Breaching of Gamtoos River Mouth - Jeffreys Bay, South Africa
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2018
- Video clip of the breaching of the flooded Gamtoos River Mouth on 11 September 2018.
So it happened!!! The Gamtoos River Mouth has been manually breached. Earlier today the Kouga Municipal Manager finally obtained permission from the EC MEC after an intensified effort. The farmers suffering from flooded pastures were given permission to breach the mouth and they stepped up to the mammoth task with their amazing staff. In a matter of three hours, they dug a deep channel by spade. The channel might seem narrow and small at this stage, but the river is filled with millions of cubic meters of excess water and by late this afternoon flood water from the Groot River has been expected to reach the top of the Gamtoos River, pushing more water into the already flooded system. By tomorrow morning that channel will look somewhat different than now... Hats of to the team of workers of Mondplaas who saved the day! - Авто та транспорт
Beaver dam busting , Drain clearing, Flash floods, and now river breaching , I think I need some Professional help
No idea why the fuck I want to keep seeing these as well.
Now you have laser metal cleaning, river ice jam breakage, and overgrown yard clean-up to add to your list of things that satisfy for reasons we can't quite explain.
look up post10
I think you at this point could call yourself a professional that can help.... In specific scenarios 🤣😂😅
@@prunedfingers I imagine being a fan of post10 is what led me here...
Spent many of my childhood days in that lagoon. We used to have a house up on the hill to the left, as you face the sea. Such wonderful memories of that place....
Any colords in your hood?
@@jonnywatts2970 🤣
Are you sure they were really farmers? They look more like they're on the government payroll. A dozen blokes doing the work, 3 dozen standing around watching. 😊 Great video, thanks.
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my home! I live at the Gamtoos River mouth and am so impressed by the work our community has done!
I did this once by myself with no tools. I just thought it would be fun to see the river run into the ocean. It's not that hard to do.
Excellent cinematography...👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Fantastic video and good luck to those farmers who sure need it.
@@redimixofmd Rather be a fool than a tool!!😂 C.U.Next Tuesday.
This was very important for the farmers.
There's so much beauty in ordinary things.
I agree!
If you have an IG account, you may follow @ordinaryphotographer_.
"We moved thirty yards of dirt by manual labor only to discover that it wouldn't flow".
Coz people are dumb.
It will flow and end up with waves big enough to surf. The problem is that this is illegal in many places, for a reason.
Your being so extra careful. So I can't sense Who You Are.
My 5YO daughter does a 1/10 scale version of that every weekend at the beach.
A future hydrologist?
Great video! Good job.
I went from a tsunami video to this. Well that was a let down.
Bruh Chinese cyanide explosion to seniors day at the beach
Dude was it the one where you thought the glacier was the tsunami.lol
waterFALLS. seaLEvEL .
Still Waters always LEvEL,
Dr.🌏ip
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exAMEN 🌈 FirmAmenT
Lmaooo me too! I was watching tsunami videos and ended up here lol
Don't let this breach video fool you. Most of them get raging. This was the least exciting coastal river breach I've ever seen.
Ive dug out a bunch of rivers around the world dozens of times. Heres a HUGE tip that will save a lot of effort. Dig from the river side toward the ocean! I have dug out channels by myself that were this far away from the ocean, as you go, the river water keeps the sand wet and softens it and makes it easy to just scoop out of the way, so that gravity can take over. You only need a little bit of water, and gravity does the rest. This video shows such a waste of effort digging from the ocean to the river.
looks like someone got a drone for christmas and cant stop playing with it
Yeah, lol
Baie mooi. 'n bomel ("drone") is beslis op my wenslysie!!!
So how long did it take to lower the level of the river?
That took alot of hard work. It looked beautiful while it was flowing. ♥️🌊🌍♥️
River in South Africa. Used heavily for agriculture which is probably why it periodically stops short of draining into the ocean. Depending on the year and seasonal rainfall the outlet into the ocean varies over time especially since it drains through a sandy beach.
makes sense.
A beautiful community doing a beautiful thing. 🇺🇸❤️👍🏻
finally a lovely comment :)
Pls keep updating on the gamtoos rivier mouth🙏
👍👍👍👍 Классное видео!
please upload a part 2 🙏🏼
Great job
Anyone see there was a much closer bit to dig at up the beach?
Thank you
Great jobs, comunity, excelent !
why does this seem so amazing
The teamwork part of it makes me happy especially with the way the world is these days
It’s not
Nice flying!
Excellent!
It is amazing what we can do together.
Bruce Sees all there’s like ONE dude doing it all wtf are you talking about. Half the people in the video were standing around.
Reconnecting mother nature. I love it🎉
way more work than necessary, the water would move that sand once you get the flow started.
I thought that after watching lot's of these videos but at the end I think it was due to the river level not being much above sea level.
Not much flow at all.
Maybe they did it early before the heavy rains to prevent the farmland flooding.
@@harveysmith100 I have a trout farm and a dam in the Creek that subverts the water to my ponds, that I have to clean out on occasion. The trick is to get the water flowing even a little bit and then work your way back up the stream moving the sand with a hoe once you loosen it the water does the rest. It's literally a small fraction of the work involved in these videos.
@@danielnorman8595 Yes, Point taken. The channel was too wide to get a fast flow started, Bernoulli's principle and all that.
I remember digging for fun.
1:24 wowwww what a beautiful scene of nature
By hand. Determination. Kudos.
Oh. A couple quick shots of after two days.
Wooow beautiful scant , like
VERY good selection of music for this
Nice work
Just two questions.
1. What for?
2. There is excavator?
Is that rainfed river or backwater?
why do they breach it?
i have seen several videos of doing the same act but what's the ultimate goal of doing this???
Ask your mother to read you the description of the clip.
@@dunruden9720 👍🤪🤣😆😝
if only there were machines to do that...
@@mucsalto8377 race card.
By the time you find the equipment and the trailer and get it there they have been done for 2 hours......imagine that.
LogicSword3675 they are called bulldozers
Then those people wouldn’t have to get any pesky exercise
Are you the guy that drinks all the alcohol at the party by 8:00 pm, and they just stuff you in the corner with a 5 gallon bucket?
Good work people.
Just curious. What's the purpose of doing this?
WOW!!! A lot of time and energy.
I bet 80% of these people have a child at home glued to a smartphone.
why is it done actually? is there a reason? or just fun?
par que se hace eso esta bonita las imagenes del dron
Why?
J Bay is always beautiful
So how long it will take down level of the river!thats it..
Was the point of this excersize to pollute the ocean?
READ the description provided.
This is so needed for the marine life - thank you to everyone that helped with this - good job!
Marine life🤔
So the life that was in the river got dumped to ocean salt water tooooo die 🤔👌✌
@@sosweetbaby4 you do realise fish can swim and instinct directs them to theur best environment? Also other life forms have their own methods of staying put/regenerating cyclically.
Can we see an updated video from the same spot?
Well that's three minutes I can't get back to life
then just go outside
4 by the time you've made your comment...
100% of human intervention in nature prooved lomg-term distructive.
This is a tiny trench dug in the sand. It would had happened naturally maybe in a few weeks, but still, the full implications were never thought upon by no one.
In that few weeks crops and homes could be lost to floods. Sandbars shift and grow. Digging a trench to help nature along is goid husbandry, along with dredging to prevent too much silting up at the river mouth. Flood plains provide good soil when correctly mabaged.
Do they not have backhoes in South Africa?
So natural thanks humans
I wish I could be there some day
Looks like most construction work. More than half are standing around watching the others do the work!
(Yes, I know that’s not happening. It just fits into that narrative. I supervised underground construction and I would limit how many supervisors, assistant managers, managers, support crews, parts runners and any other people not immediately needed to be on a job site because the crew doing the work were one crewleader and two laborers. Only one laborer was actually digging and the other keeping the spoils away from the excavation. The crewleader was responsible for the two laborers. It definitely looks bad to the public and adding another couple for traffic control didn’t help the visuals, either.)
how come South Africa has so many rivers like this?
What was the accomplishment ahead?
Besides the fact that, given enough time, mother nature would have made her own path.... Without their help 🤷🏻♀️
@@-Gadget- read the description you waste of braincells
My kingdom for a backhoe!
I'm guessing machinery wasn't an option?
@@mucsalto8377 I get it man. It's social media and everyone can say whatever unfortunately. But considering the vast majority are white you wanna try again?
Its so sickening that the people need permission for something like this ! The people around here would not have even asked and would not have waited either . Government has become a cancer to all ! I wonder if the people will ever do anything about it ? I doubt it....
I can dig this idea.
Yooo an actually funny comment :D
How come all these rivers in South Africa cannot find their way naturally to the ocean. What is man doing? I'm confused.
Great job 🙏
If water is on a larger surface then a bigger amount will evaporate and there will be more clouds. More clouds means more rain for a green planet.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that horrible for the environment?
what for?
Are they pouring fresh water into the ocean?
You mean like every river on the planet ?
Flood water
I'm guessing not Det cord available....
How is it there was no one surfing that
Super 👍
0:17 WW1 flashbacks
The fuck
@@vishalSharma-ol9fl Filling sandbags.
Why??
To show you how humans are stupid!! Always to destroy the beauty of our wonderful planet!
@@bluvespa Or maybe you can read the video description about flooding further upstream.
What was the point of that ..... ?
They effort was paid off,, congrat's
Backhoe?
Nature: *doing its thing*
People: HURRY UP
Well that was a waste of three minutes,Thanks.
When tree and bunny huggers come up with a plan.
WAAAH WAAW
У меня только один вопрос...
OK, but why?
And what was the point of that
READ the description provided.
Já não tem muita água potável no mundo aí faz isso ai é foda
was there a point to that?
What's the reason?
What was the point of this?
If you had read the description, the farmland was flooded. So they got permission to open a channel between the river and the ocean to allow the river to drain.
Point was nunya
His reply 😂😂😂
@@motherofone1 you need permission to play on the beach now?
@@flashforensics looking at the history, the residents did this in 2015, but without permission, and the illegal bit is breaching the river mouth, not going on the beach. The local office of the Department of Environmental Affairs apparently filed a complaint with the police. This time (2018), they got permission.
...for what...exactly?
To bad you didn't get footage of the following day.
too bad they couldnt put in a pernament structure with removable boards . when time comes , remove the boards . i feel though that would be too expensive .
Why? Dont u need water?
Read the description.
Why didn't they bring in a digger?
They had 100 of them
Is there a reason no one is playing in the breach? Looks fun to me
I did it once on Lanzarote island,Gran Canaria.I survived. It looks like nothing but there where the sweet water gets into the salt water there is such a strange" Trouble" its takes you away upside down and i m a good swimmer ,I really thougt I would die.
Video too short. Didn't show how wide the pathway went
Don’t know what mod u have on water only flows 8 blocks so I know u guys are cheating on sum way 😣
How about learning English grammar and punctuation before making a fool of yourself in public with your complete lack of literacy?
@@richardclay Woosh
And saying he made a fool of himself. Christ if you don't get a joke don't react dumbass.
Richard Clay Get off your high horse Dick Clay
Wow overkill on the trench! They could have just scrapped a small path with one shovel. Half hour job, one man.
Exactly!
The point is?
Whats the point in doing that
Why do they do this what is the purpose for it
Why cant it be done at St Lucia