Panguitch Dam Breach UPDATE! 14 April 2024 

Nope motorbike and travling was the first things he did

@@mikilambastein1449 You are correct - he just means the success of the channel following the Orville deal... about 5 years ago or so. That's when a Ton of people found him....

Hey, I'll take that dam tour if I dam well please, thank you very much.

its because its warming for summer and snow melts lol....there is no dam news to report on during the winter. its all frozen and snow

Yeap that is where I found his channel back in the Lake Orville fiasco event.

Same

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dam owners left god to hold back the waters... more separation of church and state is needed in Utah even if it doesn't seem to have anything to do with this I'm sure it played a role somewhere in the process. If only the good ol boy network of keeping jobs in the church even if they lack the skills needed

Yes with all the coverage here in Utah you have told us more

@@somethingsomething404lol the whole dam state is a cult!

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Kind of like the friendly towns of Oakland and Chicago.

Hey Chuck! I’m wondering if I could get a great deal on purchasing a house in Panguich. I’m in Laramie… wanna go in on this purchase with me?

But we have money to build a stadium for Major League Baseball!!! w.t.f.

And money to send overseas....​@@metatechnologist

Inflation affecting EVERYTHING.

And people complain about their property taxes. Well who is supposed to pay for it?

The pressure is a result of changes in ice density. Ice at 32F is much larger than ice at 0F. As the ice surface cools, cracks form as it shrinks. These fill with water and freeze, so if it warms back up after a cold spell, the ice surface expands, leading to the creation of pressure ridges on water bodies large enough for the ice to flex and create them. When the pond or lake is not large enough for the ice to buckle, it shoves into the banks, creating “ice push berms” around the edge of the pond. Any vertical concrete structure would facilitate its own demise, and the sloped concrete design you mention would tend to help as the ice could expand over the structure instead of pushing into it.

@@troyhamon6666 - On a big lake, the pressure heaves leave a sheer wall on one side and a ramp you can't see on the other. That's one of the reasons you buy an old scrap car for the lake in winter. Sitting in an ice fishing hut when an icebreaker goes by half a mile away is an experience. The time for ice damage on shore is spring breakup and the wind is the major factor there. That's what pushes houses over and makes piles twenty feet high. Walls don't matter that much. The ice is in big floes and once the first few pile up against the wall, the rest slide over them.

Canadians...."Come on Global Warming!!!!"

@@GWNorth-db8vn A different place and a different problem.

@@tedmoss - This is basically a big pond.

It's how I first learned of Juan, from a dam video, long ago.

Ultimately. Gravity is the culprit!

how i discovered his channel when he covered our Dam in uk 2019 lol

You beat me to it! LOL

Hahahaaa

It takes Juan to know Juan

I believe there is a lot of domestic terrorism there

I respectfully disagree. It’s another one of those Utah towns that gathers the biggest portion of its revenue from velocity traps. I am not using the term “speed trap” because they will fine also you for going too slowly. If you’re not right on the number, based on their inaccurate measuring equipment you will get a ticket. It’s not really a ticket. It’s a fine for not being a local. I avoid this town unless I have absolutely no other choice.

*also fine

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@@dyolf1000BS, been through there more times than I can count as my Grandma used to live there. I’ve never gotten a ticket and hardly ever see the police with some pulled over.

I call bs on this too. Had a vacation house there for many years. Never any “velocity” issues.

There are hundreds of dams across the us at critical levels for safety. Yet we keep sending trillions overseas

Too easy to say something like that. . . “Times Change”

@@dewiz9596 not really, pretty easy to say in fact...

Actually, concrete construction would have been in its infancy, and they knew next to nothing. There's a dam near me that was constructed in 1878, and the city partially drains the reservoir every Fall, because they don't trust it. And they don't have to worry about it freezing! I'd take a good long look at any dam built in the 1800s!

Not a dam, but the 2,000 year old concrete Pantheon temple in Rome is still functioning. The Pantheon is 155 feet in diameter and has a concrete dome. Many of the 2,000 year old concrete structures in Rome were used as a quarry and smashed into rubble, for various uses. About 40% of the Roman Colosseum is concrete.

@@pigdroppings Good points! Turns out the dome of the (third) Pantheon is unenforced concrete. Quite the engineering feat! What I can tell you about 20th century concrete construction, is what I've seen doing seismic retrofits on concrete buildings that were constructed in the 1800s. Let's just say when they bothered to reinforce them, the rebar was laughable! In addition, the consistency of the concrete often varies so much it's shocking! It seems they hadn't devised a slump test yet! However, I guess it was a upgrade from The brick they were building with! I can also tell you about a trip to Turkey after their catastrophic quake, but I digress! Thanks for the history lesson though. I would have never thought it was possible, based on what I've seen!

I agree the problem is states promise to do it but our it on hold which it this news story on dam they should be maintaining the dams and Bridges

StacheD Training does fire related stuff.

Maybe we ahould study how the beavers overcome this problem with their dams. They're the REAL experts at this.

This sounds great but there is no electricity in the area, all of the cabins/homes in the area are powered by solar or generators. It would definitely help out but would be insanely expensive to put in infrastructure to support it. Also it is very hard for Utah to put in infrastructure like this in place especially where this lake is located being close to several national parks and a national monument. The state gets sued a ton even on road improvement projects in the area by environmental groups so that makes it even more costly to improve and mitigate things like this.

@@jaydenpaxton457 there's power to the subdivision less than half a mile to the east of the dam

A nice place to visit, as is all of lower Utah.

Also US89 is the main route for many Truck Companies between Pheonix and SLC it is the shortest route.

During the Great Flood of 2013 in Calgary, Alberta Engineers DID open all the gates, but it was two days too late.

The goofs in the midwest use dynamite to break up the river ice jams in winter. But we have no dams here in the flat lands.

I LOVE going through Lake Shasta. One of my favorite places on Earth.

I agree

I have not been there but I know my not so decent Kin settled that area. Heywoods And Judds along with others.

I found Juan's channel when he started reporting on the Oroville Dam's spillway failure. He covered the failure, several meetings with officials and engineers, brought us aerial views from the Mighty Luscombe, and covered the repairs and upgrades there. It's a topic you might say is "close to home" for Juan. I also like his coverage of aviation.

And I keep wondering why he is posting about those airplanes instead of dual sport bikes.

@@lightningdemolition1964 And he's posted very few videos about sailing.

In the absence of an emergency spillway they need to operate and manage the reservoir with more freeboard. Operating at capacity relying in the wall cap likely reduces the factor of safety to unacceptable level.

I grew up in the area and I hope this will help you understand the structure a bit better. The emergency spillway for the dam is the water going over the top of that concrete structure that is being moved. Below the concrete structure is a lot of granite. Every year during the spring summer time you can go to the lake and see it going over the concrete structure, and it’s been doing that ever since the concrete addition has been built. Also it’s hard for improvements to be made in this area as it is close to Zion national park, Bryce Canyon national park, and cedar breaks national monument. Whenever even road improvement projects are proposed the state or party involved gets sued the crap out of by environmental groups. It’s this kind of things that make any type of safety or risk mitigation projects with the dam impossible until a disaster happens.

I assume the Corps you are talking about is the US Army Corps of engineers. As I have experience working on one of the projects they managed* in Saudi Arabia I follow their exploits. Have you heard scuttlebutt on why no dolphins were required to protect that bridge which was struck and collapsed recently by the huge foreign container ship? ps I notice from the TV coverage that the power line nearby has some protection. * I was not impressed.

@@SubTroppo politics spending money in aaaalll the wrong places .. as well as deficiencies in the engineering mindsets of counter weight spans .. house of cards

Agreed. When I saw this popup from Juan, I knew I had to watch. Thanks Juan! As a bonus I got to listen to "Weightless."

Yep. KSL only talks about a 60’ long crack, but they never go into detail about where exactly the crack is.

Jeez, I stopped reading the Wall Street Journal 50 years ago. Juan's the man.

WSJ is a joke at best 😅

This is harder than Chinese algebra.