Really wonderful video!! I do want to mention that while large scale dams such as the Dalls and Grand Coulee do provide massive amounts of clean energy to Washington State, there are many new forms of hydropower that are highly efficient while not blocking river flow. So alternatives do exist to still provide clean energy in the instance of dam removal. But again very thorough and well researched video!
Removing no longer useful dams and weirs from the 19th and early 20th centuries makes complete sense, and I'm a big supporter of that. That said, there are a percentage of dams that are fulfilling critical infrastructure functions, like providing fresh water storage for people and generating clean hydropower. Those absolutely need to stay.
Exactly which dams, and where are the studies showing that we need to keep them? Not trying to be argumentative, just saying that all of these dam removal projects undergo tons of study so I'm curious.
Great video; super informative. I spent 15 years with the Washington State Dept. of Fish & Wildlife, working in around many of the WA State dams mentioned here. Our team performed “as-built” mapping & topography surveying that was used to plan & upgrade many of the State fish hatcheries that help support these river systems.
I think it's really important to recognize the difference between beaver and human dam functions. Beaver dams do very little to actually stop water, rather simply slowing it down, spreading it out over a landscape, and forcing it to continue downstream through underground aquifers and slower above ground streams. Man-made dams on the other hand are meant to completely stop all water flow except for whatever amounts we allow through spillways. I absolutely agree and see the irony in the two arguments, but I do think it's important to acknowledge the differences in how these two structures function.
You have to be a real smooth brain to think that a) beavers will build dams at EVERY former dam site considering in many cases the habitat is not even beaver habitat and b) believe that a beaver dam is a negative impact on the ecosystem of a river like a man made dam is.
Wind farms last only a decade and cost more or take more energy to build maintain and demolish than they ever produce. I love watching abandoned wind turbines being blown up and reduced to more E Waste. The only investors for wind turbines is government's because there is no money to be made. Hydro electric turbines like Niagara falls the first seem to last forever probably because the neg ions generation from the water fall from turbines off sets the POS ion production from the turbines.you could put sprinklers on wind turbines then you might not have as many severe storms and tornadoes. Dam not only produce electricity but provide a clean source of water for a huge number of people.
Well! I Live on the upper Klamath River. And they have Removed several Dams Here . And the toxic Sediment that built up behind the the Dam killed everything living thing in the Klamath River millions and millions of dead fish everywhere. This is based on Hope's and Dreams. Sometimes Hope's and Dreams don't work out From what I'm looking at there so much Sediment in the Klamath River. I don't see how it will recover the way they think. The Klamath River is dead
I live in Norcal. They've been talking about removing the dams on the Klamath for years now. If they don't get started with it soon, I'm going to scream. Start some kind of movement to push to get it done. I've already called and put some advice on the state fisheries department. In Washington State, the cowlitz river was damed. But the power company has done what it can to restore upper river habitats and promote salmon spawning in the upper reaches above the dams. It's an interesting study if you have time for it. Salmon restoration can take place on damed rivers without fish ladders. I live near Shasta Lake. The rivers feeding the lake can be restored with spawning salmon if the state is willing to do it. Below Keswick dam, is a small stream called Rock creek. Where this creek enters the Sacramento River just below the dam, is the location of Rock creek. At the spot where the creek enters, the government has built a wall a structure out of cement and asfault that prevents any salmon or trout to enter the creek and spawn. I feel like going down at night with a sledgehammer and start breaking it apart. When the Sacramento River floods and the river comes up a good 15 feet, because they are releasing water out of the dam, you can see large trout trying to jump up and enter rock creek. But it's still another 7 or 8 feet to get up. Why don't they put at least a fish ladder ? Fricken stupid state. Places like this exist all over the state. I've already brought it up to the fisheries department in Sacramento. They won't do it. But the habitat for salmon above the dam is immense.
Whats you PG&E rate for electricity? $0.33/kWhr? How many tiers? I want it to go to $0.60/kWHr for tier 1 just for you! And when you find out you have less money in your pocket for anything else I will laugh! You hungry now? Ahhh...too bad! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@sw8741 the local building dept lets the home owner build his own solar system. Panels are cheap now and parts are easy to find . I built my own. Just hired an electrician to wire it to the fuse box. You can do the same maybe.
@@cammontreuil7509 Solar is a scam as is wind. You'll never produce all your energy needs if you are all electric. A/C, heat pump, oven, range top are all heavy loads so you have to be tied to the grid to make up for the short fall of any energy you can produce or store. Even a retail center will never be able to produce all its needs. Also, business that have heavy loads to manufacture anything will never produce enough solar energy to be viable, they will either move out of state or country. Both solar and wind can not produce 24/7/365, only when the sun shines and the wind blows. Sorry, as a electrical contractor I know what power actually is and what it does. I have no problem with people using solar but the myth that it is viable in the long term. It is not, same as for wind. If you want to condemn future generations to utter poverty keep believing that myth.
Any flood control the dams on the Klamath is nil because of sedimentation that accumulated behind the dam. Also the dams are too old and thus in danger of sudden collapse. The dams have become a liability to the ecosystem of the river even by conventional standards.
Beaver served their purpose for native Americans before white man fire wood and poles for tpees if you ever tried to cut wood with a stone axe. And beaver infested lakes and rivers are infected with a bacteria that will kill you.
Really wonderful video!! I do want to mention that while large scale dams such as the Dalls and Grand Coulee do provide massive amounts of clean energy to Washington State, there are many new forms of hydropower that are highly efficient while not blocking river flow. So alternatives do exist to still provide clean energy in the instance of dam removal. But again very thorough and well researched video!
Kudos for this comment! A great topic that is fueling advances in the science of such things is Bio-mimicry.
Removing no longer useful dams and weirs from the 19th and early 20th centuries makes complete sense, and I'm a big supporter of that. That said, there are a percentage of dams that are fulfilling critical infrastructure functions, like providing fresh water storage for people and generating clean hydropower. Those absolutely need to stay.
Exactly which dams, and where are the studies showing that we need to keep them? Not trying to be argumentative, just saying that all of these dam removal projects undergo tons of study so I'm curious.
@@kbanghartThey undergo a ten year projection. And in 20 they are installing another dam.
@@ferdburful6352 interesting. Where can I read about that?
Great video; super informative. I spent 15 years with the Washington State Dept. of Fish & Wildlife, working in around many of the WA State dams mentioned here. Our team performed “as-built” mapping & topography surveying that was used to plan & upgrade many of the State fish hatcheries that help support these river systems.
Nothing said about the heating up of water behind the dams, a major cause of poisonous algae.
Excellent video!
Thank you HawaiiVice
Never thought I would see this trend in my lifetime.
I especially want to see the dams removed on the Klamath.
It's interesting that there's simultaneously a push to remove man made dams, as well as to restore beaver habitat, so they can build dams.
I think it's really important to recognize the difference between beaver and human dam functions. Beaver dams do very little to actually stop water, rather simply slowing it down, spreading it out over a landscape, and forcing it to continue downstream through underground aquifers and slower above ground streams. Man-made dams on the other hand are meant to completely stop all water flow except for whatever amounts we allow through spillways. I absolutely agree and see the irony in the two arguments, but I do think it's important to acknowledge the differences in how these two structures function.
You have to be a real smooth brain to think that a) beavers will build dams at EVERY former dam site considering in many cases the habitat is not even beaver habitat and b) believe that a beaver dam is a negative impact on the ecosystem of a river like a man made dam is.
@@marksando3082lol. Imagine beavers suddenly start building dams as large as humans have? We would have a lot of other problems😂
carbon free may be, but the methane produced by the reservoirs is far worse
please come to Denmark a remove Tangeværket witch i a dam on the river Gudenåen
yes
For the cost of a small dam, a solar and wind farm a mile square could be completed generating more power than the dam without killing a fish.
Wind farms last only a decade and cost more or take more energy to build maintain and demolish than they ever produce. I love watching abandoned wind turbines being blown up and reduced to more E Waste. The only investors for wind turbines is government's because there is no money to be made. Hydro electric turbines like Niagara falls the first seem to last forever probably because the neg ions generation from the water fall from turbines off sets the POS ion production from the turbines.you could put sprinklers on wind turbines then you might not have as many severe storms and tornadoes. Dam not only produce electricity but provide a clean source of water for a huge number of people.
@@MrElly-py1clI love wind farms.
Because somehow a river 100 feet wide has more fish than a 10,000 acre reservoir
Well! I Live on the upper Klamath River.
And they have Removed several Dams Here . And the toxic Sediment that built up behind the the Dam killed everything living thing in the Klamath River millions and millions of dead fish everywhere. This is based on Hope's and Dreams. Sometimes Hope's and Dreams don't work out
From what I'm looking at there so much Sediment in the Klamath River. I don't see how it will recover the way they think. The Klamath River is dead
I live in Norcal. They've been talking about removing the dams on the Klamath for years now. If they don't get started with it soon, I'm going to scream.
Start some kind of movement to push to get it done.
I've already called and put some advice on the state fisheries department.
In Washington State, the cowlitz river was damed. But the power company has done what it can to restore upper river habitats and promote salmon spawning in the upper reaches above the dams.
It's an interesting study if you have time for it.
Salmon restoration can take place on damed rivers without fish ladders.
I live near Shasta Lake. The rivers feeding the lake can be restored with spawning salmon if the state is willing to do it.
Below Keswick dam, is a small stream called Rock creek. Where this creek enters the Sacramento River just below the dam, is the location of Rock creek. At the spot where the creek enters, the government has built a wall a structure out of cement and asfault that prevents any salmon or trout to enter the creek and spawn.
I feel like going down at night with a sledgehammer and start breaking it apart.
When the Sacramento River floods and the river comes up a good 15 feet, because they are releasing water out of the dam, you can see large trout trying to jump up and enter rock creek. But it's still another 7 or 8 feet to get up.
Why don't they put at least a fish ladder ? Fricken stupid state. Places like this exist all over the state.
I've already brought it up to the fisheries department in Sacramento.
They won't do it. But the habitat for salmon above the dam is immense.
Whats you PG&E rate for electricity? $0.33/kWhr? How many tiers? I want it to go to $0.60/kWHr for tier 1 just for you! And when you find out you have less money in your pocket for anything else I will laugh! You hungry now? Ahhh...too bad! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@sw8741 the local building dept lets the home owner build his own solar system. Panels are cheap now and parts are easy to find .
I built my own. Just hired an electrician to wire it to the fuse box.
You can do the same maybe.
@@cammontreuil7509 Solar is a scam as is wind. You'll never produce all your energy needs if you are all electric. A/C, heat pump, oven, range top are all heavy loads so you have to be tied to the grid to make up for the short fall of any energy you can produce or store. Even a retail center will never be able to produce all its needs. Also, business that have heavy loads to manufacture anything will never produce enough solar energy to be viable, they will either move out of state or country. Both solar and wind can not produce 24/7/365, only when the sun shines and the wind blows. Sorry, as a electrical contractor I know what power actually is and what it does.
I have no problem with people using solar but the myth that it is viable in the long term. It is not, same as for wind. If you want to condemn future generations to utter poverty keep believing that myth.
yeah remove the ones holding your drinking water 😂 god some people just crack me up.
Which dams are holding drinking water?
A very nice and informative video. Thank you. But I wanted to see things get blown up and demolished. Some real Zen destruction. Just saying.
I'm pushing of removing the
Dams hold back sediments that the ocean needs and chokes out natural fish habitat.
SO MANY UNAFFECTED FOOLS COMMENTING HERE.
Remove dams so fish can swim upstream into rivers so polluted you can’t eat the fish anyway.
every dam in the U.S. should be taken down including Hoover and Glen Canyon. we have screwed up the rivers enough and now need to take care of them.
The problem now is everyone built on the what used to be flood plains and without dams they will be flood plains again.
Keep the dams up you don't know a damn thing
We love our dams
Hoover dam is never coming down
Yea...uh...flood control 😮
Any flood control the dams on the Klamath is nil because of sedimentation that accumulated behind the dam. Also the dams are too old and thus in danger of sudden collapse. The dams have become a liability to the ecosystem of the river even by conventional standards.
Nobody knows a damn thing
Screw this. leave them in place and enjoy the benefits. The hell with the salmon
Lol no
They're only fish
I eat fish
I agree
I don't agree with you
When we need more water seems as if we should be building more aquifers not less but hay how else would we promote climate change
Hi troll
Hate damns? Kills all beavers.
😂😅🤣. You couldn't even spell the word 'dam' correctly! 🙄
Beaver served their purpose for native Americans before white man fire wood and poles for tpees if you ever tried to cut wood with a stone axe. And beaver infested lakes and rivers are infected with a bacteria that will kill you.