Building a New Reservoir to Supply 825,000 People with Water!

[@waynemurphy7394]

I have a problem with a state that tells the people who own property that they cannot keep their own rain water , because the state is selling the water !

[@drewchristner3750]

States often make those decisions because they are caring about you and ALSO the people who are not you, something that you don’t do or even have the information to do. There is certainly a lot of government corruption and I’m sure I wouldn’t agree with the way the water was being used (because it probably went to the wealthy) these sorts of programs are far more needed than you’re giving it credit or presenting it as. “My rain water” isn’t a thing, rainwater is a resource, when everyone in the state is relying on it, why do the homes under the rainstorm get to profit off of the poorer people living in dryer plots simply because the people living under the storm were selfish and couldn’t see past their own nose? You should be worried about your state properly using the natural resource to satisfy your needs and ALL your neighbors needs, be upset at how they misuse instead of DEMANDING that you be the one to misuse the resource. Because if we are being truly honest with ourselves, what twisted world do you live in to think you could make equal use of it? It’s very short sighted

[@4runnercolorado422]

Just keep it anyway. We live in the mountains in CO and we collect rainwater. Come and arrest us. The big problem here is Denver/Boulder Front Range gapes dictating things for the mountains. The Denver/Boulder gapers should stay on the Great Plains where they belong. Lowly, city, Great Plains dwellers. Stay out of our mountains.

[@sonnylambert4893]

Now in Toronto, Ontario the foolish voters elected a Socialist Chinese woman who barely speaks English, and already they are pushing a new “ rain tax” so that property owners have to pay for the amount of rain that FALLS FROM THE SKY ONTO THEIR PROPERTY. You know that “ air tax” is very near…

[@shanehumphrey4827]

That us weird. Because rain water is used to water lawns and gardens! It goes back into the water table same as it would have.

[@take3077]

Watering lawns is a waste of

[@jamesdantonio7235]

Just retired after 45 years as Operating Engineer this video makes me want to come back 😢 😊😊😊

[@Hellsatanx]

is it as fun as it looks? just big kids playing with big toys?

[@rp1645]

Thank you for being one of the Operators out of an operating Engineer UNION. 😊 I started in are Local back before everyone of the guys came back home from Alaska Pipeline Job. In the 1970s I loved the different big excavator back then, you know the ONES ( air over Hydraulic control) I did a lot of mainline sewers. I ran the Hoe packs, but I talked with the operator of many different excavators, and boy there was many different control patterns back then. On one we had a big (Poclain) it had 4 levels together with a foot pedal on the base of two of them for foot or hand control like a rubber tired backhoe had, plus two other levers on each side a little higher than the 4 levers. I worked behind a big 1266 old school ( Koehring) The control patterns on that were so interesting, the AIR button on the two big Levers for swing and boom, my biggest sewer job or should say longest was working hoe pack behind a big Bucyrus Erie 350 excavator 😊 man she had power in hard pan. We changed our digging teeth like twice a day. There were all these little AIR hoses going up into the bottom of the two control levers. Myself what I used for the hoe pack was the first old Case 680-C with the terrible Airbrake system. The old girl would lock up the emergency brake if you used the rear wheel a lot to help you single brake steer with back tires. They brought in a new 190 Dynahoe, so I started digging side sewer stubs with her. I Love the Dynahoe so much 😊 in 2003 I bought an old used one. It had close to 8000 hours on meter. I have put hundreds of hours on her just around my property it's my TOY. Other than Hydraulic seals leaking and having to overhaul rear brakes when I bought her. Never have done anything to the old Detroit Diesel (353) she just keeps working for me. Getting back to my UNION work, all the A list guys came back from Alaska, so work thinned out for me I switched to Utilities and ran a small water system then finished my last 15 years ( Road Farming) for a city PWs. I Loved to sewer jobs working in the late 70s For operating Engineers. 😊 I watch this young guy's video and I'm like you miss those big digging jobs.

[@floydwilliams3321]

I know I love those big jobs man / in joy you’re retirement

[@jamesdantonio7235]

@rp1645 Thank you rp I worked out of LOCAL 542 PENNSYLVANIA learned on older equipment for my relatives they A Bucyrus Erie 15/30 H hoes air over hydraulic remember cab was opposite of today's cabs also had a HienWarner hoe Cable pans pony motors dozer had to hand crank to tilt blade great memories made me a better OE and when I retired was running dozens and Graders with GPS my how times have changed I loved my job got to meet a lot of great people take care 🙂 😀 👍

[@jamesdantonio7235]

@floydwilliams3321 Thank you Floyd

[@billycliffe]

Those asphalt guys definitely earned their beers on that project.

[@nickbayer7847]

I think they get ALL the beers 🍻🍻🍺🍻🍻

[@wasntme3651]

Those guys are some fast pace ass busters! They go sun up till sun down all summer where I live. 5:30 AM till 10:00 PM, nonstop grind. I take my hat off to those guys.

[@referencefool6525]

🚬♨ How many cigarettes per day do they save?

[@serenitasmedia2633]

I love to see big ambitious projects being undertaken in the US again. I hope this leads to more projects to help get this country back on track.

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

liberals to lazy and cry it hurts the animals .

[@CaptainG-xs3yo]

Well don't vote Republican

[@brianjacob8728]

this isn't for the benefit of us citizens.

[@dextermorgan1]

This Country is doomed. We've been sold out by our "leaders".

[@MJ-uf9tl]

Ya - maybe you can start building ski lifts and lodges on our 14'ers next.

[@ellenorbovay5226]

In California we haven't built a reservoir in 40 years, so we regularly run out of water. Gavin Newsom has us recycling our sewage, so we drink that. It tastes a little weird, but we save lots of water, which allows us to let all the rain flow into the ocean. Thanks Gavin!

[@davidlestervoice8914]

And yet, for some odd reason(😉), California can't comprehend the concept of desalination with an ocean to their west. Maybe some of those in Israel who have the concept of such need to educate the water commission in California.🤦‍♂️

[@arvbergstedt3303]

Environmental wackos probably found some angle worms that would get drowned if you saved that water.

[@kencleg7721]

Oh Cali the only state that lets billions of gallons of water drain off into the ocean. Gotta love it

[@brucegordon9007]

I think there was a fish population in the Sacramento/San Joukine delta , plus the Salmon run to the upper Sacramento.@@arvbergstedt3303

[@ernee100]

No a problem, amigo. The way California is bleeding out people, you'll have more than enough water for all 700,000 left in a couple years.

[@jcarp8471]

Love the civil engineering and well done video. The only problem I have with this project is that it is getting the water from the WEST of the Continental Divide for use by the EAST side. The water (or at least what is left) after being used and treated, will then be released into the Platte/Mississippi River watershed instead of being returned to the dry western half of the US. Since I live in the West, having more water taken from this part of the country will just exacerbate our current water problems. Good for Denver; but bad for Western Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and California.

[@brucegordon9007]

And Mexico

[@scotcoon1186]

The southern Nevada water authority is illegally buying grazing rights to federal lands in northern Nevada. They've been shut down by courts building water lines to southern Nevada to move northern Nevada ground water to Las Vegas, but they're still scheming.

[@royce6861]

Wow I also wonder how this will effect the already over burdened Colorado river basin.

[@johnnyp5216]

Idk. Living in a desert has its drawbacks i guess…

[@4runnercolorado422]

Well. The front range gapes already dictate a lot of the asinine policies tearing this state to shreds. Libtards in Boulder/Denver voting to reintroduce wolves into the high country ranch areas for example. Maybe we should drop a few wolves down at city park and the library in Boulder and see how these c***suc*** like it? Not surprising that theyre now stealing our water as well. There is Colorado. Real Colorado. And then there's Denver/Boulder/Front Range. "Scum" would be too nice of a term for those Great Plains flatland city folk.

[@MikeSTGL]

Did not know there was a dam project going on . Looking forward to more updates.

[@mcfly7]

That's what they are telling you.

[@vernongandy9026]

I am happy to see a big project built in America.

[@SunSailor]

Why? I mean, one can be happy, that necessary infrastructure is build. But what has the size to do with that? The size is a condition of the demand, nothing more. If it would fit, ten reservoirs of a tenth of this size would be equally good?

[@vernongandy9026]

@@SunSailor I think sending water to one location is cheaper and has less environmental impact. I wished they could have added hydro electric generators to the reservoir.

[@coreym162]

@@SunSailor Size does matter. There are more people than there were when the last big projects were done (Interstate System and Hoover Dam).

[@adriel1788]

Especially since it isn't going to drastically affect any rivers, fish migration, etc.

[@JoeSexPack]

Agreed

[@alanbiancardi2531]

Would love to see more updates on this project.

[@robertmccormac6664]

by law its public information, they just make it really hard to find.

[@jaydenimes8060]

I live about 30 minutes away from this project, as a civil engineer it is awesome to see such large projects in my backyard!

[@erichouck9487]

where is it? I live in FC

[@richarddodge1349]

Is this south of Denver along the hogback?

[@everthic]

​@erichouck9487 You live in FC but don't know where Carter lake is?

[@erichouck9487]

@@everthic I do know where Carter lake is. I just didn't know this was going on

[@everthic]

@@erichouck9487 I'll stop being a prick and agree with you, I didn't know it was going on either, and I'm in Loveland

[@dherman58]

The one thing you DON'T talk about is where the water to fill the damn comes from. Yes, it comes from other reservoirs up-stream, but where does THAT water come from. The majority of it comes from the Colorado River headwaters. Some of which is pumped UP-HILL from the Windy Gap Reservoir near Granby. The water is pumped up to Granby Lake and then to Shadow Mountain Reservoir and then into Grand Lake. This is where Northern Water takes the water from Grand Lake and then through a tunnel UNDER Rocky Mountain National Park to the east side where it will then be used to fill the Chimney Hollow Reservoir and other Reservoir. Yes, water that would have normally flowed from The Colorado River Headwaters to Lake Mead and Lake Powell is being diverted to East of the Divide so that people in new communities along the northern end of the Divide and cook, drink and WATER THEIR GRASS!!

[@larrysorenson4789]

Boo hoo hoo.

[@mikenichols3849]

Unfortunately developers that want to keep building need this water so the front range transforms into southern California 2.0. the residents of larimer county, where all of this is happening, overwhelming opposed it. We didn't need this but developers did. This water and what this project has done to current residents is entirely for newcomers that developers and corrupt politicians want. Those of us who pay the price have the smallest voices. This reminds me of what and how California destroyed the owens valley.

[@robinrapport8728]

They’ve been piping water for years to the east side. Nothing new just more storage. They also took away land from people to raise the dam at Gross reservoir.

[@stevenroth5424]

​@mikenichols3849 History always repeats itself.

[@janicehenning4505]

​@larrysorenson4789 You're probably one of the low lifes that moved here to Colorado and forced all of us locals out.

[@joshtakacs9800]

Make this a video series! I'd love to see the progress of this project and the stages of completion

[@rodneycaupp5962]

You are shallow and a liar or simply stupid

[@bonniechase5599]

Watching the amazing rebuild of the Oroville spillway as reported by Juan Browne, who made numerous flyovers in his small plane, was like watching a year long live action movie.

[@gregghunter1796]

They need to build multiple desalinization plants in California to relieve demand from the Colorado river and ensure water supplies for the southwest states.

[@robertmccormac6664]

no one is gonna listen to the right idea. i know youre right but were just the crazy people

[@redmesa2975]

I’m a Western Colorado native. The eastern slope has been stealing our water since the 1950’s.

[@lindakulp4502]

you got that right

[@efjefe]

💯

[@edeancozzens3833]

We bought it back at the start of the 20th century to make irrigated farms in Northern Colorado back when Western Colorado didn't need it. Buy it back if you want it now.

[@redmesa2975]

@@edeancozzens3833 bought it cheap before everyone would contest it. Now the population on the front range is blaming farming out west, growing alfalfa on water use. No one looks at how much water is siphoned off thru diversion projects, flows east. Water that never , naturally flowed that way.

[@TaxEvasion777]

So you voted for it?

[@peteklaus8178]

Water is the new gold.

[@keithnoneya]

This is so awesome! Hats off to all the Engineers, Workers, Equipment and Suppliers and the Politicians who all fought to be a part of this great project. It's seriously something to be proud of to be a part of this much needed project. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

[@keithnoneya]

@@MJ-uf9tl Yes that could be a problem fro sure depending on how much water is used. I'd like to see water catch systems like they have in rural Mexico. The have flat roofs with a 9" dam all around the edge with a few pipes that lead to water tanks. The filter and heat the water with solar. Then the water used for washing and toilets goes right back into the ground via a drainage field and makes it way back to the underground aquifers if one exists there. I also like Earthships, check those out they're amazing. Good comment. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

[@MJ-uf9tl]

They had to fight for a reason. I wonder what that might have been....

[@MJ-uf9tl]

@@keithnoneya Appreciate your constructive thoughts and alternatives.

[@NewmanCody]

The real ones know... Still watched about half of it. Never miss a video its something my dad and i do together im 26. I have multiple channels and have been watching you for years fr. Keep it up 💪, love from Talladega.

[@mikeznel6048]

I was gonna say, I thought I saw this already.

[@race8427]

I live 1.5 miles north of this project, it’s amazing that many of the irrigation infrastructure projects built 100+ years ago are still in operation.

[@averywatlington5263]

It's called the Continental Divide.. Not the west or east side of the mountains

[@michael-michaelmotorcycle]

Even worse when he said the left and right side of the mountain🤦‍♂️😂

[@MegaMagaTrumpsavingAmerica]

Tell your a Democrat without telling me that you’re a left wing Democrat. And what state did you transplant in from.

[@roach1892]

@@MegaMagaTrumpsavingAmericahe’s literally right 😂😂

[@MegaMagaTrumpsavingAmerica]

@@roach1892 Pendeho no one said that they were not correct.

[@roach1892]

@@MegaMagaTrumpsavingAmerica tell me your a liberal without telling me your a jimmy Carter socialist

[@joehusnik4337]

I imagine the price tag is in the billions. Good to see we are doing this kind of work. We need alot of infrastructure improvements in this country

[@UnoDos96]

Yup, politics aside I am glad to see that we passed the Infrastructure act in 2022 and got some new money into it. I grew up talking to my neighbor about how he helped build some of the large electrical transmission lines across a handful of states.

[@blauer2551]

Description says $700 million but there will be over runs of course.

[@tristenklein5940]

@@UnoDos96complete fraudulent bill only 2% was dedicated to infrastructure the rest went to destroying our Energy Sector with phony Green Energy policies and funding those groups ontop of causing the highest inflation we have seen in 40 years.

[@joehusnik4337]

It would would really surprise me if it was under a billion ​@blauer2551

[@mmmd3429]

Neglected infrastructure has caught up. Thank you previous generations for only caring about profits.

[@UncleManuel]

This project is dam impressive! 😎🤟

[@trainnerd3029]

Dam right it is!!

[@STSwhisperer]

Lol

[@trainnerd3029]

@@DannyWildmen big beavers are good!

[@STSwhisperer]

@@DannyWildmen Beaver size has increased dramatically over the years. That's why HBO and the like only show bananas but will never show a beaver, unless it's covered with a fake wig.

[@lahaina4791]

​@@trainnerd3029Go Oregon !😮

[@justinsane7128]

This was part of a ranch I worked on in the 70s, it was 36,000 acres the owner bought it for $9 an acre in the 30s the upper ranch that went almost to Estes Park was mostly forest service.

[@robertomo99]

wow,, very cool,, now come over to california and build a dam here,, we're 30-40 years behind on storage,,

[@watchinglistening]

"YOUR 30 TO 40 YEARS BEHIND ON WATER STORAGE"? I THINK THAT MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH CALIFORNIA FLIPPING FROM REPUBLICAN POLITICS TO A DUMOCRAT LEFTISTS AGENDA DURING THE LAST 30 TO 40 YEARS! WHAT A COINCIDENCE!

[@EppicIndustries]

20 seconds in and I'm hooked because of the cinematics. Well done fellers!

[@rickkearn7100]

It must have been a long search for a locale that would be self-sufficient with regard to raw materials, aggregate etc., right there onsite. Kudos to the geologists, hydrologists and engineers responsible. Cheers.

[@TheBuddyLama]

If they we smart they would make it concrete, and hydroelectric...

[@key4us2c]

When I'm out and about, and the bugs start to bother, I will ( or already have) pick a few sage leaves. Simply rub between hands (gloved or bare) and then rub open hands with sage all over exposed skin and hair. Neck, ears, forehead checks etc. Avoid rubbing too near eyes, though I've never noticed any burning\irritating as I apply over closed eyes. I go ahead and rub over clothing as well lastly. Perfect bug repellant and it smells great. Always be polite and thankful when gathering, and do it sparingly, to help maintain abundance. With that said, it's time to light a smudge...

[@arrowhead2B]

I live in Grand Junction Co had no idea this was going on the mighty Colorado river is not much of a mighty river anymore as the endangered squaw fish hump back chub and many more fish have no chance now to survive. California and Mexico have not received their share of water supply from Colorado in decades and the tax payers of Colorado have to pay those states a fee each year for not receiving their share of water therefore increasing taxes in Colorado which should only be payed by the eastern slope

[@JDSeg693]

No Colorado doesn’t pay the other states that don’t receive their share. California has used more than their share for nearly a century. But I do agree we don’t have the water for the front range to keep growing like they have.

[@PatrickBaptist]

I built a dam in my creek, it is so much fun opening up the flood gate and letting out the water. It only gets about 3' or so deep so nothing major just cinder block backed with alot of river rock, no concrete.

[@joeblankenship4030]

You should definitely go back during different stages of the project and see how it has progressed!!!

[@sethwoodland481]

I'm so glad to see a dam . We need a lot more of them . A dam that size is amazing . The electricity ,and water storage that is going to be produced is going to be so good for those million people. Way better than any stupid windmill.

[@jamesedmond3351]

You wouldn't feel that way, if your home was condemned by eminent domain and stolen.

[@mikedownen3962]

It's all about the government making a profit🎉

[@martrg1]

There's no electricity going to be produced by this reservoir. At all. It will require quite a bit of electricity to run it and to pump the water to it and further down the line though. Maybe they'll use some of those wind TURBINES to generate enough to run this project.

[@drew61377]

@@martrg1 LOL

[@kennethsmith8844]

I was fishing on the Snake River when the Teton Dam failed. We were floating the Snake and didn’t know of the break until we got off the river. Idaho Falls survived, what is down river from this dam

[@mbw65]

St Anthony caught it!

[@mcouture8169]

I'm surprised asphalt can withstand the compressive force of 350 vertical feet.

[@elwinshepard3804]

This is a very impressive damn project. I have never seen anything like this. Thank you for showing me.

[@gunlover1955]

I think they should take some of the dirt and rocks out of the existing lakes and make them deeper if they went in when the lakes are low water level and removed dirt and rocks they could save money just make them deeper! We don't need more lakes we need more water storage.

[@lostpony4885]

What a great project. I especially like the synergy of the quarry inside the reservoir.

[@cosmiccharlie8294]

Heavy civil and mining jobs are stimulating.

[@johnjacobjinglehimerschmid3555]

Why asphalt core? Why not concrete?

[@ginglyst]

when ground settles or shifts, concrete cracks, asphalt bends... I guess

[@Osceola36dd]

@@ginglyst If asphalt bends it makes for cracks, and if there are cracks it is weakened. Cold asphalt doesn't mend itself. Asphalt is a very interesting product to be using for a core. I wonder if they are putting some sort of sealant between each layer of asphalt?

[@hugo795431]

Lower the music so we can hear you better

[@chornii_boumer7324]

The music makes it very extreme with the different angles ! 😂 I am trying to imagine having epic music ate work ! Lately I work on commercial sites where radio music isn’t allowed.

[@chillbanana3649]

Never thought I would see machines I work on ever day in one of these videos

[@rickkearn7100]

It must have been long search for a locale that would be self-sufficient with regard to raw materials, aggregate etc., right there onsite. Kudos to the geologists, hydrologists and engineers responsible. Cheers.

[@badmoon5249]

This massive project will serve 825,000 people with water. To put this in perspective, you would need 20 of these reservoirs just to serve all the new “dreamers” allowed to enter the country since 2021.

[@crazycarl00]

Every single person there should not exist.

[@ISeeYourSoul66]

In a few years check in on the Glade Reservoir project. The lake will be one of the largest in northern Colorado. I dont know if the dam will be bigger than this one, but it'll be sizable. And its set to help Colorado qnd future communties for a long time as well.

[@dan1579]

I live in Fort Collins and I had no idea!

[@zackzander425]

Permeable or non-permeable asphalt core? America needs to have huge projects like this all over the country. If we are the best in the world we need to live up to it and not rest on our past success. The rest of the world used to be in the rearview mirror and we've just let off the accelerator. I love seeing projects like this.

[@stevenroth5424]

Their is a problem with your suggestion. Water is finite , not infinite. You can move it and store it all you like. We have broken the hydrologic cycle. The Earth can not and will not sustain its current human population. Engineering & science will not save humanity.

[@terriparker6199]

Finally someone with leadership skills for the future of the population

[@frankcerbantes9429]

It I’ll be amazing when it’s done and ready to be filled

[@americanliberty4898]

I cant see the dam from my house but I feel the vibration when they blast and can see the plume of dust!

[@utubemouse]

😢

[@CashMoney5280]

I live in Stapleton. I was not aware of this project. Cool to see. We don’t have too many lakes or reservoirs here in Denver, nice to see the additions. Im used to going to seminoe wyoming for the big body of water. All lakes & reservoirs are small here except blue mesa but its a 3 hour drive

[@1STGeneral]

Cherry Creek, Chatfield, McClellan, South Platte, Horsetooth,Timnath,Windsor,Lonetree,Welch,Hertha,Dry Creek these are some of the reservoirs close to Denver and quite a few lakes also not mentioned

[@CashMoney5280]

@@1STGeneral all small bodies of water* biggest body of water is blue mesa but its over a 2 hour drive

[@1STGeneral]

@CashMoney5280 I didn't see any mention of size in your original post just lack of reservoirs and lakes. No big deal I moved when California showed up

[@davehughesfarm7983]

Building another one near Hartsel in central Colorado. Holding reservoir for Aurora's water.

[@glassesstapler]

"let's go check out what it takes to build a dam of this size" - Camera pans to a working screwing a nail into wood. Classic!

[@gr6e]

Do you have a better way to fasten a concrete form?

[@ricochetaz3846]

You don't screw nails.

[@TLTSofit]

hubs worked for ihc scott on the Thorton Water Project few years ago... fun stuffs

[@TLTSofit]

we are currently in Russell on a Solar Farm Project

[@davidschuerhoff7682]

Why is it that “the government” can build dams and private people who want to build ponds are prevented to the point where “the government” is demanding that 100 year old pond dams are demolished?

[@tackyman2011]

The plan is to force you to depend on the State.

[@sammcclanahan3291]

Probably depends on where you live and what the legal situation is vis a vis water rights.

[@lesliegibbons6917]

Cause the dems say so​@@sammcclanahan3291

[@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists]

That core is a great idea.... and a massive liability! By the way, there is still time for the project owners to bring us in to create a high quality fishery. All the surface aquifers in this area are going to fill with water from the new lake. Ironically Colorado water law will make it very difficult to use this water unless it is for less than a half-acre of ground for each well.

[@garyradtke3252]

As far as the aggregate being used it is a no brainer to have it pulled from the ground on sight. I am guessing that it also increases the volume of the reservoir by some amount if it is coming out of the basin being flooded. The amount of concrete being used and the distance from a source demands on sight manufacturing. I believe this process has been done for most if not all large dam construction.

[@slechner3]

i remember this video before. last year maybe?

[@dennisclavet1420]

Okay, I'm not going insane, this has been posted before. I wonder if they had to edit something out, hence the reason it was re-uploaded?

[@jimtroyer1804]

I drove 1,200 miles to fish the beaver dams I found a few hundred feet below Hagerman Pass (11,900 ft) that was teeming with trout. The water jerks in Colorado built a big dam and flooded paradise. Axeholes! I thought the environ"mental"ists were preserving the remaining natural areas. I can't tell you how disappointed I was that this treasure was destroyed.

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

see more crying ,. why America short on water.

[@garykemp6436]

With 350 foot of water that's 152 psi water pressure now the asphalt core at the bottom is the core wider at the bottom of the dam wall to handle the water pressure

[@gregdelong1539]

You did a really good job putting this together.

[@MJ-uf9tl]

He gets paid to put this together to sell the public on the destruction and also justify the water issues that are kept from the public. He's a shill for the construction company that takes a huge amount of flack from the public, local, city and state government and water districts (some corrupt). It's not gratis.

[@lennyross2813]

One of my biggest concerns with moving out west is ample amounts of drinking water for residents and visitors. This will help and make sense.

[@janicehenning4505]

GBH!

[@dallonperry3639]

You and practical engineering need to team up!

[@computerwizard2613]

Yea so practical engineering can actually explain it better, video was all over the place and confusing

[@thinking6307]

Thank you...for explaining the broad plan and magnitude of this water conservation project. Your channel and this upload just came up in my YT feed...and now I'm a Subscriber.

[@konsul2006]

Seeing all the Chinese Mega projects, it is good to know the US is still in the game! Looks like an awesome project! Looks expensive!

[@speedysteve9121]

Colorado gets plenty of snow in the Rockies, but wind blows it away to evaporate. Recently the streams there are dry.

[@wrdennig]

RE: the asphalt lifts - what adhesive do they use to bond each lift to the next one?

[@hotchihuahua1546]

Beavers eat your heart out ! Humans are kings when it comes to building dams .

[@andreikirienko4521]

I live in Colorado Springs area. The population is enormously growing here. I believe we may have a shortage of water really soon. Do they think to build something like that between Denver and Colorado Springs to satisfy people who live there?

[@oscaranderson1822]

Watching the video is the first time I've heard about this project. It's pretty big.

[@JonathanFisherS]

I like the fact this project is not damming up an existing ecosystem. Glad we learned our lessons from the 1960s.

[@rodneycaupp5962]

Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit. The fucking country is devastated in all extent of the environment . The Good Damned EPA and Federal Technocracy are communist hate toward anything America. I cant even imagine aa Damn being built in Gay Colorado, the land of the Blue horse. They diverted Billions of gallons to the Desert Flood Irrigation farms in Kalipornia.

[@joeskis]

every municipality is a project that dammed up an ecosystem in one way or another. Ecosystems adapt. nature floats on just fine.

[@MJ-uf9tl]

@@joeskis No. They don't.

[@mbw65]

No we didn't.

[@germannerd1]

Is there any concern with or process to prevent chemicals from the asphalt leeching into the water?

[@cindyemma8754]

Infrastructure improvements for whom???

[@MrBOOM546]

I wish you coulldve seen site C in BC while it was being built

[@nunyabitnezz2802]

I hope this is catching front range water and not interfering with the water destined for the Colorado River.

[@robinrapport8728]

This is water from the Colorado river that’s going to fill this. They’ve been piping it over for years.

[@18aprilia]

That's right in my back yard!

[@overthecounterbeanie]

"Welcome to Colorful Colorado" in all-brown is an ironic masterpiece.

[@throngcleaver]

I grew up in southeastern Colorado, and always wondered what was colorful about it. It's basically Western Kansas (flat, dry, windy, treeless plains), from the border to the foothills.

[@Derideo]

@@throngcleaver The color red is mostly on the western slope, where the spanish explored and gave it the name colorado.

[@refondata]

What a perfect storm to waste water just to water lawns. Great job!

[@michaelbball2028]

I live in Colorado and this is awesome to see

[@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

[@Mikeyeyey]

I live right down the road in Golden. I had no clue this was happening.

[@scottjohnson9225]

Using asphalt as a core? Won’t that leach into the water? Just wondering.

[@Travis8126]

Please show this to CA, we need another reservoir! Cool project...thanks for sharing.

[@luthiermatt]

You need fewer people, lawns and golf courses.

[@jamesguido9877]

@@luthiermatt People are leaving in droves. newsom is an idiot. I can't believe you are still there. People are switching over to drought resistant yards. Stop voting for democrats!

[@jamesguido9877]

Acgually for the first time in FIFTY YEARS there is a new dam/reservoir being built in Northern California.

[@Travis8126]

Will be another CA project like the bullet train, will never finish

[@thatmnguy6099]

I hope you make it out here to Minnesotas iron range and check out all the cool equipment, history, and landscape we have and the unique challenges and adverse conditions we have within a year like frigid temps snow high temps and rain

[@Barnfind.]

DEMOCRAT SHITHOLE RUST BELT. NO OPPORTUNITY

[@floydwilliams3321]

I love those jobs keep the videos coming man

[@tristenklein5940]

It took 20 years to get approved after hurdles from feckless lawsuits, court interventions and overburdened feckless regulations which increased the cost by 15-20%.

[@davehughesfarm7983]

Good Lawd...So ridiculous.

[@tristenklein5940]

@@davehughesfarm7983 purposely done by these radical environmentalists and their lap dog politicians pushing the phony CC agenda.

[@johni-db4xv]

A big reason why projects like these are so expensive is because America stopped doing them as often. If you stop using your muscles, they atrophy. America has fallen behind many of its peers in engineering projects like this. That's why we had to bring in foreign contractors to build the core. It's a choice of keeping taxes relatively low for corporations and the wealthy and spending so much on the military. Those things cost Trillions per year, in other words, enough to build hundreds of dams, bridges, trains, ship channels, etc per year.

[@_TONY_Az]

Swiss company doing dam work in America in the 30s Americans built hoover dam

[@booksteer7057]

The military only takes up 13% of fiscal spending in 2024. Social Security, Medicare "Health", Income Security and Net Interest take up 72%. Net interest takes up the same %age as the ENTIRE MILITARY. If we took ALL of America's billionaires' money, we'd have enough to run the country for about NINE MONTHS. It's not a question of not enough taxes. It's a question of too much spending!!! fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/

[@sircampbell1249]

It's Colorado. hope it works and stays up....

[@rickwithrow663]

Steeling more water from the Colorado River

[@rodneybray3245]

Stealing

[@lolbroklol]

This is on the east side of the great divide, so this water would have made it out via the Platte river most likely heading for the Mississippi.

[@Mike-vu9xf]

A few years ago, Kansas sued Colorado forcing the removal of a dam in eastern Colorado.

[@user-ur3vd9ku4s]

not sure how this project can be justified. every drop of water to fill it is being diverted from the Colorado river which has been very heavily invested in to supply water and electricity to several western states and has been clearly over consumed during a prolonged drought. Additionally, all of that water is being pumped so no hydro electric component. could eastern growth be supported by projects that pump water from sources destined for the Missouri/Mississippi at similar cost and additionally address the regular flooding on those?

[@peterlanum]

Good to see Caterpillar equipment being used. I bet the Komatsu dealer is fuming.

[@stratostatic]

Stop building houses on the front range in Colorado. That would be a more economical solution to the water shortage issue.

[@bigdaddio1959]

90,000 acre-feet is roughly 29 Billion gallons.

[@delmaquezada6733]

Like the giant tunka truck ❤

[@waynerichardson930]

So, my question is: While it is not stopping a river it is stopping natural water drainage and how is that going to affect the eco system downslope from the retention area? I am not being a naysayer but so many of man's projects have had unintended consequences.

[@greatodinsraven]

I hear what you’re saying. He says, “not stopping a river” as though most dams do. They do not, but they definitely destroy wildlife habitat and ruin fish spawning up rivers. Exactly why dams are now starting to come down and be demolished in the West.

[@dunnbury]

Always

[@thecasualfly]

They have a great faq on the site as well

[@artysanmobile]

I meet very few who understand the game-ending damage of even a small amount of water overtopping or closely circumventing a large dam. “Why the spillway?” is fairly typical.

[@Caden_weaver]

Thanks again for the great content I love your channel.

[@chuckness5372]

This is what California needs to do. They keep pulling up dams, and replacing the hydroelectric ones with solar and windmills that cannot match them in electrical capacity, while allowing the water to flow out into the ocean thus depleting the water needed for both drinking and farming. Then every year during heavy rain seasons they seldom keep the water. If they just built some storage reservoirs like this that are not blocking rivers, then California would not be in trouble every couple of years.

[@dgsantafedave1]

Cant wait for the Site's Reservior project to start west of Maxwell, CA!

[@Krunch2020]

I thought Sites was a power scheme to store solar power.

[@jasonlarsen3515]

It’s California….. years of delays and cost overruns have to occur first

[@MCW1955]

Me too, but newsom continues to hamper. He would rather build his choo choo train to nowhere, lining his cronies pockets.

[@jasonlarsen3515]

@@MCW1955 the cost are going to be insane “if” they ever build it over Pacheco pass.

[@aprilgaudenti257]

Did you say how this project is funded?

[@lyletorpy6865]

And all of this water is diverted from the Colorado river and piped through the Continental Divide!

[@CashMoney5280]

Arizona and california going to cry about it 😂

[@marcgg9760]

Interesting that they are building the dam with an impermeable core, and the reservoir in NSW Australia was built with a sand core for drainage, the exact opposite.