The Sandy river is my front yard. I've never been so happy as the day I was notified about the dams removal. Watching such a rapid recovery after the removal was nothing short of amazing. Today it's as it was centuries ago, and some days it almost seems to be smiling.
Thank you for having the wisdom and courage and doing the right thing for all the living creatures of this earth... This very morning I will be attending a meeting in an effort to remove the Gold River Dam in Placer County, California. Hopefully, Nevada Irrigation District will come to their sensed and remove the Gold Hill Dam that was built by the pioneers over a 150 years ago...
Ha ha! Same here! I saw one video about 4 videos ago and now I’m hooked. I didn’t know this was a thing. Nor did I ever think about the negative impacts that dams have on our fish populations.
This is marketing, not a documentary. Look at what a great company we are!!! Had there not been an endangered species in the river they would have never taken any action.
@@bleachinuri Because doing the right thing when nobody is looking is the proper measure of character. Me no electricity... not an issue. I spend weeks in the wilderness on horseback. Your criticism is noted.
@@ShainAndrews good for you, I don't trust people that are to kind or to goody 2 shoes, that's not human nature and if your too good your hiding something 😉 😜.
I lived in the are my whole life. This was a wonderful project. PGE would never generate power here again. It was the right thing for them to do it was the right thing for the river. It was a huge learning lab for many different scientists. It was a huge success.
In any given group of people gathered together specifically to observe something, there will be at least one who feels the need to shout, "LOOK AT THAT!!"
panning is relatively harmless to the environment, but it should be regulated. If you are successful, thousands will come searching for their fortune. The cost to the environment could be great if not peoperly regulated
I wonder what the evviros who brought the lawsuits that closed this and other hydro electric dams think replaced the power that was lost? I suspect it wasn't wind or solar.
Great….take out all of the dams then you can buy power from California’s Three New Nuclear power plants and those are just for the 35,000,000 cars and trucks to recharge their battery’s. So in reality California will really need at least 12 nuclear power plants.
Great doco guys - 💹➡ 2018 wonder how it all flows ? & Crikey them fish 🐟🐡 40lbs -+ 18Kilos au OZ - dams served a purpose electricity BUT once old its good to see the river system restored well done 🚣♂️ 🤽♂️ 👨👩👦👦
It’s a damn shame to remove these dams. Clean the, out, keep making technological improvements and build more of them. Otherwise, we may as well give up and move back into caves.
skunkhome agree on it being “swamp gas”, but methane is odorless in nature. There probably was some sort of sulfur released seeing as Mt Hood lay upstream
Not only do the fish get their River back the free flowing can deposit the sediments down river where it can replenish the area around the mouth of the river reducing or slowing down coastal erosion.
Primacord is not wire. It is an explosive in it's own rite. You can take primacord and tie into a ball of knots and you have now just built your own home made bomb. Now ignite it, and see what happens. There are different types with their own ignition mechanisms.
Great work guys. A job well done and something to be justifiably proud of. Like the man said at the end we borrowed the river's energy for a hundred years now it's time to give it back. I'd love to be around in a hundred years to see how the Chinese replicate this work at Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. Doubtless this project and others like it will be cited in the UA-cam videos of the future. Important work, diligently done.
Ok but where u gonna get power for an all electric world which we are moving more towards. I guess it's back to coal which is more deadly than a dam would be
@@patrickzink2191 The goal is to reduce the size of the middle and working classes. Therefore, the powers that be won't allow coal to take the place of these hydro plants. They're moving to green energy _(sustainable development),_ which will lead to higher costs of goods/services, fewer jobs etc.
A hundred years ago we built these dams and they produced electricity, replacing a part of the fishing industry. Now with the demolishing of these dams we are replacing the electricity industry for the fishing industry. That of course means more fish will be able to feed more people. That part is good,but we also must find more ways to produce cheap electricity.
BIEN , BIG DAMS NO MORE, BUT LITTLE DAMS , VS EROSIONES YES , TRATAMIENTO INTEGRAL DE CUENCAS NO OLVIDARLO ES LA BASE DE LA CAPTURA Y COSECHA DE AGUA . ANIMOOOOOOOOOOO
how was noone in this meeting like.. hey.. we should do a time lapse of the entire event.. and get the shot of the small stream turning into a river in one shot.. not these little clips
The power companies concluded that the hydroelectric power made was not the most cost effective. Salmon ladders were also too expensive to install. The only opponents were recreational users of the reservoirs and lake side property owners.
"Lakeside" LOL You make it sound like there was summer houses, docks and ski boats. There was no lake. It was still a river with tons and tons of sediment buildup behind the dam. It was so thick you could literally walk across the face of the dam without going over your knees. No widening and depth increase behind the dam. Just a new man made concrete channel that diverted water for power use at Bull Run.
Megatonnes of sediment builds up behind dams in few decades. Remove the dam and most of that will wash downstream, despite efforts to stabilize it with plants. It will smother spawning beds and do other damage, and while the river will-probably, eventually, mostly-clean itself, it only takes one year’s total failure to destroy a spawning run. Suggestion? Build one suction dredge that can be taken apart, transported by truck, and reassembled behind a dam scheduled for removal; we should be able to schedule dam removals so that one or two machines will do for all. Dredge most of the sediment out from behind the dam, and it will not be there to wash downstream. I don’t know where/how we dispose of all that, if it’s contaminated with agricultural and other chemicals-but then we don’t want to let that contaminate the downstream river bottom anyway. Where it is clean enough, it’s silt, very rich soil, and it could be sold to farmers or as a component of potting soil. There are no wastes, only un-utilized resources.
it was demolished back in 2007-2008. So the area is well over 10 years past when the dam was removed. With this removal they also got rid of Roslyn Lake that was created with this dam and the Little Sandy Dam as well. So it's on track to become what it used to look like before the dam.
@@barrym4079 No it hasn't. We have only one coal fired plant and it's many miles further up the gorge. I'm sure the power that was needed to replace this dam was MORE than handled by solar and wind generators that are already exceeding the needs of Pacific Power and Light. They are winding down the c.f. plant!
Excellent video and project. Would like to have seen the cofferdam burst and wash-away better. Too many artsy fartsy closeup shots that really didn't help. (Later, I noticed half a dozen other similar critiques).
I'm still trying to find some gold in the colorado mountain creeks via 2in keene backpack dredge,get bout 4 5gal buckets of "black sand" and u MIGHT get 1-8 flakes of "glitter" tiny tiny bits of gold(I know I'm not missing anything)
Good on you guys and girls who were part of the dam demolishment. It's great how man can restore a massive structure back to origanal states's. There was a dam here. What ???who said that ???? No dam here now . Very good work . I love how the prep work of years before, successfully works now .
this was done several years ago now, I wonder what it looks like now, if the primary objective worked as planned, if the fish really benefit as much as expected, and the electric needs and bills after this .
well the powerhouse that the dam helped supply with water was only able to produce enough electricity (22 Megawatts) for 12,000 homes. Compare this to the dams along the Columbia river and the respective tributaries generate 29 Gigawatts as of 2012 (the dam featured was taken out in 2007-2008) which can power roughly 21 million homes assuming standard electrical usage. So the dam was likely a drop in the bucket compared to where most Portland General Electric customers got their power from.
@@alex-marquette You are correct. The direction is efficiency of money. There is no advantage to having many smaller generators when a few will do the job by simply modifying the distribution system. Other than that, the destruction of the smaller generators includes a lot of tax and cash flow benefits.
Michael Lyons there is a massive opportunity for solar and wind in the states. If the UK with its climate camps generate a quarter of its power from them already, there is no reason why the states couldn't get fifty percent within a decade with proper investment. Of course, being America, it will take decades- America is always at least a generation behind Europe.
I watched the removal on TV years ago. Being a transplant from Minnesota, it was still exciting for myself and all of Oregon! Who says going a step back is a bad thing! Go Vikings! (Minnesota.) lol
Our economy does. You can't remove all the infrastructure that supports modern society and go back to the old ways without reverting society back to those old ways.
You do realize that this river flows into the Columbia River, not the Colorado river. Further the state of Oregon doesn't even rely on the Colorado river for anything along with this river is the melt runoff of snow on Mt. Hood. Also the Colorado river is drying up for reasons that affect the states along the river. Which the biggest factor is that we are relying on river in that area that was over estimated to it's capacity and the climate changing where there is less snowfall (and subsequently less runoff) occurring where the river originates.
Ok, the fish win. How is the electric produced here (formerly) going to be replaced? need all the juice we can get to run all those electric cars here. windmills, gotta cut down the trees, solar panels, ditto, OH! fairy dust. that solves the problem.
We were being made to pay to keep this and many more outdated power going because the companies didn’t want to spend the money to remove them. And didn’t care because they just kept making us pay to keep them going the only way to keep these old plants going was to pass it on to us. And the government was letting them get away with it. This old Technology wasn’t paying for itself any longer it should’ve been gone a long time ago. The new Technology is so much better than this old Technology.
@@FYMASMD "Cheaper to destroy the dams than maintain it"? Is that your argument? 🤦♂️. WTF?!! Of course it's easier to destroy than you build. The economic effects are judged by the output it produced. Electricity. Yes, it was a small dam compared to others. But so was the river it was built on.
??? Reducing hydropower generation? 🙈 The very same people who want to have nature (and salmons) protected (as I do) surely also want the climate warming stopped. Hydropower generation is the most ecological way to produce power! Weird to dismantle such plants…unless this is greenwashing! 🤷♂️
FUCK off. I don't hate god or country. Just ignorant fucks like you. Stay out of this area. You might have problems with you're attitude around here. Don't forget plenty of bleeding heart liberals own guns. Like me.
Ok, so this was all basically about the fish. Seems to me that with the money and effort spent here they could have built an awfully elaborate fish ladder to handle that issue. But no, they take down a perfectly good facility that was providing clean, free energy for 16,000 homes. And what of the cost of building whatever is going to make up for that lost capacity? Makes no sense to me.
Makes no sense to you because you don't have enough info. It was cheaper to remove the dam than maintain/update it. Salmon preservation was secondary. It would have cost way more for new fish ladders and updates to the dam than to remove it. I forgive you for you're lack of knowledge.
@@dieseldave71 do you actually think GE would tell the truth? Obviously you don't live around here so yeah I do have more info about it because I live very close to this area and was personally involved in the project. Like you care anyhow. The federal government wanted the fish ladder updated. GE decided not to do it because the dam didn't generate enough money. Simple economics. Satisfied or do you needmore info? The power it generated was with antiquated generators. The new generators at Bonneville easily replaced the power this dam generated and more efficiently. Still need more info?
Such a waste. This is an irreversible action. This dam provided energy 24 hours a day, every day of the year, for 16,000 homes -- with zero emissions. We need to stop prioritizing fish over people.
Funny how i just watched a documentary about the removal of Condit dam and they removed in the exact same way. Let the river take away the sediment... yet they say it has not been done before...
The Sandy river is my front yard.
I've never been so happy as the day I was notified about the dams removal. Watching such a rapid recovery after the removal was nothing short of amazing.
Today it's as it was centuries ago, and some days it almost seems to be smiling.
Thank you for having the wisdom and courage and doing the right thing for all the living creatures of this earth... This very morning I will be attending a meeting in an effort to remove the Gold River Dam in Placer County, California. Hopefully, Nevada Irrigation District will come to their sensed and remove the Gold Hill Dam that was built by the pioneers over a 150 years ago...
Don’t know how I found myself in the depths of the damn deconstruction UA-cam community, but the hippie in me has come quite astonished .
yo bro me too
Me too I started watching 3 videos ago cuz I saw jerry on the eel
Not a hippie but definitely enjoying these types of documentaries
Great job. Now those 16,000 homes can use fossil fuels.
Ha ha! Same here! I saw one video about 4 videos ago and now I’m hooked. I didn’t know this was a thing. Nor did I ever think about the negative impacts that dams have on our fish populations.
I miss these kind of documentaries.
Me too. There back.
This is marketing, not a documentary. Look at what a great company we are!!! Had there not been an endangered species in the river they would have never taken any action.
@@ShainAndrews and why should they if there wasn't an andangered species 🤔, everyone is a critic, maybe go without electricity for a couple of weeks
@@bleachinuri Because doing the right thing when nobody is looking is the proper measure of character. Me no electricity... not an issue. I spend weeks in the wilderness on horseback. Your criticism is noted.
@@ShainAndrews good for you, I don't trust people that are to kind or to goody 2 shoes, that's not human nature and if your too good your hiding something 😉 😜.
Excellent! Bravo! Thanks for this professional video and great thanks for NOT having background music.
Fantastic well done....great to see this kind of work being done at last.
Excellent documentary and excellent work in dam removal.
Good job guys.
Wow great job everyone!
I lived in the are my whole life. This was a wonderful project. PGE would never generate power here again. It was the right thing for them to do it was the right thing for the river. It was a huge learning lab for many different scientists. It was a huge success.
In any given group of people gathered together specifically to observe something, there will be at least one who feels the need to shout, "LOOK AT THAT!!"
If I lived around there, I'd be doing some gold panning downstream from where that dam used to sit.
That causes problems. NO, we don't want you to. I LIVE HERE.
it's a free country, you should try it.
@@0649Hayes Go Phuck yourself Socialist Antifa lover!
@@joelcrunk651 well that escalated quickly
panning is relatively harmless to the environment, but it should be regulated. If you are successful, thousands will come searching for their fortune. The cost to the environment could be great if not peoperly regulated
It is a bit confusing to me, that hydro power, one of the cleanest forms of energy, should be taken away by environmentalism.
I wonder what the evviros who brought the lawsuits that closed this and other hydro electric dams think replaced the power that was lost?
I suspect it wasn't wind or solar.
To save the salmon, a keystone species, you have to balance species survival against hydro power. They both cant win.
Hydro power does not produce much CO2, but a dam pretty much shuts down an entire ecosystem.
It benefits humans and that's the problem environmentalists have. Environmentalism is dreadfully anti-human, anti-prosperity, and anti-industry.
Mercury poisioning, its fatal and it dont get better😮
I wish they had a time-lapse of the whole thing without it cutting to a bunch of different shots.
What a great story of technical prowess in the service of mother nature
Thank you, Portland General Electric. Not for the video. But for the decision you made.
Thanks for the dam tour!
Do you have any dam questions?
I am your dam guide
Libs be like “omg we need renewables”
Libs be like “omg no dams, we can’t have some salmon affected”
The cognitive dissonance is beyond comprehension
A wonderfully magical sight to see this river being able to breathe again in 90 to 100 years. Goodbye to concrete.
Our society is built on concrete, unless you want to go back to a hunter gatherer society we NEED concrete!
That was really cool!
Now where do you get the power to light your paisley sky and make your Skittles?
Thanks for all of those that helped get this removed, i live very close to the Sandy river and visit it everyday with my dogs
Great….take out all of the dams then you can buy power from California’s Three New Nuclear power plants and those are just for the 35,000,000 cars and trucks to recharge their battery’s.
So in reality California will really need at least 12 nuclear power plants.
@@alanwomack5055 You should leave since you don't like the greatest country on the planet.
@@Sum_Tings_Wong I fought for America in Vietnam in the years 1970 and 1971. So take your Chinese ass and go to hell.
Great documentary! What an amazing show of nature healing itself.
Yeah, All by itself.
Great doco guys - 💹➡ 2018 wonder how it all flows ? & Crikey them fish 🐟🐡 40lbs -+ 18Kilos au OZ - dams served a purpose electricity BUT once old its good to see the river system restored well done 🚣♂️ 🤽♂️ 👨👩👦👦
did you have a stroke whilst typing this?
@@breakcoregivesmewo0od611 yeah
A priceless opportunity for all profiteers to replace the dirt and pay society back, you will be first 👍🏼
FREAKING EPIC.
It’s a damn shame to remove these dams. Clean the, out, keep making technological improvements and build more of them.
Otherwise, we may as well give up and move back into caves.
Those hints of Sulfur he talked about was H2S, Hydrogen Sulphide. That's not a gas you want to trifle with, especially in a lower confined space.
DEFINITELY...
Got H2S POISONING IN 2010... WORKING FOR THE PARK CITY SEWER DISTRICT !
LICKHER&STICKHER INTHEPINK I DON'T KNOW WHY WE'RE YELLING, BUT YOU'RE LUCKY YOU MADE IT OUT ALIVE.
It’s likely he’s actually smelling methane (swamp gas)
skunkhome agree on it being “swamp gas”, but methane is odorless in nature. There probably was some sort of sulfur released seeing as Mt Hood lay upstream
Wow. Cutting a notch with a forklift.
Not only do the fish get their River back the free flowing can deposit the sediments down river where it can replenish the area around the mouth of the river reducing or slowing down coastal erosion.
Love how you can see the signal transmit through the wire to the explosvies
Primacord is not wire. It is an explosive in it's own rite. You can take primacord and tie into a ball of knots and you have now just built your own home made bomb. Now ignite it, and see what happens. There are different types with their own ignition mechanisms.
Great work guys. A job well done and something to be justifiably proud of. Like the man said at the end we borrowed the river's energy for a hundred years now it's time to give it back. I'd love to be around in a hundred years to see how the Chinese replicate this work at Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. Doubtless this project and others like it will be cited in the UA-cam videos of the future. Important work, diligently done.
Ok but where u gonna get power for an all electric world which we are moving more towards. I guess it's back to coal which is more deadly than a dam would be
patrick Zink There are renewable sources that don't harm the environment nearly this much.
@@patrickzink2191 The goal is to reduce the size of the middle and working classes. Therefore, the powers that be won't allow coal to take the place of these hydro plants. They're moving to green energy _(sustainable development),_ which will lead to higher costs of goods/services, fewer jobs etc.
@@Studio23Media Does your 'environment' include birds and bats?
Not You Yes. And despite what conspiracy theories you believe, windmills are not bird killing machines. Stop believing nonsense
A hundred years ago we built these dams and they produced electricity, replacing a part of the fishing industry. Now with the demolishing of these dams we are replacing the electricity industry for the fishing industry. That of course means more fish will be able to feed more people. That part is good,but we also must find more ways to produce cheap electricity.
Nuclear......and coal.
The fish are protected so eat one & go to jail - look at one w/ mean eye & get a fine..
@@zabaleta66 fuck coal, it’s the single worst thing that’s ever happened to our atmosphere. we will be underwater in 100 years if we keep using coal.
Cheap electricity? Not going to happen. It will be the overlords living like kings and the rest of us will be their slaves.
Any dam on the west coast that is antiquated and not essential, needs to be removed. Get those fisheries back.
The presentation was just plain old good work. The project speaks for itself. Thanks from Philadelphis
BIEN , BIG DAMS NO MORE, BUT LITTLE DAMS , VS EROSIONES YES , TRATAMIENTO INTEGRAL DE CUENCAS NO OLVIDARLO ES LA BASE DE LA CAPTURA Y COSECHA DE AGUA . ANIMOOOOOOOOOOO
I wonder what it looked like 150 years ago, before all the Bridges and Dams?
No cities, very little population and small farms and hunting. You want to go back to that time in our society, I really doubt it!
That's a wild story. Looks lots nicer without the dam.
You know... with all the sediment washed away, a new dam could easily be built there
damn, that was a nice job!
honestly gave me chills
nice video
Would have been interesting to run all that sediment through a gold sluice.
AGREED
Now that would just make it worse, add a channel for the fish and make it beautiful.😊
how was noone in this meeting like.. hey.. we should do a time lapse of the entire event.. and get the shot of the small stream turning into a river in one shot.. not these little clips
The power companies concluded that the hydroelectric power made was not the most cost effective. Salmon ladders were also too expensive to install. The only opponents were recreational users of the reservoirs and lake side property owners.
"Lakeside" LOL You make it sound like there was summer houses, docks and ski boats.
There was no lake. It was still a river with tons and tons of sediment buildup behind the dam. It was so thick you could literally walk across the face of the dam without going over your knees. No widening and depth increase behind the dam. Just a new man made concrete channel that diverted water for power use at Bull Run.
Megatonnes of sediment builds up behind dams in few decades. Remove the dam and most of that will wash downstream, despite efforts to stabilize it with plants. It will smother spawning beds and do other damage, and while the river will-probably, eventually, mostly-clean itself, it only takes one year’s total failure to destroy a spawning run. Suggestion?
Build one suction dredge that can be taken apart, transported by truck, and reassembled behind a dam scheduled for removal; we should be able to schedule dam removals so that one or two machines will do for all. Dredge most of the sediment out from behind the dam, and it will not be there to wash downstream. I don’t know where/how we dispose of all that, if it’s contaminated with agricultural and other chemicals-but then we don’t want to let that contaminate the downstream river bottom anyway. Where it is clean enough, it’s silt, very rich soil, and it could be sold to farmers or as a component of potting soil.
There are no wastes, only un-utilized resources.
Ty global water management is so required in loving application s🌍❤️
Aka ,the cheap way out just happens to be the right thing to do for the environment!
What a pr plug for Pge !
That was amazing!
wow, the size of the salmons, unbelievable!
Who else continued watching to see the dam fail?
This was done in 2014. What is the status of the area now in 2019?
it was demolished back in 2007-2008. So the area is well over 10 years past when the dam was removed. With this removal they also got rid of Roslyn Lake that was created with this dam and the Little Sandy Dam as well. So it's on track to become what it used to look like before the dam.
The dam still isn't there.
@@stacymirba1433: Lol. True but the water is.
the hydro it produced has been replaced by a coal plant.
@@barrym4079 No it hasn't. We have only one coal fired plant and it's many miles further up the gorge. I'm sure the power that was needed to replace this dam was MORE than handled by solar and wind generators that are already exceeding the needs of Pacific Power and Light. They are winding down the c.f. plant!
Excellent video and project. Would like to have seen the cofferdam burst and wash-away better. Too many artsy fartsy closeup shots that really didn't help. (Later, I noticed half a dozen other similar critiques).
The funny thing is, if we had the same technology today as when it was built, we wouldn't have been able to do this.
That's incorrect, it would happen quicker, because they would use more explosives to destroy the dam in the first place.
thank u for thinkin for our grandchildren
334 windmills = 1 small damn.....Sorry birds.
...... More like 3 windmills? This very small project is just that. 12MW is a rounding error in an electrical grid.
@@herpnderpn2484 12MW was the start of the Texas disaster that killed power to a third of the country, same for the NE one.
Very well done everybody , great job .
Gold gold gold in the sediments!
Nope. This area has very little if any Au.
I'm still trying to find some gold in the colorado mountain creeks via 2in keene backpack dredge,get bout 4 5gal buckets of "black sand" and u MIGHT get 1-8 flakes of "glitter" tiny tiny bits of gold(I know I'm not missing anything)
One thing for certain is the sediment went somewhere and had its affect there (good or bad) .
Good on you guys and girls who were part of the dam demolishment.
It's great how man can restore a massive structure back to origanal states's.
There was a dam here.
What ???who said that ???? No dam here now .
Very good work . I love how the prep work of years before, successfully works now .
this was done several years ago now, I wonder what it looks like now, if the primary objective worked as planned, if the fish really benefit as much as expected, and the electric needs and bills after this .
well the powerhouse that the dam helped supply with water was only able to produce enough electricity (22 Megawatts) for 12,000 homes. Compare this to the dams along the Columbia river and the respective tributaries generate 29 Gigawatts as of 2012 (the dam featured was taken out in 2007-2008) which can power roughly 21 million homes assuming standard electrical usage. So the dam was likely a drop in the bucket compared to where most Portland General Electric customers got their power from.
@@alex-marquette You are correct. The direction is efficiency of money. There is no advantage to having many smaller generators when a few will do the job by simply modifying the distribution system. Other than that, the destruction of the smaller generators includes a lot of tax and cash flow benefits.
So have crews of beavers now shown up and starting modifying the river to their own liking?
Thank you.
Great video and a great story - well done all!
What will we do when we need more electric- fly kites with keys?
Michael Lyons there is a massive opportunity for solar and wind in the states. If the UK with its climate camps generate a quarter of its power from them already, there is no reason why the states couldn't get fifty percent within a decade with proper investment. Of course, being America, it will take decades- America is always at least a generation behind Europe.
Solar power/wind
No no more damn only bless. Very nice..
I watched the removal on TV years ago. Being a transplant from Minnesota, it was still exciting for myself and all of Oregon!
Who says going a step back is a bad thing!
Go Vikings! (Minnesota.) lol
...GO HAWKS!!!!!
Our economy does. You can't remove all the infrastructure that supports modern society and go back to the old ways without reverting society back to those old ways.
the wooden flumes are blowing my mind.
And why is that? Obviously you know nothing about wood stave pipelines? Learn about them before shooting your mouth off.
Anyone else want to play with the scale model?
I was reading that like you were offering, like you had it set up in your shed or something
Loved seeing the excitement in those men working the job! Especially the one jumping up and down with his camera like a kid on Christmas morning!!
Is this river undamed all the way to it's head waters now?
Yup! Isn't it GRAND?
Yes!!!
Dam was silted up. Owner of the dam would have to pay millions to rectify that…..basic economics.
This is insanity.
I love it the Glen canyon dam should be the next to go.
Very interesting. Have a nice day now.
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sad :( but at least the environment is returning to how it once was
AMAZING!
The salmon are so much more important than making life a little easier and more convenient for human beings. That's right, isn't it?
And how are fish going to swim upstream with four waterfalls blocking them?
Hope you enjoy the dry Colorado River in the future. Not too smart.
You do realize that this river flows into the Columbia River, not the Colorado river. Further the state of Oregon doesn't even rely on the Colorado river for anything along with this river is the melt runoff of snow on Mt. Hood.
Also the Colorado river is drying up for reasons that affect the states along the river. Which the biggest factor is that we are relying on river in that area that was over estimated to it's capacity and the climate changing where there is less snowfall (and subsequently less runoff) occurring where the river originates.
So now, 15,000 homes must seek power elsewhere?
You're so dumb you don't realize this was over a decade ago. So dumb you believe nothing was considered and solved prior to taking action.
Electro magnetism... Scientists think they migrate using the magnetic field of the earth.
How can we ever move towards a carbon-free future if we dismantle the only dispatchable sources of green energy?
Ok, the fish win. How is the electric produced here (formerly) going to be replaced? need all the juice we can get to run all those electric cars here. windmills, gotta cut down the trees, solar panels, ditto, OH! fairy dust. that solves the problem.
the amount of power small hydros like this is pitifully small
Bullshit. It was cheaper to remove the dam than to maintain it. Its all a smokescreen. The help it gives salmon is secondary.
@Andrew Layton 😧🔫
We were being made to pay to keep this and many more outdated power going because the companies didn’t want to spend the money to remove them. And didn’t care because they just kept making us pay to keep them going the only way to keep these old plants going was to pass it on to us. And the government was letting them get away with it. This old Technology wasn’t paying for itself any longer it should’ve been gone a long time ago. The new Technology is so much better than this old Technology.
@@FYMASMD "Cheaper to destroy the dams than maintain it"? Is that your argument? 🤦♂️. WTF?!! Of course it's easier to destroy than you build.
The economic effects are judged by the output it produced. Electricity. Yes, it was a small dam compared to others. But so was the river it was built on.
2:51 He really looks like a washed out Negan
A crisis but everyone is so calm (yawn)!
??? Reducing hydropower generation? 🙈
The very same people who want to have nature (and salmons) protected (as I do) surely also want the climate warming stopped.
Hydropower generation is the most ecological way to produce power! Weird to dismantle such plants…unless this is greenwashing! 🤷♂️
Those DAMS on the Colorado should be next,
It is as it should be.
RIP Scott Zorza
Keep the dams
Damn l was hoping to see some Led Zeppelin kick in here!
Nothing is possible with people who hate God and country...
FUCK off. I don't hate god or country. Just ignorant fucks like you. Stay out of this area. You might have problems with you're attitude around here. Don't forget plenty of bleeding heart liberals own guns. Like me.
You can’t manage the silt because it’ll harm the fish; destroy the dam. Then they look straight down at you and say “science”.
I know. What a joke. The fish survived the dam for 100 years just fine. But the dam couldn't survive the EPA.
Ok, so this was all basically about the fish. Seems to me that with the money and effort spent here they could have built an awfully elaborate fish ladder to handle that issue. But no, they take down a perfectly good facility that was providing clean, free energy for 16,000 homes. And what of the cost of building whatever is going to make up for that lost capacity? Makes no sense to me.
Makes no sense to you because you don't have enough info. It was cheaper to remove the dam than maintain/update it. Salmon preservation was secondary. It would have cost way more for new fish ladders and updates to the dam than to remove it. I forgive you for you're lack of knowledge.
What Me Worry That's quite generous of you. I take it that you have info other than what was included in this little documentary?
@@dieseldave71 do you actually think GE would tell the truth? Obviously you don't live around here so yeah I do have more info about it because I live very close to this area and was personally involved in the project. Like you care anyhow. The federal government wanted the fish ladder updated. GE decided not to do it because the dam didn't generate enough money. Simple economics. Satisfied or do you needmore info? The power it generated was with antiquated generators. The new generators at Bonneville easily replaced the power this dam generated and more efficiently. Still need more info?
Such a waste. This is an irreversible action. This dam provided energy 24 hours a day, every day of the year, for 16,000 homes -- with zero emissions. We need to stop prioritizing fish over people.
Exactly, a common sense reply that unfortunately eludes so many.
Na man let the fish live
@@__z4ne__823 they had a fish ladder. As you type this on your device powered by electricity. The irony is ridiculous
Funny how i just watched a documentary about the removal of Condit dam and they removed in the exact same way. Let the river take away the sediment... yet they say it has not been done before...
Micke Larsson they were saying the first time for that amount of sediment not the first for letting the river take the sediment away
Condit didn't have thid much sediment.
Marmot was in 07...condit in 2011..