"No-one alive could recall what the river looked like before the dam, but the river remembered" oh boy... "yo we need a deep line at the end to finish this story" "Agottcha"
Oh yes...and Marmots are also irrelavent as well...that name however..."marmot"...that sort of sounds like some kind of pest or critter that me as a farmer would really WANT to get rid of, eradicate and kill off completely...
Just think how happy those fish are finding their new but ancestral home. We need to support and step up the pace of dam removal for the health of our environment.
Growing up near a river (not nearly as powerful as the Sandy) I noticed as a kid how sediment and rock and rip rap would change in less than a day. Never under estimate the power of flowing water.
Nice to see the river flow free for boaters and fishing. I fully expected the whole dam to go is less time than it did. I expected it to liquefy and go all at once after the initial overflow. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
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I like to see dam breaking videos and watch nature return to normal. Just like man used to think that forest fires were bad, they thought that river flooding was bad as well. Well, just like forests need to burn, rivers need to flood as well.
Lame man. I thought this was about how marmots can make dams and humans came in to clear it. I was like, "Whoa, marmots are like beavers?" Nice marmot.
The fella that is doing all, All the high volume excitedly talking, is happier than a pack of 10 year olds turned loose in any mall and told, “TAKE ANYTHING YOU WANT. AS MUCH AS YOU WANT FOR 6 HOURS.”
I had no idea marmots were dam builders, but we have a few grizzly in Canada we could send down. They LOVE those furry little chunks of meat. Crunchy on the inside, fluffy on the outside.
The calculations probably assumed the sediment was naturally compacted, but behind manmade dams its not really compacted at all allowing for easier flow.
The sandy river never had a lake. 🤔. I used to fish this dam for steelhead. It was slower moving water but never a lake. The dam was basically a waterfall and fish even sat jumping trying to get past it. It didn’t have a ladder either it had a lift trap that fish got caught in and they would lift it up and over the dam.
If this is what a small-ish river did I can only imagine what an outburst mega flood must of looked like and how fast it must of carved away the land. I'm think something like the glacial lake outburst floods.
@@upfrontgaming8889 Who cares ? Are these the only fish in the river ? Stop the predators from eating the fish of you are so concerned about the numbers. Ever heard of "restocking."
@@CynicalDad81 the problem is that while this river is returned to a natural state, most places are just getting worse because we just keep building and polluting everything, a river that hasn't had toxic chemicals and other things of a similar nature poured into it will be fine but a lot of places have been used as dumping grounds for waste and other crap. people are messing shit up
@@Murtagh653 the only issue with your argument is that we really can't do much more about it, the western hemisphere is the cause of less than 20% of the overall pollution on the planet like 80% is China and India and the remainder are the remaining countries around the world, its all well and good to care about the environment but you're preaching to the wrong people if you want sources it'll take me some time to find them again
Whos the loon in the yellow mac ? the local 'special' ? "Hey, Dwayne, go pull yer brother Cletus back. He be getting all muddy". "Ok, Ma, Cletus you 'tard get over here next to the Chevy afore I come whip yer arse, and for godsake put it away and pull yer britches up".
Good determiner of the conditions if a land slide occurred somewhere along the river. There was a very large landslide in the American river along Highway 50 in the Sierra Nevada mountains years ago. Seems that nature will just compensate as well as the creatures. Humans get all bent out of shape when nature happens and are determined to study it for whatever reason. There was a 80 yo dam removal in Italy or Spain on RUclips that they just let the river wash the sediment away.
It's good to see humanity doing the right thing. For the longest time our countries highest goal was to "master nature" those are the words they used. To make nature work for us. It was what is call, "Hubris, excessive pride or self-confidence" Nature will have her way whether it is to our collective destruction or is allowed to be the tender mother that provides all we NEED. I used the word need in caps to draw our over use of Want.
I fished that section of the Sandy for decades, caught more sucker fish than salmon or trout. with the dam gone those sucker fish can swim all the way to the new spawning grounds, nothing improved for the salmon.
Any self-respecting fluvial geomorphologist would have easily predicted the entire sediment load would be washed away promptly. These doofuses are just putting on a show
You just hit the bulls eye. Truer words have never been spoken. Humanity believes that we are the Rulers Of Earth, the Controllers Of Destiny, the Masters Of Time & Space. In truth, we are just one more organism on this planet that has no more significance than a T-Rex, a Wombat, a tiger, a slug, an amoeba. And like the dinosaurs of ancient earth, we too will be gone forever from this beautiful planet. Just one more failed mutation, joining a long list of past life. Who will dig up our fossils? What species will unearth the remnants of a shopping mall and speculate on the culture that once lived there, as we now do with the Mayans, Incas, Aztecs? It warms the heart to know the earth can shake us off like a dog that shed fleas.
The model shows the coffer dam washing out from below, so where do they put the forklift? Hey the dam might wash out under me, but don't be silly I'm still gonna send ittttt.
These guys study the flow of water. . Are surprised that a flood of water wipes out a dam in a number of hours. They should go check out mount Saint Helens, that canyon happened in a couple of days.
When the Expert says "What disappeared in a night, i expected in a whole winter in flood"....I would be fucking petrified of what winter will do. At best its ill-thought through at worst whole sections of land/ road / Infrastructure could be under cut.
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Get you a partner that loves you like that hydrologist loves his job.
That one guy is too excited to see a dam burst xD
"No-one alive could recall what the river looked like before the dam, but the river remembered"
oh boy...
"yo we need a deep line at the end to finish this story"
"Agottcha"
That would have been a perfect ending...
I don't get it, what does agottcha mean
Rofl exactly.
I didn't even know marmots built dams. Looks a lot more solid than a beaver dam.
good one.
Robert Coates
Oh yes...and Marmots are also irrelavent as well...that name however..."marmot"...that sort of sounds like some kind of pest or critter that me as a farmer would really WANT to get rid of, eradicate and kill off completely...
they are amazing creatures. i love them
Never met a dam beaver i didn,t like. Lol. Mark.
Just think how happy those fish are finding their new but ancestral home. We need to support and step up the pace of dam removal for the health of our environment.
I caught a nice wild above the dam a few years back. They are liking it
One of the coolest damn removals I have seen so far. Very interesting approach, well done!
The genuine excitement someone can have is lovely to see :D
DID HE SHOOT HIS LOAD
That was very cool. Shows the power of water as well. Fascinating how quickly it cleared that sediment.
Growing up near a river (not nearly as powerful as the Sandy) I noticed as a kid how sediment and rock and rip rap would change in less than a day. Never under estimate the power of flowing water.
The notch becomes a full fledged waterfall…
and the forklift operator is off to one side changing his trousers and hosing off his ass and thighs.
Yeah he was beyond useless some time prior, just a liability.
Nice to see the river flow free for boaters and fishing. I fully expected the whole dam to go is less time than it did. I expected it to liquefy and go all at once after the initial overflow. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
I like how existed he got. Obviously they have small models but seeing it in real world is always better. Assume it's a first for him.
The coloured smoke isn't "special effects", it's nitric oxide
generated by the incomplete combustion of the ANFO used for the shot.
С Лёвой стороны 2 экскаваторами за 3 часа прорыть канал !!!
Река дальше промоет сама !!!
3 суток и 1000 & все стоило бы )))
Умеют осваивать деньги в Дженирал электрик )))
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💪🏿
"release the river !!!"
Always loved the Ents saying that.
I like to see dam breaking videos and watch nature return to normal. Just like man used to think that forest fires were bad, they thought that river flooding was bad as well. Well, just like forests need to burn, rivers need to flood as well.
Great project! Good to give it back to nature.
That was loose soil. Of course it would wash it out. It’s like taking a garden hose to an ant pile
Look at all the experts in the comments.
"He.. hey man, this is a private residence.... nice marmot."
Nice marmot! ,Uhhh ahhh far out mannn, fcking faaar out!
No Marmots were harmed during the filming of this presentation.
The engineer is getting his cookies off - what a jerk!
I saw the title...and thought...."MARMOTS MAKE DAMS?"
Lame man. I thought this was about how marmots can make dams and humans came in to clear it. I was like, "Whoa, marmots are like beavers?" Nice marmot.
You tube really screwed up the comments by taking them out of order, responses make no sense.
Great show thanks for posting!
the most interesting thing was that the model really works, it happens the same way they predict, good job
8:05
The fella that is doing all, All the high volume excitedly talking, is happier than a pack of 10 year olds turned loose in any mall and told,
“TAKE ANYTHING YOU WANT. AS MUCH AS YOU WANT FOR 6 HOURS.”
That's awesome, it's basically a giant stream table lol
I had no idea marmots were dam builders, but we have a few grizzly in Canada we could send down. They LOVE those furry little chunks of meat. Crunchy on the inside, fluffy on the outside.
The calculations probably assumed the sediment was naturally compacted, but behind manmade dams its not really compacted at all allowing for easier flow.
they need to let the loacol miners and gold sifters in there first.
0:48 that should have been me
That was pretty neat to watch thanks
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.
That lake was completely silted in anyway. Manmade lakes are only good for about 80 years.
The sandy river never had a lake. 🤔. I used to fish this dam for steelhead. It was slower moving water but never a lake. The dam was basically a waterfall and fish even sat jumping trying to get past it. It didn’t have a ladder either it had a lift trap that fish got caught in and they would lift it up and over the dam.
If this is what a small-ish river did I can only imagine what an outburst mega flood must of looked like and how fast it must of carved away the land. I'm think something like the glacial lake outburst floods.
Cool, and a couple good rainstorms will clear the rest :)
Sometimes it really is amazing how quickly the Earth will fix itself once humans stop fucking around with it.
Just shows that we aren’t really messing anything up too bad by our activities. Tree-Huggers all upset about nothin.
How m@ny fish did the sediment kill though and change their habitat that they adapted to
@@upfrontgaming8889 Who cares ? Are these the only fish in the river ? Stop the predators from eating the fish of you are so concerned about the numbers. Ever heard of "restocking."
@@CynicalDad81 the problem is that while this river is returned to a natural state, most places are just getting worse because we just keep building and polluting everything, a river that hasn't had toxic chemicals and other things of a similar nature poured into it will be fine but a lot of places have been used as dumping grounds for waste and other crap. people are messing shit up
@@Murtagh653 the only issue with your argument is that we really can't do much more about it, the western hemisphere is the cause of less than 20% of the overall pollution on the planet like 80% is China and India and the remainder are the remaining countries around the world, its all well and good to care about the environment but you're preaching to the wrong people
if you want sources it'll take me some time to find them again
That one guy is really glassin'
On the Trans-Canada Highway!
A solid blend of engineering and geology porn
Thank you for caring about our world...
Is the Narrator Danny Harmon? Sounds like him from some of the Train Watching videos I've seen...........
Nice Marmot man!
6:01” the last heavy machine happens to be a forklift” so the 2 excavator’s must have been light weight toys
When we were young, we did the best we could with what we knew. When we knew better , we did better. .... (paraphrasing Maya Angelou )
I doubt i was the only one who clicked to see little rodents building a damn. Oh well.
Guilty...I was thinking...marmots build dams?
Damn, that dam removal was pretty damn cool.
I hope you took some dam pictures!. M.
Whos the loon in the yellow mac ? the local 'special' ? "Hey, Dwayne, go pull yer brother Cletus back. He be getting all muddy". "Ok, Ma, Cletus you 'tard get over here next to the Chevy afore I come whip yer arse, and for godsake put it away and pull yer britches up".
THAT GUY IS SO EXCITED, LOVE TO SEE HIM AT A STRIP CLUB
So how much did all this re-routing of the river, setting up the temporary dam, and demolishing the old dam cost?
i think they said 17 million
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Nice :) River back to natural quite quick. Lets hope it remains wild and pure a very long time!!
Imagine the amount of gold accumulate in those gravel and black sand!
must be some big ass marmots to build this
A good example of how the Missoula Floods eroded so much so quickly.
Water is powerful and dangerous. Cool to watch!
Gonna assume that dude with the chubby over the dam collapse is single...
Absolutely fascinating 3 cheers for old Ma Nature !!!!
this guy is like the train guy
that last dude sounds exactly like H3
Anyone thought of running that sediment through a trommel? There’s has to be a build up of gold over the century the dam was there
Good thinking, but there are no mineral deposits in the area.
That guy is a little too excited with the model dam...
I love this dam video!
It was pretty dam good, glad i took some dam pictures
Great video thanks
this would be really fun to do and watch. It's like playing in the creek x1000
Great news indeed!I wonder what old Woody Guthrie would make of this development?
Love the model dam 🙂
Now capture the water before it spills into the Pacific, and redirect to natural aquifers inland. Fresh water is gold.
Nobody heard about the Clean Water Act on this job? Avoidable discharges of earthen fill material? Hello?
When Mother Nature wants something, she'll get it, even if it takes her awhile.
A BIG SKY well done!
Good determiner of the conditions if a land slide occurred somewhere along the river. There was a very large landslide in the American river along Highway 50 in the Sierra Nevada mountains years ago. Seems that nature will just compensate as well as the creatures. Humans get all bent out of shape when nature happens and are determined to study it for whatever reason. There was a 80 yo dam removal in Italy or Spain on RUclips that they just let the river wash the sediment away.
WOW ! i would of loved to see of seen that close up !
You mean you would HAVE loved to HAVE seen it.
Us humans think we're so smart, but mostly we don't know shit when it comes to how the Earth works.
So damn cool!!!
It's good to see humanity doing the right thing. For the longest time our countries highest goal was to "master nature" those are the words they used. To make nature work for us. It was what is call, "Hubris, excessive pride or self-confidence" Nature will have her way whether it is to our collective destruction or is allowed to be the tender mother that provides all we NEED. I used the word need in caps to draw our over use of Want.
The battle goes on and no matter what, earth is huge and earth will win.
all these hippies so happy for the fish, they even saved some from "drowning". Not a reason to destroy a dam. what a waste.
I fished that section of the Sandy for decades, caught more sucker fish than salmon or trout. with the dam gone those sucker fish can swim all the way to the new spawning grounds, nothing improved for the salmon.
Any self-respecting fluvial geomorphologist would have easily predicted the entire sediment load would be washed away promptly. These doofuses are just putting on a show
This has been done before in Southern California; letting the new flow wash away sediment downstream (after damn removal).
I caught a 24# steelhead just below marmot damn 15 years ago.
Lesson here: water is more powerful than we give it credit for.
that was good
Good to know that nature can eliminate the petty work of humans in a short time.
You just hit the bulls eye. Truer words have never been spoken. Humanity believes that we are the Rulers Of Earth, the Controllers Of Destiny, the Masters Of Time & Space. In truth, we are just one more organism on this planet that has no more significance than a T-Rex, a Wombat, a tiger, a slug, an amoeba. And like the dinosaurs of ancient earth, we too will be gone forever from this beautiful planet. Just one more failed mutation, joining a long list of past life. Who will dig up our fossils? What species will unearth the remnants of a shopping mall and speculate on the culture that once lived there, as we now do with the Mayans, Incas, Aztecs? It warms the heart to know the earth can shake us off like a dog that shed fleas.
congrats, you just proved that climate change shit is a scam. you played yourself
The model shows the coffer dam washing out from below, so where do they put the forklift? Hey the dam might wash out under me, but don't be silly I'm still gonna send ittttt.
Best time to go looking for some gold
These guys study the flow of water. . Are surprised that a flood of water wipes out a dam in a number of hours. They should go check out mount Saint Helens, that canyon happened in a couple of days.
Ruined fishing spots all over the river :(
ahahahahhahaha
very cool
What's the point if the river has dried anyway
A Hydrologist's wet dream come to life.
AMAZIN
Nice Marmot
go to 6:57 and turn the playback speed to .25
When the Expert says "What disappeared in a night, i expected in a whole winter in flood"....I would be fucking petrified of what winter will do. At best its ill-thought through at worst whole sections of land/ road / Infrastructure could be under cut.
Damn now this YT video is 7 years old
It seems that 62 dams were removed in the U.S. in 2015.
That is a telehandler, not a forklift.
Thay explosion didn't loosen anything up. Great publicity stunt though.