Breaching of Gamtoos River Mouth - Jeffreys Bay, South Africa
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2018
- Video clip of the breaching of the flooded Gamtoos River Mouth on 11 September 2018.
So it happened!!! The Gamtoos River Mouth has been manually breached. Earlier today the Kouga Municipal Manager finally obtained permission from the EC MEC after an intensified effort. The farmers suffering from flooded pastures were given permission to breach the mouth and they stepped up to the mammoth task with their amazing staff. In a matter of three hours, they dug a deep channel by spade. The channel might seem narrow and small at this stage, but the river is filled with millions of cubic meters of excess water and by late this afternoon flood water from the Groot River has been expected to reach the top of the Gamtoos River, pushing more water into the already flooded system. By tomorrow morning that channel will look somewhat different than now... Hats of to the team of workers of Mondplaas who saved the day! - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Beaver dam busting , Drain clearing, Flash floods, and now river breaching , I think I need some Professional help
No idea why the fuck I want to keep seeing these as well.
Now you have laser metal cleaning, river ice jam breakage, and overgrown yard clean-up to add to your list of things that satisfy for reasons we can't quite explain.
look up post10
I think you at this point could call yourself a professional that can help.... In specific scenarios 🤣😂😅
@@prunedfingers I imagine being a fan of post10 is what led me here...
Spent many of my childhood days in that lagoon. We used to have a house up on the hill to the left, as you face the sea. Such wonderful memories of that place....
Any colords in your hood?
@@jonnywatts2970 🤣
There's so much beauty in ordinary things.
I agree!
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Excellent cinematography...👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Are you sure they were really farmers? They look more like they're on the government payroll. A dozen blokes doing the work, 3 dozen standing around watching. 😊 Great video, thanks.
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my home! I live at the Gamtoos River mouth and am so impressed by the work our community has done!
I did this once by myself with no tools. I just thought it would be fun to see the river run into the ocean. It's not that hard to do.
This was very important for the farmers.
"We moved thirty yards of dirt by manual labor only to discover that it wouldn't flow".
Coz people are dumb.
It will flow and end up with waves big enough to surf. The problem is that this is illegal in many places, for a reason.
Your being so extra careful. So I can't sense Who You Are.
My 5YO daughter does a 1/10 scale version of that every weekend at the beach.
A future hydrologist?
Fantastic video and good luck to those farmers who sure need it.
@@redimixofmd Rather be a fool than a tool!!😂 C.U.Next Tuesday.
I went from a tsunami video to this. Well that was a let down.
Bruh Chinese cyanide explosion to seniors day at the beach
Dude was it the one where you thought the glacier was the tsunami.lol
waterFALLS. seaLEvEL .
Still Waters always LEvEL,
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exAMEN 🌈 FirmAmenT
Lmaooo me too! I was watching tsunami videos and ended up here lol
Don't let this breach video fool you. Most of them get raging. This was the least exciting coastal river breach I've ever seen.
Anyone see there was a much closer bit to dig at up the beach?
looks like someone got a drone for christmas and cant stop playing with it
Yeah, lol
Great video! Good job.
River in South Africa. Used heavily for agriculture which is probably why it periodically stops short of draining into the ocean. Depending on the year and seasonal rainfall the outlet into the ocean varies over time especially since it drains through a sandy beach.
makes sense.
Ive dug out a bunch of rivers around the world dozens of times. Heres a HUGE tip that will save a lot of effort. Dig from the river side toward the ocean! I have dug out channels by myself that were this far away from the ocean, as you go, the river water keeps the sand wet and softens it and makes it easy to just scoop out of the way, so that gravity can take over. You only need a little bit of water, and gravity does the rest. This video shows such a waste of effort digging from the ocean to the river.
Thank you
So how long did it take to lower the level of the river?
That took alot of hard work. It looked beautiful while it was flowing. ♥️🌊🌍♥️
👍👍👍👍 Классное видео!
It is amazing what we can do together.
Bruce Sees all there’s like ONE dude doing it all wtf are you talking about. Half the people in the video were standing around.
A beautiful community doing a beautiful thing. 🇺🇸❤️👍🏻
finally a lovely comment :)
Baie mooi. 'n bomel ("drone") is beslis op my wenslysie!!!
way more work than necessary, the water would move that sand once you get the flow started.
I thought that after watching lot's of these videos but at the end I think it was due to the river level not being much above sea level.
Not much flow at all.
Maybe they did it early before the heavy rains to prevent the farmland flooding.
@@harveysmith100 I have a trout farm and a dam in the Creek that subverts the water to my ponds, that I have to clean out on occasion. The trick is to get the water flowing even a little bit and then work your way back up the stream moving the sand with a hoe once you loosen it the water does the rest. It's literally a small fraction of the work involved in these videos.
@@danielnorman8595 Yes, Point taken. The channel was too wide to get a fast flow started, Bernoulli's principle and all that.
please upload a part 2 🙏🏼
Great job
Why?
Great jobs, comunity, excelent !
Reconnecting mother nature. I love it🎉
Nice flying!
I remember digging for fun.
1:24 wowwww what a beautiful scene of nature
why does this seem so amazing
The teamwork part of it makes me happy especially with the way the world is these days
It’s not
Excellent!
Pls keep updating on the gamtoos rivier mouth🙏
why do they breach it?
i have seen several videos of doing the same act but what's the ultimate goal of doing this???
Ask your mother to read you the description of the clip.
@@dunruden9720 👍🤪🤣😆😝
par que se hace eso esta bonita las imagenes del dron
if only there were machines to do that...
@@mucsalto8377 race card.
By the time you find the equipment and the trailer and get it there they have been done for 2 hours......imagine that.
LogicSword3675 they are called bulldozers
Then those people wouldn’t have to get any pesky exercise
Are you the guy that drinks all the alcohol at the party by 8:00 pm, and they just stuff you in the corner with a 5 gallon bucket?
Well that's three minutes I can't get back to life
then just go outside
4 by the time you've made your comment...
Is that rainfed river or backwater?
WOW!!! A lot of time and energy.
I bet 80% of these people have a child at home glued to a smartphone.
what for?
Can we see an updated video from the same spot?
100% of human intervention in nature prooved lomg-term distructive.
This is a tiny trench dug in the sand. It would had happened naturally maybe in a few weeks, but still, the full implications were never thought upon by no one.
In that few weeks crops and homes could be lost to floods. Sandbars shift and grow. Digging a trench to help nature along is goid husbandry, along with dredging to prevent too much silting up at the river mouth. Flood plains provide good soil when correctly mabaged.
Its so sickening that the people need permission for something like this ! The people around here would not have even asked and would not have waited either . Government has become a cancer to all ! I wonder if the people will ever do anything about it ? I doubt it....
why is it done actually? is there a reason? or just fun?
By hand. Determination. Kudos.
Oh. A couple quick shots of after two days.
Wooow beautiful scant , like
Nice work
Just two questions.
1. What for?
2. There is excavator?
VERY good selection of music for this
So how long it will take down level of the river!thats it..
Just curious. What's the purpose of doing this?
Nature: *doing its thing*
People: HURRY UP
Do they not have backhoes in South Africa?
My kingdom for a backhoe!
What's the reason?
J Bay is always beautiful
Good work people.
Backhoe?
Was the point of this excersize to pollute the ocean?
READ the description provided.
How come all these rivers in South Africa cannot find their way naturally to the ocean. What is man doing? I'm confused.
I wish I could be there some day
I'm guessing machinery wasn't an option?
@@mucsalto8377 I get it man. It's social media and everyone can say whatever unfortunately. But considering the vast majority are white you wanna try again?
So natural thanks humans
Смысл какой ?
When tree and bunny huggers come up with a plan.
WAAAH WAAW
OK, but why?
У меня только один вопрос...
What was the point of that ..... ?
how come South Africa has so many rivers like this?
Great job 🙏
was there a point to that?
I'm guessing not Det cord available....
...for what...exactly?
How is it there was no one surfing that
If water is on a larger surface then a bigger amount will evaporate and there will be more clouds. More clouds means more rain for a green planet.
They effort was paid off,, congrat's
The point is?
Wow overkill on the trench! They could have just scrapped a small path with one shovel. Half hour job, one man.
Exactly!
Looks like most construction work. More than half are standing around watching the others do the work!
(Yes, I know that’s not happening. It just fits into that narrative. I supervised underground construction and I would limit how many supervisors, assistant managers, managers, support crews, parts runners and any other people not immediately needed to be on a job site because the crew doing the work were one crewleader and two laborers. Only one laborer was actually digging and the other keeping the spoils away from the excavation. The crewleader was responsible for the two laborers. It definitely looks bad to the public and adding another couple for traffic control didn’t help the visuals, either.)
Já não tem muita água potável no mundo aí faz isso ai é foda
Why cant it be done at St Lucia
I can dig this idea.
Yooo an actually funny comment :D
So cross contamination of 2 water masses?
And what was the point of that
READ the description provided.
0:17 WW1 flashbacks
The fuck
@@vishalSharma-ol9fl Filling sandbags.
Whats the point in doing that
Super 👍
What was the accomplishment ahead?
Besides the fact that, given enough time, mother nature would have made her own path.... Without their help 🤷🏻♀️
@@-Gadget- read the description you waste of braincells
But why?
Why do they do this what is the purpose for it
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that horrible for the environment?
Why??
To show you how humans are stupid!! Always to destroy the beauty of our wonderful planet!
@@bluvespa Or maybe you can read the video description about flooding further upstream.
Why? Dont u need water?
Read the description.
Are they pouring fresh water into the ocean?
You mean like every river on the planet ?
Flood water
Video too short. Didn't show how wide the pathway went
только я не понял зачем соединять солёную воду и пресную. там же живность в реке помрёт.
too bad they couldnt put in a pernament structure with removable boards . when time comes , remove the boards . i feel though that would be too expensive .
Well that was a waste of three minutes,Thanks.
Why didn't they bring in a digger?
They had 100 of them
What was the point of this?
READ the description provided.