A curious discovery along the edges of Lake Powell has been uncovered as the shoreline shrinks during what could be one of the worst drought years on record for the reservoir. Story: www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
Always a good idea to build a city in the desert. No one could have predicted a few years of drought in a desert. Make sure to water those golf courses and keep those fountains going
Phoenix and California are using more than their share and for the past 22 years Lake Powell has been giving more than what they are supposed to for Lake Mead. Lake Mead is for Arizona, California and Nevada. While Lake Powell is for Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico.
@Superduper DavidMiorgan you forgot to mention all the species that need that in that gulf... read a book of how it was before the dams kill the wildlife.water runs naturally, and US cut it from another nation. the water is not mine nor your but everyone who needs it. sadly it became political.
@Superduper DavidMiorgan The lack of water is natural. Dams and human behavior are nature but expectations of "correct" outcomes are figments that will disappoint someone at some point. Fuck that dam.
In 2015, my wife and I visited Hoover Dam. It turned out to be a wake-up call. A spoksman told us that for the first time ever, they were considering lowering Lake Powell to meet manditory water alotments downstream. Lake Mead is currently at 40% capacity! The fact is the west is drying and dying at an alarming rapid rate. Finding a sunken boat above the waterline and useless boat ramps are the least of our worries.
In the early 1970s, my buddy and I visited Ann Arbor Michigan, where there had been a large lake. It was popular with boaters, and fishing, however when we got there, it had been drained. It was shocking to see it that way. The park services folks said it would be refilled eventually. My buddy and I got to walk on the still, semi-soft lake bed. It was dry on the surface , but soft enough that our feet ( in shoes), sunk down a couple of inches. It was so fun to walk on. The best part was salvaging 100 years worth of things people people had lost in the lake, and along the various boat piers. We found a lot of artifacts,...little bits of history, most in fairly good condition. We salvaged and took with us,.....milk cans, that dairy farmers would have used. Sun glasses from the 1930s, 40s & 50s. A surprisingly well preserved wicker baby carriage. A toy produced by Walt Disney,..that was of a cartoon figure, driving a 1930s car,...all made of hard rubber with wooden tires,....still mostly intact. Hundreds of "lost" keys. We were only there for 2 days,...but had we known, and brought some tools, & work gloves,....there were sunken old cars in the lake bed,.....from every era. Most were partially buried in the dried lake bed,....but we could have salvaged some hood ornaments, or other parts. I wish we had brought a camera. Back then, people didn't always have cameras on them.
I like how the news caster had to keep interrupting the woman who made the find to say exactly what the woman was trying to say. Love to hear your own voice much
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people just keep on moving in! now water is being taken from Arizona to give to California but tens of thousands of people from CA are moving to AZ and Utah so the rich left in Cali get more water and we get all their over population, homeless and criminals and have to try to figure out how to manage things. Granted we are also getting huge numbers of good people from Cali but a lot of them work remotely so the money they generate goes to california and we just have more population and higher cost of living any way you cut it.
@@JohnWickkkk - I’m not crying, fool. I’m pointing out that while the water is low, it would be a good time to remove the trash to keep the lake clean and safe. In the long run save money, protect the environment. You call the boat owner who in turns calls his insurance company who sends out a recovery team to remove the boat at no cost to the town/county. I’m not sure why I’m bothering to explain it to you. It’s not like you’ll ever leave your parents basement to enjoy nature.
@@JohnWickkkk - I don’t live near there or I would. I know a company that could do it in my state, just not that one. I offered some advice. You on the other hand, took offense and offer no help what so ever. You seem to be part of the problem.
@@auntiem873 you are the problem because all this going back and forth; you could of already cleaned out a portion of the lake instead of being a crybaby about it
@@L.Spencer well comsidering there are 14 other damns on the colorado im gonna say there is plenty of water theres just too many people using the water. I mean how many millions of people are living in land that normally cant support a fraction of that?
I have heard that when the water gets this low cliff dwelling ruins appear. There are supposed to be several that were lost when the lake was filled. That would be neat to see those again.
@@DMUSA536 you are missing a lot of context to New Orleans. It’s a major port city between the Gulf of Mexico and the Mighty Mississip’. Originally protected in the natural breakwater of the crescent of the river. The problem come from seasonal flooding of the river, rising swells of the gulf, expansion of the city, and maybe most of all hurricanes and levee breaks.
Oh yeah, Lake Powell and I remember hiking there before the water filled it up and there were a lot of Amerindian Cliff-Dwellings there in the cliffs. I remember the water as it raised up, there were a lot of snakes that kept going to higher ground and finally someone stepped off of their boat to an island (without looking) and got bit multiple times and of course they died fast. Memories!
Ghost town abandoned in 1918 and sat in ruin for 50 years. It was supposedly one of the better preserved ghost towns in the area and everything was left there during the creation of the lake Alamo here in Arizona. So to this day one could scuba dive down to the bottom of the lake, which has a max depth of 80ft, and explore a flooded town on the bottom.
Trash in general, i travel through western US and the amount of trash along the interstates and side roads is sad... We dont respect what we have and if it was picked up, whether from the roadsides or lake shores, and thrown out in peoples yards, driveways, or sidewalks, I would imagine a person would get upset about that... But blindly tossing it out your window, NAH, someone else will take care of it...
@@stacyrethman8675 I live in a rural area of Kentucky, on a narrow, windy 2 lane highway. I constantly have to go out on mu front acre and pick up the trash assholes dump out their windows while driving by. The creek that runs along that stretch of road is full of trash too. It pisses me off that these people don't respect the beautiful mountains we live in. There is a sign on the road saying $500 fine for littering but hell, there aren't enough sheriffs in this county to keep up with all the heavy duty crime, let alone to nab a litterer. I was taught at a very young age to not just throw my trash like that. I have a box in my car lined with a grocery bag, and I carry a 1960's era aluminum film can as an ashtray for my cigarettes, and I school other smokers who just toss their butts on the ground, on how much damage those filters do to the environment.
Build manmade lakes in uninhabitable areas. Stored water source becomes available, allowing communities flourish and grow from the critical resource, until demand strips supply, and manmade lakes get sucked dry. Blame "drought" and climate change, instead of man's stupidity to build communities in what was an uninhabitable area in the first place. That the real story you're looking for?
I still stand on my belief if they killed Gilligan the folks on the Island would have been home in 2 days. Also if one puts 1 cup of water in a bucket and removes 2 cups it will never be full. Same here on a larger scale.
Actually if you think about it, if they killed Gilligan the professor would have hooked up with Marianne and the skipper with Ginger. Howell had Lovey. They may well have settled in and lived happily forever and after that for a while.
I think it will be called properly Lake Powell (dry) as they do with the lakes in my area that once had water such as Owen's Lake (dry) China Lake (dry), etc.
If you find a 14k gold wedding ring at the mouth of Ice Berg canyon, it's mine...lost 1990. I was newly married and was told I should remove it before water skiing and handed it off to the highly concerned friend of my mother to hold. She was super worried it would catch on the handle or something like that and potentially hurt my ring finger. Later after skiing and all dried off I asked for it back, and she freaked out. She had put it loosely on her finger to hold. We guess when she bent over the boat edge to help pull in skiis and ropes, etc. it fell off.
Look at 0:44! Those folks are pretty much oblivious to Thermal cracking with that bon fire under that rock shelf! Luckily they did not have 100 tons squash them like a bug!! Put the fire outside the entrance people!!
When I moved to Las Vegas in 1980 Lake Mead was full and the spillway at Hoover damn was pouring tons of water a minute downstream. Every year after that the water has dropped.
How I'd love to go up and tour around my known areas of the Lake. 31% water level is incredibly historic when you consider the Lake took 20 years to fill to capacity when Glen Canyon Dam was finished.
@Superduper DavidMiorgan Don't assume I believe in the Global Warming BS! I don't. No Conservative does. Big Gay Al told us, (from his 17,000 sqf home) the Polar Bears would be gone in 2015. The Global Warming thing is an utter farce to make money from stupid people to line Liberals pockets. In the 70's we were all going to die from a new ice age.
The photo where they were camping in one of those sand stone caves is actually dangerous. The Sandstone at Powell is unusually soft and the roof of those caves can collapse at anytime.
This should be alarming to everyone in that area. It's happening all over, actually. There are similar problems here in Washington state, but not to this extent. Yet.
Nestle could pump something like 1000x the water they were/are and not lower the level of the great lakes at all. There are 6 Quadrillion gallons in them. That looks like this 6,000,000,000,000,000. Nestle pumps 576,000gallons per day. Over a year they pump 210,240,000 gallons. That per year amount is 0.00000003504% of the water in the great lakes. They would need to pump 1 million times more water than that per year to lower the levels by 3.5%.
@@uwewaibel9163 the sold out the water rights to companies they are partial owners... They didn't sell it, they just moved paperwork around to get out of lawsuits
@@bluoval3481 I'm thinking it won't? They pump 0.00000003504% of the amount of water available. The lakes are at record high levels since 2019. No production company can change that fact.
Correction many folks in the south are screwed. Deserts are not meant to be large population centers. Going to be an interesting year when all the wildfires grow larger than last year.
If we do, can we talk about how the DRINKING WATER IS RUNNING OUT. Hunters laptop: Nothing was suspicious thus far, only that Rudy paid for stolen goods. Now pay attention to the environment and our dwindling drinkable water.
@@Youlikemysausage funny isn't it though that the blind man who received the laptop for repairs decided to read what was on the drive. Then made a copy which he sent to Rudy, originally he said in February, and it took until just before the election for Rudy to get around to it.
i think the main issue is the level of lake powell. conservation warnings should be sounding off everyday. boaters finding a sunken boat in a lake, imagine that. if it were a car it would be news worthy.
A few years ago there was an hour long video from a gal hired by the state of California to investigate crop failure. In it she goes into Geo Engineering and it's resulting side effects. She mentioned the exacerbation of drought in Colorado and Arizona. She went into some detail about the lack of accountability in these experiments into weather control. It's an eye opening vid that should be aired again, hopefully, with updates.
@@oldbatwit5102 To be specific, weaponized weather control. Bring drought or flooding over a nation to bring it to econimic ruin is cheaper than waging war.
Most people dont like to think, therefore you will get mockers and scoffers with using the phrase "weather control" even though the governments use them, Lyndon Johnson said "he who controls the weather, controls the world" and its in our Laws about getting permission first from them if a company or organization is going to be performing weather control in that states borders.
That water level is very concerning. Those that use the water from Lake Powell should consider where it is being diverted to. Las Vegas is a total waste of this resource.
My Father use to take my brother and me hiking in the Glen Canyon area before the lake was filled. There were things like hanging waterfalls and box canyons and arches that were as unique and amazing as anything you could see anywhere. It was a tragic mistake putting that monstrosity in the Glen Canyon. I guess that's progress.
How about a dam in the Grand Canyon..now That would be Cool, Imagine the huge lake! Actually the GC has been dammed up a couple times before...by Mother Nature! A Volcanic Lava Dam blocked off the Colorado and Created a Grand Lake!
I broke my neck at lake Powell. yes I can still walk . 1993. although went there dozens of times between 1991 and 1995. always cool stuff to find. more coastline than the coast of california
The boat should have had a registration and/or serial number to find it’s last owner. The owner knows the story. I don’t think Colorado got that much snow this winter so we can expect it to drop more.
@@numbnutz9398 That is exactly how a warming climate works. More evaportion caused by higher temps means more rain. A cooling climate with more water getting locked up as ice caps means less rain and drought.
It may mean more rain, but not necessarily in the same area. NOAA 30 year forecast is more rain in E/SE, more drought in the west. We will see significant migrations of people in the next 50 years due to heat and drought.
We found this boat in Febuary and was able to drive My boat right to the back of it. There was also other foot prints around it so it had alraedy been checked out. Its a quarter mile up stream from mouth of Escalante. It had a foot long hole in port side.
Miguel Ventura meanwhile we have a serious drought and fire season has started - humidity is very low/ feels like Arizona (and I remember the fires last fall).
What's real crazy is the amount of food they try to grow in the desert. It takes twice the amount of water to grow food in the desert as opposed to a place that actually gets rain.
That's what happens when they try to make a desert hospital land. Most dams have caused more damage than good Dave completely wiped out so many fish populations and countless other species that rely on those waterways it's the only way you learn though from mistakes
Been doing the H20 save for decades. Don't forget the pets n critters. The deer are foraging in town because of drought. Amazing it been dry most of the time n in a drought for 20 yrs but now that the media is discovering the US goes past the Mississippi river....jerkwads.
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Severe lingering drought is the main reason for the low lake levels. Many states in the western United States are dealing with this drought.....Pray for rain!!!🙏
The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution. Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions. A better future is possible, David
Took us long enough to built the Panama Canal you want us to tunnel ocean water through California and other states and tops of mountains NOT POSSIBLE at least within a reasonable time span that project would easily take 70-80 years to get partially done plus the environment damage done to build it would cancel some of the benefits
@@smokey-smore The Panama canal started before we really had steam engines for machinery. Sanitation wasn't really understood and thousands died because of it. Compared to what they did with the new(now old) expansions of the Panama Canal Locks, for how fast that construction work went (bad design with using tug boats to move them in the locks in them but that digresses....) they reuse the water for the locks raising one ship while lowing another in corresponding lock heading the other way (and vice versa) then pumping the rest into the lock (still lossing some when they open the now lower ship as it travels outwards to the sea) because their lakes(the water source and are the waterway for most of the cross transit were struggling with the old locks water usage. They have to dredge the lakes and rivers water ways both for silt run off (land slides are issues also) and for the deeper depth for the new bigger ships. Which that requires more water to keep the lake high enough so huge freights can sale across to the other ocean, When the first locks were built, they were designed so the USA's largest "Iowa Class" Battleships could use them, now ships far bigger than are the norm. That big extra expansion set a new freight ship size definition. When the shipping industry had the locks built enough the would change they built new ships that would only have a couple of feet (meter or so of clearance) to go through. The underground tunnel would not hurt eco systems as much as over land. We have the massive tunneling machine to do the job although they are in use on projects that are slated to finish in few years. They're actually fascinating machines and have built some amazing tunnels for traffic under the English channel for example. The risk I see is the fault line having to be crossed is a major issue for risk because if it shifts(which it does often on that side of the country) and that tunnel's wall breaks then waters starts flowing into the gaps in the fault line. All that weight could have far great reactions for California's tectonic plate could sink out into the sea.
@@smokey-smore Tunnel yes meaning underground. Not disturbing the environment. I have a tunneling tech that would make it much faster. And geothermal would raise the water to the mountain tops and desalinate the water.
Someone’s getting notified about that boat. They’ll see if they can find the owner and if not they’ll have to take care of it. Lot of places you are responsible for recovery but not sure about that lake.
@@donnieroessling Watering grass in a desert so people can knock around a little ball is shear stupidity. And I'd say a large amount of arrogance and greed are involved in these decisions.
@@theeoarsman921 I agree with ya on the greed for sure ! Mega money in the golf business though. Dixie rock is awesome looking down on the city day or night out there.
that's my grandfathers boat. it sank when it bottomed out on some rocks. you had to know where to go because there were alot of places with rocks you could hit them
Sounds like parts of the sea around the island I live on, went fishing with a mate once and it was like a scene out of the movie On Golden Pond, with him driving the boat and me looking for rocks, which weren't too difficult to spot as they were only mere inches below the surface, it was fun but a bit nerve-wracking, lol 🍻
