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October 28, 2011 - The White Salmon River in Washington state is flowing again as the nearly 100-year-old Condit Dam was disabled with explosives Wednesday. The reservoir draining took about 2 hours. Further demolition is scheduled in 2012. The event is a significant milestone for river restoration and dam removal nationwide.
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@edwelndiobel1567 Год назад

Thank you! No annoying music, no narration. Just a good video of exactly whats on the tin! 👍

@dabajabaza111 11 месяцев назад

Blame modern editors and designers for why every youtube video feels like a 'checklist' these days. I'm glad the 'old' stuff still exists to show us what quality is like.

@gw6667 9 месяцев назад

What's a tin?

@David-oy3rr 4 месяца назад

I love it either way

@markt9300 5 лет назад

Two guys walking down a dry riverbed "Did you hear something ?"

@Sirbadone 5 лет назад

Lol

@classic8054 5 лет назад

I hope they survived lol

@user-tx2dv2yu9x 5 лет назад

knowhat It was a joke, not a real story bruh

@marinelimoreira5291 5 лет назад

😠

@messiah5154 4 года назад

Rofl best comment

@rojinkabraham8990 2 года назад

Decommission MULLAPERIYAR dam in India 🇮🇳 save lifes. The dam is suffering

@naveen9596 2 года назад

Our lives are at stake🥺

@nikhilmj6719 2 года назад

സത്യം

@alphinbiju2693 2 года назад

Malayali ആണല്ലേ

@818vi 2 года назад

How is this related to mullaperiyar issue

@autotalks6434 2 года назад

@@818vi its a 125 year old dam in india.

@seulgi1211 3 года назад

I can smell the dust and the soil. The smell of the dry ground getting water 0:27

@thejesuschrist 5 лет назад

GOD DAM

@omnia9348 3 года назад

JESUS

@abejunkies 3 года назад

dont say the lords name in vein. smh jesus you should know this.

@AHandful 3 года назад

@@abejunkies nice one

@disha_b910 3 года назад

AYOOOOO

@ragnarlothbrok4468 3 года назад

Rold susej!!!

@tanis143 9 лет назад

Bet there were a ton of fish going "WTF???!?!?!?"

@medicann_coping 5 лет назад

pulverized

@jehooft8569 5 лет назад

Fish that used to live in that river probably died because of the dam either drying up the latter part of the river or the river not flowing anymore for the upper part

@wojtiwojti7865 5 лет назад

Pozdro z Polski

@zuzufitz 5 лет назад

That's EXACTLY what I said. Lol

@88997799 5 лет назад

Pepijn Borremans so you think the lake was dead of all fish? 🤣🤣

@domteretto8900 3 года назад

Imagine there’s a deer chilling and saw that massive wave

@Bandicoot803 3 года назад

The reciprocating mudslides at the end are so nice to watch over and over again!

@robert3302 8 лет назад

I would like to see what the river looks like today, five years later.

@lmklogistics9717 7 лет назад

+Sterling Crawford wow, great know, beautiful place, thanks for the links

@eelsemore 7 лет назад

We rafted it with Wet Planet. Whole day trip on the White Salmon. Great day and the best rafting company I have rafted with.

@firephantomforces9953 5 лет назад

Ty!.

@dave29123 5 лет назад

@@sterlingsylvir I would have thought trees and other plants would have been placed along the river banks to cover all that exposed soil. At the very least, some grass seed.

@stephenvis 5 лет назад

@robert coates NG just released a video, look it up!

@GordonGoldsborough 10 лет назад

We rafted down the White Salmon River past this dam site in July 2014. There is virtually no sign the dam was ever there and could have easily missed it if not for the guides pointing out a few small remnants downstream.

@NickRanger 2 года назад

I Imagine there isn't much now

@alexanto1376 2 года назад

മുല്ലപെരിയാറിൽ പുതിയ ഡാം പണിയുക 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@anandhu2072 2 года назад

English edadey

@nightmarecorporation9991 4 месяца назад

@mariadelourdes3380 3 года назад

Realmente a força da natureza é fantástica!!!

@Jamie-Z 7 лет назад

I would love to see a time lapse of the habitat recovery on the old reservoir bed. I imagine that it will take a while for the forest to get down to the river bank.

@randomvideosn0where 5 лет назад

That is very silty, probably any trees that tried to grow there would not get very tall.

@fanatamon Год назад

@@randomvideosn0where silt will grow hair on a wooden leg.

@davooze 10 лет назад

About 50 million insects died during this event. RIP

@YZFR1mart 9 лет назад

And fish and water mammals and probably water side birds etc etc

@bigglesOz 9 лет назад

David Secondname Not to mention about 100yrs worth of accumulated deoxygenated sludge that went downstream to pollute & settle in otherwise clean aquatic habitat. All washed down with a slug of very, very cold water. Such is the engineers solution for a quick cheap outcome. Slow is better but requires care & forethought.

@afiwubh4go9aiosugb 9 лет назад

bigglesOz Really? You worry about a little bit of silt... It's natural, It is everywhere, It will get washed away and eventualy in to the ocean to be filtered.

@CreeperUniverseTV 7 лет назад

Don't think 50 million could fit in that area dumbass.

@DutchKid121 7 лет назад

I think a lot more than 50 million could fit there.

@augustaverbian 3 года назад

Every single ant out there : "Tell mary we love her..."

@badboavu6821 3 года назад

Nice comment

@alexmeza2118 3 года назад

😂

@beastyboi8580 3 года назад

Sad

@davidvista1133 3 года назад

Sad

@iananderson3799 3 года назад

Every single dec too.

@zelly4914 3 года назад

People: Cool, let's watch. Animals: THE END IS HERE

@nyko4551 3 года назад

Yes. Is true ,

@TAN1018 2 года назад

At the 34-second mark, you can see a few small animals in front of the wall of water unsuccessfully running for their lives.

@ranDOMreSERVEaCCount 2 года назад

@@TAN1018 Those are just rocks that were shot out by the water

@mg9952 3 года назад

could be fun to see the same place 10 years later :)

@BabelFisch3 3 года назад

0:20 Guys be like: 'Dude, is that a SUPRA?!'

@ehanoldaccount5893 3 года назад

smooth

@abhiramcd 2 года назад

mullaperiyar should do this

@toxicman3903 2 года назад

Very difficult

@toxicman3903 2 года назад

High toxic contents injuries to nature if do like this way more many ways are there

@harifromkerala7153 2 года назад

We Will RIP 🥲

@Joji_V1.01 2 года назад

Mullaperiyar is 20 times bigger than this its not difficult its impossible

@aghosha2150 2 года назад

Then it will do the same result when it gets blasted

@desertdragon2397 3 года назад

Wow, that was intense. As always, National Geographic never fails to impress with 🌎 class documentaries. Thank you.

@mrcaboosevg6089 8 лет назад

Was kinda hoping the whole dam was gonna go, great video non the less

@supertornadogun1690 6 лет назад

thats why it's "removal" and not just removal

@seppe1138 6 лет назад

bruh wot

@azamkhattak4136 6 лет назад

MrcabooseVG i think they wanted to clean up the mud

@ivanmanko 6 лет назад

There is another video out there where you can see the removal itself

@2113rush 5 лет назад

Me too.

@KukkuduYT 2 года назад

മുല്ലപെരിയാർ 🥺

@mukhathalamurarispiritualworld 2 года назад

SAVE KERALA from MULLAPERIYAR DAM is 135 years old if it breaks 6 districts in Kerala will wash off and 40 lakh people will die and following idukki dam and another 2 dam will break Kerala will split into 2 islands there is no one in care for kerala from mullaperiyar dam considering the flood crisis dam water level will rise to 142 feet

@jshepard152 Год назад

You need to petition your government, not random people on RU-vid.

@mukhathalamurarispiritualworld Год назад

@@jshepard152 central government is considering all the dams that has to be demolished The case against the Kerala government will not go because so many cases are against them and it is put off and the case does not appear in court

@BB-yj2rb 3 года назад

"Hey, did you grab the ladders?" “No, I thought you did!" 😐😐

@skatetwopurt 3 года назад

Thats so random

@cubiusblockus3973 9 лет назад

wow, no wonder they demolished it, it was filled to the brim of silt.

@Wildstar40 3 года назад

That silt makes excellent fertilizer for growing crops.

@lemonboy9yearsago760 3 года назад

@@Wildstar40 what is silt?

@lucaswinsor4469 3 года назад

@@lemonboy9yearsago760 Basically any dirt you would find at the bottom of a river. The individual grains are very small, and because it's spent so long underwater, with a bunch of dead creatures piling up and getting ground into it, it's full of nutrients.

@AA-ke5cu 3 года назад

@@lemonboy9yearsago760 what are you; an alien human hybrid? Look it up fool.

@steveletson6616 3 года назад

Now that silt covers everything downstream. What a mess. That wasn't even a dam removal.

@Vyrus01AP1 5 лет назад

"time lapse draining" it should of been called. came here thinking the dam was being demolished.

@another90daystochangethis34 5 лет назад

You didn't see it demolished?

@Vyrus01AP1 5 лет назад

@@another90daystochangethis34 dam is still there isn't t? therefore not demolished.

@another90daystochangethis34 5 лет назад

@Vyrus01AP1 Well its purpose was demolished. They probably removed the dam some time later, or if not, left it to crumble.

@trulyinfamous 5 лет назад

Well it does have "removal" in quotes in the title.

@thegreatoutagesign9204 5 лет назад

The dam is indeed completely gone. and visiting the site location today you would never know it was here.

@ErwaAngler 2 года назад

Just here to say that the landscape looks amazing!

@relaxingblog 2 года назад

love the internet, we are all thousands of miles apart scattered across our planet and yet can read each other's thoughts on a music we all can listen to.

@operator8014 5 лет назад

Engineer 1: You know how normally we're supposed to do things in a safe manner that doesn't destroy everything? Engineer 2: Yeah, why? Engineer 1: Lets not do that this time. Engineer 2: Cool.

@jameswhite153 5 лет назад

that must have been fun to do.

@ldb281 5 лет назад

Engineer 3: Pardon, I forgot to wear my ear defenders.

@operator8014 5 лет назад

@@ldb281 Engineer 3 won't survive long at Rockstar Engineering LTD.

@jbbuzzable 3 года назад

Pull the band aid off slowly or just rip it off.

@donniecatalano 3 года назад

0:01 what I hear when I leave my little son alone in the car for 20 seconds

@nittyjee 3 года назад

This was DEEEEPLY satisfying to watch.

@peeet 3 года назад

It was spectacular seeing the force of the moving water.

@63256325N 5 лет назад

Wow, that was something to see. I'd loved to have actually been there. Thanks for the video.

@catarina34900 12 лет назад

Espetacular e impressionante, belo trabalho de quem filmou e parabéns ao NG que nos mostrou o esvazamento de uma barragem

@robertshelton3796 Год назад

gross

@dave4347 3 года назад

“Hey, wanna here the most annoying sound in the world?” **Presses play**

@Rob-tx3jl 3 года назад

David Broers it’s annoying for a reason

@dave4347 3 года назад

Well obviously lol. It was a reference mate.

@akiramen9535 3 года назад

Why the water's color so black?

@thisguy8916 3 года назад

@@akiramen9535 All the sediment that had built up behind the dam over what is apparently years. Towards the end of the video, you can see how the center deposition gives way, exposing how far up the dam wall it had accumulated.

@tomasvrabec1845 3 года назад

I actually like that sound. Find it calming. That's if you mean the water.

@marciosm154 3 года назад

Uau! Incrível!

@Darfunky 8 лет назад

RIP Orange and Blue Ladder, your service will not be forgotten..

@luc4242 2 года назад

I just rafted down this river, all the greenery and trees have grown up to the riverbank!

@benjaminholcomb9478 2 года назад

How did you know? Like did you recognize the river in the video then check the description, or did you already know of the video before going in? Just curious.

@RodrigoMirra 3 года назад

0:25 it looks like voldemort attacking dumbledore in the ministry of magic

@maxbigwood2080 4 года назад

Wow that really beautifyed the landscape

@JoseAguilar.3.16 5 лет назад

After drinking 12 beers and eating taco bell.

@garym444 4 года назад

do you say fire in the hole before releasing taco bell lol

@stevendubois1137 3 года назад

Pas mal.

@shable1436 5 лет назад

Like how someone brought a kayak and thought, naa i better not this time😂😂

@ChallHatt 9 месяцев назад

Wow, those massive melting mountains of silt are mesmerizing.

@jonathanwalther 3 года назад

"Hey, let's go a bit closer to the vanishing water. Don't bother the heavy erosion on the opposite site." "Ya, no prob, the edge looks safe to me."

@allenpeck8239 8 лет назад

That was a really good video. I really liked that. Well done!

@hippietie-dye3892 7 лет назад

It's amazing to see how much sediment had collected behind the damn not much room for water

@snigwithasword1284 2 года назад

Holy spit, I've never seen a lakebed subside and slide like that!! So cool!

@pranavnedungadi8740 3 года назад

Watching it in 2020 makes so much sense

@icysaurus 4 года назад

I wonder how the river looks like now, 8 years later.

@JP-bj2wq 5 лет назад

Now it’s been 9 years since that happened, I wonder how it looks like rn

@SilentKnight43 3 года назад

The basement of a porta-potty.

@bobbychawla14 3 года назад

I can imagine with new vegetation and habitats upstream from the dam

@jay-fn3nm 3 года назад

hope it looks nice

@bobbychawla14 3 года назад

@@jay-fn3nm with grass and vegetation

@MagicManxab 4 года назад

"Hey Dan did you remember to grab my ladders this time?" "uhhhhhhh"

@madamedoss 3 года назад

RU-vid: Yea lets show them an exploding dam, they'll watch anything at this point.

@redshift4660 3 года назад

more interested then ever! xD

@oscarribas470 3 года назад

IMPREESIONANTE A FORÇA DA NATUREZA...

@KD-sz5bx 3 года назад

For some reason the explosion looked so cgi. Hah.

@male6325 3 года назад

ikr

@amylenhard5356 3 года назад

It didn't look real at all

@shaheenpalaboyvlogs9051 3 года назад

Same feels haha

@azkamil 3 года назад

What explosion? AFAIK they just opened the gates. There was no "removal" here, just emptying the dam.

@LucasSocial 3 года назад

kkkk eu ia comentar a mesma coisa!!

@doubleasadventuresfishing1921 3 года назад

Beautiful to see this happening! Let's bring them all down!

@c.andrewnichols8564 2 года назад

0:25 "Hey Bill are those my ladders that I let you borrow over the weekend?" BILL: Uhhhhhhhhhhhh......

@tankmaster1018 3 года назад

I'm just imagining myself innocently kayaking or fishing a few miles downstream during this. Lmfao that would be quite a surprise!

@Bigpoppi1469 5 лет назад

"dam" that was quick!

@bosslady1914 3 года назад

Seriously underrated comment lol

@ljre3397 2 года назад

Stunning footage

@jreedandhismongrolhoardofr3776 8 лет назад

did anyone else notice the two ladders that got left on the back bank and washed off?

@mr2paddy 6 лет назад

never to be found again lol

@vineetmuley1752 3 года назад

seeing such clips i sometimes think how far humanity has come today

@thevigilant266 3 года назад

That's really satisfying!

@Gingerdead420 4 года назад

It looks like effects! It’s crazy that this is real!

@carmelpule6954 5 лет назад

Seeing this gigantic activity I think I would like to have been present during the upheaval that went on during the formation of the mountain range. Nature is wonderful and its engineering is fascinating to say the least. Big projects are so breathtaking. Let us hope that the salmon thrive as climbing a dam to find the breeding grounds was not simple. I cannot imagine humans mating after such a climb!

@AeiouCommander 10 лет назад

"John, you only needed to sound the horn, like, three times."

@fanatamon Год назад

Everything about that is wonderful, explosive’s especially.

@mattj6676 Год назад

I imagine some pretty big fish hanging out at the base of that dam went for a wild ride!

@drinxs505 3 года назад

I can imagen the look on the wildlife's faces as they see that big wave come rushing down

@junk1347 3 года назад

Imagine the wildlife that lived in or used that lake

@reaper8211 3 года назад

@@junk1347 where is the water father

@njanelavallykaran196 2 года назад

Ith kannana malayalikal arelum indo🥲

@dryb3301 4 года назад

Stunning

@social3ngin33rin 3 года назад

That is absolutely insane, and look at how much silt gathers at the fill base that never makes it to sea!!!!!

@rdf0558 9 месяцев назад

What about the impacts downstream? I'd like to see a time lapse of the recovering actions of the former lake area.

@shahanasshanu720 2 года назад

Save kerala from mullaperiyar

@HeyPlod 4 года назад

Amazing !

@Bemx2k 4 года назад

Great job with this video.

@calmvillagelife 3 года назад

All good, but didn’t anyone notice the THUMBNAIL looking like a freaking duck?! 🦆

@JuliusFawcett 10 лет назад

Nature is so awesome, so powerful

@gavincurtis 3 года назад

Can't sleep to this.

@squakdjemcjd5566 3 года назад

Looks really rehydrating.

@FBI001 3 года назад

Would like to see what the river looks like 9 years later

@VitariusLaszlo 5 лет назад

I taught this was new because RU-vid recommendation

@louiseperkins111 3 года назад

Water truly is the greatest element 💧🌊

@howardlovecraft750 3 года назад

Being there would've been a sight to see.

@tag7100 8 лет назад

Forgot my fuckin' ladders.

@scottballard327 3 года назад

Who else thought the thumbnail looked like a fluffy duck

@Akie51 3 года назад

Me x)

@quiin5998 3 года назад

I will like to see the river now..after nine years.. Durning this lockdown

@matthewpaul4788 3 года назад

Spectacular VFX NGC 👏

@Travelor803 2 года назад

Save mullaeriyar

@thedeviloctopus5687 2 года назад

SAVE MULLAPERIYAAR DAM

@Bayne847 2 года назад

Those fish went on one wild ride!

@TheJonathanc82 4 года назад

That’s amazing, I want to see what it looks like now.

@joeskis 9 лет назад

"So, you remembered to warn the communities down stream, right?" "Huh?" "!"

@Abcd-rs9ji 3 года назад

I would to like to see what the river looks like today ,after 9 years later.

@aswins7938 3 года назад

🤣

@russhowison4215 3 года назад

I worked on this removal process for over ten years before the day this was filmed. The river looks truly amazing today. You would honestly never be able to tell where the dam was. And the salmon population has moved back in. From a river restoration perspective the project is a complete success.

@emerica5700 2 года назад

It looks absolutely beautiful. Only way you would be able to know where the dam was today would be with a guide or if you had knowledge of its location.

@dianagary1304 Год назад

Water is such a powerful force of nature

@coordinationsection432 3 года назад

I loved it 10 years later

@Visionery1 3 года назад

Interesting to see how the capacity has been dramatically reduced by the silt build-up. The same happens to all dams eventually, they become entirely choked and useless.