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.
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
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 ))) 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💪🏿
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.
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.
The calculations probably assumed the sediment was naturally compacted, but behind manmade dams its not really compacted at all allowing for easier flow.
"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"
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.
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.
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...
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.”
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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".
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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
Get you a partner that loves you like that hydrologist loves his job.
One of the coolest damn removals I have seen so far. Very interesting approach, well done!
That was very cool. Shows the power of water as well. Fascinating how quickly it cleared that sediment.
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
The genuine excitement someone can have is lovely to see :D
DID HE SHOOT HIS LOAD
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 one guy is too excited to see a dam burst xD
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 )))
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💪🏿
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.
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.
The coloured smoke isn't "special effects", it's nitric oxide
generated by the incomplete combustion of the ANFO used for the shot.
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.
Soooooo did the sediment choke the river to death or what?
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.
So how much did all this re-routing of the river, setting up the temporary dam, and demolishing the old dam cost?
i think they said 17 million
@@thomasdemay9805 12
Great show thanks for posting!
the most interesting thing was that the model really works, it happens the same way they predict, good job
8:05
The calculations probably assumed the sediment was naturally compacted, but behind manmade dams its not really compacted at all allowing for easier flow.
Great project! Good to give it back to nature.
That was loose soil. Of course it would wash it out. It’s like taking a garden hose to an ant pile
"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.
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.
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.
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.
6:01” the last heavy machine happens to be a forklift” so the 2 excavator’s must have been light weight toys
Thank you for caring about our world...
"release the river !!!"
Always loved the Ents saying that.
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.”
they need to let the loacol miners and gold sifters in there first.
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.
Is the Narrator Danny Harmon? Sounds like him from some of the Train Watching videos I've seen...........
You tube really screwed up the comments by taking them out of order, responses make no sense.
Nobody heard about the Clean Water Act on this job? Avoidable discharges of earthen fill material? Hello?
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.
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.
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).
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.
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.
No Marmots were harmed during the filming of this presentation.
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.
Look at all the experts in the comments.
When we were young, we did the best we could with what we knew. When we knew better , we did better. .... (paraphrasing Maya Angelou )
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".
What's the point if the river has dried anyway
That was pretty neat to watch thanks
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.
Water is powerful and dangerous. Cool to watch!
When Mother Nature wants something, she'll get it, even if it takes her awhile.
go to 6:57 and turn the playback speed to .25
all these hippies so happy for the fish, they even saved some from "drowning". Not a reason to destroy a dam. what a waste.
"He.. hey man, this is a private residence.... nice marmot."
Nice marmot! ,Uhhh ahhh far out mannn, fcking faaar out!
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!
must be some big ass marmots to build this
this would be really fun to do and watch. It's like playing in the creek x1000
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.
The battle goes on and no matter what, earth is huge and earth will win.
Now capture the water before it spills into the Pacific, and redirect to natural aquifers inland. Fresh water is gold.
Absolutely fascinating 3 cheers for old Ma Nature !!!!
This is just awesome my paycheck is going to be big after this cancel that matters
Colorful special effects for the TV news cameras Its called dirt and dust. WTF was he talking about???
The engineer is getting his cookies off - what a jerk!
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.
That's awesome, it's basically a giant stream table lol
0:48 that should have been me
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.
Imagine the amount of gold accumulate in those gravel and black sand!
0:47 Is that firing device lighting up inside or are those camera flashes from people out of view?
+jmr1068204 That's the detcord firing
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
WOW ! i would of loved to see of seen that close up !
You mean you would HAVE loved to HAVE seen it.
I saw the title...and thought...."MARMOTS MAKE DAMS?"
Damn, that dam removal was pretty damn cool.
I hope you took some dam pictures!. M.
Cool, and a couple good rainstorms will clear the rest :)
Great news indeed!I wonder what old Woody Guthrie would make of this development?
and me being a placer miner can't use a 2 ft. hand sluice in a river for possible damage to fish habitat.
That guy is a little too excited with the model dam...
Ruined fishing spots all over the river :(
ahahahahhahaha
A good example of how the Missoula Floods eroded so much so quickly.
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
It seems that 62 dams were removed in the U.S. in 2015.
Nice Marmot man!
I caught a 24# steelhead just below marmot damn 15 years ago.
That one guy is really glassin'
On the Trans-Canada Highway!
17m$ to remove it? anyone know why it cost that much? you figure they would just blow it our with tnt
Unlicensed Memes government work needed 30 agencies to scoop out a few feet of dirt
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.
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
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?
A solid blend of engineering and geology porn
colourful special effects dust? and not just some ancient evil disease accidentally released into the air?
@6:18
First time?
Great video thanks
You have to wonder.. what other things are they using their models for ...
Awesome until the guy in the forklift gets swept downstream!
Not sad at all.
It served a purpose. At great environmental cost. And now it’s useless.
Damn now this YT video is 7 years old
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
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
that last dude sounds exactly like H3
You lie, it was not profitable to put it back where it came from
I think the tittle is made to make people look and who the hell would call it marmot dam lol.!!!