Lake Mead Update - April 2024 | Sharp Fall in Water Levels Projected

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Hello and welcome to timeBomb. Engineers recently discovered major issues with the pipes that release water from Lake Powell. How will this issue impact water levels and future operations at Hoover Dam and Lake Mead?
In this episode we begin with a review of the current Lake Mead water level statistics. But the Lake Mead statistics only give a small view into how the Colorado River is performing. That is why we also provide statistics for Lake Powell, the reservoir located just upstream from Lake Mead. Operations at Lake Powell directly impact water levels at Lake Mead. After that we take a look at the storage capacity of the entire Colorado River system. I’ll give ya a hint, water levels are not heading in the right direction for this time of year.
Next we take a look at the latest water level predictions from the Bureau of Reclamation. Even though the snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin is above average, engineers are predicting below average inflows into Lake Powell.
Then we shift our focus to the broken pipe issue at the Glen Canyon Dam. These damaged pipes could drastically affect water flow to Lake Mead. What does this mean for the millions depending on Colorado River water? You're about to find out. Hit the like button, share your thoughts in the comments, and don't forget to subscribe for more crucial updates!
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
Glen Canyon Dam Broken Pipes Issue in Detail: • Breaking: Officials Fi...
March 2024 Lake Mead Update: • Lake Mead Update - Mar...
Bureau of Reclamation 24-Month Study Projections: www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4000/...
#lakemead #hooverdam #coloradoriver #watercrisis
Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to timeBomb
01:15 Lake Mead Stats
05:22 Water Level Predictions
06:58 GCD Broken Pipes

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9 июн 2024

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@gali01992 Месяц назад

I have a website that shows the health of the Colorado river over the last 60 days, from information scraped from federal sites. In the last 4 days, Lake Powell has actually gained 30,000 acre feet.

@boonliew-sx5pr Месяц назад

Thanks 🙏 for your satisfying info of water situation throughout the West,enjoy it for the sake of farmers needing it in the summer

@bettyg7710 Месяц назад

The reason Lake Powell is dropping in because of a mandatory release due to cracks found at lake Powells dam. And notice the graph so small a mean diff of 15 feet. They make it look so tragic. They are lowering the level to deal with small cracks that need attention. Lake Mead gets the benefit of higher water levels due to this for the moment.

@BackyardBeeKeepingNuevo Месяц назад

The jet tubes were probably initially damaged during the 1983 crisis and the high flow experiments have added to this damage. It’s either rust or cavitation damage.

@Waslw4 Месяц назад

4:06 been following the channel for a while, really like that the video quality is increasing. Editing suggestion the “total loss” should be red not green. Keep up the great information, as a Canadian the information in your videos have little to no impact on me (aside from California farming) I still find it very interesting.

@theodoreshasta7846 Месяц назад

Could you please devote a video to a detailed description and analysis of what is wrong with the pipes.

@DesertRatExploration Месяц назад

The Bureau of Reclamation hasn’t released a in depth report. They just told the state there was issues.

@AZDesert Месяц назад

Isn't the Bureau of Reclamation loaded with enviro-activists who want all dams removed from the Colorado River? I would get a second opinion re those release pipes.

@akshonclip Месяц назад

You do realize that lake powell and meade aren’t the last reservoirs on the river? There are more downstream that use water as well.

@davidellison6571 Месяц назад

Great program. I wait for each episode.

@ricardoantonio5085 Месяц назад

These charts have very small increments. It makes the graph look dramatic when its only a few feet change.

@superdairyboy 7 часов назад

Dumb question. If water level at GC drops below minimum power, does the river essentially stop flowing, until the next tributary down stream?

@kristinejackson8268 Месяц назад

How can it be declining with all the rain that has been happening and the snow pack.

@daltonbryer3171 Месяц назад

It's too warm in the mountains for snowmelt to make it to the Colorado River. This is why the river has been declining for some time and the reason the only solution to this problem is to pump water from the Great lakes all the way to Arizona.

@rrad8106 Месяц назад

Interesting - the GCD power plant is the same vintage as the outflow pipes. Having worked for a company that built dams, I would be concerned that the pipes feeding the power plant are not going to experience the same issues.

@farcinue Месяц назад

For us lay people, the percent capacity is probably the easiest statistic to understand. 36% is a scary number. The southwest is in big trouble!

@tommornini2470 Месяц назад

May be in big trouble if this continues. 👍🏻

@JaniceVineyard-kf6wm Месяц назад

Thank you for information.

@davidellison6571 Месяц назад

Thanks!

@TimeBombTV Месяц назад

Well thank you so much for the tip, that means a lot to me. Thank you so much!

@macfoucin Месяц назад

You should do a video on what happened in 1983 to break all the records that are mentioned. Seems like it's always 1983

@roberttelarket4934 Месяц назад

I was 34 and living in S.F. at that time. What happened is there was an unbelievable Niño. It rained every single day yes every day in 1983 and part of 1984!

@Denise11Schultz Месяц назад

@@roberttelarket4934 I was 28 and living in S.F. then. You brought back a lot of memories. 🌧️🌷 Was that the same year as the sinkhole that was threatening houses out near Baker Beach? That might have been later.

@roberttelarket4934 Месяц назад

@@Denise11Schultz: Sorry don’t remember the sinkhole that or any other year. It was nothing in comparison with the unending rains(day and night)!

@barlowsmith6242 Месяц назад

The bureau of reclamation know more than they tell, they know this is a 100 year cycle as proven by science - and they well know its going lower for a long long time.

@bukboefidun9096 Месяц назад

Are they refilling Flaming Gorge? Or Blue Mesa?

@saltymethods2637 Месяц назад

The water utility is draining the water on purpose to create an artificial drought, IMO.

@Starship007 Месяц назад

As temperatures increase with global warming, more evaporation. More water in the air adds to insulating heat in, water vapor becomes greenhouse gas.

@asymptoticsingularity9281 Месяц назад

Be afraid.....be very afraid! How many jabs have you gotten?

@aychemara Месяц назад

Go back to shleep

@rl9808 Месяц назад

Just let the lake level go up every year and do what you want with the rest. Easy.

@rl9808 Месяц назад

Let out less water than comes in and the lake rises. Easy.

@rdbchase Месяц назад

You consistently misuse the word "capacity" -- the capacity of Lakes Mead and Powell do not change significantly over time.

@onpurpose2629 Месяц назад

Just imagine if the NAWAPA project was allowed to continue, the Fed destroyed it!

@GardenerEarthGuy Месяц назад

Why did they use Chinese steel for the pipes?

@bukboefidun9096 Месяц назад

Not sure, but they are buying Chinese drywall

@dsos222 Месяц назад

AIS requirement is listed in the original contract specs. So no, it’s not Chinese steel that’s failing. They will slip line with HDPE in a matter of weeks once they award the repair work

@taterrhead Месяц назад

perhaps it's time to stop watering golf courses IN THE DESERT!

@deannemckee5081 Месяц назад

They’ll never do that….they always go after the farmers!

@michaeldeierhoi4096 Месяц назад

The water use of the Colorado by farming is about 70 % of the total used!! Part of the problem there is water dependent crops like alfalfa some of which is also grown on land purchased by Saudi Arabia. Though I don't know the actual percentage. And last I heard Phoenix is still encouraging people to move there.

@deannemckee5081 Месяц назад

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 Well, I’m a non-corporate, non-subsidized farmer that raises alfalfa. Our biggest customers are Navajo People raising sheep, then people feeding horses, livestock and some dairy. We paid for our land with a water right tied to it - so the price was much more an acre because of the water right, plus we pay thousands of dollars a year for the ditch maintenance. I’m not from Saudi, nor do I know any of my neighbors that are. I have heard of Arizona leasing State land to Saudi and then let them drill large irrigation wells to irrigate.

@michaeldeierhoi4096 Месяц назад

@@deannemckee5081 I'm glad to hear your experience with growing alfalfa. That is a good counter to my comment. 👍

@7.3PSDA2 Месяц назад

So this video is kinda accurate but im going to call you out. Your research is good but you need to start at the beggining of the colorado wayyyy up in the mountains at "The Grand Ditch" let me explain a little more. so theres a 16 mile long ditch that runs across the top were the colorado river system starts and it diverts water from the top of the snow pack to the eastern colorado communities. the grand ditch flows threw the divide threw la poudre pass then into the long draw resevoir now thats all fine and things but then i believe it was the bureau of reclaimation built 2 huge tunnels threw the rockies to also to feed the long draw river. all this is controlled by the bureau. Now. in my opinion here. 1 i live in Illinois but ive always been facinated by hydro electricity i think its the cleanest. so the hoover dam and the glen canyon dam have ive been following years. i think that the eastern side could easily use less water giving more of the snow pack and run off to head towards these 2 massive reseviours along with the farming in Cali could be changed. Cali uses 4.4 maf of water per year. 65% of that fresh clean consumable water is used for farming. now im mechanic but do a little farming myself on the side. bailin hay and tillage and things. we in illinois are a huge hay growing community. it takes alot of water. so i can state if cali would give up the hay growing or build desalazation plants.... to use for farmers out there i believe alot of the reseviour problems would or could be solved. My .02

@Kook-a-mal Месяц назад

Desalination won’t be enough, not ever. Farming in California fed the world (literally as a statistical matter) back in the 70’s I was told. It’s industry that eats too much water. That manufacturing could be moved in most industries to other areas with more useful water. And if the food grown in California was limited to domestic use only then the loss of water would be halted. (When we export a head of lettuce it’s like exporting a hundred gallons of water I read somewhere, I seem to recall).

@gregjohnson2073 Месяц назад

You are dreaming

@7.3PSDA2 Месяц назад

@@Kook-a-mal did you not read what i posted? if they used the desalization facilities for non potable water and used it to water the farms that would put a huge dent in there water shortage. the 2 most water comsuming things grown in the desert are alfafa hay and almonds. so technically "industry" is correct but its farming.

@Kook-a-mal Месяц назад

@@7.3PSDA2 I’m speaking of utility and a cost benefit analysis. We need food, we need water. And productivity is a key component of measuring outcomes, so I suggest imho after following this issue for a few decades that perhaps American should grow food where it grows best and produce enough food to feed ourselves. Then, reassess and continue. I read all your words and appreciated them. I thought I’d offered a meaningful and helpful reply.

@Kook-a-mal Месяц назад

@@gregjohnson2073 maybe, but I took a few college courses on this exact topic and the ideas I espouse are not really mine. I’m just looking for the best outcome with the most effective efforts.

@jessesea77 Месяц назад

Glen canyon dam was a stupid dam to build in the first place. They should bypsss it and get ride of the lake. Fix the mistakes of the past.

@itsrachelfish Месяц назад

Amen!

@barlowsmith6242 Месяц назад

and dont forget about evaporation increasing every year thanks to a heating up planet thanks to what? carbon cars trucks and all that and electric cars are not the answer,

@otterpossum9128 Месяц назад

LOL, sand people

@mtebaldi1 Месяц назад

Well duh, once snow melts and rain stops lake mead levels will drop. It’s logical.

@MarkTadder Месяц назад

Do you know what? I watched a video that sounded quite a bit like this on this channel not that long ago. It was stretched out and stretched out and stretched out and then there was nothing to it. I think they call that Clickbait down at the elementary school. Or maybe I'm thinking of something else. Either way. You're not getting me again dude. Unsubscribing

@Kook-a-mal Месяц назад

I wouldn’t know about the issue at all if it weren’t for these videos. This newest update did have new info, but I get your point. Overall, I’m stayin’

@michaeldeierhoi4096 Месяц назад

Sure took you a while to make your point Mark! And you call it click bait, but don't specify what you mean. Anyone can make charges or accusations, but far fewer can back up those claims.