Floods eroded so much so quickly.
so,4 Marmots didn't like this vid ?
The battle goes on and no matter what, earth is huge and earth will win.
You have to wonder.. what other things are they using their models for ...
Ahhh yes the same experts who fine or close industry by their knowledge
and me being a placer miner can't use a 2 ft. hand sluice in a river for possible damage to fish habitat.
Clickbait, no cute fuzzy marmots anywhere! lol
Absolutely fascinating 3 cheers for old Ma Nature !!!!
That's awesome, it's basically a giant stream table lol
Huh. Its almost like nature knew what to do best.