First Flows Through the Colorado River Connectivity Channel (Oct. 25, 2023)
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- Опубликовано: 7 ноя 2023
- Oct. 25, 2023, was a milestone day, as crews successfully tested the new Colorado River Connectivity Channel (CRCC) around Windy Gap Reservoir, hydrologically reconnecting two segments of the Colorado River for the first time in about 40 years. Northern Water staff was joined by Grand County representatives and Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff as they watched the first flows go through the long-awaited channel.
While water is now running through the new channel, there is still construction work to be done. Crews will continue putting the finishing touches on the project's new embankment, diversion structure and other elements until winter weather brings activity to a stop until next spring. Construction is expected to wrap up in 2024, with vegetation establishment along the channel continuing into 2025 and 2026, before the area is open to the public around 2027. 
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AWESOME PROGRESS ON SUCH A MAMMOTH PROJECT. THANKS FOR THESE REGULAR UPDATES
Small steps to live with nature, good job.
Accept only the wealthy can access it.
Huge props to Colorado for doing this. I hope my state of California follows suit in actually executing some of the water infrastructure that has been discussed that would benefit both fish and help with water storage. So far all California has done is talk about it.
How is California going to find the money to do it? Sacramento is too busy allocating money to feed, clothe, house and give free stuff away to all the migra.....excuse me, illegals.
Hopefully someday we will come to realize that nature does a better job with water than we do
Guess you have never been in a flood then. Better is subjective.
What meth lab trailer park do you live in ?@@jorgejiminez-rk1uu
I don’t think we are intelligent enough for that
@@jorgejiminez-rk1uu Where should I live George? Or should I just stop living altogether?
Truth is I have for decades tried to conserve water. No lawns, capture greywater and flush toilets or water the garden etc.
@@jorgejiminez-rk1uu i'm far from a rat in a cage george and have lived for quite a while growing/gathering most all my food and supplied all my drinking water. Now I live on the ocean and use less than 1/10th the fresh water the average american does. How about you? Seem to have plenty of time for RUclips which leads me to think you don't supply all your own food/water - what you say it true "thats hard work"
Lots of the water here in Cali is for aq to feed lots of people. With the amount of people on the planet if a big chunk of city folks were spread out that loss of natural habitat would be catastrophic - and those people would still need lots of water wouldn't they?
Excellent work
Maybe it’s a great idea for the fish population. I don’t know much about sediment travel downstream either. I’m just amazed at how much money you spend on these types of projects that wouldn’t need to be spent if you didn’t try to fool with Mother Nature in the first place! Some day the Colorado will find another path. Rivers aren’t content to stay in one place. I suppose it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Well done. It is really exciting to see wild fish populations given priority in water management planning!
Lots of work to undo centuries of destruction by fools. Great work.
why don't you divert some of the wather that goes toward the Missouri River to flow to the Colorado River. Which would give much needed water toward the Hoover Dam and the four states that suck Lake Mead dry.
Thank you all much love to that had a part cheers
This is definitely a huge accomplishment. Impressive engineering and coordination by so many entities.
@@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5And the lord said unto the Shepard’s. FO…. This is cattle country😊
Well done everyone. 👍❤️🇺🇸
Congrats with this great accomplishment!
It is time that we recognize the sovereignty of nature . We owe nature the accomodations it requires .
Great work y’all, don’t listen to the trolls who are downplaying your restoration work. Helping the water is helping all of us. Yes we need to be careful of how we foot the bill. But seriously investing in water is investing in life, when will we learn?!
brought to you by..."someone who doesn't know a thing about water management. Pretty good at the virtue signal though.
You folks that made this happen in Colorado need to show Utah and the folks they have appointed to saving the Great Salt Lake how to do their job.
Sounds good.
Need a few beaver families to move in!
Nice that looks really smart
real nice great job
Good luck filling up the lake.
Won’t affect that Al all.
Now, how long will that priority last?
Much better than a pipeline, looking forward to fishing this someday.
Did not learn anything from this connects what why. What is the big picture here
This is cool. At first im like umm why are they messing with the colorado river. But this is great to see.
All dams are condemned to more or less long term because of siltation
Restore and protect beaver!
what you're now seeing is decades of effort initially led all the way back in the fifties and sixties by the boomer generation with a few in the previous generation. this doesn't happen overnight, and the vision started seven decades ago. although I'm sure there's a generation of texting/snap chat types that will attempt to take credit for it!!!
You’re mistaken. If you want to make this a generational thing consider for a second that back in the early 80’s boomers built the reservoir that’s caused the need for the bypass Chanel.
So the reservoir lost all water potential from the storms/snow pack for the spring of 2023?
Windy gap reservoir was never built or intended as water storage. It still serves its intended purpose even after this project is complete.
How hard is it to plant native seeds stop growing them in a pot for however long and planting it.
Like you are making it cost more for basically no reason.
Also fun fact planting from seed is magnitudes less expensive.
Also I was looking at how close you planted and that's to close 8 feet not 4.
GREAT IDEA. Too bad you took all of our water that flowed to our side of MEXICO. The hell with our wild life and way of living. GREAT JOB.
It is a total shame that Mexico gets abused by the US water rights system and Colorado River Compact. Under the International Boundary and Water Commission, Minute 318 agreement, Mexico is supposed to receive 1,500,000 per year, but receives far less based on the water elevation in Lake Mead. Seems to me as an American that it is terribly unfair to force Mexico to essentially only get what water is left over and it is the worst quality water too. It is polluted and quite saline.
YEAH!!! More water for the front range golf courses!! STOP IT!!!
The yanks moved another river, wonder how this turns out.
one things for sure: they never talk about the Colorado water that used to flow into Mexico, OR the flood plains in BC Canada dependant on their river management in Wa. State. We both don't exist.
A good project for sure but it does little to bring Lake Mead back up, nor solve the water scarcity disaster problem that is at the doorstep of the SW USA. In order to make sure there is water for the future, every source, from storms to pipelines, need to be tapped and ASAP.
Lol
Calling it a good project while not citing a single goal for said project.
The water shortages, by definition are a man-made problem. I am not fan of using a tiny portion of my tax dollars to subsidize growing hay and cotton in the desert. The cotton especially since it is also separately subsidized by the Federal Government, with the majority of the money going to large corporations.
Well ain't that peachy keen green washing. If you couldn't figure out from the flash of the maps what this is part of, and I didn't look it up, just looked at the map and video, water is going to be captured from Colorado and pumped from reservoir to reservoir up across the continental divide down into the reservoirs feeding Boulder and area. It's nice that they did this bit of river restoration, but if they just wanted to do that, they wouldn't have had to spend millions splitting the reservoir, just remove the dam, sculpt and plant the lands in it.
How much is the annual cost of this thing?
What ? Why? lots of words, not useful info.
They actually explained it. Just because you don't understand any of it does not mean the information is not there.
Many Californians have sold their places in San Francisco and moved to this area. Cheaper, safer and with profit potential. It’s a win-win for them
How nice they put a golf course right up to it so all those fertilizers can start polluting at the beginning of the River ???
So kinda like the CCP using the water from India's' side of the Himalayas like they did the Mekong. Lake Powell reservoir dries up or no let Mexico have water when it is pumped over the mountains?
Who’s water did they steal
No one’s.
the only way to solve water shortage issues in the south west, is to stop building more houses in the freaking desert. the SW US is a desert from western colorado to the pacific ocean. a massive canal from the mississippi to the colorado would be about the only way to get enough water to everywhere its needed out west. lol. good luck
The Mississippi she is a goin’ Dry 😂😂😂😂, Maybe they could pump water from the Colorado up to the Missouri then build a canal over to the Mississippi then path themselves on the back till their arm breaks for doing an amazing job 😂😂😂
Me and my daughters have done mini versions of this on the beach….this is not going to end well
One day at work to Restore the Natural River and its🎉 People's State! Please Stop
Bashing Real Progress
A new channel in a river? why mess with nature
this is redressing how nature was messed with in the first place.
took such a long time to get done because everyone was spending money on growing pot, and getting high. But yeah, nice to see the water flowing!
They will learn the worth of water when the stream runs dry😅
Hope is wasn't borrowed money !
One flood and it will be right back where it started. 90 million down the drain.
What a joke on us taxpayers!! Now the 1%ers thats own all the river 20 miles downstream will get a free restored private river.
The land they bought up when the project was in the making. Inside trading at its generational best.
This is public water once it’s complete, almost 2 miles. I’m no expert but two miles of new public access seems like a good thing for the public.
@@scottwells9426 Yes as long as you float down the river its public, not allowed to step on shore.
Not true. The banks and bed will be open to the public.
Just a govt boondoggle. Big deal.
Why are they wearing hardhats? Dug a ditch, lined the banks, not that big of a deal.
It signifies "I stand around and do nothing for a gov paycheck ".😂
@@mrabrasive51what a deep and thoughtful opinion. I'm sure you know your stuff!
Plot twist:
@mighaelkovacs5660 is an alias for the guy who did most of the shovel work on this project. Good work dude, you deserve some credit.
It’s to protect those huge brains.
I am no expert in construction. I understand that on large construction projects sometimes the people doing different functions are represented by colored hard hats. Say maybe engineers have white hard hats. Journeymen carpenters & plumbers yellow? But I don't know for sure.
I’m curious what it’s for, I’ll have to read about it. But I can almost guess it’s make work bullshit.
if you watch the video he explains the decades of effort. this started a RECLAiM of a river that was shut down half a century ago. similar to the removing of (private) dams in the NW that never should have happened.
@@user-zp7jp1vk2i awesome!
Whos water are you stealing and who are you going to short on water
But its not naatural?? Typical Commirado, spend all the money on the East Slope. Reservoirs and streams all over the west slope need help. But I guess those people don't vote correctly.
This particular project is outside of Grandby and merely allows more water during high water to bypass the dam and flowing down the Colorado River.
This is West Slope.
@@larrylangley9240 Yes, for sure. Of course Northern Water operates a lot of the projects that bring Western Slope water to many of the Front Range and Plains users.
Waste all the water you can then tell the public they have to conserve water cause we don’t have enough.
You guys look really silly with your hard hats and orange vests on. Did you except an airplane to hit you in the head. The orange vests, was it deer season.
And you just know that this will cause some sort of ecological disaster sometime in the future.
This is being done to mitigate an ecological disaster that was built in the 80’s.
nonsense
I’m certain the plan was 10x bigger but couldn’t because of red tape. Waste of money
What a waste of money and water!
What's with all the hard hats and high visibility jackets? Looks like a osha (another democrat tax collector) propaganda video
Right... yet you have NOOO problem benefiting from every democrat program.
Programs?? Free needles? Reparations?
OSHA is not a taxing authority.
It protects health and safety of the workplace employees and visitors.
Osha is supported by Federal Government...yup. another tax collector...