Breaking: Officials Find Major Damage at Glen Canyon Dam | 30m Americans Could Face Water Crisis

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The Bureau of Reclamation has released a new memo stating that damage found at Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona could affect river flows down the Colorado River. This has the potential to impact drinking water for 30 million Americans.
In this episode of timeBomb we will take a look at Glen Canyon Dam’s reservoir Lake Powell. We begin by reviewing the current water level statistics to see how they compare to years past. Then we jump into the main focus of this video, a startling new report from the Bureau of Reclamation highlights severe issues with the Glen Canyon Dam’s infrastructure, particularly the pipes critical for water release. Discover how these developments could impact water levels at Lake Mead and management of the Colorado River in general.
Stay tuned as we unravel these complex issues and consider the future of one of America’s largest reservoirs. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more insights!
#lakepowell #lakemead #glencanyon #watercrisis
Special thanks to Desert Rat Explorations for allowing us to use their incredible footage of the 2023 High Flow Experiment at the Glen Canyon Dam. Here is a link to that video: • Lake Powell Glen Canyo...
Check out Desert Rat Explorations' other work at: / @desertratexploration
Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to timeBomb
01:12 Water Level Stats
02:31 Pipe Damage

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@intothevoid1926 Месяц назад

Where's that build back better cash? Where's the massive pork filled infrastructure money? Easy fix if the damn money stays in this country.

@-_.._._--_.-.-_-_-_-...-.- Месяц назад

"We dumped all the water in the ocean when it was raining a lot so we can charge more for this precious resource and declare emergency drought conditions se we can get more money from the government and we get to rip off our customers!!! Brilliant!!!" -Every Dept. Of Water

@jason37801ftp 23 дня назад

Totally agree!!!! Best thing I've read ever!!! Thanks

@pullupullupullup4687 22 дня назад

yo whats up with all these ai videos, narration, comments and commenters on comments WHAT THE FUCK is the internet dead i feel like every other video is just 95% ai everything what the fuck

@philliplewis3754 Месяц назад

In July 1983 I turned 15 , for my present I stayed the whole month with my sister in Page and we practically lived on the lake. We were on the tour at the bottom watching the river just boiling and they shut it down and evacuated us. Both spillways were running 100% overflow and the two arcs of water were meeting in the middle and then the 4 big jets came on. The lake just kept rising and they sounded the high water siren, scared the hell outta us for sure, we had no idea what it was about. We went outside and everyone was looking directly at the dam and the fear was thick. There giant chunks of rock and concrete flying out of the overflow tunnels. Great video, I enjoyed it!

@rowdyyates7247 Месяц назад

Another cavitation problem. That must have been a sight to see!

@cohoanglervancouverwa6755 Месяц назад

Yes, indeed. The cavitation problem occurred in 1983 when the spillway was used for the first time. The cavitation completely destroyed the spillway and it came within a whisker of breaching the entire dam. The giant chunks of rock and concrete you saw was the spillway and the supporting bedrock from under the dam. A more complete description of what happened is documented in the book "Cadillac Desert' by Marc Reisner.

@Smedley1947 Месяц назад

I read a book about that and it turned out that the thing that caused the cavitation was a walnut sized imperfection, a lump of concrete sticking up into the water stream. The lump was still intact but everything Downstream turned into Carlsbad Caverns only with rebar and concrete hanging all around. There are pictures of that area of Destruction within the spillway on RU-vid.

@michaelford2517 Месяц назад

We were at bullfrog Marina in 1983 when that happened. Everyone was talking about it.

@philliplewis3754 Месяц назад

@@michaelford2517 I was only 15 and we were sleeping on a boat and that's ALL the adults were talking about. I'm pretty sure they were saying that the water was about 100' back from where it was that night. We caught stripers and bass on frozen squid and small herring. I was scared because the adults were, I told everyone, if I die on a Lake Powell catastrophe I'm going to go down fishing with a smile! I want to say one day they closed the lake and the river to like Kaibab, Lee's Ferry was definitely closed. On the North side with the visitor center you could hear something was going terribly wrong. If you were on the South end of the bridge you could hear and feel the spillway tearing itself apart. From the bridge on the West side you could look at the exit of the South spillway looking straight down and we could see rock and concrete flying out. That spot is the best to see the North spillway, it was fast and dangerous but nothing like the South one. I'm sure my sister has pictures of the mist going from the dam about ½ mile down the canyon. Good times!

@JamesMiller-lq5rd Месяц назад

Shoulda fixed them when it was an empty dust bowl not long ago!

@michaeldeierhoi4096 Месяц назад

What good does it do to ask what they should have done? The problem is here now so authorities need to proactively problem solve going forward.

@blipco5 Месяц назад

James, are you kidding? Fixing them when the water was lower would have required forethought. We’re dealing with state employees here.

@bukboefidun9096 Месяц назад

@@blipco5 and Federal... even more useless and incompetent

@steven.h0629 Месяц назад

I get a kick out of the city laying new blacktop and fresh paint, then cut trenches to lay pipes afterward.

@WoolyNips Месяц назад

@@steven.h0629government spending at its finest. It’s not their money… why would they care 😂

@bertblue9683 Месяц назад

7 million people living in a desert. Swimming pools everywhere. I'll never understand why we tried to inhabit the unhabitable.

@kewan2045 Месяц назад

Most of these deserts are surrounded by lakes, rivers or near areas with snow runoffs

@Ross-ql9fi Месяц назад

It's good for everyone else

@johng4093 Месяц назад

It's really quite nice. People have been successfully living in deserts since forever. 😊

@ASchallau Месяц назад

12% to 14% of the water that flows through the Colorado River goes to residential use. Most of the water, 79% to be exact, going towards irrigation for agricultural use producing about 90% of the nation’s winter vegetables.

@andrewwood6285 Месяц назад

Yeah let’s all live on the east coast! Then we can let rivers run wild during the spring destroying everything then are dry the rest of the year.

@watchthe1369 Месяц назад

So what is the crisis? keep the penstocks running to generate power and stop the high flow experiments. The river flows and the snow pack in the rockies is high. Everyone has enough water. only use the pipes for necessary water release in \stead of ecperiments. Get started on repairing one at a time right now, problem solved. Such drama queens.

@BuddyLee23 Месяц назад

You often need to scare people to get legislators to direct 💵 to the problem. Sometimes that comes via threatening a nasty lawsuit. Other times, it comes from a scaremongering official letter.

@jamskinner Месяц назад

No. California takes tons of water from other states and lets their own rain empty into the ocean. California needs to quit bleeding other states dry.

@Kelemor Месяц назад

No such thing a straight forward repairs when the government is involved..

@johnclements6614 Месяц назад

If the river outlet works are suffering damage when used there use has to be reduced. You need to maintain some water in the river downstream of the dam or the fish will not like it. Therefore you will have to reduce power generation earlier in a drought so that you can still discharge a minimum flow through the penstocks as long as possible. The problem is that the depth of water is getting lower which is causing the cavitation. The deeper the water the higher the pressure and the lower the chance of air bubbles forming in the water then collapsing forming holes in the steel. With repeated lower water there will be lower pressure and increased cavitation so and repairs will be an increasing ongoing problem. It maybe cheaper an to build some tunnels through the rock to replace the river out fall works which would most likely be very expensive but would remove the risk of failure of the river outfall works.

@owensomers8572 Месяц назад

The "high flow" experiments are used to clear sediment. If not performed regularly the inlets could clog, then the sediment levels would continue to rise. The presenter did mention this, but didn't put adequate emphasis on it.

@rogerp566 Месяц назад

Keeping Powell at the highest level possible is going to run into the efforts to keep Mead as high as possible. There just isn't enough water for the demands of the entire system.

@alanaldpal950 Месяц назад

There is enough water…… if it is allocated and managed correctly…. So I guess you are correct after all

@goldenhate6649 Месяц назад

@@alanaldpal950 the fact commiefornia still uses flood irrigation is beyond me. All those bleeding heart environmentalists and they still use the absolute worst irrigation methods possible.

@andrewwood6285 Месяц назад

What in the Sam Hill are you talking about? 142 feet below full? Did you listen to this?

@armageddonready4071 Месяц назад

There is plenty of water, if it wasn’t wasted and used by people that have zero idea about conservation and land management.

@supersaiyaman11589 Месяц назад

@@andrewwood6285 it would be fuller if the officials would stop pumping the overflow out wene it rains and redirect it to lake mead.

@Agapimo Месяц назад

Cavitation is a serious long term structural problem. Perhaps just as large municipal water pipes are repaired by inflatable resin “balloons” that expand and harden to replace existing pipes without having to excavate them this could be done one by one. Could have an underwater compartment attach to each reservoir side outlet and conduct the repairs🤔

@rickpaulos Месяц назад

My guess is the water flow rate and pressures are far higher than you would get in city water systems. I repair vintage stuff and it's pretty obvious plastic doesn't last all that long. It gets brittle, shrinks or expands, cracks, fades, gets a punky surface, etc. A liner could be something that would need to be reapplied maybe every 10 years. Certainly cheaper than replacing the pipes with a higher grade of steel.

@dangeary2134 Месяц назад

@@rickpaulosten years? At those pressures, it would have to be replaced every thirty minutes, lol!! A more realistic approach would be to put a sacrificial liner in made of a metal that can be formed by pressure. We already do that in the auto industry, and a few others. It’s not cheap, and any good fix that is not cheap is off the table when it comes to politics. Gotta line those pockets!!!!

@user-jk3ht5hn3m Месяц назад

We have performed this procedure at my mill on 36” dia pipe over a k long works great

@GilmerJohn Месяц назад

There are some fixes which have been tested and seem to work. They let air into the pipe at certain places.

@bendeleted9155 Месяц назад

It's a welding job, then coated with epoxy in the big turbines, but of course the unit is shut down for months, de-watered and opened up all the way up the penstock to the lake. If the damage is downstream of the valves I would think this job could be done in a similar way.

@Micronixinc Месяц назад

California and the west coast should have desalination facilities by now.

@xerxes8632 Месяц назад

Several years ago a company wanted to build a desalination plant in California. The California refused to let them build it. Any water issues that California has, are self made.

@marktheaardvark7208 Месяц назад

Guess they didn’t grease the right palms, aye

@bigredc222 Месяц назад

Mulholland was an evil genius acquiring all the water rights for Ca. My idea was to build a 1000 mile canal or pipe from lake Michigan, but Canada would have to sign off on it and apparently they never would. There was an interesting plan drawn up in the 1950's to get water from a glacier in Alberta Canada, but it required about 150 dams be built and it would cost hundreds of billions maybe a trillion dollars now, and Canada would have to agree. I know those idea's are over the top, but it's interesting to see the idea's people have come up with.

@CharlieRasch Месяц назад

There is only one desalination plant and it's in San Diego. They are paying the highest water rates in the US. Higher than even Phoenix, AZ.

@GilmerJohn Месяц назад

Waste of money. If cities run low on water they can buy it from farmers. Hell, some of that water is used to grow hay for Saudi Arabia.

@danlowe8684 Месяц назад

Cavitation of the emergency spillway tunnel in 1983 is how they nearly lost the entire Glen Canyon Dam. It is also what caused the rapid deterioration of the Oroville Dam spillway in 2017. To oversimplify it (because I am not a hydrologist), it starts with an irregularity in the spillway surface that causes the water to 'jump', and this results in excess wear on the 'landing' spot, which creates another 'jump' and so on. So, to my thinking, the elevation of the reservoir is not the problem. It is that there are bad spots developing in the pipes. I have a few ideas: 1) If there are problems with the pipes, fix them. They are not going to improve by themselves. And claiming that you cannot release water at a certain elevation, while never mentioning repair efforts, seems a bit off. 2) They are doing this to halt releases into Mead, in order to keep Mead's level lower, because Mead's elevation alone sets emergency rationing policies into motion.

@michaeldeierhoi4096 Месяц назад

I think you may be misunderstanding a couple things. For one a repair for the cavitation of the outlets was not mentioned because the remedy per the authorities appears uncertain. The releases from Glen Canyon are not in order to keep Lake Mead low, but because further releases at this time could damage the outlets further. The whole point of this video was based on the problem with the outlets due to cavitation. My question is how could these outlets be repaired without reducing the water level which is part of the problem?!

@blipco5 Месяц назад

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 They close off the upstream side of the river outlet to do repairs. There’s gates there for the purpose. You can see them in the photo he showed.

@danlowe8684 Месяц назад

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 When they made repairs in 1983, they closed the gates that fed the emergency tunnel once the flood inflows into the reservoir had subsided in July. I do not see why this same technique couldn't be used today. I'm assuming they were able to inspect it being that they found cavitation.

@danlowe8684 Месяц назад

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 Watch 'Challenge at Glen Canyon, 1983'. It is wonderful.

@wonderturtle2018 Месяц назад

I would like to make a clarification. Cavitation is a low pressure zone that collapses causing microjets of water to impact a surface at high velocity. Like a pressure washer. This is usually controlled by preventing the low pressure vacuum bubbles from forming in the first place by either slowing the flow to prevent enough inertia to create a vacuum, or by increasing the pressure around the area so that there is enough total pressure even in these lower pressure zones to prevent the bubbles from forming. You usually need a large water velocity in order for this to happen. This means that it can happen on any irregular surface on the back side of the fast water flow. Usually when the flow rate is sub critical because otherwise it creates an open non collapsing pocket. Just to reiterate, with all due respect on this matter, it is collapsing microbubbles and not the landing of water.

@robertbe2520 Месяц назад

I missed something. If the lake level is so low, why are they releasing any water, except for the hydroelectric amount?

@uberfalcon1965 Месяц назад

They are releasing water to fill dams downstream.

@johnclements6614 Месяц назад

You need some water in the river or all the fish etc will die. A living river will treat the water flowing to lake Mead a dead one will not.

@GilmerJohn Месяц назад

@@uberfalcon1965 -- Why waste the water? Just make more electricity and sell it.

@black_dragon-carpentry Месяц назад

Because the water released directly irrigates food crop production down stream. For get the fish B's.. it's our food

@GilmerJohn Месяц назад

@@black_dragon-carpentry -- Water running through the turbines also irrigates. The "released" water is send down the same place where the turbine exhaust water goes. The were "testing" because they had problems with the flood water release before. They know how to fix most of these problems. They should have implemented all he known fixes before wasting all that energy.

@mensafordummies6370 Месяц назад

Interesting. Northern California has a similar problem with pipes, etc. at Lake Spaulding Dam. Water is already being rationed to downstream customers due to damage to pipes and valves in powerhouse #1. Powerhouse #1 is owned by PG&E, the electrical generation company (which is up to it's eyeballs in debt and is currently taking it out on it's customers). PG&E was apparently aware of these problems some time ago, but failed to rectify these problems until they have now become an "emergency". These water restrictions are causing great losses to all of the farms and ranches in several counties, it's even affecting small home gardeners. PG&E first stated that repairs were scheduled to be completed in early June, but recently stated that date has now been moved to the end of July. Long enough to put a lot of ranchers and farmers, food greenhouses and businesses dependent on same out of business. Permanently. Not to mention the loss of electricity generated at Spaulding's Powerhouse #1. The Northern Sierras have had a great water year, but we're not allowed to have any of it.

@oledennis6918 Месяц назад

As they should!!!!!!!!!!!! When Commiefornia allows lawsuits from every dick and harry to go against PG&E because they live in a forest that catches fire because commiefornia's policy of no forest maintenance. If PG&E had any sense they'd declare bankruptcy and be done with commiefornia. But then what does make sense in commiefornia?

@Nail56 Месяц назад

Actually PG&E has been forbidden -- until a year ago-- from preparing for wildfires or repairing its facilities. It's only allowed to collect. money to pay lawsuits. The Greens have blood on their hands and guilty pleas in their future.

@bukboefidun9096 Месяц назад

Again, well presented. The cavitation issue is huge... it sounds like it could bring the whole Colorado River Compact to its knees. That said Glen Canyon Dam is, what?, 60 years old. What was the expected life of it? And Hoover is over 90 years old.

@lovly2cu725 Месяц назад

Your point regarding age?

@PureDWhiteCloud Месяц назад

How does one, end a dam? What does a dam Actually look like when it comes to its "end"?

@bradcrosier1332 Месяц назад

@@PureDWhiteCloud- There are several videos on here that explain that. Particularly in the Pacific Northwest, there have been a number of dam removal projects which are documented here (and of course I can’t think of the names of any at the moment. Glen Canyon Dam shouldn’t have even been built to start with (do some research on the loss of archaeological sites, habitat, as well as the scenic aspects of Glen Canyon sans dam), and the whole allocation of Colorado River water is a complete farce which needs to be redone with an eye primarily towards environmental conservation and what is convenient for human development second.

@atomicwedgie8176 Месяц назад

I had a cavitation in my underwear... high levels of Taco Bell is my hypothesis.

@7.3PSDA2 Месяц назад

@@bradcrosier1332Yep

@andrewrivera4029 Месяц назад

There is still a lot of 2024 snow in the mountains that has to melt so the lake will go up.

@donaldroche2797 Месяц назад

Watch out below anyone down river of this DAM ….RUN !

@lawrenceleske3470 Месяц назад

Allowing farms with extremely high water demand plants is a major factor ... cotton, almonds ....

@Purplepinkmom Месяц назад

Thank you! You got right to the point with clear and easy to understand graphics. I cannot stress enough how happy I was to not hear a bunch of chit-chat about stuff. I gave a thumbs up and also subscribed.

@hankieski1549 Месяц назад

Plz keep us updated. Thx for the info.

@kevinedwards6093 Месяц назад

The root cause… Trying to supply too many people living in a F’ing desert!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@domini384 Месяц назад

Seriously, im so done with people thinking everything is climate changes fault

@mustangracer5124 Месяц назад

What are our options?.. living in a shit hole garbage dump like commyfornia?.. they STEAL our water and run it into the ocean.

@philhammond5908 Месяц назад

Where do you live?

@scottprather5645 25 дней назад

@@domini384 ...... It's our fault... stop sweeping reality under the carpet.

@domini384 25 дней назад

@@scottprather5645 The reality is you're delusional if you don't actually see what's going on

@7.3PSDA2 Месяц назад

Yall do know there a a huge ditch were this all starts called thw grand ditch and over half of the snow pack and mountains run off goes to eastern colorado right? theres 2 i believe 24 inch pipes that were drilled threw the mountain as well to ensure east colorado gets there water as well. if yall think the lower water problem is some drought thing. think again. its 2 issues. 1 i mentioned it above the bureau is sending it else were so control of the water from the government. 2 cali is farming in the middle lf the desert making Good Hay and almonds burning about 3.3ish mil cubic acre feet of water a year. to sell the Hay to the middle east. so thats money control threw the government.

@janetgarcia9629 Месяц назад

yes!

@scottstewart5784 Месяц назад

Cavitation will always occur with cement in the volumes and pressures and speeds of the water we're talking about through these pre-60s damn pipes. Cavitation=prevention measures developed since then mostly solve the problem. They retrofit such a solution into one of the spillway tunnels when they rebuilt it in 83. If you want to keep using those 4 pipes you must fix them. Not a quick fix either.

@bruceferguson6637 Месяц назад

Quite a story on that ‘83 cavitation problem. Workers hearing rumbling sounds as chunks of concrete tumbled through the pipes.

@michaelbisnett4845 Месяц назад

Cavitation can destroy the hardest and toughest materials over time and this demise should have been expected and repaired much earlier. I am sure the cost is going to be very high but the alternate costs could possibly exceed the PM costs.

@scottstewart5784 Месяц назад

@@michaelbisnett4845 They know the pre-60s pipes will fail. It would cost sooo much to fix them all, so they wait until they break.

@tonysu8860 Месяц назад

My understanding is that water levels all along the Colorado are still so low that multiple years of heavy rain and snow would be rewuired before the is even mild concern approaching full capacity. In the meantime if desired the dams can let a little more water through uf desired and that will even help the river ecology. So if repairs need to be made, there us plenty of time to fix and the described pipes are something that can be done without affecting operations significantly

@colonelgilbert2475 Месяц назад

Most of the water used from the Colorado River is used to irrigate farm land. Those farms feed the entire country during the winter not just the west coast. So to all the people bitching about all the houses enjoy you fruits and vegetables. 🙄

@anna9072 Месяц назад

The fact that they’re using the water to grow food doesn’t mitigate the fact that they’re doing so in an environment spectacularly unsuited to the endeavor.

@JointSpecialistTV 23 дня назад

Half of which NEVER gets eaten.

@kennyw871 20 дней назад

Yea, and don't forget the "immigrants" that do all the work Americans refuse to do. Then again, maybe I'm too "woke."

@davemanone3661 Месяц назад

Money for upkeep and such is usually denied, roads, bridges, dams. Then the expected happens and everyone asks why!

@RWBHere Месяц назад

So what you're saying is that full flow cannot be used when there is no need to use full flow? Unless I'm misunderstanding you? Not releasing water at maximum speeds when levels are low makes sense. And therefore it's not a 'ticking time bomb', merely a safety consideration.

@johnclements6614 Месяц назад

If the river outfall works can not be used then there will be no water in the river below lake Powell when the lake is very low. The river will die.

@elwap0 Месяц назад

The Orville Dam spillway deteriorated with a flow of 25% of maximum Designed flow .the spillway cement was not the cement that was called for or paid for...

@atomicwedgie8176 Месяц назад

Siphoned federal funds.

@elwap0 Месяц назад

Yup

@flagmichael Месяц назад

Juan Browne (the blancolirio channel) had a lot of coverage of the Oroville dam mess. IIRC unmanaged erosion of the underlying soil - always a huge issue in earthen dams - was the root of the problem.

@elwap0 Месяц назад

The cement detereated there is video

@stevedolan5065 Месяц назад

Tnx for the update and explanation

@user-iq2yp1dn1q Месяц назад

has there been a new understanding of cavitation effects that was not available when first designed, or did the original design assume low-level releases would be rarely needed, avoiding the then-known cavitation risk.

@jeffbybee5207 Месяц назад

Less was known in the 1950s plus new fixes like length wize grooves that pull air along with the water help. Also plenty of water can be let out in making electricty

@brianc2595 Месяц назад

They likely never intended those to be opened except in emergency discharge needs to prevent dam breach. They are not designed for sediment control, that's a newish thing that we realized needed to be accounted for in dam construction decades too late. It's why the Mead reservoir was losing significant storage capacity prior to the significant water income loss issue. Using those valves that way is a workaround, which is against their design and subsequently results in damage those systems weren't meant to regularly accumulate, and they add up with each incorrect yet necessary use. It's not alone in this, nor is it alone in its accumulated damage from improper yet necessary use in the water control systems of the US.

@mojo.adventures Месяц назад

Wow, looks like you got another RU-vid hit! Enjoyed the video. Nice work on this one! Although the problems with piping at Glen Canyon Dam have been known for quite a while, it's good to see it's being widely reported ("breaking") and accepted now by the general public. Important decisions ahead... how to fix and future-proof things for both flood AND drought👍

@tomrichter9079 Месяц назад

Sand stone doesn’t hold water well

@ablewindsor1459 Месяц назад

Well that does help recharge the ground water......

@gomahklawm4446 Месяц назад

Never did........get it??

@lovly2cu725 Месяц назад

It is soft

@user-ke9yk5qp3u Месяц назад

You should consider having a little bit of knowledge of what you're talking about before you speak. It really is helpful in life.

@nickbrandon5359 Месяц назад

@@user-ke9yk5qp3u literally has stone in the name

@CarolSchenkl Месяц назад

That dam has always had consrruction work on it . Major construction on highways around there also not long ago.

@ronmartin-dent1190 Месяц назад

We were on the river during last April’s release. Made for an interesting trip.

@TheKurtsPlaceChannel Месяц назад

Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.

@hdfsfjhfkalsjfhlsaj Месяц назад

Same issue the overflow had in 1983 and 84.

@harryruzgerian4855 Месяц назад

Don’t want to release below min power pool anyway. The objective is to keep Lake Powell full.

@halporter9 Месяц назад

Thank you. Question is, do the pipes need to be repaired? Redesigned, perhaps with an altered geometry that might reduce cavitation?

@YouTubeRanch Месяц назад

Anyone else think that mountain looked odd at 6:17? Almost looks like a massive chunk of mountain was blasted 💥 away or like a science fiction movie when a spacecraft crashes into a planet, they always take a chunk out of a least one mountain. Also wow it’s a pretty view, good editing of the video.

@journiewhaley8591 Месяц назад

You know what is funny is when UT was on strict water guidelines. Vegas was in nine they could water everyday as long as it was before 10am. And they were begging for other states to give more water

@scott_CA Месяц назад

Why do you ask your viewers to hit the like button before your video plays? That's an interesting tactic.

@captaincrunch5878 Месяц назад

To stop the cavitation, open about 10%, which will reduce the cavitation. Our Navy Ships also cavitate. The fix was reduced the power 😊😅

@gregorycooper1335 Месяц назад

Good images, thorough presentation, but what I really wanted to see were some pictures of the cavitation damage.

@lmwlmw4468 Месяц назад

Wait ...... the levels will keep on increasing, as the snow packs are also increasing, but of course that msm doesn't say a word about that...!!! These types of pipes always have cavitation problems, it's just how the system is set to function and maintenance should be a major concern...!!!

@chrisomalley-iy7sj Месяц назад

Ubsered how much fresh water is being released and allowed to flow into the Pacific Ocean. In these crazy times of efforts to remove dams the solution is more retention thru additional reservoirs. (“ whiskey for drinking waters for fighting over.”)

@flagmichael Месяц назад

By the time the unused water reaches the Pacific it is about 1/4 as saline as the ocean water. Mexico is never happy with the quality or quantity of the water that reaches them.

@saltymethods2637 Месяц назад

The more scarce you make water, the more you can charge and keep control of the population. Keeping water levels low benefits the water authority.

@fauxque5057 Месяц назад

Water isn't scarce. The planet is 70% water

@jamskinner Месяц назад

Drinkable water.

@07wrxtr1 Месяц назад

Bingo - creating artificial scarcity = control

@user-zq3iz3zn5m Месяц назад

@@jamskinner Reverse osmosis

@user-zq3iz3zn5m Месяц назад

Al these years of drought, and now you are worried about the integrity of the dams. Go gay Pete and all the little butt-i-geges.

@Overitall805 Месяц назад

Let's see who's gonna eat this one ....NEVER ...policy makers or the people in charge.

@davidrobinson2535 Месяц назад

So if they get rid of the dam how will they control the floods from Colorado, Utah and Wyoming ? How will Lake Mead be protected? All the people down stream will be affected, Phoenix area , Southern California,and Nevada. Maybe people could the books written about the river and what it was like prior to the dams and how it was like flushing a toilet all the water runs down in less than two months a years and ten months it’s a trickle .

@tbaker294 Месяц назад

???? Old news. This was known back in the early 80's when the dam went thru extreme cavitation during emergency release when the pool was full.

@lbeck119 Месяц назад

Exactly.... Drama Queen videos like this are like chicken little the sky is always falling

@janeordway4841 Месяц назад

Environments want high releases to build up the sandbars too. 1983 was truly a remarkable year, but the large runoff was only part of the reason for the overflow. The government agency responsible for the lake level left both lakes to high for the spring runoff.

@andyroubik5760 Месяц назад

Recommend reading Emerald Mile!

@blipco5 Месяц назад

I look forward to your next video and if you change this voice I won’t be disappointed.

@arthurwagar88 Месяц назад

Interesting. Thanks.

@gordybishop2375 Месяц назад

Not thinking needing to release more water especially faster is an issue right now. Especially for a very long few years

@michaelnaretto3409 Месяц назад

This year has a good snowpack so the runoff should greatly benefit Lake Powell...

@giannidcenzo Месяц назад

Sharp. Great video

@grumpy3543 Месяц назад

So we’re 32 feet above average but only 30% of full pool. Why should I be worried?

@brucethecurmudgeon8538 Месяц назад

FANTASTIC VIDEO!!!

@user-yg6dk9eh8g Месяц назад

great video

@goodfriendg Месяц назад

Could never understand why some of the water, used for power production, couldn’t be returned to Lake Mead? The same water that is released could be used to turn a screw mechanism that lifts the water up and back into Lake Mead. I’m sure an engineer could design a gear reduction that could lift the water. Even if you only return 50% of the water it would be better that losing all of it.

@BillCarns Месяц назад

Content creators need to stop asking viewers to LIKE their content before watching it.

@kensolar69 Месяц назад

When was this ? It's been months since the water level at Lake Meade has increased by any amount, even 2 inches, 2ft would be very noticeable. BTW, Lake Powell hasn't recorded any decrease over a couple of inches either, in months. This as of 4/16/24 4:00PM MST. I have questions about this video.

@lovly2cu725 Месяц назад

Show melt in colorado in the spring

@Ross-ql9fi Месяц назад

She said 2 inches is noticeable 😊

@salimoneus Месяц назад

better keep that water flowing, the desert rats need all that water to keep their palm trees looking fresh and swimming pools full. and let's not forget all the resorts in Vegas, gotta keep that paradise in tip top shape, because it's critical to the survival of the species.

@KevinBreak Месяц назад

Vegas recycles more water than just about any other city.

@lovly2cu725 Месяц назад

And crops

@salimoneus Месяц назад

@@KevinBreak and they lose more water to evaporation and transit than they recycle

@7.3PSDA2 Месяц назад

Its more Cali. Cali pulles 4.4 mil cubic acre feet of water a year 65% of that goes to alfafa and almond farmers. question do you know why the middle east gave up farming Hay? because it cost to much of there water resource in the middle of the desert. Now here we are making Hay and selling over 95% to the middle east. animal farmers in cali are by Hay from my are of Illinois to feed there cows and horses because the Hay they produce is being sold. its all about power and money and control.

@kennixox262 Месяц назад

Much of the water in the largest resorts comes from wells. Nevada is allotted 3% of the Colorado River water. The vast majority of the Colorado River goes to California agriculture.

@scottmerrow7617 Месяц назад

I bet we don't hear about it on the news.

@scottmerrow7617 Месяц назад

Oh well, saw it scrolling across the screen on this mornings news.

@GrimmWarrior19 Месяц назад

Is there no way to engineer a laminar flow within the existing pipes? It would surely lower the amount of released water but it would retain material integrity by eliminating cavitation.

@stevearnold100 Месяц назад

I don't get it either? Why are they releasing water if the water levels are so low? Should only be using the penstocks for energy.

@StLouis-yu9iz Месяц назад

Just stop people from moving to the arid southwest and help them return to the Rust Belt instead 🤦‍♂️

@lovly2cu725 Месяц назад

We were never the dust belt. That is elsewhere.

@jamesrichmond4953 Месяц назад

Don’t you think if this were true it would’ve been all over the news stations all over the country?

@kleetus92 Месяц назад

So.... why not just flow water through the turbine generators? You may not be able to make power with them, but you can definitely flow water. This honestly sounds like alarmism for emergency funds.

@nc_mtbmedic1399 Месяц назад

Government at its finest...spend on dumb things...not important things

@dangeary2134 Месяц назад

More important to deal with politics than real issues.

@halporter9 Месяц назад

Cavitation on a 60-70 year old structure isn’t a real issue? I think we know more about modeling now to design more durable structures. Must be brutal, though, designing robust structures dealing with the immense pressures and volumes they are subjected to here. High flow experiments are née

@owensomers8572 Месяц назад

I'm glad you had government subsidized electricity to post your relevant comment.

@scottfirman Месяц назад

Clearly, those charging for water have done NOTHING but pocket every dime. No money has gone into maintenance of that dam.

@z50king29 Месяц назад

Wow, 39 feet that's crazy

@rgTORO_grOSO Месяц назад

Of courses!😃

@raymrust Месяц назад

Good stuff

@Absaalookemensch Месяц назад

It was not record breaking. Look at the official historical records going back 140 years, not just "adjusted" records going back 40 or 50 years.

@shawntailor5485 Месяц назад

The four foot outlet pipes have an inch sign on them robot .

@thewhiteloaf2175 Месяц назад

People tend to forget that lake Powell's purpose is to keep lake Mead full...

@TRichmond1964 Месяц назад

Why can't the cavitation be altered, by putting sone sort of device in front of the opening to change the pressure and alter the cavitation?

@jackwinemiller8358 Месяц назад

you should look at the damage that the spillway tunnel took in 1982-83 .....it was far worse

@aaronacj Месяц назад

Damn good video.

@TrendyStone Месяц назад

Two great winters in a row!

@Chrispbacon99 Месяц назад

There is plenty of water everywhere on this earth. But governments don’t want you to know that.

@alanm2842 Месяц назад

go to Arizona and tell us how much water you find.

@JB-bo6yf Месяц назад

What it comes down to is just not very good maintenance on Glen Canyon Dam and poorly designed

@Mystyx-Sama Месяц назад

I instantly thought about Hydro Thunder when I saw the thumbnail Raaaad Hazard!

@PyroFalcon Месяц назад

Just encase thick copper sleeves into the damaged steel pipes and install megasized hammer arrestors.

@ashtonsaviation Месяц назад

Damn

@larrysorenson4789 Месяц назад

Don’t open the valves all the way and reduce speed through the pipes.

@lovly2cu725 Месяц назад

I love how ppl that don't know anything, think they know everything. Hilarious

@johnclements6614 Месяц назад

You do not want air in the pipe, it destroys them.

@kirkpowell6161 Месяц назад

Good jpob!

@vinquinn Месяц назад

Why are they releasing water when the level is way down?

@IamRemoWilliams Месяц назад

Build back better plus ignored by prior politicians....

@1J_R Месяц назад

huh? you'd think they would have done the math when they were designing the dam. pressures and resistances and such, fluid dynamics, whatever? so how thick should the steel be for wide open use of the system. so things wont fail catastrophicly in the event of such extreme pressures. know what i mean? were they cutting corners when they built the thing?

@jakeleblanc Месяц назад

I hate people who say " hit the like button " before they even start the video !!!! Grrrrrrrr !!

@roostercrows3477 Месяц назад

Those men that built the dam used the wrong pipes 🤔 I don't beleave You I want a second opinion !!!! Who did this work ????

@iancanuckistan2244 Месяц назад

I know it's actually there but I'll be extremely happy when the United States actually starts using the metric system

@chucksurgeonertribute2113 Месяц назад

Who are the "Officials"? Are they drafting technicians or degree engineers in senior management positions or some guy with an arts degree who can do whatever he wants because he knows he cant get fired.

@MidnightWarrior1976 Месяц назад

And likely a DEI hire?

@dangeary2134 Месяц назад

@@MidnightWarrior1976Beat me to it!

@Justmekpc Месяц назад

Are you really that shallow?

@Smedley1947 Месяц назад

Most likely the answer to that is yes. You've heard of the Great Extinction of 250 million years ago, well we're in the middle of the Great Stupidization.

@pamelabeaton6667 Месяц назад

Utah is not letting any water come down into Lake Powell that is the problem they're hoarding water up there😊

@alanm2842 Месяц назад

i did not know their were dams upstream of lake Powell, could you tell the name of the lakes.

@jackwinemiller8358 Месяц назад

quit feeding so much water to keep lake mead at a much higher level and keep both powell and mead at equivalent storage levels. both lakes have alot of people who depend on them