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Hydro Electric Intake Dam Flooding
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- Опубліковано 12 гру 2020
- Last night and this morning we had quite a lot of rain. I thought the viewers of the hydro electric system would be interested in seeing the stream in full flood.
Kris, Sorry you had to get wet to show us hard heads the scope of the stream volume, but as they say a picture is worth a 1000 words. Thanks for your dedication to keep us informed!
Yeah Kris, you show those self-professed armchair experts! It should have been clear all along that you know what you're doing. I noticed your own runoff is clean water compared to the muddy slush you get from above
@@09conrado Yeah thats right, all the run off from my land is clear due to the trees and wild grasses. above is quite a few tracks and steel hills so there is a bit of mud in the water. its mostly clay though not topsoil.
@@KrisHarbour we are fairly close to you as the crow flies(i think) our river the pollema used to run rust red 20 years ago we are told. we have had the local councillor at our place as the river has smelt of poo (nice)
That's why they say live on your land for a full year, experience all the seasons, see what happens where and when. Great video in the rain! ☔☔☔
Wise words
From tranquil trickle to raging torrent. Wouldn't have believed it unless you'd shown us . Great video , enjoy your Sunday
I still dont believe it! - youtube logic :)
Thanks for posting and sharing “A Little Sunday Video in the RAIN!”
I agree, it's extreme conditions like this when your minimalistic overbuilding proves itself.
When I hear Chris say something will not work, I just go with it.
I can see that but it’s a bit of a “sheep” attitude. I like to fine tune things until they are the best that i can make them but i’m always open to new ideas if they are better.
I think it’s good that people want to help Kris with their own ideas, sharing information makes us all smarter.
Excellent. I'm always impressed by your ability to teach. Not many have that gift, much less use it with tact and grace. Thank you for that.
Hi mate, love your content. I’m buying land next year and living off grid and your vids have been a blessing to me this year. Watching the way you do things has helped me create ideas and form plans. Looking forward to the greenhouse to be finished, I love how everything you do is as strong and aesthetic as can be, even if it takes weeks or months longer, more time in the countryside! Respect!
Thanks Kris that was a great help in understanding how your system operates in such volumes of water. stay safe J.
Been waiting for years to see the creeks with a heavy flow, thank you.
Hi Kris 👍 thanks for this video update 👍 hope you got that fire 🔥
Thanks for showing us how you tamed the river enough to meet your needs. Learning so very much. Enjoy your videos.
Nice one Kris, gutted all that energy is ending up in the sea , who would have thought , heavy rain in Wales - great planning mate !
Just what I expected. I owned a property once with an even smaller trickle and when the rains got heavy it was amazing what it turned into. A nice hot shower, a warm fire and a hot cuppa look to be in order. Cheers!
Nice stream video. I loved watching my creek flooding in the rare year. It's a force. Fun.
Thank you for the full explanation!
Holy wow -- Myth...busted. Thanks for taking a swim to show it all to us! :D
I have a stream just like this in my garden and the flash floods are something only someone who lives near a mountain river will ever appreciate!
It's crazy what this guy knows: besides woodworking, I've seen him do electrical, framing, gardening/farming, and hydrology
I'm sure I forgot a lot
Dude's a renaissance man
Dear Kris Harbour.
👍👌👏 Good heavens, that's a lot of water. Unfortunately it can't be stored for the dry season (as long if you don't dig an enormous pond). ;-)
Thanks a lot for showing us the force of nature. Hope the dirt in the water and the erosion will do no harm to your off grid water power turbine.
Best regards, luck and health to all of you.
Don't think there is a dry season in Wales!
Thank goodness for the rain, it gives our country such beauty in spring and summer. Another interesting video 🌈
Welsh weather forecasting: "If you can't see the mountains from here then it's raining. If you can see the mountains from here then its going to rain!" :)
Roflmao XD
Sounds a bit like how a German friend that lives in scotland described their weather.
She complained that she couldn't hang the washed clothes to dry outside, because even when the summer sun was shining full on, the air was so moist that it would condense in the clothes on her body as soon as she got out of the door, soaking her through in minutes XD
Florida weather forecasting.
Boss:"Not raining on this side of the building, get back to work."
Employee: " Check the other side boss."
Also applies to which side of the road you are on as a median strip can divide bright sunshine and a full on rain storm.
@@gravelydon7072 It was the same in upstate NY where I grew up. The most common winter forecast would be blizzard conditions north of the Thruway. I worked at a gas station that was right at a Thruway exit. Many times I would leave work and it wouldn’t be snowing or just lightly coming down. Within yards of going under the overpass going home it would be an absolute whiteout. It was uncanny how the highway demarcated the snow bands.
Something strangely comforting about this video. It's as though you are in your own secluded kingdom.....
What a treat, showing in a storm on Sunday. Love your style too
lol, old-man cane pointing at what looks like a small river - "yeah this here, this is the water"
All you need is a nice polished stone on your walking stick and you'll transform into Gandalf :)
Chris is Gandalf the Brown now. No polished stone issued for Brown's. A few more year he will graduate to Gray. :)
Hope he should not fight Balrog for evolution)
A hat!
Well, but showing us those floods, I could imagine him bellowing (remember, he really had to shout hard to get heard over that hell of a noise) "YOU! SHALL! NOT! PASS!!!" 😂
Apart, I'd rather compare Kris to Radagast the Brown. 🧙♂️ Think of his affinity to animals, especially his cat! 🐈⬛
Great to see you, hope you stay warm and dry. Maybe take it easy on that ankle, a good hot Epson salt soak, and pumpkin soup.💚👍🙏🐱
I just finish watching the entire playlist for you electric hydro system. Well done mate!!! its nice to see your progress and the learning curve! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Have a blessed Sunday kris 🙌🏼
Yeah, there's a lot of living force in that rain overflow compared to the normal flow...
To be fair, given that Wales is a mountainous region with a western coastline, where the prevailing winds bring rain off the Atlantic, influencing the most common jokes about Wales, it’s hard to figure out why anyone was able to maintain a mental image of an idyllic little stream at all.
Streams and small rivers are LEAST able to cope with large variations in rainfall. Big rivers generally only flood in wide low flat valleys, and these days due to excess water being released from dams upstream.
I Africa, rivers reduce to a trickle, then totally dry up, or disappear underground in the dry season.
But small amounts of rain in the hills cause them to become dangerous raging torrents in a matter of minutes!
Growing up in a mountainous area, I can attest that big river flood not just in wide, flat spots. Even in a deep and narrow valley, going from 1000 m^3/s to 5000 m^3/s at peak flow causes flooding and erosion every year. Those are numbers from a typical mountain river with no dams, the Skeena, that I grew up next to. Rivers with dams tend to flood less, as the dams are almost always used for flood control in addition to electrical generation. Flood control leads to other problems, especially in agricultural areas where the floods fertilise soils.
I live near the Negev desert - you won't believe the intensity of flash floods we have down here, they'll wash off a loaded truck of the road like it's nothing. Clay soils with little no non top soil cause that as far as i know
I guess you stoked the fire up before you went out, ready to dry beside it after the filming. Thanks for sharing.
very cool - nice demonstration of the power of water
It's great to show the reason behind all of your setup. This shows how much you plan what you're doing.
Always love the Hydro videos.
Wow! Your waterfall is gorgeous! So much stuff you could do to beautify it!
Whoa! The forces of nature. Beautiful and dangerous at the same time. Love your videos. Cheers from Canada.
lovely english rainy day.... This summarizes the power of nature. Thanks Kris!!
Welsh!
Wow! That is a lot of water coming through your property all at once! I hope the level will go down and not do any damage!Thank you for sharing the video!
Gotta love miserable weather. Wind and rain equals power, great job mate
Love it, the entire video is “hey comment section, this is why you’re wrong” but it’s way nicer! +1
Ah that's why Wales is so green and beautiful 💚
Nice end to my Sunday that I’m addicted to your videos. We need more content. Keep it coming.
We always enjoy watching your videos, one thing's for sure, it's not going to stop raining any time soon.. I feel this is the new 'normal' and you were right not to span the stream. Keep up the great work with your project. We're looking forward to sunnier times next year in every sense, show us your planted trees in the spring :-)
SUPER COOL to see all the work you’ve done INCREDIBLE JOB !!
Thanks for getting wet and show us the power of nature. This is really impressive! I wish you could build yourself a huuuge reservoir for the dry times and catch all the water for your turbine.
That fire going to feel good when you get back inside. Thanks for going to the trouble to show us.
There's only a small spit of land between the hydroelectric intake and the overflow... Do you think you'll need to plant something on that area to help prevent erosion?
Holy cats - ha. Lots of water! Wish I could visit sometime - it’s like a wonderland there. Lots of stories so far. Have seen most of the videos.
Mother Nature doing what she does best!
Keep up the good work living alongside her in such harmony Kris.
M
Only Kris could make a positive out of a negative, good on you mate I am totally inspired.
Nice little Video. Was nice to see what happenes when there is a little too much rain at your place...
Watching this hydro series I'd been wondering whether deepening the header pond to act as a silt trap might be beneficial, but assumed Kris has considered and rejected this... and now I see why!! I also wondered about erosion control, thinking back to my upland footpath buiding days where the golden rule for drains/culverts and bridges over watercourses was that the cross section of the drain must be at least equal to the area of the feeder gulley or the path WILL wash away! (upland footpath work is 99% water management). The same cross section rule would apply to channelling the peak flow over the top of the dam to avoid erosion, but this would require higher dam walls feeding very robust (probably concrete) spillways. I guess Kris has also considered this and probably rightly decided "While it ain't a problem why fix it?" Great video and great series which I've just discovered and thoroughly enjoyed binge watching! Also really cool to see how Kris's knowledge and the tech have mutually developed over time. Respect!!
Welsh rain! My very first memory.
Thank you for sharing this very interesting information.
Peace
Thank you for that.
Might be good looking at some kind of erosion or scour protection in the long run. Fast flowing water can do a lot of damage.
hahaha that creeks probably been running like that for thousands of years before he even was on it, i doubt itll do much in ours or his lifetime. this is the UK not some sandy or limestoney area. that rock beds as solid as they come
Great that you filmed that - seeing is believing.... Thanks again for sharing.... stay warm and dry.... :-)
ps Do Brits know the term rip-rap? Living at the foot of a 10K foot mountain range in Southern California, extensive use of heavy, broken rock disperses the energy of occasional fast-moving water - especially where a river or creek takes a turn - and helps prevent soil erosion.. It looks to me like you could use some rip-rap near the outfall on your turbine to keep those flows from eroding the creek's bank and/or the foundation for the turbine house.
Just my $.02. Keep up the great work and the great videos!
Crikey time for some sluice gates and an overspill!! Impressive amount of water!!
interesting to see how your little stream can very quickly turn onto a torrent. Always enjoy the videos. Following closely at this end all the greenhouse progress; it's going to be a great addition to the homestead. Best wishes.
Mate, what a flow!
Makes me think about the spring in the greenhouse...
8-0
Thx for the update!
Yes, Kriss! It is really surprising the volume of water accumulated from the land surface ,conveining at that point.
A picture says a thousand words!
Wow what a beautiful stream that is
Great vid, thanks for sharing.
Wow Kris l hope that there’s no damage! 👍👍👍💯💯💯
Next video, Kris and Dot white water rafting :) Wow there's some power in that little stream!
Great day if you're a duck ;)
Thanks for showing us that Chris.
Could fill a dam with that water, be good to harvest a bit of spare water for later when it's dry.
Dan Clark - If you are suggesting the spare water to be stored for power, Kris does not need it because he has solar panels and a wind turbine (plus batteries) as alternate power sources.
@@wendyweaver8749 Nope not at all, just for irrigating the garden and orchards etc really. :)
@@D4NS80 No need for irrigation in Wales!
@@tonygrimes13 you're not wrong haha
Glad your well.enjoy your day inside! :)
Nice shillelagh you got there! 😉
I am a 60 year old woman who lives in Los Angeles California and I understood that !!!👍
What a good looking forest.
Look at all those Amps running past! 👍
all good stuff per usual Kris!
That is a bloody lot of water! The videos on improving is very interesting,, even if I am envious, that I do not have this option :-)
It dose rain hard in wales and loads of it,great video
Your lucky to have that nice stream so close to ur cabin! And a waterfall...
Awesome amount of water. Glad it’s still working well!
Your walking stick is totally awesome! Adds to the hobbity feel of your homestead. Thanks for sharing your Sunday video.
Really wanted to see this so thanks for taking the effort Kris!
Do you ever get in the height of summer no water flow or maybe that doesn’t happen where you are in Wales? It is fascinating to see the volume of water flowing and please remember I am watching this from Southern Spain so I do see rivers just completely dry up in summer here....thanks Kris, take care Frank
Good Irish weather Kris, it’s a duvet day
Thank you, Kris. Don't let the naysayers and the trolls get you down my boy their negative comments and words are a fault with their jealousy.
Fantastic work
Thanks Kris!
At least you utilize what you have!
Welcome to Wales... Primary Resource Rain. 4 days of solid rain at this point.
It's doing the same over here in Yorkshire. It's not stopped for a week.
In the past all this rain would have fallen as snow, but now it's too warm.
NCOT Technology Some cruel bugger made Greta cry again...?
How dare you? 🧐😂😎😜💧
@@G58 As a middle aged man - Screw Greta...But I do miss the colder snowier winters, since the 80's its been pretty mild with occassional years... 2010 was epic.
Canadian born.. Year 2010 was a cold winter day (4 weeks of blissful snowy goodness)
IDK about a mechanical cleaning device, but as a concrete contractor I think you could do amazing things with a small, concrete arch dam.
BTW - great videos!
The joys of the British weather.
Its nice to see your house isn't affected by flooding which I was worried about way back when you built it. In urban areas around here creek bottoms like that flood drastically due to all the runoff that collects due to urbanization. Huge environmental impact. We also get torrential rains like you as the weather systems we get here bring huge amounts of moisture up from the gulf of Mexico. .
Here is something you might find interesting. ua-cam.com/video/DbvgK3PrSWw/v-deo.html Same setup as you have but way larger scale.
I have seen a hydro system on UA-cam that made an intake screen that is barrel shaped. This round screen is mounted around the intake pipe and uses golf balls as bearings and spins with the flow of the water. This spinning cleans the screen. I believe the channel is called "Greene Hydro". The video is titled " 500 Watt Hydro Power System in Virginia" Let us know what you think of that intake screen.
"A video's worth a thousand words." 😁
Thanks Kris, I believed you in the first place. More rain than you can shake a stick at.
Scary stuff.
You did a great job to plan things properly so you didn't build a houseboat ;)
I was playing airsoft in this weather near Newport on Sunday. No surprise you had a flood! 😂
Man you wouldn't think that tiny trickle could turn into that haha! Cheers for sharing mate, only just subbed to you and all I can say is you're an inspiration! I don't know if you're still taking volunteers in the current climate but I'd love to come lend a hand in the summer if so! Carry on being you dude, your channel deserves 20x the subs you have!
Well explained, even a neanderthal like me can understand, keep up the good work and have a great Christmas.
With conditions such as yours, you would be best served to create a mill pond to the side and have the turbine fed off of it and have the storm flow off to the side so it does not inundate the turbine. The turbine would thusly run the same through all conditions, except drought. Seems you have enough differential in elevation to have the pond up high and create a good head by placing the turbine down low and away from the pond. That is how it has been done for hundreds of years.
Would be a lot of work to create, but would be the best solution!
JIM
Such a horribly nice day to stay inside warm and cozy with Dot.
So much clean energy available 😍😍😍
People who don't live in Wales don't realise how wet the weather is most of the time, i lived on a farm as a boy and we had our own water supply, if the summer was extremely dry the water would eventually dry up but I remember one winter it rained so much the excess of water flooded the house
Excellent video as also kris.