My old man worked on this dam. Putting down the steel reinforcing for concrete. I crossed that road bridge many times & I liked the old township but that's progress.
i ALSO WAS WORKING ON THIS Dam ..Lived in Clyde,live with mum and dad...Have so many pics ..Was in the concrete gang ..shaft change ..Day, Afternoon and night..
I remember crossing the bridges as a kid. My parents went there just to do it one last time. Mum actually cried. I've seen people scuba dive the bridges and it just seems unreal..
It was. And one of the stupidest of them all. The locals tried to warn them this was a moronic location to build a dam and they were completely ignored. Then less than half way though the build they decide "you know what, there really is a fault directly across the foundations of the dam we're building after all".
Was pretty cool returning to Cromwell and there being a lake! After living there so many years with a river and then there was just a lake all of sudden!
Very interesting hydro-dam. Just curious; what is the smaller floodgate right in the centre of the dam, between the 4 main spillway gates and turbine intakes (but lower down)?
That is the Sluice Gate which can be used in high flows along with the Spillway gates. It contains a radial gate 9.6m high by 6m with a maximum flow of 1430 cumecs.
Open the gates and the lake would empty in no time? Will the gate hold the pressure created by the depth of the water when dam is full? I always thought that they used a by pass tunnel to diver water until dam was finished, then block tunnel to fill dam?
The gates that you see closing are known as the Sluice Gates and provided the bypass for the river during dam construction. They are strong enough to hold back the pressure of the water once the dam is full and can be used again in the future to dewater the dam.
It's not uncommon for a dam to have a single lifting mechanism that moves from gate to gate. This might be the case here. There's a dam near us that has a gantry that rolls along railings on the top of the dam to have access to the length of the dam. Current pictures of Clyde Dam seem to have a similar gantry parked at one end of the dam.
was living down fruitgrowers road - behind the dam - had to move out for the dam. will always remember the heartache of watching this been filled.
travesty
So cool to see what's underneath man-made lakes before the water fills it all in. There are many people that will never see that land ever again
Somewhere down the road that dam will fail, and you will see that land again, nothing is forever my friend.
My old man worked on this dam. Putting down the steel reinforcing for concrete. I crossed that road bridge many times & I liked the old township but that's progress.
i ALSO WAS WORKING ON THIS Dam ..Lived in Clyde,live with mum and dad...Have so many pics ..Was in the concrete gang ..shaft change ..Day, Afternoon and night..
I remember crossing the bridges as a kid. My parents went there just to do it one last time. Mum actually cried. I've seen people scuba dive the bridges and it just seems unreal..
Wow Wow Wow. Thanks so much for sharing this. I’m 53 years old, Kiwi. I think this was a Muldoon “Think big” (Drink Big) project.
It was. And one of the stupidest of them all. The locals tried to warn them this was a moronic location to build a dam and they were completely ignored. Then less than half way though the build they decide "you know what, there really is a fault directly across the foundations of the dam we're building after all".
@@johnrauner2515 Which has not moved in 10k years. The dam is split along the fault and designed to move laterally and or vertically 2 metres
@@abeltasman7828 That's a problem because the fault is expected to rupture tensionally.
@@guyincognito. and more than 2 metres at a time
Great footage, thanks for sharing. I recall driving through as a child when it was part filled.
Was pretty cool returning to Cromwell and there being a lake! After living there so many years with a river and then there was just a lake all of sudden!
Done view idol
Thank you for sharing keep more vlogging
I stood at the base of the dam before they started filling,looking up was just breathtaking,pictures don't really capture the scale of the thing.
Great footage - thanks for sharing!
I remember driving up there to watch the filling.
I lived in clyde then great times 😷👍
young Dean...... where are you these days????
Very interesting hydro-dam. Just curious; what is the smaller floodgate right in the centre of the dam, between the 4 main spillway gates and turbine intakes (but lower down)?
That is the Sluice Gate which can be used in high flows along with the Spillway gates. It contains a radial gate 9.6m high by 6m with a maximum flow of 1430 cumecs.
So devastating, it makes me a little sad every time i go through that i never got to see it in its glory.
I feel the same for lake Powell
Open the gates and the lake would empty in no time? Will the gate hold the pressure created by the depth of the water when dam is full? I always thought that they used a by pass tunnel to diver water until dam was finished, then block tunnel to fill dam?
The gates that you see closing are known as the Sluice Gates and provided the bypass for the river during dam construction. They are strong enough to hold back the pressure of the water once the dam is full and can be used again in the future to dewater the dam.
i was in cromwell ...Did work on that site..left in about 86
PPL from cromwell Know was on the river bk..In china town ?
I know this a while back, but did the river on the other side of the dam stop.
My understanding was that they had to keep a minimum flow in the river on the other side of the dam for the ecology and other users.
The old cromwell bridge ..Did climb under it ..half way look 4 nickname BUZZ ..
So, there's 4 gates, but only one is motorised (- with 3 being secured shut)?
It's not uncommon for a dam to have a single lifting mechanism that moves from gate to gate. This might be the case here.
There's a dam near us that has a gantry that rolls along railings on the top of the dam to have access to the length of the dam. Current pictures of Clyde Dam seem to have a similar gantry parked at one end of the dam.
2:05...Good grief!!!
Not a place that I would like to stand.
Hehe yeah. "Edge protection is for pussies!" Jeepers if you fell in there you`d be sucked straight through!
Wouldn't be doing that without hi-viz and harnesses today lol!
What country is this build
South Island, New Zealand
i was there i did work on site
Honeycomb it alday long .. will post old pics when i can ..
What country is this in?
New Zealand
@@scottbennett1614 Thanks.
I assumed the Clutha was always a turquoise colour
Think big
Yes, was just old enough to listen to the hate that went on with all the so called think big’ projects. Imagine building them now.
I was born and grew up in Cromwell. This was not the happiest event in the Town’s history.
Well...dam
Looks so small in this video.
The day it was filled was the day the climate changed in Central, that's for sure.
I love how mother nature turns everything back to Green.
observation: It's hard to tell what is going on. A few diagrams were needed. The video is nebulous.
on right side wS ALL LOW TOWN ..
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