Undamming the Hudson River
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
- Undamming the Hudson River is a short documentary film by National Geographic filmmaker Jon Bowermaster showcasing Riverkeeper’s efforts to restore natural habitat by eliminating obsolete dams throughout the Hudson River Estuary.
Undamming the Hudson River was made possible by funding from Patagonia.
Learn more at www.riverkeeper.org/dam-removal
Wonderful hopeful video.
I live in London, England. Near my house flows the River Wandle, where Admiral Nelson used to fish for trout in the early 19th century. The Industrial Revolution destroyed the Wandle. But in the last 20 years many people have contributed to restoring it, and today it is thriving again, with wild brown trout up to 5lb.
Hopefully these projects are the start of a much bigger change in the way we live in our planet.
I`m not a fisherman, I dont understand fish, but i was so moved by this film for the good your are doing, ultimately, for mankind and fish that freely swim even more in your rivers.. Thank you.. Ian, coastal North Essex, UK.
Ian burit I much appreciated your understanding and comprehension of how we must protect this wonderful planet. Thank you Riverkeeper.
Low-head dams also pose a severe drowning hazard on the downstream side where recirculating, foamy water can trap swimmers and boaters. Bring 'em all down (and bring back the beavers)!
Yes. My sister and I were tubing on a shallow river. We went over small dam. I was standing hip deep. She was spinning underwater, unable to right herself. All I had to do was reach down and pull her up. It was scary. She could have drown.
As a local to the Hudson valley I love to hear about the revitalization of fish in the tributaries to the hudson
I live in Oregon. We have removed dams. The return and change is incredible. Think of this. Pacific run salmon fed bears and eagles and were a protein source for wildlife all the way to the state of Idaho and up into Canada. Hundreds of miles from the ocean. Salmon use to run year round.
Thanks for your wonderful effort that you and your team has put in this work.
There are no salmon in the east.
@@andybaldman that is a lie. Atlantic Salmon run in the east
@@zacharyyoumans9614 A lie would imply I said incorrect information intentionally, with the aim to deceive. Prove that.
@@andybaldman I’ll agree, “incorrect” would’ve been a better choice of words. However if you were uninformed originally, you should have not stated it in the first place.
We had salmon spawning in the Sandy River in Oregon just two years after we removed the Sandy River Dam in 2008. The dam blocked the river and the reservoir filled with silt for almost 100 years. Now, after 12 years, you can't even tell the dam was there except for a small area on the side of the road you can pull over and park to go fly fishing in the river.
Robert whittle , hey idiot, your lack of education is showing.
I caught my largest steelhead below marmot damn. 24lb. The salmon river is the spawning grounds to many sandy river salmon and the marmot damn allows easy access to those beds. They were able to get there with the dam and fish lift but now they can run free. Lots of chinook spawn in the salmon river as I used to hook them fishing rainbows and cuttthroat. Seen some 20” rainbows in there and caught them. Now I can imagine it’s even better. I moved from sandy to Alaska in 2006 year before they removed the dam. Alaska’s fish problem isn’t dams its commercial fishing raping Cook Inlet and Bristol bay.
@@MatanuskaHIGH China is selling your Alaska salmon to Con Agra Frozen Foods Corporation. Con Agra ownd almost all the TV dinner companies and refuse to purchase anything from USA.
Oh yea!!!....😊😊..I volunteered to help in the reclamation process in different parts of the sandy River in the early to mid 2000s
Beavers used to build dams on every river and stream but they were small and naturally allowed fish to pass, more beavers makes healthy ecosystems, they are a keystone species. Return the natural flow and the beavers will come....the reduce floods, make the land fire resistant, increase ground water reserves, build habitat for other animals and are really cute while doing it.
Prove that fish can jump beaver dams.
@@donaldkasper8346 lol
The herring are at the base of the food chain so their habitat being replenished has repercussions up the food chain. stripped bass, tuna, blue fish, whales and many more. great work.
I'm on the west coast & know the river would be better off by removing the dams, salmon are resilient and can come back if given the chance, we took out the Elwha dams and now the ocean going trout & salmon are recolonizing the river, the entire ecosystem is coming back to life it's magnificent to watch
I’m from Scotland next to Loch Lomond. I fish the river Leven and it’s been destroyed. 20-30 years ago you could fish all season and come away with a gd catch now you fish all season and don’t even get a bite from a sea trout or salmon. I’ve watched the Elwha documentaries and saw how gd it was fo the river. Really wish we could they’d use some of this common sense here.
@@stoner1873 And the Elwha still closed to fishing indefinitely....
It could lead to restoring the Atlantic sturgeon which used to be plentiful.
WATP1872 It is interesting listening to biologists on the west coast talk about Pacific salmon restoration compared to U.K. Beavers and restoring log jams are seen as keys. Putting large woody debris and root wads in streams is a common salmon restoration activity. Are the Atlantic salmon fans near you doing this in local streams?
Best.
The Elwha is a case of high value spawning areas being cut off. I liked to fish one of the former lakes for Dolly Varden trout but the river has just a tremendous potential for the return of large chinook and steelhead runs. Prime habitat!
Another problem I've thought about for a couple of decades now are all the levees along the Mississippi. It affects heavily The watershed that used to help recharge the main aquifer in the heartland of the us. Before the levees when heavy rains would come the river would spread out over a huge area and a lot of that water filter down through the ground to help recharge the aquifer. That does not happen now unless a levee breaks somewhere which is pretty rare. They said that it increased the amount of farmland for our farmers at that time but then our government has become so perverted that not only is the aquifer less than half what it used to be, they're buying all of our food from all around the world and paying Farmers to use that land to basically grow gasoline. The problems are well known and have been for a long time about our aquifers being depleted but everybody just goes on doing it. All up and down California and all across the heartland the government is being paid off to use up all of that water and not let it recharge and we are headed for complete disaster as far as having fresh drinking water that used to be never ending and is well on its way to collapsing any cities or people are communities throughout the nation that depend on it. Not to mention the ground shifts and earthquakes that are happening in areas that should not be. It is destruction of what made this country prosper and be bountiful.
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Great move to make this wonderful film available.
This video had a nice time but I was disappointed not to see you removing a single dam
Kind of think that was the premise of the video....
What? I’m outta here
About ready to post the same thing. The film was nothing but a hard sell for dam removal when almost everyone agrees some of the older dams which have outlived their usefulness should be removed.
Use your Dam Imagination.
Imagine naming a video "undamming fill in the blank river" and posting a video with no actual undamming. Who would do such a thing???
I know I clicked to see actual dam destruction and all I got was a bunch of actual dam yakety yak talking.
Not too dam happy about that.
I grew up swimming in the deep rock formations and tubing the rapids of Clove Creek, just a few minutes from Poughkeepsie. Talk about the perfect childhood!
i have seen the astonishing phenomenon of eels climbing up wet, vertical dam faces. Amazing!!!!
How I enjoy the initiatives being put into place by awesome well meaning people & I love what you are achieving. Thank You hudsonriver keeper, for giving us all the education needed to inform us of your healthy river systems being put back into place. May Your God Bless You All
Lovely to see my home territory and to find such positive efforts to continue restoration of the Hudson. Folk singer Pete Seeger should be recognized for his early efforts to clean the Hudson years before these organizations and individuals.
I believe you meant folk singer Pete Seeger, not Woody Guthrie (who died in the early 1960). Pete had a sailboat named Clearwater which he sailed on the Hudson for many years to raise awareness of the need to help the river.
@@bearalohalani I don't know how I did that, but fixed it. Definitely Pete Seeger!
What you all forget is that this is not how rivers would look like. You'd have beaver populations that would purify, raise water table, slow down rivers... and their dams are not an obstacle for fish like man made dams are. Fish actually benefit a lot from beaver presence. So if you really want natural rivers back you'd have to add beavers in to the mix too.
in south australia some 20 (30?) yrs ago a man and his son tried to deal with perennial water shortages, erosion, etc. He tried an experiment: don't stop the water, just slow it down. in three years a drought valley has greened. crops, wildlife, native flora all coming back. very inspiring.
All he did was shovel in a several loads of rock to slow the water. that was it.
Excuse my ignorance ,I didn't realise NY state was so stunning,.regards and respect to these people👏🇬🇧
The same applies to New Jersey, just don't tell anyone, it's small.
There’s even several dams along the Bronx River and anyone who lives nearby knows whenever it rains hard the Bronx River floods and so does the parkway. The county spends so much money on flooding instead of just removing the dams. Makes no sense.
Don Turco 😂 maybe I should say the dam’s are racist and maybe the city will remove them.
@@drinny26 😂😂
@@drinny26 that's totally unnecessary and uncalled for. Why on earth people like you feel the need to bring race and political bullshit into the comments of an informative and educational video like this one is beyond me.
@@perryleduc1954 Bad day?
Beautiful video, storytelling at its finest, spokespersons and scripting working together. The drone scenes are very strong and persuasive.
Great big thank you for making this video. This is exactly what UA-cam is made for. This truly brought a smile to my heart.
i have lived my whole life by the hudson. you guys ARE doing god's work. thank you.
Humans are the super beavers. We blocked rivers and large creeks. Much like beavers. The fish are patient. They've dealt with dams before. This is great news for eels and shad and probably the striped bass. It will be a taller order for the Atlantic salmon where stream banks, gravel, abundant shade, water temperature and water quality play larger roles in the chance of restoration.
I grew up on the Hudson River. It is one of the most beautiful rivers in this country. I hope the dams get removed.
The world can learn rivers must flow naturally 😆🚰🌍❤️
In these shit times we're living in, we need films like this. Thanks
Wondering if they’re going to mention the horrific drowning risk that these small dams present too. People swimming or paddling often don’t expect this at all which can be their final mistake.
u dumb lol
Excellent! Impressive how quickly some species find their way home again.
Just the danger that these outdated dams form to downstream communities should be plenty of reason to remove them in a controlled manner. Why is it even a question?
Even a relatively small dam will cause absolute mayhem if it fails all at once, especially since that will probably happen when the river is already at peak levels.
Who will pay for it? Is there toxic substances?
Some of those low dams don't look dangerous but they are , at certain flows they'll pull a boat right into them. It's happened on a river near me ,people fish there , they make washout holes and one step too far under you go.
Lovely speaker who cared so deeply about the herring.
Great video. Gives a bit of hope in seemingly hopeless time. Thanks.
Excellent information! Save the waterways of the Hudson River; get rid of the dams!!!!
I live by leach lake. RESERVOIR. Its litterally changed everything with all the fedral core of engineering put in. We didn't have a say it was built in 1897. An the people don't even no there was a series of swamps 3 of them. The wild fowle and rice was all over. Now it's a reservoir that has to be stocked. An it's holding the native people back...someone help restore the Mississippi River
Great film, keep up the good work! I look forward to visiting some Hudson Valley creeks in years to come.
What a beautiful film, what a wonderful cause. Thank you. I look forward to seeing this develop, from the other side of the pond.
SUCH A MOVING WONDERFUL FILM, WELL DONE TO ALL THOSE WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR THE HERRING AND ALL THE OTHERS FIND HOME. YOU ARE DOING A WONDERFUL THING
Keep up the good work and never ever give up.
Wonderful to hear the stories of fish before the dams, good to see the dams have outlived there purpose. Fish recovery! Hoping. Seems to make people joyful. That's a good thing. ♥️🇺🇲♥️
When I was a child the troy dam used to open april first now it opens may first . I think alot of herring traditional spawning areas were blocked. I remember my grandfather paying me to climb down his river bank & flinging hundreds of dead herring from the shoreline with a stick. It's NOT like this now..you don't even see the dead herring floating like you used to . the herring have depleted alot over the years or they are just not making it upstream like they used to. Sad.
The tide comes all the way up to Troy
When I was a kid, before they put in the federal locks, the tide came up to Waterford and Mechanicville
I remember watching the wide river in Cohoes become a little creek just down the center of the river
It was something to see
I'm skeptical that the underwater shot of herring were actually swimming past Troy. I'm no ichthyologist, but that volume and level of maturity of fish would be impressive, especially so rapidly and spontaneously.
Beautifully shot. Remarkable.
Fabulous documentary
When they built these dams they thought they'd be there forever, would be needed forever.
It's good to see someone paying attention back east for a change. I live on the Yellowstone.
It was so meaningful to see the herring fulfilling their promise.
I promise he only wants your money, so he can make more films. That's his job, sadly.
I have seen two smaller dams removed near my home; I like it. There was water from one that was very wide by my parents' house, made it look like an expensive house, when the dam partially failed, it was decided to remove it, the water moved back to a small stream/creek..... the funny thing is my parents then got almost an extra half of an acre to call theirs for free! There are fish still, but more birds too. I think it is lovely, but for those who like to hunt and fish, there is more food available too.
It'd be neat if people started using the better-condition dams for their original purpose. Imagine a zero-carbon textile mill making boutique upmarket fabrics or even garments with water power, like it was 300 years ago, when the first industrial mills had their starts in England. The industrial revolution started a century before steam engines became popular.
LOVELY JOB.
THANK YOU
Wonderful that you are taking notice of the ecology that surrounds us all. Keep going.
It makes me so happy to see more and more people embrace change, and restore our ecosystems!
A fine film that gets at many of the reasons for removing dams, and by extension, never building them in the first place.
it is so incredible what you are doing.
thank you and God bless you.
keep up the good work!
I watch dam removal and rewilding contributions and I am elated to see us become more and more aware that we will be spiritually rewarded when we work with nature. It was very impressive to see the emotions with the people, doubtlessly after overcoming many hurdles. Very positive reactions and much support in the comment section, restoring hope in humanity.
This guy is the Flo-rax. He speaks for the creeks. "Let them flow!"
Set them free! Is there anything more beautiful?! Let's restore the damage we've collectively done while there still is time.
thanks Riverkeepers! get rid of those dams!
Where's Post 10 when you need him?
He’d sort it with hit rake of gold, follow the righteous way of the rake, don’t follow false idols.
It's amazing how we continue to misuse our waterways and rivers. The city I live in, we have two major rivers and that's where you find water treatment plants, oil refineries, industrial parks, and several rail yards. Historically, we once depended heavily on our rivers for transporting, which is why they are zoned the way they are. But I wish that city planners would find a way to rezone these areas and develop them.
I live in Salem Oregon, and my city did just that. The Willamette River waterfront used to be the site of an old, polluting paper mill. Eventually, the huge buildings were taken down and there is now a massive park with beautiful views, walking paths, a pedestrian bridge, and native plants. It wasn't cheap to do, but what an upgrade that so many now enjoy.
Riverside areas are magnets for wildlife. It is wonderful to see abandoned industrial brown sites returned to a clean more natural state.
Remove the dams and restore the beavers. Fish and beaver grew up together.
Yes, knock down the dams so beavers can build more. :)
This was so moving!
Dams don't help with flood control. They've never been designed for that. If anything, the raise the water above the dam artificially and when it rains, it doesn't take as much to get to a tipping point of causing damaging floods.
I really wish she hadn't said that.
What they arn't saying is that a dam in the river hurts the beaches along the coast. The river delivers sediment to the ocean and the wave action starts to separate the sediment leaving only the heavy sand behind. Sure we have hurt the beaches by killing off the plants that help hold the sand but we also hurt them by removing the natural delivery and creation of new sand.
Same can be said for levies.
@@nebtheweb8885 Levies are a whole other kettle of fish as they effect soil compaction without the delivery of silt to the area it would naturally supply.
@@TheUserid82 Good fish I hope. :)
The Susquehanna is waiting, Pennsylvania.
Dams are so interesting to me. As someone whos a structural engineer large dams are some of the most amazing structures humans create right now. The sheer technical analysis and data you need is mind blowing. The fact that some of these dams stand still and were made 50-100 years ago, some by just using a earthen dam are impressive. They didnt know half of the information we use now. Now I know dams have there place and these dams are obsolete. Im both for and against dams depending on there location. Great video on why there are dams that need to be removed!
Small is the way to go in a sustainable way that includes other forms of green energy capturing.
Please come to New Mexico. The Rio Grande has been so altered and our wetlands all drained and floodplains deprived.
15 minutes and not a single explosion 💥😢
A beautiful film and fantastic work you're doing.
Faith in humanity restored
economics and decay will win out over virtue. these abandoned dams will go down. better sooner rather than later
Good for you all ! God speed in your work!❤
Thank you.
Very moving, makes you think also there probably wouldn't be as many desert situations with less useless dams
Thank-you.
"Break the dam, release the river!" - Treebeard
My thought, exactly!
This was fascinating.... good job
Get Post10 on the job!
He's going to need more than a rake.
I just came from a post10 video. This film was in my recommended lol
Undam the Hudson river
The people who put up these dams should be responsible for taking them down. Yes, good luck with holding industry responsible for anything.
Simply brilliant. Inspiring!!
Less dams=Many more big wild salmons.---food for our grandchildren.
That marina in Rondout Creek is a really beautiful spot for a burger and a beer in the summertime. If I’m ever passing thru that area on a nice day I always try to make time for a detour down to the creek.
I’m a little sad this isn’t trending or in the news
I am what I call an outdoor person, I spend a lot of time outdoors and the environment is very important to me. Sadly it does not seem to matter to the majority of people.
It is trending is restoration circles, though. That is the start.
The media put out the good news? What a strange concept. They will be telling us the world has more trees than 40 years ago and that Western countries have more trees than 100 years ago next. (Both of which are true by the way).
There has been some astounding progress with respect to ecology and pollution control over the past 50 years. But, the media seems bent on giving us all guilt-trips on every front.
"Never stop flowing water, beyond its season." Ancient Egyptian Proverb. (Like to see them all gone. Controlling the flowing water does not mean, dam it!)
I was looking forward to seeing a few dams get blown up, or at least pulled down. Nice film though.
Excellent.
I have seen eels traversing around a dam to get upstream.
Great Video. Keep up the good work! I'm much anticipating the removal of the Klamath dams in my home state.
Water supply can be arranged in such a way that where there is heavy flow of deep river water,, there water can be measuredly drawn out just as we draw water from a borewell when required instead of daming for water supply .
Great piece!
Great video for a great cause but I was hoping to see some removal of the dams and to show some progress.
Great job guys. I hope you can knock 'em all down. Perhaps Atlantic Salmon could make a comeback.
I hope atlantic salmon make a comeback, but just keep them on the east coast, they are a problem to pacific stocks, if brought over to be raised in net pens, atlantic salmon for the atlantic, pacific salmon for the pacific... deal
Interesting how all these dams ware removed and now there are so many areas around America that have little to now water anymore.
nice piece of work!!!! definitely has a poetic meter to it. Back again. The film is so good. But I would suggest that the music is a bit mournful as opposed to (?) thoughtful, reflective.
Nice job, very nice job
I agree only keep the dams where flood control is priority, otherwise get rid of them and help all wildlife ❤️❤️
Currently a college Sophmore, and future Geoscience major. Two of my professors are some of the leaders in stream restorations and one was recently voted into the NAS. I’ve been wondering about stream restorations from Mill dams in the Hudson Valley and I’m glad to see that there’s dam removals and restorations. Doing amazing work!
It is a really good thing. Thats a JOB!
anyone else hear the word damn when they say dam?
The process would go a lot faster if the politicians and bureaucrats involved weren't too busy worrying about who will be able to take the credit for removing these dams. They need to get out of the way and let the capable people do this work.
I think many structurally sound dams should be used to produce electricity. Europeans have developed a technology that can use low dams to produce electricity. It's a renewable source of energy.
So is wind and solar, but those don't disrupt ecosystems the way a dam does.
I am talking about dams that were built over 100 years ago. Nature has adjusted to many of these dams. Granted some dams have been nothing but silt collectors and serve no purpose and should be removed. They also have the ability to hold water during periods of extended drought that benefits fish populations, local wildlife and recharges the local drinking water Aquifers and in some cases hold reservoirs used for drinking water supplies for many cities. Why not use that drop in elevation for energy at the same time as supplying drinking water or flood control ? Fish ladders for some rivers can still be built, if needed. Some day when other renewables can supply enough power then many dams may no longer be needed, but that is not yet. I suspect some great advances in photovoltaic technology are on the horizon, but we need electricity now. Rivers like the Colorado have been over dammed and some need to be removed ASAP. More effort needs to be made to switching to Hydrogen as a clean and dependable power source. We could also take advantage of geothermal temperatures to heat and cool our homes. If the annual average ground water is around 60 degrees F and the outside temp is 100 degrees, it can help cool down the house. If its winter and the outside temp is 0 degrees it can help prewarm the air inside the house. Only a little extra energy is needed to supplement energy needs of that same home.
Most of these dams are very low head and have minimal energy for electrical production. Not cost effective and produce very little electricity.
@@skypieper I highly recommend you watch Micheal Moore's film on green energy so you can educate yourself on solar and wind turbines. Also China and India are the largest producers of coal which is allowed them to raise their economies towards the top. I'm all for humans making as little impact on our earth but also know that the reason America was able to win WW2 and become the rich super power we are today before the government blew all the money was because of our coal mining, oil drilling and vast manufacturing plants. Green energy is great if it was more efficient and less destructive but once again please I highly recommend watch Micheal Moore's film on green energy.