I'm glad I saw this. If I where to visit in person I would be looking out over a massive meadow, gently sloping away to the bottom of the canyon. Really surprised me how much fill material they brought in, must have had a source relatively close by. It's good to see, the Olympic Peninsula has pristine and remote wilderness in much of the Elwha watershed, so happy salmon are allowed back into it now.
@@mikelembke5121 As the description says, this footage is from 2011-2012. And another source said that salmon found their way up the river again within one season.
@@MrSaemichlaus Yes, the earth and it's animals and natural processes are much more resilient than these pessimistic doom and gloomers will ever be able to account for in their scared heads
@@tehscope9422 nuclear is much less detremental to the envornment than a fucking dam is, dude and its the cleanest source of energy we have thats also the most efficient
@@stefan8814 What's with the potty mouth it only takes a few years for the river to recover after a dam is removed there is 40+ years of study , education is a wonderful thing.
At 2:55, it looks like there's remnants of the dam on the right side, that's being covered up? I don't know what the lighter colored layer is made of and what it's for but I'm guessing there will be trees (indigenous to the area) planted there? It would be funny to return in a thousand years(+) to find the water had dug a path to the right and filled in the left. ;-)
Im kinda sad they didn't make where the power plant was a little Island and let the river flow around it like the river split.... that woulda been pretty neat.
I think the best minds were involved in this project and are still studying it. They explained that the sediment is needed to wear down larger rocks into smaller stones. The salmon need smaller stones in the river bed in which to make their nests for eggs. I’m sure they did what was best for the ecosystem. I see summer steelhead have returned to the Elwah, spotted in their snorkel surveys. They were thought to be extinct. 🤷🏼♀️
This dam was privately built in 1910. Even if you don't like fish, it was a disaster waiting to happen. I bet the people living down stream of it don't miss it.
Actually, the people living UPstream of it wouldn't miss it (especially indigenous people), because that's where the salmon didn't get to with the dam in the way. The people below the dam likely profited from better flood control and electricity.
@@MrSaemichlaus This dam and the Glines Canyon dam produced a grand total of about 19 mega watt hours per year. The army corp of engineers spent 100,000 dollars a year replacing the sediment that didn't make it to the mouth of the river. Did it help with flood control? I don't know' but when an old dam breaks it is bad. I suspect the people living downstream are glad it is gone. There is not enough money for dam removal, it is expensive. The ones removed are often the most dangerous.
@@MrSaemichlaus Yes, yes. The drunk, obese, lay about, my hand out isn't big enough, indigenous people are glad the canned salmon are able to come back up steam.
@@MrSaemichlaus You're correct. I lived in PA ( and Sekiu) for many years. Any chance you knew Buckley "Buck" Adamire? He wrote a book called, "The Elwha: A River of Destiny." I got to work with Buck for many years. He was like a living encyclopedia of the area.
I'm not sure what state of repair the dam was in before it was removed, but I do know there are a lot of people on here that are tickled to death to see a river restored to its natural habitat while watching a video on a device that requires electricity. From what I can see, looks like BPA gets alot of its power from hydroelectric dams, and while Elwha was only producing about 20 megawatts, most of the people who hate hydroelectricity also hate nuclear power plants. That 20 megawatts would require about 14 million cubic feet of natural gas if the internet is correct. I don't pretend to know what the best form is, but we need to realize they all have downsides... The downsides of coal and natural gas are obvious. Hydro reshapes the land and messes with fish populations. Wind Is also dangerous to habitat, among its obvious downsides. Nuclear is fantastic until it goes wrong. Solar also reshapes the land and messes with habitats. If I remember correctly hydropower has a significantly higher return on investment, and no matter what you're going to have to mess with the land and mess with the animals...
They did! High rates of hatchery fish returning and reaching further. Native fish are returning at a lower rate, but that is to be expected as the nuances between species can take many generations to build any appreciable growth.
We hope this returned to its former route for the salmon returning to their spawning grounds More salmon the better Its my favourite fish we eat it regularly
+Nick Popelka When the sun burns out because all these solar panels suck up it's rays, tell me how great "solar energy" is. That's all global warmings about, turning off the sun.
Is the making of a solar panel considered green? Don't windmills kill thousands of endangered birds every year? Just asking. If you want to answer leave out the insults unless your a punk and your wittle feewings are hurt.
Yu Dunowme - You have a lot of reading to do as it seems you lack even the most rudimentary understanding of astrophysics. And if the sun novas, the flares will first roast the earth to a blackened cinder, then the dead planet will be so cold, no remaining water will be in liquid form anywhere.
So true, remove the dam, seal the rest and let nature do its thing. 22 trillion dollars in debt and we give a shit about a few acres that few will see.
It appears that it was decided to channel the river toward the left when there used to be another branch to the right, and they simply decided to fill that channel in completely and build a kind of artificial meadow over it. I wonder why they went through all that trouble instead of simply clearing out the dam and letting Nature run its course thereafter.
Same. I wish they would have completely removed everything they had added to make the dam, but who know. I do know that there is a video from last year where someone captured the former dam site in at the time, it was in it's current state. There is a big knob of a rock cropping on the right side of the current channel the river is flowing through, and it's clearly natural, so that may have something to do with it. Likely was it's original pathing. You'd need to look at maps there prior to the 1920s to see if it really had two channels.
TheCriminalViolin is correct, the left branch is the original bed of the river. The right branch was dug to divert the river while the dam was being built.
What a waste of time, money and resources. We now have more national debt, higher utility costs and a river that I still can't fish on! As far as me and the rest of the people that grew up here are concerned, the national park service needs to disappear.
Trust me, a bit of real life work, even if it's unneccessary, won't mess up the economy a bit compared to the profiteering that goes on in the higher ranks of the financial market. The people who caused the economy to go tits up have never operated an angle grinder or a shovel in their lifetime.
This dam and the Glines Canyon dam produced 19 mwh a year that is about 1330 tons of coal per year. These dams were over 100 years old. I get that you don't like fish but these things were a disaster waiting to happen.
@@jamesm6278 I do like dams but the need to be in the right place. I read up on these dams before commenting and these are the type of old dams that need to be removed. They provided little power, no real flood control and the Klamath River was not part of California's water system.
the electricity of this dam was able to be replaced with only 4 wind turbines. Also, the reason the dam was built in the first place was to power an industrial site that no longer exists.
Great work but after removal seem a lot of interferance instead of K.I.S.S. river's right them selves with out geotech fabric way to much over thinking. Now the salmon runs are free the main aim of your work.well done.
@@thirtythreeflavors removed for a belief that anything old but functional should be removed? America is standing on 73 trillion in state & fed debt.... how much longer can a spend thrift mentality go on. Hate to inform you, but we cannot afford this govt that does foolish things like this.
@@benbenjamin2385 These very old dams produced a grand total of 19mwh a year and were a disaster waiting to happen. Dam removal is very expensive and there is not enough money to even remove just the dams that are a safety hazard.
We had a dam and water to spare the fish they loved it an lived without care. There were no floods to wash them inland to die by the hundreds when the water went down. And when it was a drought an when we would have died we didnt know an had fun everyday. The people were safer and came to enjoy but now their all gone no 👧 and 👦s.
The youth do NOT understand this!! They are all "useful idiots" ruclips.net/video/yErKTVdETpw/видео.html who have all been demoralized and will end up giving away our last freedoms thinking socialism is gonna save the west, "communism isnt all that bad" I've heard recently. Dumbest "dumb masses" ever! These Kardash watching...trap rap lit fire flamers, tik thotin, mind controlled internet'ers, have never had a conversation with someone who escaped a communist country, they think capitalism is horrible.....No, we haven't seen capitalism truly, we've seen corruption and a privately owned debt based credit banking system with fake money! I am sad to be labeled a millennial because I am nothing like any of my generation who have been brainwashed by televised programming and the mainstream narrative. Its amazing how the "dumb masses" have lost the ability to critically think and will only understand/probably never understand how/why they/them/he/she/it/whatever tf' BS mind bending insanity " " have been subject to this week, the brainwashed useful idiots will ask for their own imprisonment, ruclips.net/video/tE94KUYcglk/видео.html the mind control is real and so is the war, the unconventional war..... psychological warfare! -Cheers!
The purpose is to dry up all the river beds so man has to Buy His water , Think out side the box , Look at all the draughts , around the country , and dry rivers Take away the dams and lose the rivers ,
This is how humanity dies, overprotecting fish, it's called the circle of life what happens happens and the fish shouldn't stop us from growing, if the fish knew how to comprehend anything then stop but they don't so what's the difference
I'm glad I saw this. If I where to visit in person I would be looking out over a massive meadow, gently sloping away to the bottom of the canyon. Really surprised me how much fill material they brought in, must have had a source relatively close by. It's good to see, the Olympic Peninsula has pristine and remote wilderness in much of the Elwha watershed, so happy salmon are allowed back into it now.
Salmon won't be back for years
@@mikelembke5121 As the description says, this footage is from 2011-2012. And another source said that salmon found their way up the river again within one season.
@@MrSaemichlaus Yes, the earth and it's animals and natural processes are much more resilient than these pessimistic doom and gloomers will ever be able to account for in their scared heads
@@mikelembke5121 The salmon are back - We visit there every year with my family.
The fill material was probably the silt deposited behind the dam
Nothing better than to watch a river flow again 😍😍👌
Hoping salmon will swim up and spawn!
I think salmon are spawning up there since then
Couple three years you'll never know anybody was ever there, except for a dirt road maybe....very cool to see! 😁
Thanks for the video. 👍
Excellent use of grant money. Going back to nature.
Now compare that to shutting down a nuclear power plant and mother natures ability to deal with it .
@@tehscope9422 nuclear is much less detremental to the envornment than a fucking dam is, dude and its the cleanest source of energy we have thats also the most efficient
@@stefan8814 What's with the potty mouth it only takes a few years for the river to recover after a dam is removed there is 40+ years of study , education is a wonderful thing.
@@tehscope9422 you’re attacking nuclear and I felt some type of way. Lol
Really cool to see Nature being restored.
We are here in port angeles wa this week camping, we saw last year huge salmon jumping at the mouth of the river and ocean it was incredible 🦈
Fantastic thing to have recorded things this way! Like one picture per hour.
Brilliant ! A huge amount of work to restore natural state.
It isn’t too fast to see the essence of the procedure. They had to shift the channel left and right several times so it could be lowered in stages.
Nice work all around! Do you have some pictures like this showing how it has changed since construction completed?
Shaun M *deconstruction completed
They did it all in 4 minutes!
At 2:55, it looks like there's remnants of the dam on the right side, that's being covered up?
I don't know what the lighter colored layer is made of and what it's for but I'm guessing there will be trees (indigenous to the area) planted there?
It would be funny to return in a thousand years(+) to find the water had dug a path to the right and filled in the left. ;-)
At 3:18 they didn't know what to do next so they had a think for a few weeks.
Probably vacation time.
Im kinda sad they didn't make where the power plant was a little Island and let the river flow around it like the river split.... that woulda been pretty neat.
They had to do it in Stages and a split would be too much flow I think. (It's more about being enrivomental than neat lol)
I think the best minds were involved in this project and are still studying it. They explained that the sediment is needed to wear down larger rocks into smaller stones. The salmon need smaller stones in the river bed in which to make their nests for eggs. I’m sure they did what was best for the ecosystem. I see summer steelhead have returned to the Elwah, spotted in their snorkel surveys. They were thought to be extinct. 🤷🏼♀️
This dam was privately built in 1910. Even if you don't like fish, it was a disaster waiting to happen. I bet the people living down stream of it don't miss it.
Actually, the people living UPstream of it wouldn't miss it (especially indigenous people), because that's where the salmon didn't get to with the dam in the way. The people below the dam likely profited from better flood control and electricity.
@@MrSaemichlaus This dam and the Glines Canyon dam produced a grand total of about 19 mega watt hours per year. The army corp of engineers spent 100,000 dollars a year replacing the sediment that didn't make it to the mouth of the river. Did it help with flood control? I don't know' but when an old dam breaks it is bad. I suspect the people living downstream are glad it is gone. There is not enough money for dam removal, it is expensive. The ones removed are often the most dangerous.
@@MrSaemichlaus Yes, yes. The drunk, obese, lay about, my hand out isn't big enough, indigenous people are glad the canned salmon are able to come back up steam.
@@MrSaemichlaus You're correct. I lived in PA ( and Sekiu) for many years.
Any chance you knew Buckley "Buck" Adamire? He wrote a book called, "The Elwha: A River of Destiny." I got to work with Buck for many years. He was like a living encyclopedia of the area.
I'm not sure what state of repair the dam was in before it was removed, but I do know there are a lot of people on here that are tickled to death to see a river restored to its natural habitat while watching a video on a device that requires electricity.
From what I can see, looks like BPA gets alot of its power from hydroelectric dams, and while Elwha was only producing about 20 megawatts, most of the people who hate hydroelectricity also hate nuclear power plants.
That 20 megawatts would require about 14 million cubic feet of natural gas if the internet is correct.
I don't pretend to know what the best form is, but we need to realize they all have downsides...
The downsides of coal and natural gas are obvious.
Hydro reshapes the land and messes with fish populations.
Wind Is also dangerous to habitat, among its obvious downsides.
Nuclear is fantastic until it goes wrong.
Solar also reshapes the land and messes with habitats.
If I remember correctly hydropower has a significantly higher return on investment, and no matter what you're going to have to mess with the land and mess with the animals...
It’s obvious you need to do more research on just how catastrophic this dam was to local species such as the salmon.
@@cwill2127 lol
This dam and the Glines canyon dam produced 19 mwh of power a year. They were old and in poor condition
Some people just hate everything. Tree hugging weirdos
Not with roof based Solar. Nor with Agri-Solar combinations.
What is?
That was awesomeness at warp speed
they did that pretty fast
Crazy how they can take out a big dam in 4 minutes right?
Had to slow it down to 0.5 speed, and it was still going too fast.
Still, interesting to watch.
Yay!!! The wildlife is free again! They need to do this everywhere!
I was getting dizzy there a few times with the shadows whipping around.
How frequently were the photos taken? shakes in Seattle
ngl, having the river split looks nice
*Let the Sunshine In.*
not a rock spilled Good job Saybr
did the salmon return??
They did! High rates of hatchery fish returning and reaching further. Native fish are returning at a lower rate, but that is to be expected as the nuances between species can take many generations to build any appreciable growth.
We hope this returned to its former route for the salmon returning to their spawning grounds More salmon the better Its my favourite fish we eat it regularly
They have plenty of wind and solar energy these days and it don't have any negative impact on the water ways
+Nick Popelka When the sun burns out because all these solar panels suck up it's rays, tell me how great "solar energy" is. That's all global warmings about, turning off the sun.
+Yu Dunowme Are you serious?
first of all sunlight that hits earth is so little compared to its fullest.
and the sun doesn't need the rays it emits dumb ass
Is the making of a solar panel considered green? Don't windmills kill thousands of endangered birds every year? Just asking. If you want to answer leave out the insults unless your a punk and your wittle feewings are hurt.
Yu Dunowme - You have a lot of reading to do as it seems you lack even the most rudimentary understanding of astrophysics. And if the sun novas, the flares will first roast the earth to a blackened cinder, then the dead planet will be so cold, no remaining water will be in liquid form anywhere.
At 3:12 I saw Sasquatch
51 beavers disliked the video 😂
Or people who didn’t like their lake destroyed.
@@Ivan.A.Churlyuski "their Lake", LOL
@@beerenmusli8220 yeah.. when local residents have a lake in their backyard for a century they consider it apart of their community..
@@Ivan.A.Churlyuski still artificial
@@slimetank394 surprised you didn’t include the price of tea in China in your response.
use this process to remove the Hetch-hetchy Dam in Yosemite
Not gonna happen. San Francisco owns it and needs the water.
@@cleavetoo Yosemite National Park owns it and it should be used for the people, not by the greedy city
@@chailatte6925 the city is the people they need water to live you make no sense!
a lot of work to make a hill
Yup
So true, remove the dam, seal the rest and let nature do its thing. 22 trillion dollars in debt and we give a shit about a few acres that few will see.
The damage don't to the river after all the water takes many years for mother nature to fix
what? dont understand what you are saying
One thing i really like is seeing dams removed but all th videos of said are dang hyper quick timelapse things a 1 houre video would bebeter
It appears that it was decided to channel the river toward the left when there used to be another branch to the right, and they simply decided to fill that channel in completely and build a kind of artificial meadow over it. I wonder why they went through all that trouble instead of simply clearing out the dam and letting Nature run its course thereafter.
Same. I wish they would have completely removed everything they had added to make the dam, but who know. I do know that there is a video from last year where someone captured the former dam site in at the time, it was in it's current state. There is a big knob of a rock cropping on the right side of the current channel the river is flowing through, and it's clearly natural, so that may have something to do with it. Likely was it's original pathing. You'd need to look at maps there prior to the 1920s to see if it really had two channels.
TheCriminalViolin is correct, the left branch is the original bed of the river. The right branch was dug to divert the river while the dam was being built.
Why in the hell did the US build so many dams in the first place????
Power generation, irrigation control for crops, recreation, flood control
And profit. The construction, and the sale of power makes money for someone.
Camera falls over at 1:30 LOL
they should build a nice vintage bridge over the narrow part..
thoughts ?
What pixel used to be the Dam ??
good job
Makes it look like a piece of cake
Clever
What a waste of time, money and resources. We now have more national debt, higher utility costs and a river that I still can't fish on! As far as me and the rest of the people that grew up here are concerned, the national park service needs to disappear.
Trust me, a bit of real life work, even if it's unneccessary, won't mess up the economy a bit compared to the profiteering that goes on in the higher ranks of the financial market. The people who caused the economy to go tits up have never operated an angle grinder or a shovel in their lifetime.
you do realize that for thousands of years ppl used to depend on the river and the fish that was once there..... you and your ppl need to fk off
What have they turned that plot of land they created into, a parking lot?
No. That is hay to insulate the grass seeds that they have scattered.
Well done eco warriors, brave decision to make and fund this restoration.
Good reinstatement though
look at that bush grow!
What an achievement! Wonderful!!!! Now...will the salmon return?
How sad!!! the destruction of a beautiful historic infrastructure
I'm sure your video is great but the time lapse is WAY TOO FAST. making me nauseous. Can't continue watching
Why Why Why ?
Check out this video for an update on the river's rehabilitation. ruclips.net/video/VipVo8zPH0U/видео.html
A before and after pictures would be nice
Ok mantap sukses semangat mantap mampir 👍
Очень быстро,я не понимаю что происходит .😃🤔
thought I was going to have a seizure watching this...........................way too fast
damn dude
YAAAHHH!!!! LESS ELECTRICITY!!!! Wait......what?
It and the Gline Canyon dam together produced 19 mega watt hours a year.
Should go slower also.
I saw a rainbow
The image is so poor even at .25 speed you cannot see anything but blurs.
This is what I call "progress"!
Waisting money?
@@englishtoday9511 wasting, but no
Very weak video! Some educational narration would help!
I had to stop. Get anti motion sickness meds then hang on.
For every green hydro dam decommissioned, another 100.000 tons of coal needs to be burned to make up the difference.
This dam and the Glines Canyon dam produced 19 mwh a year that is about 1330 tons of coal per year. These dams were over 100 years old. I get that you don't like fish but these things were a disaster waiting to happen.
@@steven4315 i get that you don't like dams
@@jamesm6278 I do like dams but the need to be in the right place. I read up on these dams before commenting and these are the type of old dams that need to be removed. They provided little power, no real flood control and the Klamath River was not part of California's water system.
great! it's better like that.
[ hissing ]
Wish the video was at a slower speed. Way to fast to enjoy.
Nothing to do with coal. We will be burning oil instead of using this renewable resource.
the electricity of this dam was able to be replaced with only 4 wind turbines. Also, the reason the dam was built in the first place was to power an industrial site that no longer exists.
FrJcsc Watch Damnation. Great documentary to put your ignorant comment to shame.
Why
350,000,000 dollar project. What a fucking joke.
Great work but after removal seem a lot of interferance instead of K.I.S.S. river's right them selves with out geotech fabric way to much over thinking. Now the salmon runs are free the main aim of your work.well done.
If it helps, I'm pretty sure that was burlap; it's long since rotted into soil.
Clean, essentially free power? No, thanks.
You think every dam will last forever without issue?
Electricity is such a bad thing ... we should probably go back to oil lamps
It was costing more energy to run and upkeep the dam then it was generating. It was outdated technology. No one is saying electricity is bad.
@@thirtythreeflavors removed for a belief that anything old but functional should be removed? America is standing on 73 trillion in state & fed debt.... how much longer can a spend thrift mentality go on. Hate to inform you, but we cannot afford this govt that does foolish things like this.
@@benbenjamin2385 no interest in restoring salmon habitat at all?
@@harryoest sorry pal, but I'm not buying into your socialist bs ... we need power for our communities do we not? Your not helping fish or people
@@benbenjamin2385 These very old dams produced a grand total of 19mwh a year and were a disaster waiting to happen. Dam removal is very expensive and there is not enough money to even remove just the dams that are a safety hazard.
Seems excessive.
We had a dam and water to spare the fish they loved it an lived without care. There were no floods to wash them inland to die by the hundreds when the water went down. And when it was a drought an when we would have died we didnt know an had fun everyday. The people were safer and came to enjoy but now their all gone no 👧 and 👦s.
It was much too fast to be of any real interest to me but thanks.
Just remember, those in power who want to remove "carbon footprint", are talking about your footprint, not theirs.
The youth do NOT understand this!! They are all "useful idiots" ruclips.net/video/yErKTVdETpw/видео.html who have all been demoralized and will end up giving away our last freedoms thinking socialism is gonna save the west, "communism isnt all that bad" I've heard recently. Dumbest "dumb masses" ever! These Kardash watching...trap rap lit fire flamers, tik thotin, mind controlled internet'ers, have never had a conversation with someone who escaped a communist country, they think capitalism is horrible.....No, we haven't seen capitalism truly, we've seen corruption and a privately owned debt based credit banking system with fake money! I am sad to be labeled a millennial because I am nothing like any of my generation who have been brainwashed by televised programming and the mainstream narrative. Its amazing how the "dumb masses" have lost the ability to critically think and will only understand/probably never understand how/why they/them/he/she/it/whatever tf' BS mind bending insanity " " have been subject to this week, the brainwashed useful idiots will ask for their own imprisonment, ruclips.net/video/tE94KUYcglk/видео.html the mind control is real and so is the war, the unconventional war..... psychological warfare! -Cheers!
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Dams go down, utility bills go up. 🤔
It was old, in poor shape, and wasn't generating much electricity. Better to remove it.
Now do the same at Glenn Canyon Dam
The purpose is to dry up all the river beds so man has to Buy His water , Think out side the box , Look at all the draughts , around the country , and dry rivers Take away the dams and lose the rivers ,
the purpose was to protect salmon
Finally, someone who gets it.
What a waste of tax payer dollars. Blow it up and let it do the work. Probably cost more than 25,000,000 to push dirt around for a few months
Well I guess they can build a coal power plant now to charge all the electric cars good job 👏
This is perfect proof that the Earth is flat and the sun is in our system the sun moves around the Earth
And how is that? I love flat earthers. They make me laugh and really make my day.
People: removed a dam
Flat earther: see!!! The earth is flat!!!
This is how humanity dies, overprotecting fish, it's called the circle of life what happens happens and the fish shouldn't stop us from growing, if the fish knew how to comprehend anything then stop but they don't so what's the difference
@@southwestxnorthwest Thank you
@@southwestxnorthwest Disgusting you should be ashamed of yourself!