The Abandoned Oregon City Waterworks | OR
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Following a typhoid outbreak due to the pollution of the Willamette River in 1913, the towns of Oregon City and West Linn were searching for a clean source of drinking water for their area. They found a suitable source nearly 30 miles away in the South Fork Clackamas River, and began constructing pipeline to carry water back to Oregon City in 1915. The project, which required blasting tunnels into the canyon walls, would originally start at the confluence of Melamoose Creek and South Fork Clackamas River but in the late 1930s it was expanded to reach to the top of Clackamas Falls. This required more tunneling and the construction of 2 bridges, and resulted in increased water pressure for the system overall. In 1985 the project was officially decommissioned, and has since been reclaimed by the forest. In 2013 a forest fire caused further damage to the area, resulting in burned trees and landslides.
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Being from the Great Northwest, I can truly appreciate the greenery, the rain sounds and all the wetness that were displayed and trudged through in this remarkable video! Great photography and narration of this hidden history. I could almost smell the fresh Oregon air!👍🌲❤
Great video, I was raised grew up from Clarkes to Oregon City 1952 - 1968 left for Navy. Came back 4 yrs later, work for Clackamas Co. Bridge Department 13 yrs. Live in Utah, now.
My mother, who grew up in the 1930's near Faraday, talked about exploring caves nearby when she was little. I've always wondered where they were. Thank you for the great video, it's familiar territory. We also walked the pipeline between 3 Lynx and Harriet Lake, along the Oak Grove Fork.
When you're tying to transfer water down a hill, without increasing the pressure/speed (you're not trying to generate power with it) you place these pits at intervals to slow down the water flow. They also provide an overflow point in case of blockage so you don't blow your pipe.
That advice came from a man with experience. :-) I was born in Portland in 1956 and lived all over Oregon my old man was an outlaw that anybody know Joe Everson anyways Oregon's a beautiful place but we moved out and migrated to Wisconsin I went to 15 different schools across the USA and the old man stabbed my ma practically in front of Seven kids anyways I'm 65 years young now I love exploring
nowadays they often install small hydropower stations along such pipelines to reduce the load and use the energy for something else.
very interesting infrastructure for this area, lovely foliage.
Ummmm Ok??..... Definitely never heard of him before.. Your scuzzy family isnt "famous" sounds very Oregonian-like though!!! Lmfao We are a different breed of people out here for sure! @markeverson5849
Excellent. I've lived for 30 years in the area, and never knew about this. And very nice camera work at the end.
When in Oregon like to hike abandoned timber trails...nothing like this. Thx. Getting to old to try this one. So thx again.
The “trailhead” seems to be just past Estacada and those burnt trees were from the 2014 fire that happened the week we moved to Estacada. I imagine that whole area is not safe at all to hike… at least for a few more years. The wildfires of 2020 completely wiped out the area and the hills are too unstable to be doing any major bushwhacking down canyons. So pretty through..: I didn’t even know there was a Clackamas Falls along the river. So beautiful!!! It would be nice if they made this into a safer trail. Very pretty.
It's encouraging how quickly nature heals the scars. I've lived in Oregon (specifically Clackamas and Linn counties) for 30 years and have never heard of this. Fascinating!
Thanks, Pines and Mines, for creating & sharing this! You are an intrepid, fearless explorer ⭐️ Beautiful plants, salmon berries especially 🧡
I made it to the first tunnels but had sprained my finger going down the ropes so turned back after that. I regret that decision so much since the fire destroyed much of it. I'm thankful you took great footage.
The rope trail is so much more steep and treacherous than it seems in this video.
I was beat by the end of this hike, but it was all WELL worth the risk.
Awesome great adventure man, thanks for taking me along!
Imagine being out in the old woods building that...largely quiet except for the occasional sound of axes, picks and shovels and the occasional explosion or the soft sound of a steam engine....carving out the wilderness for yourself, your family, and your neighbors and a days pay.
We stand on the shoulders of hard working men who came before.
Too often we don’t appreciate what they gave us and instead are taught to judge them...
what lol
I live right above Water board park "the bluff" an spent my whole childhood climbing playing and airsoft wars down there. Same with the waterworks. So cool to see a video of it!
Pretty cool video! The rope descent on that steep hill was kind of exciting. The wooden bridge was cool. I liked how green moss and stuff was growing on it. Glad you chose not to cross that log bridge - looked dangerous, as you mentioned. The tunnels were cool, too. Very interesting to see these waterworks remnants.
Holy cow, Hi Frank from the past!
Nice video! I'm glad to see explorers are still discovering this gem and in turn helping keep the druggies & hermits out. We cleaned out bags of trash likely from a failed grow op years ago. By the looks of it, it seems to be recovering after the bad wildfire that happened a few years ago.
Despite a little motion sickness, it's impossible to look away. Thanks for the trip and info. Hope you didn't get too wet.
Interesting how human endeavors come and go. When humans have been in an area for while, former activity gives way to newer and becomes forgotten history because people living at the time die off or move away. Unless it's recorded, it's lost. Thanks for investigating and recording this history.
Nice video. I've been up there twice. Both times I dropped into memaloose creek from not too far above the bridge. I don't know how but I completely missed the tunnel on the memaloose creek side.
Crazy. I live in Oregon City and I never knew there was anything like this here.
It’s not in Oregon city. It’s in estacada in the mountains lol
I have lived in this area all my life and never knew that was there. Thanks for sharing!
I thought that at first then I realized I had been here many times an never knew the name lol
This is sooo awesome
I’m like 4th or 5th generation here in Oregon City. Never new this existed. I might know where the waterfall is though. Very cool adventure indeed. Thanks for sharing 👍
Love love love your adventurous spirit. And your camera angles and frames are as if everyone is there with you. Simply awesome.
I wonder how much if any of this forest is left after all the wild fires in Oregon through the summer of 2020that burn hundred of thousands of acres there. The sound of moving water, especially a waterfall sounds so nice & relaxing
The Oregon City area didn’t burn
@@urbanvampyre4047 when did it burn he keeps mentioning burnt trees
@@releventhurt several years ago, maybe as many as 10 years ago
@@releventhurt It burned in 2014.
This area may be completely lost due to the recent fires. Before the fires, I can tell you one more of those logs has collapsed and luckily the woman on it was able to get onto the adjacent on. Go around from now on
This was fantastic. Thank you for sharing this adventure.
Good job on the camera work , well done . Not the best conditions to film in but i really enjoyed it . .What a task back in the day when that water line was put in .. Earned every foot of ground the hard way , physical labor ..... Keep posting more stuff like that .. I like watching adventures like this ..
@@pinesandmines Well done in tough conditions to film in.. In places what a jungle to navigate.. Do you know total length of the old water line? Appeared to keep going above the falls.. I like exploring like that back in history.. Where I live not far from me there is an old water line up in a canyon , wooden pipe, wrapped in steel bands, in sections I had to resort to hands and knees .. I got a good workout that day..
I live in molalla! About 25-30 minutes away from Oregon city where may I find the hiking trail? I'd love to take a look
Oregon City Water Works Company, built in 1867.
1859 Oregon not bad for 8 years. Hard to believe I was born 100 years later and one
Same year Nebraska territory became a state
Beautiful trip. Thank you.
I grew up in Estacada. Can’t believe I didn’t; know this. I moved out in 1984, so it probably wasn’t open to the public.
Wow, thanks for sharing
Hey, what's the Google Earth coordinate for this, my great grampa used to work there and used to talk about it when he was around
Crazy! I live not far from there, will have to go explore. Thank you! I grew up in Corbett-Springdale and my step brother and I often explored what is the Bullrun watershed and was a lot more accessible back in the 70s, as well as nooks and crannies up the Columbia river gorge, but while I have seen the pipes along 224 I didn't know about the tunnels!
Thank you for sharing. I would love to go on that trip
Been going up that way for years and didn’t know this was there
The What? Landslide area with Cliff Trail, Wonderful and absolutely how Beautiful!
Very Nice , Indeed.. Lovely Forest with Waterfall and Abandoned Mine. Fabulous!
Nice Rope too.
Certain Areas of the Beautiful Northwest Wilderness , My 2nd Home. HMmm.... Mine , Yeah, Exactly.. I Love It and Looking Foreword to Visiting Again..
Great video and well narrated. Wish I was in shape to do a hike like that now. I felt like I was there. Thank you!
My partner and I both went to school in Estacada, he tells me he had hiked up to the waterfall and fished there. How cool..
Raining in PNW, what a surprise! Love the videos and wish I had found this channel when I still lived in OR as I loved exploring places like this.
Amazing to see, thanks for sharing this story
Very cool, thanks!
Amazing.. incredible.. unbelievable.. beautiful
I love how you just Livsey walk through alll that poison oak.
Fascinating!
Didnt even know this was in my backyard I'm going to check it out tomorrow
Are you alone? Oh my god you’re so brave after all those missing person videos of people that go hiking LOL. I live in Oregon to I’m in Jefferson next to Albany.
I love Oregon! I'm in the mountains of Oakridge, it looks just like this video all around me.
awesome video!!! Sooooo, where is all of this located again??
Hey Kristy if you want to go sometime I'll show you around. Maybe we could listen to a little Kris Kristofferson on our way if your game.
Holy crap this looks just like the last of us, naughty dog did a really good job showing what the abandoned NW would look like . Thanks 👍
What an AWESOME trip!!! How long ago did this take place??? It looks like it took place when men were men,. No special tools to make the job easier. Thank you for taking us alongside you.
Great video thanks for sharing it! 👍🏼
Just subbed, love old Oregon one thing though, I hope you guys upgrade your hiking boots 😉
Amazing!
Was the willamette so polluted already that they had to go through all the trouble to get water that far up the clackamas? Seems pretty crazy. Thanks for sharing.
When you think that there were no sewage treatment plants around the turn of that century, ALL sewage was dumped into the river. So yes, it WAS that polluted.
*is polluted
Possibly easier to let gravity do the work over the long term. You’d have to pump water up from the willamette.
Plus Clackamas water is fresher than willamette river water.
Logging had actually cleared a lot of the forest around this area at the turn of the century. A lot of the watersheds were seriously degraded to the point they could not be drank. Also the Willamette at that time was full of logging related effluent from up stream....lumber mills, paper factories, plywood mills...they not only stored all their logs in the river (dumping tons of tannic acid into the water) but the leftover chemicals from making products from wood. The river caught on fire a few times in the 1950's. Even into the late 1980's, there was a certain tea color to the Willamette from the logging industry and few sewage treatment plants that overflowed with each rain.
Old Local joke:
Life is a crap shoot.
So is the Willamette.
Get it?
Crap chute. (Yes, we get it, Cheryl)
Interesting. What do those yellow signs say?
Good question, I wondered that too.
The Bridge, most exciting part
That really had to have pissed bigfoot off
Very Cool, fun to view, I live over near Wilsonville...always fun to see local
I think they shot a few scenes for The Hunted (Tommy Lee Jones Benicio del Toro ) there possibly
Great video!
Nice presentation
Great video, i enjoyed this one as much as the Opal Creek and Nehalem videos.
Too bad the fires wiped out Opal Creek, it'll be back, but not in our lifetime, but one of the biggest losses was the loss of life, human and animal and especially George Atiea, one of the many protectors of Opal Creek, unfortunately he couldn't protect it from fire and lost his life in the process, R.I.P.
What kind of camera and gear did you use for this hike
Those were probably valve houses.
Why didn’t they get water from Willamette River or Clackamas River by Gladstone?
Iv done this hike before and I did cross the log bridge it is a bit sketchy but you’ll be ok
Does the Rev of the engine mean start filming?
First time finding a video by you but I intend to watch dang near every single one of them
Very cool!!!
This part of the pipe running along Clackamas river above estacada ?
I guess when powerd pumps werent available you needed gravity to get the water moving
Is this pipeline what you see up on the right when traveling past estacada?
Trailhead location?
great hike. I wonder how much is left after the fire
Bridge is gone
@@ReptilianGodMana ah bummer
I would have to say, with a entrance like this. That would probably be the reason the water park closed. Still have not seen the park.
I wonder if they achieved there goal here if I ever find my self over that way I need to check it out if I can find it I’ve never been in Oregon city so it may be worth the drive
I live in Oregon City and I don’t know where this is?
It's Oregon, you can tell with all the RAIN we get
100 years from now, Ancient Aliens type TV show will claim this was made by potato headed space people.
Where is this exactly if anyone knows?
45°11'17.2"N 122°13'45.7"W I think
how do you get there
Walking
Jacob Arciniega = 🔥🔥
Fear of heights heart attack nearly happened to me!
Alot of abandoned places in Oregon city
Too bad Oregon is nothing more than Escape from Alcatraz or a Zombie Apacolapse. Won't be touring there anymore. 2022
Many great places still exist in Oregon. Life is great! People there are still great ! Enjoy the positivity!
All that work,and everything was about getting that pipe in there right ,so everyone could have pressurized water,
I'd want a new rope for SRT devices down and up if doing a route in disuse for nearly a century. Petzl made my present climb gear and a German-made 11 mm static rope serves me while speleology adventuring.
Scetchy Bridge
That tunnel is a good place to go when the zombies come 😉
Is this off of memeloose?? Where the heck is this?
You park at memaloose bridge an hike up on nf-45. I think there's a way that you can get in from the South on 4550 as well; much longer, but accessible with a proper 4x4.
@@PNWJEEPER01 did they tank trap nf-45? That seems like a pretty gnarley hike from the bridge just to the top alone..
@@Mekaleeto_Worldwide it's a super gnarly hike; steep two track with countless switchbacks.
I don't.know about tank traps but there are concrete and pipe works in places along 45.
I don't think you can currently get into the area on account of the 2020 fires. Last time I tried, the road was.blocked at Promontory.
@@PNWJEEPER01 it's open now kinda but was just a slide right before Job Corp, so it's all unstable but supposedly some have gone all the way to Detroit the backway
Lol is you friend wearing a helmet still at the top??
On belay
My better half was born and raised in oregon city, left in the early 70s as a teacher to fill a need in Australia. She's now a dual citizen with aussie grandkids. Visited Oregon many times and toured the wonderful landscapes and surrounding states. Mom and Dad visited us many times, we still remember the enthusiasm they created, not only with us but with the friends they made on their trips here.
As an Aussie from near Sydney I remember the impression the amount of free flowing water there was around Oregon City, it was something I'd never seen before , just the sheer volume of it, freeflowing . I guess it was corralled somewhere, but I'd never seen the like before.
Can't travel anymore , so thanks for this , brings back a few memories.
Great video thanks for sharing it! 👍🏼