Lake Mead South Cove Closes - Episode 3 - Water Level Crisis
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
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A Documentary Series by Eric Mooneyham that includes, background info on the Colorado River collection system, where the water comes from, where it goes, usage and restrictions, time-lapse imagery of the 20 year drought, South Cove Launch repairs, disaster, recovery, and eventual closure, the primitive launch on a rocky point only for the brave, and more ...
Credits, Attributions and Thanks
Google Earth Studio
Water Education Foundation
Side Scan Sonar Consulting
Las Vegas Review Journal
California Historical Society Collection
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
waterandpower....
kappa.org
AZCENTRAL
Mark Henle/The Republic
Review Journal Las Vegas
Randy Glaser - South Cove Water Level Facebook
Mohave County Sheriffs Department
Southern Nevada Water Authority Bronson Mack
CBN News
Don Martin
Eli Booth
Sherri Block, Brianne Simon - Paddleboarders
Cheryl Frey - South Cove 1970’s
Mitchp Rocky Mountain Snow Melt
National Park Service
Wikipedia
Music Kevin Maccleod - Long Road A
David Owen, Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River, Riverhead Books, New York, NY (2018); 274 pp; ISBN 978-1-594633-77-5.
By Shannon1 - entirely my own work/topographic data from DEMIS Mapserver, PD, CC BY-SA 4.0
Mercury News
Bureau of Reclamation
Southern Nevada Water Authority
arachnoid.com
Wirestock
mjthomas1 Pixabay
Wall Street Journal
Thank you for sharing
Nature taking back its land
Yes, thanks
That was some great pictures. Enjoyed the tutorial. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Fabulous presentation here. The diminishing rapid is fascinating.
Thank you!
Those are some pretty shaded characters launching at Pearce Ferry. Great work as always Eric.
Thank your, never been out west. Known about the problem for some time but finally got a great visual. Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Keep building homes that will surely solve the water shortage!
It boggles my mind that they (the politicians) running these cities know full well the crises going on at our lakes they (Like you said) keep building houses, casinos, etc as if they have not a care in the world!!!! IDIOTS!!!!
Quit shitting out kids that will need housing in a few years
I have video of a boat/camping trip I did with my dog in 96 up the lake and camped not far from Pearce Ferry. sure is sad to see how much it has changed
Less than a century ago, a geologic blink of the eye, it was all desert, and, unless there is a decade or more of massive snow falls on the Colorado Plateau, the desert will reclaim what it has always owned.
Funny, it was human genius that created the lake, and human stupidity that is drying it up.
What human stupidity are you talking about?
This is so well done. I checked it out for my self. God's Pocket is my favorite place on the Lake
Me too!
Just saw this and was going to send it to you!
Great episode!
Thanks Eric, Great video & no computer generated voice or propaganda! TYRR
You're welcome! You might like the coming Episode 4 as it will have the last days of difficult launching, the launch repair effort, the tragic loss of the tractor in the lake, and the recovery.
The following confirmed what we are seeing today.....Demand has out paced supply or the ability to replenish itself. Case in point wells were under 100 feet below the ground, now today they are 100's to 1,000 of feet down. That is not environmental its is over pumping. Nearly 100 years ago the federal government did a study of the area and they stated long term it is unreasonable to believe the supply of water would be constant and to develop there would be problematic. Never did they realize how many homes or business are there now.
The Bureau of Reclamation's Upper Colorado and Lower Colorado
Regions, in collaboration with representatives of the seven Colorado
River Basin States in June 2009 to fund the "Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand
Study" under Reclamation's Basin Study Program. In September 2009, the
Study was selected for funding.
The Study confirmed what most experts know: there are
likely to be significant shortfalls between projected water supplies
and demands in the Colorado River Basin in the coming decades.
You get it, most don't.
Enjoyed your video, excellent!
Many thanks!
I enjoyed your videos, nice aerial shots btw.
Thank you! Glad you like them.
I wonder how much different it looks now in August of 2022
I'll try to get a photo of it now
Here is a photo of South Cove launch ramp as of yesterday. photos.app.goo.gl/zPVGXgzHWfe27kkx5
@@arizonaeric9598 so sad to see such a beautiful resource dwindling away right before our eye's☹
If you want another dramatic contrast of environmental change, check out photos of Alaska glaciers in the 1980’s and now. Bye, bye!
I won't live where it doesn't rain on my roof ,,, won't be dependent on water delivery from hundreds and thousands of mile away
Happy New Year Eric
Happy New Year Steve!
Wow man the Colorado is really dissapearing isn't it
My son works with the river rafters in the Grand Canyon and everyone he works with are worried
I have lived in Las Vegas 62 and the water problem departments problem so Blame this low water on the water department and the legislature in Las Vegas they keep letting houses be built multi level apartments and condos and furnishing water to these new structures stop it, stop give it out permits to build homes rental homes apartments stop it blame it on the legislature blame it on the water authority they're the one who lets permits go out to use the water it's the water department who keeps giving out permits for the use of water stop it, it's your fault start but you won't being smart they use the word tears on the level of water we use no that's wrong do you charge us up to $1000 for a gallon of water think about it water department wake up quit being dummies legislature start taking responsibility.
Telling us looking north south east west would be nice
I agree, and thank you for your response, because it gives my a chance to respond to others who are probably thinking the same thing. I struggled with that. I had a version detailing everything, including what you have pointed out and friends said it was way too much information for anyone to absorb in a short youtube video and that I needed to tame it to a wider audience. A famous director once said that people, at best, can absorb 2.5 things at any one time. Everything else goes right over the top like a fully absorbed sponge. Watching visuals counts for 1, music/score counts for 1, narration counts for 1, annotations, titles count for at least 1, I'm terrible at math, where are we at here already? Soon Episode 4, which steps it up a bit.
@@arizonaeric9598 interesting. I will use this info for my channel.
Excellent as usual, Eric. Will you have more chapters? Julie
Thank you. Yes. Looking like Episode 4 will be the South Cove repair effort and tractor tragedy. Episode 5 will cover the daredevils, risking it all to find a nearby primitive rocky point to continue launching.
We have a home in Meadview and we were there the day they moved the grates away from shoreline closer to the dock to help the larger boats. When I tried launching my Malibu the grate was not level and my trailer rudder guard hit the grate three inches away from dropping in.
NPS crew had just finish and saw they needed to fix. So on Monday they went to fix and oops!! Episode 4 will tell the rest.
We have been coming to South Cove since the mid ‘90’s, my father in laws longer. We’ve raised our four kids enjoying Meadview summer and winter. Taking our boat up the river into the Grand Canyon, it is sad to see the decline and I’m worried it will never recover and South Cove will be no more. Praying for Snow in Colorado!!🙏🏻🙏🏻
WHAT is so bad? Mother nature
is Supreme!! Think about that?
how deep is the plane now?
I don't know but not nearly that deep now. We have been losing 1 foot every 4 days.
The water level is about 135 feet less today than it was in 2001. So if it was at 200foot depth in 2001 then it's at less than 100foot deep now where the plane is. I read somewhere where it said the plane was at 280 foot depth then in 2001, if that's correct then it should be about 150. I dunno which is correct.
I was at the London Bridge-in Lake Havasu City the day before the sand was removed belo the newly erected London Bridge. I was motorcycling cross country and stopped on the huge bank erected for the bridge construction. I was ordered off the dyke by a construction Forman Telling me that they were going in to let the water flow below the bridge the next day. It was spectacular to see the rushing water! Only a memory now. Water IS Life. Now live without it.
Once in a lifetime thing!
the party's over it's never coming back
You got that right
Look up the story of Charles Mallory Hatfield...
Yeah, fairytales aren't going to solve this problem.
So quit wasting so much water, but it being california there is no way to get anything done
The fact that the Colorodo river authority divided up between the States 50% more water tham actually existed 80 years ago....let alone now...is the basis of this.problem
That's sad
Yet they grow Lettus in Yuma. Almonds in California. We are not running out of water. We are running out of common sense.
Yup for profit agriculture is the problem. Time regulate the crops they grow and stop wasting water.
God felt really bad for destroying us humans last time, so this time, we get to destroy ourselves 👑
Weird that there is absolutely zero evidence of that.
@@justsomeguy6474 you might wanna research that again. EVERY BIT OF LAND WAS ONCE UNDER WATER. THEY'VE ALREADY FOUND FOSSILS THAT PROVE IT. If you stayed in school you would know that. You obviously dropped out.
STAY SAFE IF YOU CAN! 🇺🇸
isee overuse ..put the populations that it serves up with the dates and water levels
It's not the population growth causing the water issues. The Bureau of Reclamation's own data shows that over 80% of the water is being used to irrigate crops, which is feeding America.
That's what happens when you sell land to other countries. There growing for them selves and there countries that's where a lot of are waters go to there farms
You have that right
Man made lake what does one expect?
In a desert of all places lol.. the water level has been dropping for over 20 Year's little at a time.. 😆😆
Well the Colorado was fine until Europeans invaded these lands. Don’t blame politicians blame the pilgrims.
. Your better get Hoover back here, to look at it again . hard life (MULDEW)