Our family were Sandy Point boat campers late 80s/early 90s when Lake Mead was nearly full and made that same voyage upriver into the Grand Canyon. Probably less than 6 feet of vertical drop from highest beach mark to water's edge. Wonderful scenery and memories. Can still recall the starry night sky reflected in the glassy waters of the bay. I'm old now and don't expect even my youngest kids (now in late 30's) to ever be able to experience this again in their lifetimes.
Thanks your kind reply. I have been going to Lake Mead since 1985. My wife and I used to camp at Sandy Point at least 4 times a year for 20 years. Now, we are back at it. We are going to Lake Mohave this weekend and boat camping. I am now 73 and still (Thank God) able to boat and camp. I hope you enjoy our other videos. Look up Lake Powell boat camping Sleekcraft
@@stevewhitton8671 Thanks for the added link. I'm sure that Porta-potty is the same one that was slightly up the slope from our old Sandy Point camping spot. Stunning to see the exposed lake bottom and how far uphill the toilet used to be and what the bottom of the bay now looks like. Best wishes to you.
> Billion/yr more every decade since the early 60s. Overpopulation is the hottest fuel driving climate change. But shit for brains humans and their eco-idiot leadership have always refused to practice zero population growth, and zero kids for those who remarry or otherwise pair up. Humanity's ego and anti-science attitude will spell its own doom.
Thank you for viewing ... Maybe some day I can post pictures of what that area looked like in the mid-90's. We have owned our 26' Sleekcraft for 33 years. We recently got it restored at the time Covid hit. We were fortunate to run our boat throughout 2020 in the great outdoors. I just wish that this drought would end. It seems like the people in charge of this water have mis managed it.
@@stevewhitton8671 i have a '89 sleekcraft open bow mid cabin--i totally rebulit it with 7.4 fuel inj,brand new outdrive,reupolstered--like new blue and white,classy--spent most of life havasu,lake powell--a few trips to mead--it gets a lot of attention when parked--open bow is comfy hot days-me got old,sold it damn it!!!
In the last thousand years the Colorado River basin has had two droughts of over one hundred years each. Humans think these mega-droughts won’t happen in our lifespans. Nature does what nature will.
I love how ignorant people do nothing but blame man made climate change for this. Disregarding history and considering the earth has been doing this for thousands of years. It will come back again, maybe not in our lifetime, but it will
You are correct. Idiots think there is always water That is why the Indians died off all the w. y to Costa Rica. We built cities in the desert . It is a desert .people don't live in a desert
28 June I just saw Utube video of this point, where CO River entewr Lake Mead. Very sad Video was early this year, Colo River is a muddy creek now, not enuf water to keep the lake alive.
As a long time local of Meadview of more than 50 years I have seen the river creep South for many decades by 12-15 feet per year since 2000. Despite a few good years when the water would come up as much as 25 feet we are now faced with a non existent launch ramp at South Cove and a temporary ramp that will be rendered useless once the water drops another 20 feet. This could take place next year if the Rockies sees another 50% snow pack this season. Sadly the Bureau of Reclamation was fully aware this would eventually take place some 80 years ago when they realized they river only produced an average of 10 million acre feet of water per year and not the 14 million acre feet apportioned to the 7 states entitled to this water. In true bureaucratic form nothing was done and they continue to operate as if 14 million acre feet per year exist for the taking. They blame climate change but in reality the river has been very consistent at 10 million acre feet per year since 1900. Greggs basin will be a mud flat short of a miracle and we’ll all be looking to sell off our water toys for 4 wheelers. Still a beautiful place with or without the lake and I have no intention of ever leaving this area, except in a pine box….
Scott, I like what you are saying here. It makes much sense. I think that the last year that we took our boat into the Grand Canyon was '99 or 2000. We started seeing the rock pile under the falls. Then one year we slide onto a sand bar right in front of God's Pocket. Then in 2006, the sand bar was extended all the way through Ice Berg Canyon. Our beaches that we once camped on at the north side of Sandy Point were hundreds of feet from the water's edge. So, it seems like someone in control should have seen the signs and done something about it. When it comes down to it the people who we think are in control really are not
@@stevewhitton8671 Steve, I moved to northern California in 1973, when the "Auburn Dam" was being built. I was 23. I'm now 71. If you know what you're looking for you can still see evidence of where it was going to be built. "Stiiilll Wa-Ting" Reservoirs are 23% -32%. Research aircraft s state, showed acquiicanning the?uo(jj-.
Back in the day when the Grand Canyon used to be accessible by boat from Lake Mead, we witness the brown water mixing with the bluish green water right at the entrance of the Canyon. That would be right around 1998
@@stevewhitton8671 Thank you for the video and the backstory on this area. I do believe that you're the only one here on RUclips that actually has video of the Colorado flowing into Mead. This is the first time that I've ever seen this area here on RUclips. Would love to see where the Colorado flows into Lake Powell next 😎💯
Just for info, your story is the same as ours for the past 25 years. We ran our hallett as far as we could get into the Grand Canyon, till we could go no further at Separation point. However, I started running my small Jon fishing boat up the river from sandy point into iceberg canyon and beyond. Very nice and peaceful as nobody seems brave enough to enter the muddy current. You should be able to go to the base or Pearce ferry rapids and no further. It’s absolutely beautiful.
Thanks for your reply. What kind of Hallett did you have? We probably passed each other on the lake. We feel fortunate to have experienced that portion of the lake
@@stevewhitton8671 I bet we have passed each other. We have a 1991 270 hallett, with colors almost just like yours. Our boats really look alike. My wife and I loved your video because it reminided us of all our trips to Big Sandy and into the canyon. I think I might make another pass up there soon, maybe in the spring. Are there any launch ramps left? I can't decide which boat I'll take, but I really like going into Iceburg canyon and up to Pearces Ferry. Some years ago we get our jon past the rapids, but it's been pretty tough for the last 4 years or so. And Just FYI we live in San Diego but also have a small housed in Lake Havasu.
@@tjaelens Temple Bar remains closed. I do not know what their plans are for that ramp. Calville is still open and I hear Las Vegas Marina is still open. Let us know when you might be planning a trip in Mead
I worked a Callville Bay marina in 98' and 99'. In 98' my roommates and I took wave runners up the canyon and saw a cable across the canyon with a sign that read "No motorized boat". I see you guys going 30-40 miles up. I didn't think we were nearly that far. However, if it wasn't for our dumb buddy that was goofing around and crashed into me and broke my extra gas can, we would've gone as far as we could. We got caught in a thunderstorm coming out and barely made it to Temple Bar marina as they were locking the gas pumps. I guess that was before pay cc at the pumps.
This is very scary stuff ! I live in England,and even I find this disturbing.The people who rely on this water supply are in for a shock.Just looking at where the water level once was,the 'tide mark',you wonder if the water will ever be back up there ? Time will tell.
Hello Norman, thanks for the reply. Water is scarce. Although is rained in the South west recently, the water for Lake Powell Utah and Lake Mead Arizona is dependent on the snow pack in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Without heavy snow pack in Colorado, the 2 lakes will never recover. That is what has been going on since 2003
You need to understand that the Colorado river, out of Colorado, and the Green river out of Wyoming, which feeds into the Colorado, after Flaming Gorge. These two rivers are primarily snow fed. So this time of year, its going to be down. All that can be hoped for is lots of snow to feed both rivers. I believe there is some run off into the Colorado, in Utah, but I'm not sure. This is what happens when too many people decide to live in the desert and want water from one source.
I was at lake mead last week friends and I found shit louds of fine gold in the sands ,we are going back with gold detectors next week major major amounts so fun.
I would read the regulations first. It is prohibited to metal detect and especially remove anything from lake mead because it is a national park .Man made or natural
Just bought a piece of land in Meadview which is close to where Sandy Point is. Haven't really done anything with it. Want to use it to camp and a spring point to go Kayaking. Land there is super cheap. This scares me to the point that I want to sell my home in Las Vegas and go where water isn't an issue. To have to depend on one source of water for a big city like Las Vegas is not a good thing. It is going to take a few good winters of major snow in the Rockies to get the Lake to go up in level. Right now the weather in Vegas is unusually warm and this makes me wonder if it will be a mild winter in the Rockies with not enough snow.
Thanks for the video. The amazing thing - my wife just visited California and she says no one is concerned or knows about this water shortage. It is not even in local conversation with her friends. I guess when the electricity and water gets shutoff, they will get it... and Government officials are reacting way to slow in my opinion.
People that live in California and out there have the mindset that they can just create water out of nothing wouldn't bother me a bit to see him run completely out and then see what they do cuz I think they run the goddamn country.
While drought is no joke and climate changes just like the weather in my opinion the Colorado River looks just fine here. Lake Mead is just a man-made reservoir that isn't naturally supplied enough to support the burden and changing conditions. The southwest has already lost cultures, like the Anasazi and Maya to abrupt climate change. The difference is it's now being televised like a slow train wreck.
South West and CA got 2 choice, fix or keep the water problem! CA got 85,9 m acre foot, Coloumbia river dumps 191,3 m foot into The Pasific every year. Move some water (10%). Make a 365m long tunnel from Red Bluff (Delaware Aqueduct tunnel is 86 miles). NV, AZ, Mexico can then keep more Colorado water (5 million acree feet a year).
I'm hearing Cali has had a bit of rain last month from winter storms that has pushed up Lake Oroville a little bit, but unless the winter remains wet, we all know the reservoirs there and here are going to plummet again once we start hitting the heat next April. Thanks to overpopulation in the big desert cities, everyone will now have to burden the increasing restrictions on water for a long time to come. Lake Mead might not fall as much next year as the rationing comes into force but it will still fall. It may get to the point where Lake Powell might have to be drained to keep the generators turning downstream here. The landscape is a shocking sight to see, the water was clearly way way over where you guys were walking even just 15 years ago. I don't think we will see the water back to max pool again anytime soon.
Understanding the problem so we can understand the solution. Regional mega drought in the southwest, caused by a lot of things but essentially more water is being used and is in one way or another moved out of the region then the amount of water that is re-entered into the region. Conservation has its place but it is not a solution to this problem. The demands on water will not abate without causing complete collapse so the only alternative is to introduce a new source of water. Drawing water from other regional rivers like the Columbia or the Mississippi or Missouri would only move the problem around, draining other regions. The only essentially inexhaustible source of water is the ocean. One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it and if we can do that while generating clean energy we have a chance to mitigate climate change and still have a prosperous future. It is really, really hard but it is not impossible. If I could explain my idea in an equation it would go something like. (seawater from the west coast moved inland + converted by combination geothermal/desalination projects = clean water and clean energy.) The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution. Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions.
Listen folks the moral of this story is: don't build cities where natural resources are not existent to support it. It doesn't matter what you call it, there is a Designer and it will obey Him, not man. This place are still gorgeous, without water creeping into the hundreds of feet or not.
Water shortages and food shortages are caused by the lack of rain and snow or is it more likely, the lack of large amounts electricity to make water. Sunspots, cosmic rays, the Earth's Magnetosphere, jets stream, the amount of salt in the ocean water at the poles, and volcanic dust in the upper atmosphere, may be something you look into. Look at the history of solar cycles like the Modern Eddy Mimium we are now living in. Check the number of days in a now shorter and colder growing cycle we maybe living in as we look to feed the world. Time for a total marketable idea to feed and water the World. Well, well a water well, an old idea, but today we all can make water out of the air. Today we can use solar power, wind power, Wateroter or slow speed turbines, Natrium and or Thorium salt reactors and then use an atmospheric water generator system and make water all day long even in the driest places on Earth. Now let's take it to the next step. I don't sell any of these ideas, or work for any companies I talk about, the question is, is now the time to market a total package and save the planet? How would I change the world. First Trump wants to build a wall, Bill Gates wants to reduce the population, I got a better idea. YES a better idea, that we can build and do today. Just search all these ideas I put together here to solve World problems. The applied future of Natrium or Thorium reactors that can make water and grow food, and can be used to feed the world. Now we start by building a Magnetic Levitation Railroad between San Diego and the Gulf of Mexico to replace the Panama canal for shipping containers traveling at 250 miles per hour. Now also, using the same right of way, build an Irrigation Project to turn the Southern United States and Northern Mexico into a World class agriculture center. How do I power this project by using a liquid fluoride thorium reactor (acronym LFTR; often pronounced lifter) is a type of molten salt reactor. If you search for a map of Thorium deposits in the United States, you can see by the map we have tons of Thorium all over the United States. Check on RUclips and search What they don't want you to know about Thorium, and other Thorium videos. Also search Natrium salt reactors, both types of reactors can be used to make power. What am I going to power with Thorium Reactor or Natrium Reactor? I would build: Atmospheric Water Generators and Seawater Desalination plants. With these plants I would make Electrical power, Drinking water, Irrigation water, mine the ocean for Rare earth minerals. Along the right away I would build fresh water fish farms based on Hydroponics for fish meat and fertilizer. Adding a third Thorium or Natriun reactor and by pumping desalinated sea water to the head waters of all rivers in the area that water would replace water tables through natural filtration into the soil. Projects of this size could feed three to four time the population of the world, by turning the Sahara Desert, Central Africa and Australian Outback into gardens. I have been telling people about this for years. Green houses made of transparent aluminum can be built in the far North and using Thorium or Natrium power plants with seven color LED grow lights, both the North and South poles could also be used to grow food. We can do this today. Eddie Delzer 01/12/2019 Update 7/4/2021 Do you have a nearby moving river or stream? You can now place a slow speed water generator on the bottom of the stream and make power. The unit is called a Wateroter made in Canada. The Wateroters won't harm fish and can be scaled up to meet the needs of small towns or cities. Make the power miles away from the small town, sell the power to the power company than use the power to make water anywhere. Atmospheric water generators can make drinking water and irrigation water, and with a Wateroter, power can be made even in remote regions of the World. You just need moving water in streams, irrigation channels, fish ladders or even waste water outlet's. Garbage treatment plants can also use the power they make burning garbage to make water with atmospheric water generators and storage tanks.
In the 1960s, the lower Colorado above the border was a huge tourist draw. There was boating and skiing, and people bought vacation cabins and homes all up and down the river. Then more and more water was taken out of the river as the suburbs exploded, and now it's uninhabitable. The waterways there still are, are choked with invasive plants. You took your vacation spot for granted, just like those along the southern stretch. I have sympathy for the people who need the water and cant' get it. I have none for your loss of playground.
WE HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE ,LET IT DRY UP AND WITHER AWAY OR WE CAN TURN TO GOD AND WE ARE HIS PEOPLE THAT NEEDS HIS HELP. THERE IS NOTHING TO HARD FOR THE LORD TO DO. SPREAD THE WORD AND PRAY.
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Thx, this was 1 of the better Colorado river views besides from the air
Thank you for the comment and watching our video
Our family were Sandy Point boat campers late 80s/early 90s when Lake Mead was nearly full and made that same voyage upriver into the Grand Canyon. Probably less than 6 feet of vertical drop from highest beach mark to water's edge. Wonderful scenery and memories. Can still recall the starry night sky reflected in the glassy waters of the bay. I'm old now and don't expect even my youngest kids (now in late 30's) to ever be able to experience this again in their lifetimes.
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Thanks your kind reply. I have been going to Lake Mead since 1985. My wife and I used to camp at Sandy Point at least 4 times a year for 20 years. Now, we are back at it. We are going to Lake Mohave this weekend and boat camping. I am now 73 and still (Thank God) able to boat and camp. I hope you enjoy
our other videos. Look up Lake Powell boat camping Sleekcraft
@@stevewhitton8671 Thanks for the added link. I'm sure that Porta-potty is the same one that was slightly up the slope from our old Sandy Point camping spot. Stunning to see the exposed lake bottom and how far uphill the toilet used to be and what the bottom of the bay now looks like. Best wishes to you.
Born and raised in Las Vegas. This breaks my heart. The entire southwest is over built and over populated.
Its beautiful, I plan to retire there ❤
Why don't you leave then?
> Billion/yr more every decade since the early 60s. Overpopulation is the hottest fuel driving climate change. But shit for brains humans and their eco-idiot leadership have always refused to practice zero population growth, and zero kids for those who remarry or otherwise pair up. Humanity's ego and anti-science attitude will spell its own doom.
you boat looks like an awesome daycruiser! Wish we could see before and after fo the drought levels from that area!
Thank you for viewing ... Maybe some day I can post pictures of what that area looked like in the mid-90's. We have owned our 26' Sleekcraft for 33 years. We recently got it restored at the time Covid hit. We were fortunate to run our boat throughout 2020 in the great outdoors. I just wish that this drought would end. It seems like the people in charge of this water have mis managed it.
@@stevewhitton8671 i have a '89 sleekcraft open bow mid cabin--i totally rebulit it with 7.4 fuel inj,brand new outdrive,reupolstered--like new blue and white,classy--spent most of life havasu,lake powell--a few trips to mead--it gets a lot of attention when parked--open bow is comfy hot days-me got old,sold it damn it!!!
In the last thousand years the Colorado River basin has had two droughts of over one hundred years each. Humans think these mega-droughts won’t happen in our lifespans. Nature does what nature will.
Thanks for your comment
I love how ignorant people do nothing but blame man made climate change for this. Disregarding history and considering the earth has been doing this for thousands of years. It will come back again, maybe not in our lifetime, but it will
time to go back to europe white peoples.byebye. Native American prayed for this 100yrs ago. Bless them. Bye buddy.
the sierras have had no snow for as long as 75 years before--shett happens
You are correct.
Idiots think there is always water
That is why the Indians died off all the w. y to Costa Rica.
We built cities in the desert .
It is a desert .people don't live in a desert
28 June I just saw Utube video of this point, where CO River entewr Lake Mead.
Very sad
Video was early this year, Colo River is a muddy creek now, not enuf water to keep the lake alive.
Nice video, it a sad point of lake mead and all of us that relying on it for water.
Thank you for watching. Yes it is sad
When we lived in Henderson/Green Valley for about 6 years the lake was only about 30 feet down. That was the late 80's and early 90's.
thank you for watching our video
Wow we use to go 👍😎 thanks for the video and memories
Thanks for watching. Check out our lake powell boat camping 2021 videos
Where your boat was parked is grass and weeds
As a long time local of Meadview of more than 50 years I have seen the river creep South for many decades by 12-15 feet per year since 2000. Despite a few good years when the water would come up as much as 25 feet we are now faced with a non existent launch ramp at South Cove and a temporary ramp that will be rendered useless once the water drops another 20 feet. This could take place next year if the Rockies sees another 50% snow pack this season.
Sadly the Bureau of Reclamation was fully aware this would eventually take place some 80 years ago when they realized they river only produced an average of 10 million acre feet of water per year and not the 14 million acre feet apportioned to the 7 states entitled to this water. In true bureaucratic form nothing was done and they continue to operate as if 14 million acre feet per year exist for the taking. They blame climate change but in reality the river has been very consistent at 10 million acre feet per year since 1900.
Greggs basin will be a mud flat short of a miracle and we’ll all be looking to sell off our water toys for 4 wheelers.
Still a beautiful place with or without the lake and I have no intention of ever leaving this area, except in a pine box….
Scott, I like what you are saying here. It makes much sense. I think that the last year that we took our boat into the Grand Canyon was '99 or 2000. We started seeing the rock pile under the falls. Then one year we slide onto a sand bar right in front of God's Pocket.
Then in 2006, the sand bar was extended all the way through Ice Berg Canyon. Our beaches that we once camped on at the north side of Sandy Point were hundreds of
feet from the water's edge. So, it seems like someone in control should have seen the signs and done something about it.
When it comes down to it the people who we think are in control really are not
@@stevewhitton8671
Steve,
I moved to northern California in 1973, when the "Auburn Dam" was being built. I was 23. I'm now 71. If you know what you're looking for you can still see evidence of where it was going to be built. "Stiiilll Wa-Ting" Reservoirs are 23% -32%. Research aircraft s state, showed acquiicanning the?uo(jj-.
LETS BUILD MORE HOTELS IN THE DESERT!!!! VIVA LAS VEGAS
@@Jeff-kw8jj that and more drag strips for 10,000 HP boat races
I've never seen the point of the Colorado flowing into Mead. This is an outstanding video thank you for posting this.
Back in the day when the Grand Canyon used to be accessible by boat from Lake Mead, we witness the brown water mixing with the bluish green water right at the entrance of the Canyon. That would be right around 1998
@@stevewhitton8671 Thank you for the video and the backstory on this area. I do believe that you're the only one here on RUclips that actually has video of the Colorado flowing into Mead. This is the first time that I've ever seen this area here on RUclips. Would love to see where the Colorado flows into Lake Powell next 😎💯
Just for info, your story is the same as ours for the past 25 years. We ran our hallett as far as we could get into the Grand Canyon, till we could go no further at Separation point. However, I started running my small Jon fishing boat up the river from sandy point into iceberg canyon and beyond. Very nice and peaceful as nobody seems brave enough to enter the muddy current. You should be able to go to the base or Pearce ferry rapids and no further. It’s absolutely beautiful.
Thanks for your reply. What kind of Hallett did you have? We probably passed each other on the lake. We feel fortunate to have experienced that portion of the lake
@@stevewhitton8671 I bet we have passed each other. We have a 1991 270 hallett, with colors almost just like yours. Our boats really look alike. My wife and I loved your video because it reminided us of all our trips to Big Sandy and into the canyon. I think I might make another pass up there soon, maybe in the spring. Are there any launch ramps left? I can't decide which boat I'll take, but I really like going into Iceburg canyon and up to Pearces Ferry. Some years ago we get our jon past the rapids, but it's been pretty tough for the last 4 years or so. And Just FYI we live in San Diego but also have a small housed in Lake Havasu.
@@tjaelens Temple Bar remains closed. I do not know what their plans are for that ramp. Calville is still open and I hear Las Vegas Marina is still open. Let us know when you might be planning a trip in Mead
I worked a Callville Bay marina in 98' and 99'. In 98' my roommates and I took wave runners up the canyon and saw a cable across the canyon with a sign that read "No motorized boat". I see you guys going 30-40 miles up. I didn't think we were nearly that far. However, if it wasn't for our dumb buddy that was goofing around and crashed into me and broke my extra gas can, we would've gone as far as we could. We got caught in a thunderstorm coming out and barely made it to Temple Bar marina as they were locking the gas pumps. I guess that was before pay cc at the pumps.
This is very scary stuff ! I live in England,and even I find this disturbing.The people who rely on this water supply are in for a shock.Just looking at where the water level once was,the 'tide mark',you wonder if the water will ever be back up there ? Time will tell.
Hello Norman, thanks for the reply. Water is scarce. Although is rained in the South west recently, the water for Lake Powell Utah and Lake Mead Arizona is dependent on the snow pack in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Without heavy snow pack in Colorado, the 2 lakes will never recover. That is what has been going on since 2003
The white peoples will be in europe with you Norman. This is BEAUTIFUL. Native American prayed for this 100yrs ago.
Thanks Steve ‘this is eye opening’’
I am creating a new video with old pictures north of Sandy Point and boating into the Grand Canyon when the water was high
Good time to pick up all the trash before the lake starts to fill up again.
mine was 1978
You need to understand that the Colorado river, out of Colorado, and the Green river out of Wyoming, which feeds into the Colorado, after Flaming Gorge. These two rivers are primarily snow fed. So this time of year, its going to be down. All that can be hoped for is lots of snow to feed both rivers. I believe there is some run off into the Colorado, in Utah, but I'm not sure. This is what happens when too many people decide to live in the desert and want water from one source.
I was at lake mead last week friends and I found shit louds of fine gold in the sands ,we are going back with gold detectors next week major major amounts so fun.
Wow, good luck. Thank for the post. Let me know what you find!!
I would read the regulations first. It is prohibited to metal detect and especially remove anything from lake mead because it is a national park .Man made or natural
Great Job
thank you
Just bought a piece of land in Meadview which is close to where Sandy Point is. Haven't really done anything with it. Want to use it to camp and a spring point to go Kayaking. Land there is super cheap. This scares me to the point that I want to sell my home in Las Vegas and go where water isn't an issue. To have to depend on one source of water for a big city like Las Vegas is not a good thing. It is going to take a few good winters of major snow in the Rockies to get the Lake to go up in level. Right now the weather in Vegas is unusually warm and this makes me wonder if it will be a mild winter in the Rockies with not enough snow.
Good luck with your place. people go down to the Pierce Ferry area from Meadview, as well. I hope that you like your new camping center up there.
Thanks for the video. The amazing thing - my wife just visited California and she says no one is concerned or knows about this water shortage. It is not even in local conversation with her friends. I guess when the electricity and water gets shutoff, they will get it... and Government officials are reacting way to slow in my opinion.
You are welcome. I think education is the key. Certainly, the people in Las Vegas are aware.
check out our boat camping at lake powell videos
What are you expecting from the bumbelheads who currently run Washington? don't expect them to do anything anytime soon.
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This started decades ago.
@umkc73
Lol
This has nothing to do with climate change.
Do your homework.
Demand and expanded storage.
Settling 40-50 million people in the desert probably was not a good idea.
I saw a post 3 days ago saying that they purposely drained the lake
wow
Sign's & wonders, 💖🐕
People that live in California and out there have the mindset that they can just create water out of nothing wouldn't bother me a bit to see him run completely out and then see what they do cuz I think they run the goddamn country.
While drought is no joke and climate changes just like the weather in my opinion the Colorado River looks just fine here. Lake Mead is just a man-made reservoir that isn't naturally supplied enough to support the burden and changing conditions.
The southwest has already lost cultures, like the Anasazi and Maya to abrupt climate change. The difference is it's now being televised like a slow train wreck.
Thank you for your comments
It's overwhelming to me too :(
Hey Mike thanks for the comment. Have you ever been to Lake Mead?
Stories to tell our children...
Yes, and we have many. Almost all the time, our little one was with us. The 1st time we brought our boy out there was 3 months old
South West and CA got 2 choice, fix or keep the water problem! CA got 85,9 m acre foot, Coloumbia river dumps 191,3 m foot into The Pasific every year. Move some water (10%). Make a 365m long tunnel from Red Bluff (Delaware Aqueduct tunnel is 86 miles). NV, AZ, Mexico can then keep more Colorado water (5 million acree feet a year).
Nice to see the natural landscape of the area coming back. Hopefully the drought continues to give back what humans took away.
Thank you for your comments
Time to go back to europe white peoples.byebye. “White humans” took this away please be specific thanks!!!
I'm hearing Cali has had a bit of rain last month from winter storms that has pushed up Lake Oroville a little bit, but unless the winter remains wet, we all know the reservoirs there and here are going to plummet again once we start hitting the heat next April. Thanks to overpopulation in the big desert cities, everyone will now have to burden the increasing restrictions on water for a long time to come.
Lake Mead might not fall as much next year as the rationing comes into force but it will still fall. It may get to the point where Lake Powell might have to be drained to keep the generators turning downstream here. The landscape is a shocking sight to see, the water was clearly way way over where you guys were walking even just 15 years ago. I don't think we will see the water back to max pool again anytime soon.
Understanding the problem so we can understand the solution. Regional mega drought in the southwest, caused by a lot of things but essentially more water is being used and is in one way or another moved out of the region then the amount of water that is re-entered into the region. Conservation has its place but it is not a solution to this problem. The demands on water will not abate without causing complete collapse so the only alternative is to introduce a new source of water. Drawing water from other regional rivers like the Columbia or the Mississippi or Missouri would only move the problem around, draining other regions. The only essentially inexhaustible source of water is the ocean.
One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it and if we can do that while generating clean energy we have a chance to mitigate climate change and still have a prosperous future. It is really, really hard but it is not impossible.
If I could explain my idea in an equation it would go something like. (seawater from the west coast moved inland + converted by combination geothermal/desalination projects = clean water and clean energy.) The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution. Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions.
Funny thing lake mead has many beaches but I don't think it was supposed to have any
For the size of the lake, Lake Mead does not have that many beaches
Listen folks the moral of this story is: don't build cities where natural resources are not existent to support it. It doesn't matter what you call it, there is a Designer and it will obey Him, not man. This place are still gorgeous, without water creeping into the hundreds of feet or not.
Looks like there's plenty of water to me. Some places have none.
Eventually all that man makes will cease to exist. This is an example.
I cannot dispute the truth in your words.
@@stevewhitton8671 Thank you Steve . What is it we know that others cannot see?
Water shortages and food shortages are caused by the lack of rain and snow or is it more likely, the lack of large amounts electricity to make water.
Sunspots, cosmic rays, the Earth's Magnetosphere, jets stream, the amount of salt in the ocean water at the poles, and volcanic dust in the upper atmosphere, may be something you look into. Look at the history of solar cycles like the Modern Eddy Mimium we are now living in. Check the number of days in a now shorter and colder growing cycle we maybe living in as we look to feed the world.
Time for a total marketable idea to feed and water the World.
Well, well a water well, an old idea, but today we all can make water out of the air. Today we can use solar power, wind power, Wateroter or slow speed turbines, Natrium and or Thorium salt reactors and then use an atmospheric water generator system and make water all day long even in the driest places on Earth.
Now let's take it to the next step.
I don't sell any of these ideas, or work for any companies I talk about, the question is, is now the time to market a total package and save the planet?
How would I change the world.
First Trump wants to build a wall, Bill Gates wants to reduce the population, I got a better idea. YES a better idea, that we can build and do today. Just search all these ideas I put together here to solve World problems.
The applied future of Natrium or Thorium reactors that can make water and grow food, and can be used to feed the world.
Now we start by building a Magnetic Levitation Railroad between San Diego and the Gulf of Mexico to replace the Panama canal for shipping containers traveling at 250 miles per hour. Now also, using the same right of way, build an Irrigation Project to turn the Southern United States and Northern Mexico into a World class agriculture center. How do I power this project by using a liquid fluoride thorium reactor (acronym LFTR; often pronounced lifter) is a type of molten salt reactor. If you search for a map of Thorium deposits in the United States, you can see by the map we have tons of Thorium all over the United States. Check on RUclips and search What they don't want you to know about Thorium, and other Thorium videos. Also search Natrium salt reactors, both types of reactors can be used to make power.
What am I going to power with Thorium Reactor or Natrium Reactor?
I would build:
Atmospheric Water Generators and Seawater Desalination plants.
With these plants I would make Electrical power, Drinking water, Irrigation water, mine the ocean for Rare earth minerals. Along the right away I would build fresh water fish farms based on Hydroponics for fish meat and fertilizer. Adding a third Thorium or Natriun reactor and by pumping desalinated sea water to the head waters of all rivers in the area that water would replace water tables through natural filtration into the soil. Projects of this size could feed three to four time the population of the world, by turning the Sahara Desert, Central Africa and Australian Outback into gardens. I have been telling people about this for years.
Green houses made of transparent aluminum can be built in the far North and using Thorium or Natrium power plants with seven color LED grow lights, both the North and South poles could also be used to grow food. We can do this today.
Eddie Delzer 01/12/2019
Update 7/4/2021
Do you have a nearby moving river or stream? You can now place a slow speed water generator on the bottom of the stream and make power. The unit is called a Wateroter made in Canada. The Wateroters won't harm fish and can be scaled up to meet the needs of small towns or cities. Make the power miles away from the small town, sell the power to the power company than use the power to make water anywhere. Atmospheric water generators can make drinking water and irrigation water, and with a Wateroter, power can be made even in remote regions of the World. You just need moving water in streams, irrigation channels, fish ladders or even waste water outlet's. Garbage treatment plants can also use the power they make burning garbage to make water with atmospheric water generators and storage tanks.
Thanks
America builds churches instead of infrastructure.
Should go buy a bimini top that matches your boat.. looks weird
In the 1960s, the lower Colorado above the border was a huge tourist draw. There was boating and skiing, and people bought vacation cabins and homes all up and down the river. Then more and more water was taken out of the river as the suburbs exploded, and now it's uninhabitable. The waterways there still are, are choked with invasive plants. You took your vacation spot for granted, just like those along the southern stretch. I have sympathy for the people who need the water and cant' get it. I have none for your loss of playground.
Cut calli off things will get better 🤙
Good time to sell your boat while u still can. Lol 😆
WE HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE ,LET IT DRY UP AND WITHER AWAY OR WE CAN TURN TO GOD AND WE ARE HIS PEOPLE THAT NEEDS HIS HELP. THERE IS NOTHING TO HARD FOR THE LORD TO DO. SPREAD THE WORD AND PRAY.
Maybe the Lord wants Las Vegas to go away?
Did you ever think about that?
Maybe the lord doesn’t want powerful and beautiful rivers dammed, then drowned.
Yes he will solve all the problems and end all wars maybe he should become the next president and make America great again !
Yes, let us pray for God to bring 40 days and 40 nights of rain and build a huge ark ... But only for the true Christians!
Hahaha ya cause that will help hahaha
FRAKKING AND WASTING FRESH WATER....BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS OF GALLONS...WHERE DID YOURE FISHING HOLES GO FELLAS???
Guy walks 20 feet and is breathing like he just ran a marathon. You need to get more exercise my man you are not healthy
awnnn poor boats, they lost their habitat
I hope the lake drys up a whole eco system was destroyed because of that lake they needed in a desert
actually everyone who eats food or drinks water needs the lake
@@kathleensaelens3556 thank you for your comment
Hey man time to go back to europe white peoples. There is NOTHING you can say.