Robbing water rights to countless people downstream should be $5000 per day plus jail time, and restitution for all downstream people who were affected.
Water flows downstream to the ocean, seems to me that you want to capture as much as possible upstream to recharge the aquifers and prevent flash flooding. You really need a bunch of beavers on the rivers. Texas gets plenty of rain, you just need to save it for the dry season and dry years. Smaller dams are better that big ones at storing water, creating green spaces and recharging the ground water over a larger area.
So long as they are not diverting the water sure it could be beneficial, but what are the chances of that. The landowners built these dams for a reason and I doubt it was for wildlife.
It depends on how it’s done. If it’s done right you can mitigate floods and droughts. If you build a series of small check dams in usually dry gullies/small creeks it will slow down flood water and hold some water in the ground. If you are damming whole rivers without considering the consequences you can cause more problems.
Makes me wonder what do these state government agencies actually do and which politicians are taking bribes and where is the taxpayers money actually going to and who's pockets
This isn't anything new. I've been noticing this for years. I'm a geography and nature nerd and I scan Google earth for hours. I constantly come across these. Everywhere there's a stream/creek somewhere along it a landowner built a dam. You ever wonder why all those creeks you used to go fishing at a decade or more ago are all bone dry now. I can get on Google earth right now and find 100 of these just like that.
@dco956 just from that inlet until it reaches the river. You can go on Google and find the watershed maps and you can move around and it'll show you on there where each and every little creek flows into. One tiny creek into a bigger creek into a bigger creek into the river
They shouldn't allow people to dig out ceeeks just to make a pond in their front yard. Tons of these and you see the rives drying up. Pipe creek, Privilege creek and the Medina river quit flowing every year now, much less all the creeks along county roads. Politicians haven't bothered to learn from the more populated areas what happens when the water runs out
And their downstream neighbors go dry... Got it. Riparian rights are hundreds of years old... Leave it to republicans to show their disdain for others, for negotiated legislation, and for the law. And call it love of nature.
@@watwudscoobydoo1770 they're not Irrigating much more than the occasional Hay Meadow, as most of that Land in the Hill Country and Northern Edge of The Brush Country is mostly Rocky Mesquite and Cactus and.... barely Pasture. No Vegetables, No Grains, No Orchards... you're assuming more than what's realistic for that Climate and Topography. Frequent Droughts, hence the very reason those 3 or 4 ft Weirs were put across those Streams in the FIRST place......
@@watwudscoobydoo1770 and that would be disingenuous comments on your part. it's well known how much of the Illegal weed growing is cartel. although china is getting busy growing,
@@watwudscoobydoo1770 There was definitely a period where cartels were the primary growers in Norcal. Even today, they definitely outnumber the Chinese. But regardless, the point of the comment was obviously not to debate the nationality of the growers, rather to state that growers do it for weed too. But congrats on being an internet smart guy.
@@thems_the_brakes The ethnic makeup of the area doesn’t match. Hispanics are actually less common north of the Central Valley. Most of those growers are Hmong, a lot of Minnesota license plates tend to show up around harvest time. And most weed related violence is between them and the Chinese bringing their old world beefs. I am pretty smart tho.
In Florida we call these retention ponds. Captures runoff. Waterways are not being dammed, they’re capturing runoff at a limited capacity. Noticed they didn’t mention that during droughts, there is no runoff.
Seems like with the drought we could use more dams. Perhaps we need some education to help people know how to build a proper and legal dam. But, considering the government is involved, it probably takes years, which is why desperate people do desperate things.
There are ways to put swales and ponds on land to slow rain runoff and encourage plant and tree growth. There are videos on UA-cam about how to do that. It is a more effective and more lasting solution than damming a stream illegally and seeing the government destroy it.
No they where not there 50 through the 80’s. It’s been done recently by people moving here that think they own the rivers that flow through the property.
The water problem is more an issue of too many people in areas with limited water resources…. Parts of Texas have the same problem as the desert Southwest. Does it make sense to have large cities and large agribusiness operations in areas that are either desert or prone to cyclical, seasonal drought?
The Governor needs to stop this. As for the city/town that is responsible, they need to be held accountable. The folk that loose their property need to hold these cities/towns accountable. Why should these taxpayers always have to fix what these officials made bad choices on?
Yes let’s spend $9000 an hr for twenty four hours straight, seven days a week for 20+ helicopters to cover 268,560 square miles of Texas. The state would be in debt within no time.
The worst thing you could have is the state owning the water. Look at Oregon! It’s a manure show killing off small farms. Usually there are primary and secondary water rights. Often not owned by the land owner. If Austin has purchased the rights or obtained them thru water augmentation plans, then they own the water. But a ditch authority may hold those rights and they have legal access to the water for their membership. Diversion structures and impoundment structures may be needed by the ditch authority which could result in civil actions against the state. Welcome to water law or water wars as we call them. Texas is experiencing severe drought and may need a come to Jesus meeting regarding this. The insane hunting of beavers have changed the riparian zones and not for the better. I personally support the use of beavers and small reasonable impoundment structures.
@@markwells3289 most of them are barely Creeks, and slow down to a Trickle. It's all of you City People that are F* Up The Lone Star State, after Y'all move there from somewhere else ...Quit California-izing Texas!!! There's already too many of Y'uns as it is, and Y'all keep bringing more Liberals here. Non-Stop.
@@markwells3289 without those little Weirs, those Creeks would be completely dry, and Ladybird and Lake Travis, let's just say they both need to be lower, to be dredged out, as likely solve a few more murders, too.
We have the technical know how to transport trillions of gallons of water from the Mississippi during flood season to anywhere in America... If we can build 2.6 million miles of OIL pipelines we can certainly build a few thousand miles for water...
If the United States would build pipelines to move water like they do oil, flood areas could pipe millions of gallons of water to drought areas. It probably would solve the drought crisis in many areas.
@@timmick6911 Depends on the amount of income generated by keeping community's drought free. When a lake goes dry there are millions lost in recreation, property sales, agriculture, you name it.
Every one of these land owners need to have to pay fines for these illegal dams and the construction companies be fines for not making sure there is a permit. You want a dam on your property then do the right thing get a permit. These dams hurt everyone and it hurts the wildlife
India, Pakistan, China, Brazil, all building more dams. We have dams all over the USA. Why no dams allowed in Texas. You already have many reservoirs. The Rio Grande and many other creeks rivers & streams benefit from dams. Governments are the problem.
This was an entitled oil company billionaire who wanted his own pool. Whky aren't they fined and spend considerable jail time. Because in Texas you don't do that to billionaires. They are above the law.
so what i just heard is build them all 5.5 feet tall and mimic beaver dams IE less than 200 acre feet.... as in lots of them everywhere you can afford to build them!!!! i can't wait to tell me mimicking beavers will cause there to be less water 🤣
More dams and water storage should be built everywhere around the world where fish migration is not impacted. California has finally started building more dams where none existed before.
Same policies that are implemented in California and notice they mention Austin, the Texas city, with one of the most California transplant residents in the state.
Jebus is so proud of you... Nothing like pulling together as Americans to solve a problem. When you're happy at other's suffering, you have built your own personal hell...
@@bosatsu76 like the Hell the current administration is bestowing on America while it tries to bring about a socialist utopia ? The left promotes so much hate and has no interest in "pulling together as Americans". Total corrupt control is all they seek.
If TPWD truly regulates these and there are 900 dams that are illegal They are not doing a very good job. Wtf are they being paid to do.?? What ever it is they dnt do it very well.
Is that a one time $5000 fine, and then that's the end of it? Some people will just factor that in as a fixed cost and continue building.
Robbing water rights to countless people downstream should be $5000 per day plus jail time, and restitution for all downstream people who were affected.
Water flows downstream to the ocean, seems to me that you want to capture as much as possible upstream to recharge the aquifers and prevent flash flooding. You really need a bunch of beavers on the rivers. Texas gets plenty of rain, you just need to save it for the dry season and dry years. Smaller dams are better that big ones at storing water, creating green spaces and recharging the ground water over a larger area.
Parts of Texas don't get plenty of rain Central, West and Southwest Texas are in a major drought of record. Has been going on for years.
Needs to be done in moderation. If everyone does it, water won’t get to the ocean.
So long as they are not diverting the water sure it could be beneficial, but what are the chances of that. The landowners built these dams for a reason and I doubt it was for wildlife.
I concur. Peter Andrews, the Godfather of Landscape
It depends on how it’s done. If it’s done right you can mitigate floods and droughts. If you build a series of small check dams in usually dry gullies/small creeks it will slow down flood water and hold some water in the ground. If you are damming whole rivers without considering the consequences you can cause more problems.
Sounds like a good old-fashioned water range war! 😮
Makes me wonder what do these state government agencies actually do and which politicians are taking bribes and where is the taxpayers money actually going to and who's pockets
You mean there's corruption in Red State, Family Values, Law and Order Texas?
The state agencies don’t do much and the “good old boy” system is alive and well here in Texas.
I’ve lived in central Texas all my life.
This isn't anything new. I've been noticing this for years. I'm a geography and nature nerd and I scan Google earth for hours. I constantly come across these. Everywhere there's a stream/creek somewhere along it a landowner built a dam. You ever wonder why all those creeks you used to go fishing at a decade or more ago are all bone dry now. I can get on Google earth right now and find 100 of these just like that.
Good for the farmers and ranchers.
@@Suzanne-f4x yeah. For the upstream farmers. Not so much if you are downstream if there is a water shortage year.
If they were bone dry....the whole river from that point would b dry
@dco956 just from that inlet until it reaches the river. You can go on Google and find the watershed maps and you can move around and it'll show you on there where each and every little creek flows into. One tiny creek into a bigger creek into a bigger creek into the river
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Employ beavers to build dams.. Beaver dams provide habitat for lots of other animals, clear the water downstream and are good for the environment.
Beavers never put dams where the farm owners want it. Are beavers native to Texas?
have you ever seen the beaver dam letter, its a hoot, they threaten the land owner over the beaver dam,
People here “ranchers”kill all types of animals just because. Beavers won’t last . Only seen 1 and that was years ago .!
@@stanhryyes they are native and yes they never follow our blueprints. We do need them though.
Have you seen Lake Travis ? Going on three years plus with the Lake down 30 ft +?
They shouldn't allow people to dig out ceeeks just to make a pond in their front yard. Tons of these and you see the rives drying up. Pipe creek, Privilege creek and the Medina river quit flowing every year now, much less all the creeks along county roads. Politicians haven't bothered to learn from the more populated areas what happens when the water runs out
Do you see the Paper problem here? These Ranchers provide anti-drought solutions for wildlife!....
If they weren’t using the water and just holding on to it like a beaver dam then yea. But they probably using it to irrigate though so likely no.
And their downstream neighbors go dry... Got it.
Riparian rights are hundreds of years old... Leave it to republicans to show their disdain for others, for negotiated legislation, and for the law. And call it love of nature.
@@watwudscoobydoo1770 they're not Irrigating much more than the occasional Hay Meadow, as most of that Land in the Hill Country and Northern Edge of The Brush Country is mostly Rocky Mesquite and Cactus and.... barely Pasture. No Vegetables, No Grains, No Orchards... you're assuming more than what's realistic for that Climate and Topography. Frequent Droughts, hence the very reason those 3 or 4 ft Weirs were put across those Streams in the FIRST place......
Exactly 💯.....Fish especially....
@@watwudscoobydoo1770 stop 🛑 acting like it's Hoover Dam....
This is the whole dam problem.
Cartels do this in Northern Cali all the time.
lol where? You know that’s a myth made to sell a book. Most outdoor weeds growers in far northern cali are not Mexican, they’re Hmong or Chinese.
@@watwudscoobydoo1770 and that would be disingenuous comments on your part. it's well known how much of the Illegal weed growing is cartel. although china is getting busy growing,
republicans look an awful like cartels nowadays... As they do ISIS and Nazis as well..
@@watwudscoobydoo1770 There was definitely a period where cartels were the primary growers in Norcal. Even today, they definitely outnumber the Chinese. But regardless, the point of the comment was obviously not to debate the nationality of the growers, rather to state that growers do it for weed too. But congrats on being an internet smart guy.
@@thems_the_brakes The ethnic makeup of the area doesn’t match. Hispanics are actually less common north of the Central Valley. Most of those growers are Hmong, a lot of Minnesota license plates tend to show up around harvest time. And most weed related violence is between them and the Chinese bringing their old world beefs. I am pretty smart tho.
You guys should look up Peter Andrews, who has done quite a bit of work on restoring a local aquifer in Australia.
For 2 years the Austin water supply has been decreasing and only now the State has started paying attention. SMH
Yep. If it wasn't for Multiple Drought Years adding up, nobody would notice and even ask the Landowner for Permission to Fish behind the Weir.
Austin is a liberal sewer it's full of moisture from all the liberal tears
In Florida we call these retention ponds. Captures runoff. Waterways are not being dammed, they’re capturing runoff at a limited capacity. Noticed they didn’t mention that during droughts, there is no runoff.
Seems like with the drought we could use more dams. Perhaps we need some education to help people know how to build a proper and legal dam. But, considering the government is involved, it probably takes years, which is why desperate people do desperate things.
Selfish people do Selfish things.
There are ways to put swales and ponds on land to slow rain runoff and encourage plant and tree growth. There are videos on UA-cam about how to do that. It is a more effective and more lasting solution than damming a stream illegally and seeing the government destroy it.
Shouldn't conservation officers be monitoring this?
No they where not there 50 through the 80’s. It’s been done recently by people moving here that think they own the rivers that flow through the property.
That was some dam good reporting.
The water problem is more an issue of too many people in areas with limited water resources…. Parts of Texas have the same problem as the desert Southwest. Does it make sense to have large cities and large agribusiness operations in areas that are either desert or prone to cyclical, seasonal drought?
I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Hahahahahaha 😂😂😂
Ha. Ha. Ha. Freedumb.
"The top 9 most terrifying words in the English Language are: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
@@mikelouis9389 Sheep!
@dannypinyan3949 Until you need/want something then it's time to squeal like a little over entitled piglet. Never fails.
Those Damn beavers!
Don’t need these dams screwing up the fishing and lake levels
nor do we need them to WATER the huge HERDS OF CATTLE as that would be against the EAT BUGS FOUNDATION as well right
@@Alfred.E.NewmanLEAD IS BETTER THAN TIN
Why do you care? Don't worry BehApPy
The Governor needs to stop this. As for the city/town that is responsible, they need to be held accountable. The folk that loose their property need to hold these cities/towns accountable. Why should these taxpayers always have to fix what these officials made bad choices on?
Texas is constantly in a state of emergency. Why should federal tax dollar pay for bad choices like living in Texas????
Did you even watch the video?
City dwellers just want to keep taking and taking….
All dams should be illegal!
Historic ranches converted into multiple new ranchets causing lots of damage to Texas water supply in rivers and aquifers.
Use helicopters fly along the waterways and check for them.
You can find them on Google earth
Satellite & Drone images can be used.
Yes let’s spend $9000 an hr for twenty four hours straight, seven days a week for 20+ helicopters to cover 268,560 square miles of Texas. The state would be in debt within no time.
Why don’t them build a bridge and give a time line and if they don’t comply start the process of taking land
Report them asap
Around the world this is done on purpose by certain groups ..
Who owns the water? The state or landowners?
Water rights are probably owned by someone else.
Most of the time if the water is a flowing creek/river/stream, the state. Of course that depends on the state.
The worst thing you could have is the state owning the water. Look at Oregon! It’s a manure show killing off small farms. Usually there are primary and secondary water rights. Often not owned by the land owner. If Austin has purchased the rights or obtained them thru water augmentation plans, then they own the water. But a ditch authority may hold those rights and they have legal access to the water for their membership. Diversion structures and impoundment structures may be needed by the ditch authority which could result in civil actions against the state. Welcome to water law or water wars as we call them. Texas is experiencing severe drought and may need a come to Jesus meeting regarding this. The insane hunting of beavers have changed the riparian zones and not for the better. I personally support the use of beavers and small reasonable impoundment structures.
No one should/ the land , environment doesn’t belong to anyone.
@@kriscarrillo6434 No one cares for something like an owner.
Arrogance is bigger in Texas.
This is very true and I am a sixth generation Texan , I resemble this remark!
@@kevinr5187 I love a guy who can laugh at themselves... Gives me hope for humanity.
City People being Petty against Ranchers and Rural Land Owners........
Ranchers and land owners have no right to dam navigable waterways (these are streams/rivers over 30 ft. across).
@@markwells3289 most of them are barely Creeks, and slow down to a Trickle. It's all of you City People that are F* Up The Lone Star State, after Y'all move there from somewhere else ...Quit California-izing Texas!!! There's already too many of Y'uns as it is, and Y'all keep bringing more Liberals here. Non-Stop.
Ranchers f ing over other ranchers is more accurate. They should just dam all rivers flowing into Texas....
@@markwells3289 without those little Weirs, those Creeks would be completely dry, and Ladybird and Lake Travis, let's just say they both need to be lower, to be dredged out, as likely solve a few more murders, too.
Bullshit I live in Mason county. Rich bastard landowners shouldn’t be doing anything to disrupt nature how they always seem to do.
Our land dryed out after the beaver dam was destroyed by doper city folks
All the mansions along the rivers in Texas have damns. Rich people can do whatever they want. Nothing will be done about it.
Things will be done about it. Q has arrived to put things right.
Farmers and Ranchers have to survive despite the government kowtowing to the mega cities that should not exist.
We have the technical know how to transport trillions of gallons of water from the Mississippi during flood season to anywhere in America... If we can build 2.6 million miles of OIL pipelines we can certainly build a few thousand miles for water...
Always with excuses for illegal behavior.
@@bosatsu76For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.
@@timmick6911 And for every effort at fixing a problem there is always a republican sitting in a mudhole whining about something.
Republicans are just democrats that bath from time to time and know which bathroom to use.
This was an damn interesting story.
Dammit
If the United States would build pipelines to move water like they do oil, flood areas could pipe millions of gallons of water to drought areas. It probably would solve the drought crisis in many areas.
Exactly...
How much more in taxes are you willing to pay for that?
@@timmick6911 Depends on the amount of income generated by keeping community's drought free. When a lake goes dry there are millions lost in recreation, property sales, agriculture, you name it.
@@AlbertMoyerJr You are severely underestimating the cost. And the logistics. And the scale.
@@timmick6911What’s so hard to grasp kid. We do it for oil, we can do it for water… I’m willing to bet you don’t even pay taxes😂😂😂
Every one of these land owners need to have to pay fines for these illegal dams and the construction companies be fines for not making sure there is a permit. You want a dam on your property then do the right thing get a permit. These dams hurt everyone and it hurts the wildlife
Starting too sound like the new residents are having some impact (Californication) has started!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Abbott knows. Flood his phones.
Am I going to eat it off the floor like that?
Its a part of control you and being free they have the right to control you now.
yes, definitely trying to control you, not protect a shared resource for the greater good -__-
India, Pakistan, China, Brazil, all building more dams.
We have dams all over the USA. Why no dams allowed in Texas. You already have many reservoirs.
The Rio Grande and many other creeks rivers & streams benefit from dams.
Governments are the problem.
This was an entitled oil company billionaire who wanted his own pool. Whky aren't they fined and spend considerable jail time. Because in Texas you don't do that to billionaires. They are above the law.
How about beaver dam ?
Beavers do the same thing . Better than letting it run out to sea.
well beavers aren't siphoning the water behind the dam, which is surely the purpose of most these man-made ones.
That's a dam shame 🫠
Lol
We need more dams, austin don't bath anyway so give it to the clean texan
Water wars begin. I hope it rains so much yall never again will want for water
Dammit
Maga beavers maybe?
A dam or weir?
reminds me of those damn beavers
Get some beavers
Central Texas isnt the west lmao
Dont be a snitch
so what i just heard is build them all 5.5 feet tall and mimic beaver dams IE less than 200 acre feet.... as in lots of them everywhere you can afford to build them!!!! i can't wait to tell me mimicking beavers will cause there to be less water 🤣
Just release beavers on your property they will build a damn for you and the state will leave you alone because it’s natural lol
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More dams and water storage should be built everywhere around the world where fish migration is not impacted.
California has finally started building more dams where none existed before.
Same policies that are implemented in California and notice they mention Austin, the Texas city, with one of the most California transplant residents in the state.
What can you do? Shut your mouth. Thats what you can do.
Definitely maga beavers.
May 5th 2024 and them liberals are flooded out 😂
Jebus is so proud of you... Nothing like pulling together as Americans to solve a problem. When you're happy at other's suffering, you have built your own personal hell...
@@bosatsu76 like the Hell the current administration is bestowing on America while it tries to bring about a socialist utopia ? The left promotes so much hate and has no interest in "pulling together as Americans". Total corrupt control is all they seek.
If TPWD truly regulates these and there are 900 dams that are illegal
They are not doing a very good job. Wtf are they being paid to do.?? What ever it is they dnt do it very well.
Damnb yous