Pump turns on at the McMullin On-Farm Flood Capture Project for the first time

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  • Опубліковано 23 гру 2024

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  • @My_Special_k
    @My_Special_k Рік тому +21

    the sound of that pump starting was incredible!!

    • @briansmyla8696
      @briansmyla8696 Рік тому

      That was the sound of a HUGE demand charge added to the electric bill.

  • @Martin_Priesthood
    @Martin_Priesthood Рік тому +1

    Excellent job . Patience pays. God be with you .

  • @Strombotne
    @Strombotne Рік тому +47

    That moment, throwing the switch after a patient 11 year wait, was no doubt extremely gratifying.

    • @briansmyla8696
      @briansmyla8696 Рік тому

      I want to know the demand charge that was billed for pushing that button.

  • @blancolirio
    @blancolirio Рік тому +10

    Thanks for the update!

  • @giancarlomoscetti215
    @giancarlomoscetti215 Рік тому +1

    nice to see projects like this...well done.

  • @LoanwordEggcorn
    @LoanwordEggcorn Рік тому +5

    Groundwater recharge for the win. Thanks guys! Good work!

  • @everything_Burnz
    @everything_Burnz Рік тому +3

    This is the kind of initiative taking that gives me hope and inspires me. Thank you for being a healer of the lands and doing so with a remarkably humble demeanor for what strikes me as a rockstar move in the best direction! I am a generation removed from the farm, but nigh 1,000 acres are still managed by the family in central MO, makes me want to go chip in for a while, do my part a little. Thanks for that!

  • @TradieTrev
    @TradieTrev Рік тому +3

    What a beast of a pump! How cool was that startup sound!

  • @dirkus3722
    @dirkus3722 Рік тому +3

    What an incredible project. Thanks for sharing!

  • @siameseire
    @siameseire Рік тому +7

    Wonderful. Thank you for all your hard work and money spent. thank you!

  • @wishingb5859
    @wishingb5859 Рік тому +9

    Glad it is up and running this year.

  • @kurtdowney1489
    @kurtdowney1489 Рік тому +8

    Perfect timing with the recent snowpack.

  • @mathewfranco3211
    @mathewfranco3211 Рік тому +9

    Extremely interesting. Thank you 👍🏼

  • @rrad8106
    @rrad8106 Рік тому +1

    You are a visionary! Congratulations!

  • @suzylarry1
    @suzylarry1 Рік тому +6

    This is History in the making . After the droughts and now the floods , nice to see the SHARING of water on this new project !

  • @coreysue3451
    @coreysue3451 Рік тому +4

    congrats and good job guys! Happy to see such a positive project being completed, and replenishing the aquifers is an essential task. Thank You!

  • @jryer1
    @jryer1 Рік тому +12

    Nice job guys!

  • @GreyRockOne
    @GreyRockOne Рік тому

    Wow, congratulations!

  • @chrissknutson
    @chrissknutson Рік тому +4

    Great job!

  • @jerradwilson
    @jerradwilson Рік тому +1

    That thing looks like it's straight out of Star Wars, taking flood water and diverting it underground for a not so rainy year. Talk about a win-win.

  • @dunsmuir238
    @dunsmuir238 Рік тому +2

    Awesome. Nice job guys. Thank you.

  • @oldschoolman1444
    @oldschoolman1444 Рік тому +47

    I've wondered why water couldn't be pumped back into the ground. Nice to see that someone has been working on such things.

    • @nicholastrawinski
      @nicholastrawinski Рік тому +27

      pumping water directly back into the ground requires a high level of filtering and monitoring, and incredibly high pressures, but if you have the surface area to do it, you can just flood a bunch of fields using a high VOLUME pump and let gravity do the rest.

    • @robbie5138
      @robbie5138 Рік тому +7

      We've been doing this for a while but it has just been in a severe drought for 30 years. It's private property so the state can force them to build stuff like this, it can incentivize it but it has to be up to the Farmers to want it to be done on their property. You are talking about refilling aquifers that were filled over millions of years first by Lake Corcoran then by Lake Tulare Buena Vista and Kern Lake.

    • @LucidStew
      @LucidStew Рік тому +13

      An aquifer isn't a giant cavern below ground, it is water trapped in soil. If you try to jam a bunch of water into the ground at a high rate, you're going to displace soil, like if you took a firehose to a hillside.

    • @edsloan8535
      @edsloan8535 Рік тому +11

      @@LucidStew They don't force it in, they flood the fields and let seepage do the rest.

    • @LucidStew
      @LucidStew Рік тому +6

      @@edsloan8535 this is what I was saying to the OP.

  • @TheAverageNooob
    @TheAverageNooob Рік тому +2

    There are so many areas in the U.S that need this

  • @jimmiller5600
    @jimmiller5600 Рік тому +68

    This year's bounty of rain & snow is not a solution, it is an opportunity to get ready for the next drought.

    • @htomerif
      @htomerif Рік тому +1

      Naw it isn't. No infrastructure exists to capture even an insignificant portion of that flooding. I'm betting drought state of emergency by July in CA.

    • @norml.hugh-mann
      @norml.hugh-mann Рік тому

      ​@@htomerif yeah...by Sept at the latest...peopleare so misinformed that seems i hear daily how "the droughts over"
      Fact is they started 100 ueara ago by dividing up more water than the Colorodo has even then between States and Mexico (which gets almost none now) yet growth is still encouraged at all costs because our economy collapses without endless growth. An impossibility on a planet with finite reaources and an oit of control population all seeking more than anyone else

    • @jimmiller5600
      @jimmiller5600 Рік тому

      @@htomerif Then why are the Tulare lake "residents" so wet?

    • @htomerif
      @htomerif Рік тому

      @@jimmiller5600 Aw, man, you GOT ME BRO. I said "July" and... look at that, its July already oh wait no its still April learn to read.

    • @jimmiller5600
      @jimmiller5600 Рік тому +1

      @@htomerif Whoosh. Hundreds of diversion projects are active. Tulare is one of them. So, back to "no infrastructure exists to capture even an insignificant......". AKA - you're half wrong. Get back to me in July to see if you're 0-2.

  • @vivalaleta
    @vivalaleta Рік тому +10

    Water conservation is key in your environment. Swales should be all over that land but the science angle on this issue is impressive.

  • @swaggerbauer
    @swaggerbauer Рік тому +1

    Very impressive kit !

  • @davewitter6565
    @davewitter6565 Рік тому +25

    California has a 3 year reserves from having full reservoirs. After 3 years of draught the surplus is gone. Since 80% of the water is used in agriculture it is good to see farmers using the water wisely when they have a surplus. Water is like having money in the bank.

    • @stevenunua2118
      @stevenunua2118 Рік тому +1

      irrigation water mostly goes back to ground very little is used by the plants or evaporation. But it takes 1000 years to replace on foot of ground water. AND the ground is what filters the water why ground and spring water is clean.

  • @patrickmukora3184
    @patrickmukora3184 Рік тому

    This is the way to go .... save the flood flow in the earth, the biggest tank we have.

  • @htomerif
    @htomerif Рік тому +3

    Its awesome that we're in the position where we have to start terraforming our own planet to make it viable for life.

  • @MrTommyboy68
    @MrTommyboy68 Рік тому +13

    That is one MONSTER pump. What voltage does it run on (I noticed the large transformer next to the control cabinet) and how many amps does it draw and how many horse power?
    I am glad to see SOMEONE finally taking this seriously and taking the first steps to capture some of this excess run off that would have flowed to the ocean.

    • @dfirth224
      @dfirth224 Рік тому +5

      Large machinery like that is usually 3 phase, 480 volts.

    • @MrTommyboy68
      @MrTommyboy68 Рік тому +3

      @@dfirth224 I kinds figured so. BUT I have seen pumps running on much HIGHER voltages. I was just curious.

    • @jamestegarden2584
      @jamestegarden2584 Рік тому

      ​@@dfirth224maybe 4160

    • @edmundanderson657
      @edmundanderson657 Рік тому +7

      Looking at the size of the motor and gear, I'd say 4160v could be 13.2kv and probably 100amp.

    • @patrickmay8261
      @patrickmay8261 Рік тому +5

      Probably 480V 3 phase. The transformer has a bus duct which is a requirement with PG&E for 3,000-4,000 amps. Looks like the only thing at the site (found it on Google Earth & Maps). That looks like it's a pretty low head system. They could be doing it with 600-1000HP maybe. I worked for a contractor before and a customer used to pump 2500 gpm with 75hp pumps for drip irrigation (up to 160 acres but they had control valves). I think he said 17,000 gpm which is 6.8x times as much.

  • @2Oldcoots
    @2Oldcoots Рік тому +1

    Long Overdue and needed in many parts of California.

  • @rcpmac
    @rcpmac Рік тому +2

    Would appreciate a whiteboard explainer on this project.

  • @jgardner2508
    @jgardner2508 Рік тому +7

    Please explain in simple terms? Are you taking excess water from X and folding fields to allow the water to seep into the ground? Or are you actually pumping the excess water into the ground?

    • @nicholastrawinski
      @nicholastrawinski Рік тому +11

      Don Cameron sparked curiosity in 2010 when he began a multi-phase project intended to capture floodwater from the Kings River during rainy seasons.
      The effort, supported by state grants, unfolded as a grand experiment, as the diversified Fresno County grower flooded his permanent plantings-including pistachios and vineyards-to such an extent that they soon rested in several feet of water.
      To Cameron’s relief, those plantings survived relatively unscathed. As the water percolated down, the aquifer water table rose significantly, increasing nearly 40 feet in a single year.

    • @LucidStew
      @LucidStew Рік тому +7

      They are spreading and percolating. Whatever doesn't evaporate will be pulled by gravity toward the center of the earth through the permeable soil until it hits a relatively impermeable substance(i.e. bedrock)

    • @SaginawCareerComplex
      @SaginawCareerComplex Рік тому +1

      @@blackhawk7r221 That isn't what he's doing

    • @blackhawk7r221
      @blackhawk7r221 Рік тому

      @@SaginawCareerComplex I do believe he is refilling the local aquifer with surface water.

    • @teamcybr8375
      @teamcybr8375 Рік тому

      ​@@blackhawk7r221 How do you think water normally gets into an aquifer bro? It seeps from the surface

  • @jmd1743
    @jmd1743 Рік тому +4

    The USDA & engineering corps should give out awards to people like this gentleman for being proactive like this.

    • @kevinwalker4623
      @kevinwalker4623 Рік тому

      They won't, its commiefonistan, they will lawsuit it to stop it, or make bs legislation to outlaw it. Just wait...........

    • @terryengland1880
      @terryengland1880 Рік тому +1

      Agree give awards to those people ,live in the UK in the winter months watching the flood water just draining out to sea ,then putting out drought warnings in the summer. Perhaps areas that have an abundance surplus of flood water could be pumped to an aride region and creating more productive farm land

    • @jmd1743
      @jmd1743 Рік тому

      @@terryengland1880 The Dairy Farmers who moved their operations out to Nevada need to have the EPA come in to pump concrete into the 10,000+ foot deep wells.
      Those recently transplanted farmers are willing to kill off small communities who've been around for over 100 years because they don't care about what happens beyond the day they officially retire & move off to another states such as Florida.
      They'll slaughter their cows and leave their corporate farm structures to fall apart like those dead mining towns from the gold rush.
      Transplant southwest farmers are using the little precious ground water that took tens of thousands of years to build up in aquifers to export products to countries like China and Saudi Arabia.
      Those farmers gas light the country, they'll imply that if they're not allowed to export to china & the Saudis the water in the form of crops or animal feed then every day Americans would starve.
      What's most embarrassing about the farmers is that they hide their identities between LLCs within LLCs so that some retired fixed income widow who bought a house with her husband 40 years ago wouldn't be able know who they are after she has to abandon her home because her well dried up.

  • @jamestegarden2584
    @jamestegarden2584 Рік тому +4

    Wondering what is the HP of that pump? And what brand VFD is controlling it?

    • @robertzalaker4775
      @robertzalaker4775 Рік тому +3

      we had some a little smaller than that and the were 400hp.but they use a lot of electric

  • @harryniedecken5321
    @harryniedecken5321 Рік тому

    Is there any kind of basic silt filter like straw or sand or similar or just pumping it into the ground?

  • @waynep343
    @waynep343 Рік тому +2

    Has anybody thought of a enclosed archimedes screw pump. One end floating on a pontoon so water level changes don't effect it and zero loss because the whole tube turns like a trommel or cement truck. Very low horsepower needs for a significant amount of water compared to a centrifical pump. No need to pressurize the water to get it to move hal full up the pipe. Could probably build a large one using water slide secctions around a center support. I read that over half the electricity used in california is to move water around the state.

  • @carolyncarpenter9682
    @carolyncarpenter9682 Рік тому

    Usually the power goes off during rainstorms; got a backup?
    Ed c

  • @hikerJohn
    @hikerJohn Рік тому +1

    Where is it going? Map?

  • @SiR8081
    @SiR8081 Рік тому

    May we get an update? How many acre feet did the project recharge the groundwater? Thanks

  • @johnperez93640
    @johnperez93640 Рік тому

    Where is that pump getting energy from to power that thing?

    • @patrickmay8261
      @patrickmay8261 Рік тому

      The grid. It's about 19 miles southwest of downtown Fresno, CA.

    • @kevinwalker4623
      @kevinwalker4623 Рік тому

      tesla power wall and commiefornistan solar panels

  • @tictac1919
    @tictac1919 Рік тому

    0:36 for the glorious sounding motor start

  • @sw8741
    @sw8741 Рік тому +5

    Ok.....you got the pump running, how about you show how you use the water to recharge the aquifer? This just shows it being pumped into a culvert, and then?

    • @oldschoolman1444
      @oldschoolman1444 Рік тому +1

      Probably a bypass for pressure regulation and help cooling the pump motor.

    • @jimmiller5600
      @jimmiller5600 Рік тому +4

      There's a pdf in the notes -- www.mcmullinarea.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20220324-MAGSA-Expansion-Project-Brief_FINAL.pdf

    • @royandtracyboling5969
      @royandtracyboling5969 Рік тому

      They do not pump it into the ground, it percolates into the ground. Especially in sandy soils.

    • @nicholastrawinski
      @nicholastrawinski Рік тому +1

      Don Cameron sparked curiosity in 2010 when he began a multi-phase project intended to capture floodwater from the Kings River during rainy seasons.
      The effort, supported by state grants, unfolded as a grand experiment, as the diversified Fresno County grower flooded his permanent plantings-including pistachios and vineyards-to such an extent that they soon rested in several feet of water.
      To Cameron’s relief, those plantings survived relatively unscathed. As the water percolated down, the aquifer water table rose significantly, increasing nearly 40 feet in a single year.

    • @LucidStew
      @LucidStew Рік тому +6

      They spread it out on 5,000 acres of farmland and allow it to percolate into the ground.

  • @samhklm
    @samhklm Рік тому +2

    Amazing to see what 5 million in govt. money will do. Is this the first use of this unit? How about showing where the water ends up and how it recharges the aquifer. Who gets the water? How is distributed?

    • @dfirth224
      @dfirth224 Рік тому +2

      Simple, farmers just flood their fields. Water soaks into the ground. This cannot be done everywhere. Doesn't work with hardpan or clay soils.

  • @LionheartedDan
    @LionheartedDan Рік тому +7

    It’s great to see this happening. It would be useful to have better illustrations of what is happening - the video seems to suggest water is being pulled from the ground rather than injecting into the ground.

    • @nicholastrawinski
      @nicholastrawinski Рік тому +2

      Don Cameron sparked curiosity in 2010 when he began a multi-phase project intended to capture floodwater from the Kings River during rainy seasons.
      The effort, supported by state grants, unfolded as a grand experiment, as the diversified Fresno County grower flooded his permanent plantings-including pistachios and vineyards-to such an extent that they soon rested in several feet of water.
      To Cameron’s relief, those plantings survived relatively unscathed. As the water percolated down, the aquifer water table rose significantly, increasing nearly 40 feet in a single year.

    • @robbie5138
      @robbie5138 Рік тому +2

      We have Leeves and Flood gates throughout the valley. Basically when it's a wet season like this they can open up the pumps that instead of pumping water out of the ground they are sending it back into the Aquifers below. The entire Central valley is a Drainage basin for all the Sierra snowpack. The entire central valley was Lake Corcoran which supplied California with an Incredible aquifer supply that we need to replenish.

    • @garfieldwood8315
      @garfieldwood8315 Рік тому +1

      THIS FLOODS THE LAND area and SOAKS into the ground naturally, NOT INJECTED into the ground, naturally filtering the water.

  • @TheJhtlag
    @TheJhtlag Рік тому +2

    That's easy, I could have done that. turn the #7 button, then push the #8 button. what's the big deal?

  • @robertzalaker4775
    @robertzalaker4775 Рік тому

    drill holes in the river bottoms then the water will flow in the ground fast no pump needed

  • @ReefMimic
    @ReefMimic Рік тому +2

    We have liftoff!

  • @davidrhp847
    @davidrhp847 Рік тому +1

    I'm sure this is killing millions of smelt eggs... to arms fellow environmentalists!!!

  • @jamesmason2228
    @jamesmason2228 Рік тому

    I respect the intent - and maybe it's the right thing to do - but it's a damned shame that you have to draw that much energy in order to PUT BACK what has been unsustainably removed.

  • @steverudder3321
    @steverudder3321 Рік тому +5

    Very PROUD of you farmers for trying something different, and I hope you still give Sacramento the middle finger 🖕 for years of ripping you off!!

    • @SlushboxH8R
      @SlushboxH8R Рік тому +7

      This was done in partnership with Sacramento but go off on your little narrative, bro

  • @brianbassett4379
    @brianbassett4379 Рік тому +1

    "With this project operating it's probably taking a lot of pressure off cities downstream...". You can't give any figures on how much storage this has or how much water is expected to actually make it back to the aquifer(s)? This should all be considered *excess* water and not allowed to be sold to over consumers like agriculture and golf courses at what I am sure will be reduced rates. An interconnecting system should be designed to shunt massive amounts of water around North America.

  • @philiphorner31
    @philiphorner31 Рік тому

    If you mix Skittles and drank you get free electricity.

  • @gregsmarth3581
    @gregsmarth3581 Рік тому

    Big deal.

  • @edwilko8819
    @edwilko8819 Рік тому

    Shame with all the sun your ot power the pumps with solar energy

    • @patrickmay8261
      @patrickmay8261 Рік тому +1

      Which they would build on top of the fields. There's solar out there in various areas.

  • @eddeetz493
    @eddeetz493 Рік тому

    Monumental accomplishment. 90 days guess at 300 acre ft day. Saving downstream flooding, catching water, genius. Pump from your own wells at less cost than the crooks at water districts.

  • @alfredrichkak1393
    @alfredrichkak1393 Рік тому

    Weather manipulation rain or shine worldwide 🌏