Dams being removed from California river, hoping to restore salmon population 

No its NOT a good start!!!!!! It's an environmental disaster

Not for long……. The momentum is in freeing up these rivers.

It's DEATH.....NOT HOORAY!

@@Lors-mg3pe As you write from your mom's basement in Indiana. Admit it, you wish you were in California.

I wonder if there getting paid to remove it, timber company i worked for got a grant to remove their rotted out culvert s and replace them with bridges, money cam from the salmon restoration fund's

Wonderful news for the indigenous, both human and animal.

Wonderful news for the future of the planet.

All the fish are dead. No fishing for many years to come

@@colleenmarino6781Not all that many years. Nature has a way of bouncing back once we stop messing with it.

You do realize that just because they took the dams out doesn't mean the river went away? we have these things called pumps now, and helicopters can dip out of the river! get a clue!

Let the wild salmon run free!

You really have no idea what you're talking about do you?

Nah I prefer to have water during severe drought. Fools 😂

@@quanphun4996 Seems like you should move!

@@tnnsboy18 There are over 1,000 dams in CA. They make central valley agriculture possible.

Yeah, I like power, water, no major flooding, irrigation for livestock and crops...just a few of the things that dams provide...

@@tnnsboy18 Nah, Cali is fine. Seems like you don’t get how any society works. Give up clean energy and water storage for salmon… yeah, no. Just stock the salmon.

When the dams were in place it was not pristine! I live 20 minutes away from the dams on the Klamath. I was there 2 days ago. The river is actually running really clear for this time of year. Get a clue dude!

There are four of them.

@@DavidLS1 dam, Dam, dam , DAM

Cynical much?

Actually this electrical infrastructure was end of life and the cost to replace hydroelectric equipment versus the amount of power it produced didn’t make economic sense. Cheaper to produce electricity with solar panels which combined with grid scale battery storage can give us 7x24 power at a cheaper rate. PS - some of these dams also did not meet modern earthquake engineering standards so retrofitting would have been an additional unknown cost.

Like immigration wrapped up in a fake bible?

I doubt it will take that long, but I guess it could. Regardless, if those dams had not been removed, the salmon would have surely perished.

Five years is nothing.

So.....

@@DavidLS1 in geological and aqua engineering time, you are right.

@@michaelcharlesthearchangelThank you. I'm usually right about 25% of the time.

10 pounds of opinion and 2 pounds of knowledge. Thanks!

think before you post

Netcentric.....it will work, because it's been proven in other places.😊

The dams were privately owned and operated by a power company not associated with any form of government, other than being subject to governmental oversight for safety and maintenance. The power company that owned the dams made the decision over 10 years ago that installing fish ladders to enable the salmon to by-pass the dams and to upgrade the structure of the dams to current safety standards in a highly active seismic zone was not financially feasible, given the low output of hydro power the dams generated, so the decision was made (by the power company) to de-commission the dams and tear them down. In the decade since that decision was made, both the power company and the residents along the river and the reservoir lakes have been working with (and paying for) the advice of environmental scientists of many areas of specialty (biologists included) and construction specialists to formulate a plan of action for removing the dams with the least amount of damage possible. That's one of the many reasons it took over 10 years after the decision was made to remove the dams for the actual removal work to actually happen. These removals had zero to do with any governmental agency conspiracy to force US citizens to accept a "green deal" or to buy electric vehicles. It was all about a private company deciding to cut their losses and move on. And as the video stated, removing the dams is a huge and very costly project, so perhaps you can imagine what it would have cost to keep the dams in place, if it's better for the company's bottom line to spend millions to have them removed.

Are you 12?

@@DanielJamesEganI’m 53 but given your inability to offer any sort of meaningful counter point other than inane comments about me because of a post you don’t like while not being able to offer any meaningful explanation of why yourself I’m guessing you’re about 23 years old right? My suggestion is If you would like to have an adult conversation act like one.

Thanks for demonstrating your 10 pounds of opinion and 2 pounds of knowledge.

@@user-ke9yk5qp3u says the 23 year old troll - who still hasn’t responded to my original post LOL!

@@mikepletka 58 year old troll laughing at people who are lacking in education!

It might.

It will

💯% correct!

Some of Californias aquafirs have been depleted so fast that the upper crust has fallen onto the lower crust and won't refill ...the water is now making an underwater river to the sea ..in SOME case's

One man with a backhoe can replace 10,000 beavers.