Before there were drones there were radio controlled helicopters that required skill and training. Lots of weekends were sacrificed to gain such a skill. Great video BTW 😀. Watching dams get blown away is always cool 😎
1) This isn't a breach, this was the dam being emptied ON PURPOSE in-order to remove it. 2) The footage is a timelapse that was done by National Geographic, so unfortunately there is no normal speed version :(
Try read the description of the video, the poster even SAYS it is a "Fast motion of 1.5 hrs of video." ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4LxMHmw3Z-U.html part of original footage, (there was an full program on it) and you do know that people can *add* sounds to videos that don't originally exist, right??? How do you think sound effects are added to movies/videos/tv programs, or did you think they just magically sprang into existence of there own accord??? /raise eyebrow
I've seen the extended video. It's amazing. The work they did to the area....turned out beautiful. Salmon started running again, wildlife and other species of fish returned to the area. Look for the original video. It's great.
why dont you just let it play normal? i wouldve been more than happy to watch this without the speed up and slow down. very unnecessary and totally lame.
I'm sure more than one graduate thesis will be hung on observing this river for the next few years. The changes to the ecology of that stretch of the river are going to be huge.
There is a long video on this somewhere. It shows the extensive work they did environmentally. The outcome is beautiful...Salmon started running again and other species of wildlife came to the area again. It was an amazing project. Look for it.
I've seen the extended video. It's amazing. The work they did to the area....turned out beautiful. Salmon started running again, wildlife and other species of fish returned to the area. Look for the original video. It's great.
Obiwan Duglobi came here to say the same thing about the amount of silt release into the river below is massive, destabilizing the silt "neutrality" is a death sentence for all salamanders that breath through gills on the outside of their body. Just release the water slower and it will cut down on a huge percentage of the silt displacement😀
@@robmcinteerp2720 They were under time constraints, correct. Wouldn't it have taken a long time (weeks, mths) to release to the extent that fish were not impacted. Besides they removed a lot of fish prior to the removal.
I would say there are many different aspects to study. Hope they had a baseline. Wish I had the time (lifespan and other) and ability to study the succession that occurs, aquatic and terrestrial. From the looks of the exposed stumps, some of the sediment has already washed down to original valley floor. Tat big fan at the mouth is bound to make some local changes for some time . . . good and bad.
If you watch the official video of this, there’s a real helicopter taking photo passes along the lake as it drains. I can’t understand why this post has the same speeded up footage repeated over and over again, it looks so false.
There is a whole video on this somewhere. It shows the extensive work they did environmentally. The outcome is beautiful...Salmon started running again. It was an amazing project. Look for it.
Whoever put this together really ought to take it down. It’s poorly done. Really poorly done. The main plot line involves the draining of the lake and that doesn’t mean repeating the same two shots of the outflow and the water splattered lens over and over.
I wonder how many Bambis & woodland varmints were washed down stream as they were innocently taking a sip of water? Lol Just the though cracks me up! Lol "Hey Herb... did you just hear something?" Ahhhhahahahaha :)
6 bambi's and 123 Chip and Dale's,...sorry to report.. but on the upside all those reports of troublesome woodland dwarfs and Pixies have become near nonexistant....and gnome sightings are evened out....only one or two every six months or so....will keep you posted.
Condit dam was built in the early 1900's to generate electric power. It was an active power station up to the time it was demolished. It was demolished because of new governmental regulations regarding salmon and dams. The cost to upgrade the dam to allow for passage of salmon was more than the cost to demolish it. So the power company picked the cheaper option. In this video, they blew a hole in the bottom of the dam to release the water. I confess, I don't know if they expected that much silt and dirt to be released. I do know because I saw a news article about it, that the silt downstream dried and became a dustbowl irritating residents who lived creekside. Another news story I saw talked about waterfront owners of the former lake complaining, because the absence of the lake was destabilizing the soil supporting their homes. I don't know how things are now.
I sure hope there wasn’t anyone swimming down stream! Would’ve really been cool if someone was in a kayak upstream, and came shooting out of that hole! 🤣
And just how many spawning grounds did that wreck in the name of salmon? That's a million more times the silt that a few gold dredgers could provide in a lifetime.
There is a long video on this somewhere. It shows the extensive work they did environmentally. The outcome is beautiful...Salmon started running again. It was an amazing project. Look for it.
Salmon were running within 48 hours of the release into areas they couldn't get to before and the breeding grounds downstream also exploded very quickly afterwards. Highly fertile silt allowed fast development of the eco system
There is a better video of this event taken by homeowners that lived on the reservoir. They had a neighbors party and filmed the bittersweet event from their deck so you see the entire lake as it drains out.
Wont that have washed a lot of fish eggs Away the very reason the dams coming down was to due to the company not wanting to build a permanent salmon tunnel. Scandalous and reckless drain.
I'm like bro dude I saw a miniature helicopter. Then I'm like, Bro you're just high. It wasn't a miniature helicopter It was a giant sign with the 1' diameter steel cable stretching 300 or so feet across the Grand Canyon now that make sense
