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COPCO 1 DRAWDOWN DAM BLAST. Klamath River, California
January 23rd, 2024, a 12 ft. diameter tunnel was blasted at the base of the 101-year-old Copco 1 dam on the Klamath River, initiating reservoir drawdown prior to dam removal. An estimated 4000 cubic feet a second of water and sediment was released. The dam will be entirely removed by the end of 2024.
This past summer, crews blasted a 90 ft. adit tunnel at the base of the dam, inserted pipe, and armored it with boulders and 1000 yards of concrete. 800 lbs. of dynamite was used to blast the remaining concrete plug to set the river free, and a surge of water barreled several miles past the former Copco 2 dam and the majestic Wards Canyon that had been mainly dewatered for a century and into n...
This past summer, crews blasted a 90 ft. adit tunnel at the base of the dam, inserted pipe, and armored it with boulders and 1000 yards of concrete. 800 lbs. of dynamite was used to blast the remaining concrete plug to set the river free, and a surge of water barreled several miles past the former Copco 2 dam and the majestic Wards Canyon that had been mainly dewatered for a century and into n...
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KLAMATH RIVER DAM EXPLOSION
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On January 16, 2024, a tunnel stop log was blasted at the JC Boyle dam, one of the four dams being removed for the Klamath River Renewal Project. This blast initiated a drawdown for the JC Boyle reservoir. All the remaining dams will be removed by the end of 2024, opening up over 350 miles of spawning habitat to wild salmon. Contractor: Kiewit Corporation Blast Contractor: Mc Donegan drilling a...
The World's LARGEST Dam Removal: Klamath River PART 1
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Embark on an exhilarating visual journey as we unveil the awe-inspiring transformation of the Klamath River over 5 months of meticulous deconstruction of Copco 2 dam. Immerse yourself in the grandeur of over 15,000 captivating images capturing the first and smallest of the four dams destined for removal by October 2024. Witness history in the making with the unveiling of the largest river resto...
Dam removal time-lapse on Washington's Middle Fork Nooksack River (2020)
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In the summer of 2020 the dam on Washington's Middle Fork of the Nooksack came down and we captured it with a four month time-lapse shot in 4k. The Middle Fork Nooksack River Dam was built by the City of Bellingham for water diversion and supply in 1961. Though state law at the time required fish passages, dam construction was permitted without the inclusion of passage. The dam obstructs access...
Non-inclusivity. Why not use the captions? Not cool
White people angst, I love it.
Probably no need for reservoirs anymore for fire fighting either, right? Great Job!!
Not these.
And the other thousands of dams n the northwest are to remain???
lovelyyy
That was fun, but I was expecting a lot more blasting and then water moving out super-fast! But it is moving fast, just hard to tell from this distance. Thank you for sharing. I am glad this is done!
Boring wtf
You should turn on comments for the other videos too.
Everything is dead now in this river.
they do , because of this shit !
So this is the answer California has to green power. Is to destroy green power true, green power. Marxism or some other socialist move.
Socialism is alive and well within the Republican party !
@@user-ps7yj1ir6b Both parties No Name
I watch all these videos on dams, coal and oil fired power plants all being demolished and I wonder who decided we don't need electric anymore. I guess we go back to the old days and work sun up to sun down while we have light and solar power. (unless it's cloudy). I guess flood control is no longer a thing either.
I used to work for a company called Atlas Copco. Any connection?
Wow, I could have grown a crop of corn between the klaxon and the blast.
That's deliberate. Blasting regulations require at least a minute between alarm and blast to allow everyone to run like hell when they hear the alarm and get clear of the affected area.
Bring back the salmon! Excellent work
Wow. I figured they would work from the top down. Not all at once. Physics can sometimes be so simple and sometimes so crazy.
You can't drain a reservoir from the top down.
Rivers need to flow! 😃👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
And the result was 830,000 dead salmon ..then they blamed the mass kill on bubble disease to cover up their mistake. But it made a great symbolic video, and that's what was important.
You don't have any idea what you're talking about do you.
@@georgehaydukeiii6396 You're a Clown 830k salmon die post historically largest dam removal, the controversy continues Story by Sophia Bruinsma
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The dam is still standing..
I thought Califoney had a water shortage. Does look like a lot of water spilling downstream.
Low iq
They should remove Gabbing Knewnothing and his band of Merry EnvironMENTALists before they remove these dams... The rush of water and sediment going downstream will ruin the ecological balance of the river below these dams for years. And just what is their plan to replace the lost electric generation from the hydro plants??....More environmental destruction building solar/wind farms??? And where will farmers/residents get the water they need that comes from these dams/lakes........ So typical of the left: Spend billions destroying something trying to save it; and then asking for more billions to ruin it even more, trying to save it again. Delta Smelt and the slow train to nowhere are two good examples of this.
Thanks for destroying yet another great fishery and silting in a river for miles. Great job dip $hits.
Wow, another clueless armchair expert. I'm sure your comment is going to age really well.
Scroll to 1:13 thank me later
what was used to trigger the explosion ? i can see the wires
Unless you Live on the upper Klamath River. You really can't see the destruction that is as caused. The River is now become a toxic Sewer. It Sucks 😢
I was there two days ago. You are completely wrong. The silt had all but flushed out, the water has cleared up, and trout are coming back. You couldn't be more wrong Kenny.
Typical California we are in a severe drought, everyone’s going to be forced to drive electric cars, pushing out agricultural, we are getting to a point of no return if stupid shit like this keeps happening
Exactly how many megawatts of electricity was lost to this? This is a huge mistake. The EPA is totally out of control. 5.2 megawatts of electrical power was lost in minutes when a massive hail storm struck Scottsbluff Nebraska, and miles of wind farms froze up and could not produce power because the blades iced up. So, it makes a lot of sense to just start blowing up dams all over the Pacific Northwest that maintain hydro-electric power. People shouldn't listen to the cult of the EPA, right now the United States Air Force is bombing the skies woth aluminum, barium and other minute metalic particles that fall into the rivers, lakes and lungs of people all over the world and think nothing about it. Neither does eliminating cheap electical power it seems. Over the years the ecology had adjusted to the dam engineering for the people of the northwest and the California basin for water to sustain agriculture.
A great demonstration of stupidity. Removing hydroelectric dams when the electric grid on the West Coast is short of supply for the demand. Yeah, great job Environ-mentalists!
First, the liberals wanted to get rid of all coal and gas power plants. Now they’re wanting to get rid of dams…..that produce electricity. Pretty soon, we’ll have to rely on unicorn farts to generate power…..then again, that’s probably bad for the environment too. 😂
No...we just want to modernize and get rid of old, out-dated technology and replace it with state of the art power sources that don't kill entire rivers.
In a State where they struggle to provide drinking water to their citizens, blowing up dams is the exact opposite of what they should be doing. CA is it's own worst enemy.
Those dams didn't supply drinking water to a single person. You obviously don't have a clue what you are talking about. You sound really ignorant!
I kind of feel bad for the little fish that were chillin' in this pool right before the explosion. Like, BOOM!... What was that?! What's all this water?! Oh man, it's coming down a bit fast here. And all this sediment?!!? Getting a little cloudy. Having a hard time. Oh no! I can't breathe!!!! Ahhh!! I hit my head on a rock!!! Agragragugaguga glugga glugagaga glug But in the long run, it's going to be so awesome for the fish that do survive. Can't wait till all the dams come down.
Cool! How old is this dam?
100 years
Worst video ever
Sounds dumb when they have water issues and haven't built anything for years. Oh yeah I know why!!!
An analysis was done on the outflow, lots of heavy metals, many were way beyond allowable limits.
What a dam mistake.
It will take hundreds of years for this area to get back to the way it was before the dams. These people are totally out of there minds. The fish arent coming back just because a couple of dams are removed. People living close to this need to fight and get this reverse.
Hadirr
All that millions of tons of silt just getting washed down stream to smother the spawning gravel, and yet millions more tons to be washed down the rest of the year till the grasses take over on the old lake bed.
I got an idea! Let's get rid of clean means of electric production so the fishes are safe! clap,clap,clap.
So you say you got a sedimentation problem? No problem!
Most dams were put in as flood control measures as well as all the other uses so when the next flood
Why did they blow it up? Didnt need so much electricity anymore, or had too much water already?
Old dams are flash flood waiting to happen._
The dam was racist.
They were restoring the river it was blocking off
All dams have finite lifespans as they prevent sediment from moving downriver, and so the reservoir slowly fills with mud. Mud does not generate electricity, nor does it irrigate downstream crops. Eventually the cost of maintaining and repairing the dam and associated infrastructure becomes greater than the revenue generated by the dam, and dam owners are faced with the choice of removing the dam or losing money from now on.
Don't know how you're going to power all those electric cars. This is about as green as it gets. But it's understandable because a lot of you don't know which bathroom to use.
Dams destroy salmon and steelhead runs, make downstream water too warm for salmon smelt to survive in the summer and capture all the silt that should flow downstream to maintain sand bars and beaches. Yes, hydropower is renewable and zero carbon, but dams are not often benign to the environment.
My parents live on the Klamath River. Yesterday my dad walked 50 yards along the river and counted more than 100 dead fish along the shore. The sediment is piled up on the shore too. Not much is going to live through this.
Update, one week later. 300+ fish dead on the shore. River otters are gone. Crawfish are dead. Birds of pray have left now too… Hoping the river recovers. Right now they are killing the entire eco system.
@@scottwilson9404 This project is not intended to provide any benefits over the next couple of years. The project is aimed at re-establishing a stable ecosystem starting five years from now. Bring your grandkids to the river 30 years from now and describe to them how much it has improved.
Why did the dam continue to stand?
That blast was just to draw down the lake. They’re using heavy equipment for the dam removal.
Criminal act! Disaster and devastation for animals and people.
Nope! The exact opposite in fact. you have absolutely no idea about fish biology, Rivers, pollution, and you are living in the past!
@@georgehaydukeiii6396 you are wrong. I live there NOW, and see what’s going on. Recently the river water has been warming up to about 74F in places. That’s not at the bottom but we measure it along the shoreline. Salmon likes cold water. The temps are still on the rise. I’m not going to explain it all, but it remains a covered up disaster. Although it’s clear because of all the dead animals we’ve seen since January.
Perfect...Californication removes yet another way to store needed water....idiots
It all bull shit
California is powered by gays and transgenders