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.
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 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.
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. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eGG4lfoR52A.html
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.
@@RayRaeTV 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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yJI-L_TKgoE.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
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.
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.
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
i guess there was no damage downstream. still, what a mess. ironically, i was in tx at that time, just not in that area but picking up counties along i-20 and a little north thereof (180 from nm to 277) to i-10 and west to nm. you can see some of the vids i shot along the way.
No mention of what country or state this is in? What happened to 'who, what, when, where and how'? The mute button is the best on the computer for this kind stuff.
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.
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.
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
@@phokjiouh59 Texas has many artificial lakes across the state used as reservoirs for water needs, flood control and recreation. Some are used for power generation, but that's not their primary purpose today. We've had several dam failures over the past 5 years due to extreme drought, followed by record floods. The former compromised many dam structures from soil erosion and shifting, which was exacerbated by the sudden influx of billions of gallons of water. The age of the dams is also a big problem, many of them are over 50 years old, some much older.
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 believe the thumbnail is of the place where the hoses are diverting water into the canal about at the 3:25 mark in the video. It looks to me like a small control structure.
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.
Lucky that it was such a small dam holding back a small amount of water. Imagine if it was a full size dam holding back a lot more water. Could've been a bad deal, or a lot worse than it was anyways.
