It's about a 400 acre lake, and it lost 15 feet of water when the spillway collapsed. But the neighbors managed to save the day and repair the dam and refill the lake with the help of an 18hp Kubota tractor and several garden hoses.
If that is true, then do ocean front homes have more waterfront footage at low tide than high tide? I'm gonna say no, the water is just further away. Their property boundary didn't move when the water went down either. So they have the same property acreage and the same waterfront footage as before.
I'm assuming with the drone footage that they knew it was about to go and would have closed to river to floaters and boaters and possibly evacuated people downstream. The. again all the boats left dry in the lake say they didn't know it was coming and someone with a drone had a fast response. Where I'm from in Missouri we can put in below a dam about an hour before they open the gates and it sure is a ride but they won't let you get too close
@@calebz1448 Actually I think that the first camera is a security cam and if you look at the water line in the drone footage you can see that a lot of water has already come down and they had some time to get the drone up there.
@@spikespa5208 it is but still a pretty big different between the whole thing failing and a gate. Also it was even reported as a spill gate failure. It's still not good either way though. ua-cam.com/video/eGG4lfoR52A/v-deo.html
The center blows out and whoosh. Next we see one side and then the other side lower than the center. Meanwhile the concrete part of the dam sits there. Then it is cut off and we see boat docks etc high and dry and no water, where it was cut to make it appear there is zero water in the lake. So if no water in the lake, what is flowing over the lowered dam?
Yeah, I noticed that with the left and right section. What's going on there? Why did they break once the pressure on them was reduced? Why wasn't that part shown? Seems weird.
LOL i live in South Africa If that happened here the surrounding towns would be without water for weeks before somebody in this incompetent ANC regime would even start thinking of doing something
We got some drone footage from a youtube video that holds the title SxSTeXan, which we give credit for on the video, however, most of it comes from a staff member here at CRWA.
The dam failed and it was only 91 years old!!! Three years earlier and four miles away another spillgate failed at Lake Wood. The Water Authority is doing a shoddy job of keeping the infrastructure running smoothly! There should be plenty of money in Texas to keep on top of these things.
@@supernoodles908 super noodles, spicy bathtub must made me LOL (stands for LAUGH out LOUD) upon reading it here in my bed inside of my bedroom at 11:52P.M. Here in Atlanta, Georgia while the rest of my home is at rest (sleeping) so for that I thank you for your goofy-ball (creative) reply to Mister or Mistress Jesse R.’s comment about the deadly (dangerous) hydraulic recirculation caused by the low head dam type effect caused by the breach (collapse) of this dam, the lake Dunlap damn. So I thank you for that haha.
Amazing there were no old tires and junk cars at the bottom of it. We had the local river go really low during a drought years ago and they found a missing police car that someone had stolen and taken for a joy ride. Shotgun was missing from it though.
what were the consequences downstream? why did the other two sections fail? will they need to replace the dam? why was the dam there to start with? what was its main function? was it just to make a recreational lake? or was it a reservoir? where was the dam located (nation, state, county, city, river)? and why the heck was there none of the basic pertinent facts provided - I do realize some of my questions may not have a real answer yet - but they must know something - this was just very frustrating.
No lives threatened, but property values are. They didn't fail. Not sure, depends if replacement is cheaper than repairing which is very expensive and dangerous. Like most major dams, I think it's for electrical power. It's located in New Braunfels, TX on the Guadalupe river, upstream from Lake McQueeny. I live about an hour away and fished there once, can't fish McQueeny downstream because there's no public access so I'm super bummed.
@@Studio2770 Thank you for your reply and the good information. The video totally failed in my opinion to provide the basic information to know what we were looking at - so whomever posted it owes you some thanks as well.
When the piece of the dam wall collapsed, you can see at the top of the dam where it forms its own mini lowhead dam in the newly created plunge pool before going completely over the actual dam. Looks dangerous on top and on bottom. The video of the actual fail is on youtube, as well. A camera was on it.
@@RayRae559 The water is circulating back over itself in the little pool at the top before going over the dam completely. So essentially if anything or anyone went over that, it would get trapped because of the recirculating hydraulic in the water (similar to a lowhead dam) and just keeps getting pushed under the water for sometimes hours. This is a video of a lowhead dam: ua-cam.com/video/yJI-L_TKgoE/v-deo.html The water falls over the dam and down into the water below, then it forms a current that loops back over itself like a loop on a rollercoaster. So if you went over that, the water going over the dam forces you towards the dam and under the water with the current and you might pop up sometimes 10-30 feet downstream from the dam in what is called the boil line (the whole area that is recirculating). When you pop up, the current pulls you back towards the dam to repeat the same thing over and over again. Most people drown within minutes of this process. The guys in that video were rescued, but a lot of people drown. They would have died had that old tree not been washed over to hang onto. It's virtually impossible to swim out of even for good swimmers. The pools are oftentimes very deep, so you can't stand up or get any footing due to anywhere from inches to a foot or sometimes feet of water going over the top of the dam with force so strong that no one can withstand it to swim out. Theoretically, one can swim under the water and away from the dam with the current as fast as possible. If you can get past the boil line that keeps recirculating, you can get out of the dam, otherwise it's certain death.
Great video, fully informative but just a couple of questions - What State wuz this in? What Country? How come w/ all your credits and high-value production you never told us that? Next time I see you remind me not to talk to you, will ya?
Good looking video with the footage from the drone, cool views from above. Keep up the flying, its looking good. Thank you for sharing, have a great day
Well we just had two dams failing Michigan because lawyers meddled with the running of the dam. They demanded that the lake be kept in summer High lake levels as opposed to being drawn down for the winter and spring runoff and flooding. The control structures were closed on these dams that failed. I'm wondering if someone had meddled with this one too another lawyer demanding that the lake be kept at summer levels during the Spring Time. Someone needs to look at the records. It may not be the dams fault it maybe some lawyer demanding that the water be kept up like they did in Michigan. Those dams in Michigan failed because of the court order not because of a defect. If you don't let the water out every dam in the world will fail
I was thinking of cars that are found in water, sometimes with dead ppl in them. I didn't say I wanted that, only I was expecting one might turn up. I meant no disrespect.
Well the designer of the damn could have told you 90 years later without proper maintenance the dam could fail, that's literally the point of maintaining something, in America we like to think were safe but actually more than half of bridges and dams are structurally damaged and requires maintenance not being done.
Great footage! Even though no one has mentioned it, the dramatic music was not needed. And yes, I already checked the comment section... no one mentioned it... at all.
praestant8 Given its design the spillway is part of the dam structure ( Unlike Oreville dam for example) So I can see this as a dam failure. I wonder if there were any indications (visibly and or audibly) before it toppled over.
This is the 2nd old dam to fail on the Guadalupe river ( Lake Wood) .and both dams were under control of the GBRA. Both had gates failure....There are 4 other dams that was built about the same time...Maybe they best up date them all before they give.
This failure is another example of the fact that our infrastructure is failing. Most of the U.S. s' infrastructure was built between the early 20thc to the mid 1960s. Trump is correct in understanding that we must rebuild our systems. Yes, it will cost trillions. But it will make much more in product, efficiency, safety, tax revenue. Its the future. Our interstate highways are 50+ yrs old, Airports, rail lines, harbors, sewer, water, dams, electric grid, etc. Must be renewed. We need a great building boom in public works that would make FDRs efforts look like childs play.
Bombastic Buster he understands it yet nothing is being done... They all agree that we need to spend the money and none of them lift a finger. Obama said the same thing it’s all fish bait so you can put a check next to their name in November!
Lake Wood failed March 2016. Own and ran by the same Co...Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority. And people are still waiting to see if it will be repaired. Many on Lake Wood did do repairs and build new however they are still high and dry
The Narrative: Officials have no answers for what caused a gate failure at the Lake Dunlap Dam near New Braunfels Tuesday morning. The middle-gate failure caused water to dump downstream into the Guadalupe River at 11,000 cubic feet per second. Lake Dunlap had drained by Tuesday evening. The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority said they could not conduct an inspection because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is currently releasing water from Canyon Lake, about 25 miles to the northwest. GBRA spokeswoman Patty Gonzales explained the authority was designing new gates to replace the very old gates on the half-dozen dams they oversee on the river when the one at Dunlap gave way. Gonzales added the design stage continues on the new gate, and as long as water is released from Canyon Dam workers cannot make repairs. Don Ramsey, a Lake Dunlap homeowner, worried about the incident's long-term economic impact. "We're coming right into the tourist season, and all the people that live off tourism are going to have a problem," he said. The consequences won't be limited to the communities near Lake Dunlap. It is a source of water for Kyle, a city on 1-35 between San Marcos and Austin. Now, residents have to start watching their water usage. The GBRA placed pump lines in the waterway but capacity remains low. City spokesperson Kim Hilsenbeck said the Kyle’s 47,000 residents didn't need to be overly concerned about their water supply. “It’s not dire," Hilsenbeck said. "We are simply are asking folks to voluntarily conserve and eliminate any unnecessary water usage, and by unnecessary we are talking about things like irrigation, car washing, pool filling.” Hilsenbeck says the city has two other main sources of water, the Edwards and Barton Springs aquifers, along with a backup water line to the City of San Marcos. This incident is not unprecedented. Gonzales said three years ago another gate of similar age and design failed at the Lake Wood Reservoir near the town of Gonzales. “All of these dams were completed between 1928 and 1931,” she said. The Lake Wood Reservoir remains empty to this day.
I was meeting that girl the other day. She said she likes hiking in the woods. So we went for a hike in the nearby woods. After a few hours I had to take a shit dramatically. And this music was in my mind the whole time.
That sucks. It only lasted 91 years. Really...there are a LOT more out there waiting their turn to fail. We can not just build something thinking it is forever.
This doesn't look like a "fail" but a deliberate removal of the dam. The body of water stored wasn't big considering this "lake" was nothing but a shallow part of a river.
From now on I'm gonna play that dramatic music when I walk to the letterbox
I just used it while cleaning litter box.. very dramatic.
Grocery shopping, but at a fast pace.
The letter box will spew out a tsunami of bills & final notices just as you’re about to check it
Watering the garden.
Sure. Sure you are.
The dam breaking was very cool but the music sucked.
racefanwfo just mute thing dingaling!
Gee they could have some Def Leppard music in the background
Unnecessary musik as usual, mute? But then I can't hear the information, if there are any.
Lol I have been involve in this long chain of replies for this subjective episode of music.
i actually liked the music
Feels like im watching Master Chef because of the music
Could you have pointed that drone camera downstream of the break just once?
Please be with me!
I could've done without the dramatic music.
Thanks for the aerial footage.
VOLUME control!!
@@timmythewoo9742 Mute is more like it.
LOL
Mute
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Kerala dami is over 125 years of construction
Dam name mullaperiyar
It looks like a real small dam from the perspective of the camera where it happens.
I thought so as well
It is, I live right down the road.
That's true. The dam is real.
It's about a 400 acre lake, and it lost 15 feet of water when the spillway collapsed. But the neighbors managed to save the day and repair the dam and refill the lake with the help of an 18hp Kubota tractor and several garden hoses.
@@maxsdad538 No lake lost water, a river just cleared one obstacle
THAT SAME LAME CHEESY DRAMATIC MUSIC IS UNWARRANTED.
Unknown I’m just here to comment. How’s it goin
@YoungSc00by | Hello there, fellow human. I am doing well. You?
Unknown dad??????
WE DONT CARE IF U YELL
5 months later and it’s still fucking UNWARRANTED
Hey, look at the good point - they have a lot more waterfront acreage!!
there aint no water
If that is true, then do ocean front homes have more waterfront footage at low tide than high tide?
I'm gonna say no, the water is just further away. Their property boundary didn't move when the water went down either. So they have the same property acreage and the same waterfront footage as before.
Dam!
that dramatic music for the men setting up that pump! lol
Fatso, on the left, really warranted dramatic music! :'D
lasted 91 years that's 87 more years than my brand new chevy lasted from the salt sand ect
"Ect"? Yeah, you're stupid.
lol. My dad called his Chevy the Bic. Disposable car.
I'm confused, if the middle section failed then why did water start flowing over the other two sections a day later??
They are gated. The gate is what failed and they were wanting to take the street off of the center portion.
Who else was thinking of a SimCity disaster? Especially with that music.
I've floated the Guadalupe river many times and when that dam broke I'll bet you some folks in inner tubes got the ride of their lives!!
I'm assuming with the drone footage that they knew it was about to go and would have closed to river to floaters and boaters and possibly evacuated people downstream. The. again all the boats left dry in the lake say they didn't know it was coming and someone with a drone had a fast response. Where I'm from in Missouri we can put in below a dam about an hour before they open the gates and it sure is a ride but they won't let you get too close
@@calebz1448 Actually I think that the first camera is a security cam and if you look at the water line in the drone footage you can see that a lot of water has already come down and they had some time to get the drone up there.
Thanks for listing music titles-Finally found a source for cataclysmic molten core.
Thanks also for video
You don't miss the water till the well runs dry....... Bet those lake front owners were like "what the hell!"
Their goes all that expensive lake front property. Housing prices I'm sure fell dramatically.
The camera even shook when the dam went.
Next time on Hell’s Dams.
Inspector Griffin Ramsey was not happy. “You bloody idiots.”
The music reminds me of American version of Hell’s Kitchen
HI BABY lLOVE YOU
Wtf. ^
ETHAN GREENWELL Damn Bots
This is like babies first Window's Movie Maker project.
Where was the Dam Failure? I see only a gate failed, but dam seems in tact.
The gate isn't part of the dam?
@@spikespa5208 it is but still a pretty big different between the whole thing failing and a gate. Also it was even reported as a spill gate failure. It's still not good either way though. ua-cam.com/video/eGG4lfoR52A/v-deo.html
The center blows out and whoosh. Next we see one side and then the other side lower than the center. Meanwhile the concrete part of the dam sits there. Then it is cut off and we see boat docks etc high and dry and no water, where it was cut to make it appear there is zero water in the lake. So if no water in the lake, what is flowing over the lowered dam?
Yeah, I noticed that with the left and right section. What's going on there? Why did they break once the pressure on them was reduced? Why wasn't that part shown? Seems weird.
WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE BUT FOR THE STUPID MUSIC .
LOL i live in South Africa If that happened here the surrounding towns would be without water for weeks before somebody in this incompetent ANC regime would even start thinking of doing something
Does South Africa got a bright future ahead? In your opinion
Where did you get the drone footage?? Looks awfully familiar....
We got some drone footage from a youtube video that holds the title SxSTeXan, which we give credit for on the video, however, most of it comes from a staff member here at CRWA.
@@crwa8186 ahhh I see it now, cool thanks for clearing that up.
The dam failed and it was only 91 years old!!! Three years earlier and four miles away another spillgate failed at Lake Wood. The Water Authority is doing a shoddy job of keeping the infrastructure running smoothly! There should be plenty of money in Texas to keep on top of these things.
0:38 Treebeard: "Break the dam! Release the river!"
Why type moronic shit like this? ? SERIOUSLY? ?
@@riazhamdanmalik6036 why do you care what he commented it's UA-cam it does not matter so take your toxicity some where else
@@riazhamdanmalik6036 Ask Tolkien
Those guys unloading the pump with the crane looked real safe.
Especially the old fart standing on a moving lift.
2:07 Looks like it formed a little lowhead dam-like recirculation chamber in between the reservoir and dam part that failed. Definitely a death trap.
Spicy bathtub
@@supernoodles908 super noodles, spicy bathtub must made me LOL (stands for LAUGH out LOUD) upon reading it here in my bed inside of my bedroom at 11:52P.M. Here in Atlanta, Georgia while the rest of my home is at rest (sleeping) so for that I thank you for your goofy-ball (creative) reply to Mister or Mistress Jesse R.’s comment about the deadly (dangerous) hydraulic recirculation caused by the low head dam type effect caused by the breach (collapse) of this dam, the lake Dunlap damn. So I thank you for that haha.
Great, now I can find my car keys I dropped off the dock
Not to mention the 500 lbs. of cheap sunglasses.
Lol, this is the funniest line of comments I've seen.
Amazing there were no old tires and junk cars at the bottom of it. We had the local river go really low during a drought years ago and they found a missing police car that someone had stolen and taken for a joy ride. Shotgun was missing from it though.
what were the consequences downstream? why did the other two sections fail? will they need to replace the dam? why was the dam there to start with? what was its main function? was it just to make a recreational lake? or was it a reservoir? where was the dam located (nation, state, county, city, river)? and why the heck was there none of the basic pertinent facts provided - I do realize some of my questions may not have a real answer yet - but they must know something - this was just very frustrating.
No lives threatened, but property values are. They didn't fail. Not sure, depends if replacement is cheaper than repairing which is very expensive and dangerous. Like most major dams, I think it's for electrical power. It's located in New Braunfels, TX on the Guadalupe river, upstream from Lake McQueeny.
I live about an hour away and fished there once, can't fish McQueeny downstream because there's no public access so I'm super bummed.
@@Studio2770
Thank you for your reply and the good information. The video totally failed in my opinion to provide the basic information to know what we were looking at - so whomever posted it owes you some thanks as well.
when the credits are as long as the video.
THAT SAME LAME CHEESY DRAMATIC MUZAK REMOVES ALL INTEREST THUMBS DOWN
Are you too fucking stupid to turn your volume down? It's the button on the side of your phone, moron.
When the piece of the dam wall collapsed, you can see at the top of the dam where it forms its own mini lowhead dam in the newly created plunge pool before going completely over the actual dam. Looks dangerous on top and on bottom. The video of the actual fail is on youtube, as well. A camera was on it.
I wish I knew what this meant because I've hit "rewind" sooo many times 🤣😭
@@RayRae559 The water is circulating back over itself in the little pool at the top before going over the dam completely. So essentially if anything or anyone went over that, it would get trapped because of the recirculating hydraulic in the water (similar to a lowhead dam) and just keeps getting pushed under the water for sometimes hours.
This is a video of a lowhead dam: ua-cam.com/video/yJI-L_TKgoE/v-deo.html
The water falls over the dam and down into the water below, then it forms a current that loops back over itself like a loop on a rollercoaster. So if you went over that, the water going over the dam forces you towards the dam and under the water with the current and you might pop up sometimes 10-30 feet downstream from the dam in what is called the boil line (the whole area that is recirculating). When you pop up, the current pulls you back towards the dam to repeat the same thing over and over again. Most people drown within minutes of this process. The guys in that video were rescued, but a lot of people drown. They would have died had that old tree not been washed over to hang onto. It's virtually impossible to swim out of even for good swimmers. The pools are oftentimes very deep, so you can't stand up or get any footing due to anywhere from inches to a foot or sometimes feet of water going over the top of the dam with force so strong that no one can withstand it to swim out. Theoretically, one can swim under the water and away from the dam with the current as fast as possible. If you can get past the boil line that keeps recirculating, you can get out of the dam, otherwise it's certain death.
Great video, fully informative but just a couple of questions -
What State wuz this in?
What Country?
How come w/ all your credits and high-value production you never told us that?
Next time I see you remind me not to talk to you, will ya?
Texas, USA
Great footage, looks like the central "Gate" failed (Came adrift from it's housing) Was there any serious damage to the Dam concrete?
Funny how there was hardly anyone around, and there just happened to be a drone taking video at the time.
the fail shot was CCTV (standard security camera)...then aerial drone afterwards..
Inside job? I agree
You are sad
we are all people trying to survive this tough world way to go guys for your hard work.
Good looking video with the footage from the drone, cool views from above. Keep up the flying, its looking good. Thank you for sharing, have a great day
Well we just had two dams failing Michigan because lawyers meddled with the running of the dam. They demanded that the lake be kept in summer High lake levels as opposed to being drawn down for the winter and spring runoff and flooding. The control structures were closed on these dams that failed. I'm wondering if someone had meddled with this one too another lawyer demanding that the lake be kept at summer levels during the Spring Time. Someone needs to look at the records. It may not be the dams fault it maybe some lawyer demanding that the water be kept up like they did in Michigan. Those dams in Michigan failed because of the court order not because of a defect. If you don't let the water out every dam in the world will fail
"Hey guys, let's go for boating n fishing today. I'v found a good place 😎".
After arrived.. 2:44
Somehow the two don't mix, the Dam Break and that Orchestra music, I still gave it a thumbs up
On the up side,,, think of all of the free fishing lures!!
I was waiting for cars and dead people.
Diane Greene Excuse me?
I was thinking of cars that are found in water, sometimes with dead ppl in them. I didn't say I wanted that, only I was expecting one might turn up. I meant no disrespect.
@Diane Greene | Okay. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
...next time...collapse the music with the dam and add narration...😎
No just leave it on mute, no audio
Well the designer of the damn could have told you 90 years later without proper maintenance the dam could fail, that's literally the point of maintaining something, in America we like to think were safe but actually more than half of bridges and dams are structurally damaged and requires maintenance not being done.
On the plus side, it is a good time to deal with silt.
very cool Drone footage but I don't understand was it showing signs of breaking previously and is that why they had such great drone shots?
The collapse was due to ageing structural steel
Really !!!??? And if they were Demorats of the ilk of Pelosi, Shitff, Nadler and company, do you actually think they would have given a rat's ass ?
Don't worry still under warranty
Concrete last 100 years
Just send a text to the contractor who build it.
Mafia built it.
Apparently the music sucks.
Glad to know. I watched it with volume down so couldn’t hear it
Great footage! Even though no one has mentioned it, the dramatic music was not needed.
And yes, I already checked the comment section... no one mentioned it... at all.
no destruction in the river below due to flash flood?
I thought this music was strictly for time-lapse viaduct builds in China and world's highest suspension bridge projects....
Sounds like the intro to a Batman movie... what the hell.
Woops, someone didn't tie their bricks!!
why was there someone there with a high qaulity drone camera just in time for the dam collapse ??
he probably got ther like a hr later that stream would go for the whole day if not longer so kinda stupid question
The title of this is a lie. The dam didn’t fail, a spillway gate did. Big difference.
praestant8 Given its design the spillway is part of the dam structure ( Unlike Oreville dam for example) So I can see this as a dam failure. I wonder if there were any indications (visibly and or audibly) before it toppled over.
This is the 2nd old dam to fail on the Guadalupe river ( Lake Wood) .and both dams were under control of the GBRA. Both had gates failure....There are 4 other dams that was built about the same time...Maybe they best up date them all before they give.
That’s like arguing the car didn’t fail, the brakes did. Stupid argument.
Since the water is flowing uncontrollably i would call that dam failure.
John Howard Only to jackasses that cant tell the difference
I dont get why they "opened" ( I guess? ) the 2 others canals after the center one failed? To lower the water agression on the center part ?
Don't you love it that the digital media age is intersecting with the 100 year mark of ill-maintained infrastructure?
Yea I thought the same.
@@jdubb4589 This is some of the best stuff on youtube in my eyes. Water is so incredibly powerful to watch!
Futurecare Design Agreed! So captivating. Water is life and we take it for granted.
""MOMMY WHY IS THE WATER MOVING AWAY FROM ME!!"
Karen: "IM GONNA BE SPEAKING TO THE MANAGER OF THIS DAM FOR LOWERING THE WATER!!!!!
What was the cubic feet of water that was held by the dam? Did it make other dams downstream fail also
This reminds me of my good buddy Ed. Really miss him... 😭😭😭
Props to the camera man who shot this whole thing
This failure is another example of the fact that our infrastructure is failing. Most of the U.S. s' infrastructure was built between the early 20thc to the mid 1960s. Trump is correct in understanding that we must rebuild our systems. Yes, it will cost trillions. But it will make much more in product, efficiency, safety, tax revenue. Its the future. Our interstate highways are 50+ yrs old, Airports, rail lines, harbors, sewer, water, dams, electric grid, etc. Must be renewed. We need a great building boom in public works that would make FDRs efforts look like childs play.
Bombastic Buster he understands it yet nothing is being done... They all agree that we need to spend the money and none of them lift a finger. Obama said the same thing it’s all fish bait so you can put a check next to their name in November!
Well if there is a bright side to this.... it is a great opportunity to clean any junk and repair any docks at the lake
Lake Wood failed March 2016. Own and ran by the same Co...Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority. And people are still waiting to see if it will be repaired. Many on Lake Wood did do repairs and build new however they are still high and dry
Sorry to see that happen. You have footage of it happening at least. That's tons of work
Unbelievable that it was actually caught on a video!
Its the security camera. Records full time lol
Curt Nicholson - good thing someone was there taking video’s of the dam 🤪
Funny listening to that hype music while watching those men just standing around gabbing lol
Why was there no rebar reinforcement to keep that slab in place?? That does not make any sense.
I use to swim in the lake every summer that my family would go to New Branfles. That dam was pretty close to the lake house we stayed at.
So are we just supposed to know where this is? What country?
New Braunfels, TX
so I am supposed to just know WHERE this Lake Dunlap ( if that's it's real name) IS ??????????
..err.. Google?
It's in New Branfuls, I use to go there every summer. My grandparents had lake house not to far from the dam.
amazing the other sides went considering the pressure release
And the point of this MTV presentation is?
The Narrative:
Officials have no answers for what caused a gate failure at the Lake Dunlap Dam near New Braunfels Tuesday morning.
The middle-gate failure caused water to dump downstream into the Guadalupe River at 11,000 cubic feet per second. Lake Dunlap had drained by Tuesday evening.
The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority said they could not conduct an inspection because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is currently releasing water from Canyon Lake, about 25 miles to the northwest.
GBRA spokeswoman Patty Gonzales explained the authority was designing new gates to replace the very old gates on the half-dozen dams they oversee on the river when the one at Dunlap gave way.
Gonzales added the design stage continues on the new gate, and as long as water is released from Canyon Dam workers cannot make repairs.
Don Ramsey, a Lake Dunlap homeowner, worried about the incident's long-term economic impact.
"We're coming right into the tourist season, and all the people that live off tourism are going to have a problem," he said.
The consequences won't be limited to the communities near Lake Dunlap. It is a source of water for Kyle, a city on 1-35 between San Marcos and Austin. Now, residents have to start watching their water usage.
The GBRA placed pump lines in the waterway but capacity remains low.
City spokesperson Kim Hilsenbeck said the Kyle’s 47,000 residents didn't need to be overly concerned about their water supply.
“It’s not dire," Hilsenbeck said. "We are simply are asking folks to voluntarily conserve and eliminate any unnecessary water usage, and by unnecessary we are talking about things like irrigation, car washing, pool filling.”
Hilsenbeck says the city has two other main sources of water, the Edwards and Barton Springs aquifers, along with a backup water line to the City of San Marcos.
This incident is not unprecedented. Gonzales said three years ago another gate of similar age and design failed at the Lake Wood Reservoir near the town of Gonzales.
“All of these dams were completed between 1928 and 1931,” she said. The Lake Wood Reservoir remains empty to this day.
This comment should've been in the description.
@@borninthefla This CRWA person never mentions anything, this is what I found online by newspaper.
nice footage, but huge fail on the music and lack of narrative
Why did you think that music was a good idea?
It’s ridiculous.
Where was this? They never say where it happened. I recognize some of the names and think this was probably central TX.
Salmon in the water:
OK!!! THAT'S THE SIGNAL!!!!
GO, GO, GO!!!
I was meeting that girl the other day. She said she likes hiking in the woods. So we went for a hike in the nearby woods. After a few hours I had to take a shit dramatically. And this music was in my mind the whole time.
Jason Borne music for a water treatment plant video?
The water done lapped over the spillways at Dunlap. That's a damn shame. Hope there's no more damn trouble there.
To show you the power of flex paste
I'll repair this dam with it
I never knew there was a lake with my last name
Christy Dunlap there are tires too, lol
@@turbanwearersblow no the tires are with an O not an A
@@turbanwearersblow no that is Dunlop
Not anymore!
terrible choice of music for such a non-event
Did they fix it yet?
Were any houses or inhabited areas flooded due ot the collapse of this dam ?
0. This dam is lower than the banks of the river. More water flows through there during a heavy rain than was released from the dam break.
have they begun construction yet
That’s the music I play when its time to visit the toilet after 2 nights on the piss and a load of junk food
Imagine buying waterfront property on the lake only to have this happen
They had to take the roof off their docks and fly out their boats with cranes
Only in the USA. Like the music celebrating the destruction.
The water dunlapped over the dam, damit!
OK, downriver is fully oxygenated, what now?
So the whole dam top half collapse?
That sucks. It only lasted 91 years. Really...there are a LOT more out there waiting their turn to fail. We can not just build something thinking it is forever.
really they had to crane the pump over the fence .....just take the fence down and back it down there with a pickup they had a road there
Has the dam been rebuilt / repaired?
Mother Nature wins in the end
This doesn't look like a "fail" but a deliberate removal of the dam. The body of water stored wasn't big considering this "lake" was nothing but a shallow part of a river.
Did it affect anyone/anything downstream?