Gila River Flooding Gillespie Dam Painted Rock Dam 3/26/23
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- Опубликовано: 25 мар 2023
- The Gila River is alive again giving life to the desert. This a rare event that happens approximately once every 20 years. The last time something like this happen was in 2005. Happy to catch this on film. Hope this much needed water keeps coming to the desert.
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Good update, thanks
Looks like today they are doing a big release from Painted Rock. Thanks for documenting this!
I appreciate your video. Certainly answered many questions I had regarding the flow of water being released upstream. Keep up the good work. I think the folks that manage water resources in Arizona do an excellent job.
Nice job, I was curious about the dam this year. The only time the dam ever went to spillway was in 1993. I retired a little more than a year ago from USACE. I was the Supervisor over the dams on the West Coast LA Dist. I'm currently in Thailand. Well done👍🏻👍🏻49
Thank you for posting this video. This is such a blessing, It's so beautiful.
According to Wikipedia, due to the large amount of agriculture upstream of Painted Rock, there are high levels of pesticide contamination in the reservoir area. Where there used to be a campground and recreation in the reservoir, that has been completely closed off.
Nice!
I see water flow from Gillespie about 8 times a year. Usually when it storms and rains. Also usually see people fishing near the dam in the water pool created.
You are right about the DDT that poisons the Gila River. There are no fish in the lake when it forms at the Painted Rock Dam. When the Dam broke back in 1986, it caused flooding of the Tohono O'odham Nation (TON) San Lucy Village (Which was within the Gila River), it completely destroyed the entire village and killed many. Due to not only the damage caused by the flooding but also the DDT levels that now poison the land, The Land is no longer inhabitable by TON.
What dam are you talking about Painted Dam or Gilipse dam, Gilipse broke in 1993.
@@61wayne Painted Rock.
that bridge looks like it hasn’t had any maintenance in decades.
Last time I was at Painted Rock was during the 90s floods and you could go up on the dam. About 15 minutes after we got there, water started to flow over the overflow spillway.......talk about timing.
The farmers or someone else may have tired to blow it up sometime before 1993 flood, but I and uncle was looking at the dam from the road tresel Bridge directly across as a debet in the water line showing .mas amont of water pouring over top with me pointng at it when the dam blew , we ran from from the spot ,seeing part of concrete dam being pushed our way by the burst of water. I can never imagine a flood bigger since 1993, the flood covered the road west of bridge, we had to take a dirt road to get to west side of dam.
Lots of legends on the subject from the locals. Always an awesome place to visit
I wasn't able to make it down that way and wondered about painted damn water area. Had an idea about one day kayaking there if flows permitted now know could be an issue legally. Thanks for sharing:)
The 1993 floods were bad. The gila river was flowing over 35000 cfs at Painted Rock dam.
I think it was just as much water but they managed it alot better releasing slower upstream then that era.
awesome bro. ive worked out there. and have seen those signs. i would never eat anything out of there. sad honestly would be nice a nice place
Any place with or near snow or downstream from snow will be record levels this year for water levels, Mississippi river will flood from Minnesota to Louisiana this year
So the painted rock resivior is currently at capacity and spilling through the floodgates for the first time since 2005, and no one can get there to get the beautiful view of it full, do you have a drone to get some footage of what it looks like now? as of 6/3/23 it's still full
Basically and I'm not even sure if that really legal either. That damn is pretty off limits
Approximately 46 years ago the flood was great enough that water was splashing up onto that bridge deck by Gillespie dam which it was over flowing.
I was just at the Gillespie Dam on Thursday and I was too chicken to put the canoe in. It just looked too fast
Problem is that the flow coming in is filling up the reservoir/lake quick. and whatever flow being released downstream, is already causing issues for certain areas, flooded roads and ag at risk. But they need to release more and at a higher pace or reservoir/lake will overfill! There's a whole discussion about it. We'll see what happens
Couldn't all the water from the Gila and Salt Rivers be caught in the Colorado and dammed for later use?
It's is up stream and at painted rock dam it's replenishing the ground water right now
@@azlongtales Good that's good to know !!!