Pacoima Dam | Look At This!

Desmond Shaw takes us to the Pacoima Dam in Look At This!, a vital part of the area's flood infrastructure that helped Los Angeles become what it is today.

[@donmertle9099]

Never thought I would hear about Roy on the news. Roy Carlson invented the strain meter and did mix engineering on every large dam in the free world from Hoover Dam into the 1980’s. He worked on the Manhattan Project and once told me about a ancient concrete pyramid in Yugoslavia that was better mix than we are capable of today. When I asked him who could have made it, he said “I have no idea.” His cousin Chester invented Xerox and Roy was involved early on when it was Haloid. He was my dad’s friends father in law and we had lunch weekly for several years.

[@nlamorte90]

That’s amazing!

[@larrybruce4856]

Great story and part of lost history. Thanks for sharing !

[@blancolirio]

Good report!

[@oleboy4332]

A project that will take five years. That’s our California!

[@daniarvi]

Kcal coming real correct with this interesting and informative piece. A great 2:33 spent

[@HRTsAFyre]

Good report. Lots of people from other statss think we have no place to store our storm waters, yet we have lots if dans and resorviors, lakes and warerssheds . They dinr realize that the LA river was once an narural river which helped take in flood waters. So it was concreted in and widen to accomodate flooding during the storms.

[@robtdougherty]

The problemis that there have been no new projects to help hold more water in the last 60 years. population has increased greatly in that time

[@patallen5095]

Great series!!

[@cultcompound6679]

More stories about infrastructure please!

[@uncleb8181]

Living in England 😤if I was to go to America that’s what I would want to see your dams and bridges oh and Clint Eastwood and Sylvester Stallone etc

[@vetinaalvarez4004]

Wow, something interesting on the new for once !!!!

[@thevintageaudiolife]

I was going to tell a dam joke, but I was afraid it would break under pressure.

[@CanadianSmoke]

That dam is an amazing feat of engineering... just the sheer height alone. There must be a documentary video on KZbin on its construction... and I'm off to find it.

[@TNT_FPV]

dam thats intresting!

[@larrybruce4856]

California needs to redirect water to the Salton Sea as there is proof when water fluctuates in the Salton Sea, there is an increase in earthquakes along multiple fault lines. Salton Sea is an important stop-off for birds during their migration flights. Salton Sea is extremely important to keep filled as it affects toxicair and pesticides getting into the "jet-stream" blowing into Palm Springs, Los Angeles, increases needed humidity in the area. Save The Salton Sea.

[@MightyMouse11]

Dam!

[@rtroyer8963]

They waited untill it had built up 80 feet of silt to address the problem?

[@sw8741]

Dams, holding beach sand hostage since they were built! Free the beach sand!!

[@vera02]

A perfect analogy for how artificial and unnatural Los Angeles is.

[@elbt101]

I wish I was born with a strain meter

[@kimmer6]

I was born with a depth gage, but old age prevents me from taking it out of its drawers very often.

[@ronmcmartin4513]

@1:33--"Massive influx of sediment" ...Let's not solve the problem(and dredging), with this & other dams during droughts, when it's cheapest. Let's wait until after some big winter runoffs, when it's much more expensive. But it's okay, because the Gubment's gonna pay for it!

[@DAKOTA_Stone]

Stay safe dam!! Its a dangerous natural disaster world out there!!

[@FelipeReyes-o4k]

Thank you Lancaster California 93535

[@khaleesidire3367]

Sepulveda Basin 🎉

[@goat24productions73]

Was the name of this segment influenced by Huell Howser?

[@scottjohnson9225]

How much gold would be in that sediment?

[@Tryp-j9d]

Whew! I thought I lost 400 YEARS!!!

[@nickcruz2334]

Too bad the St. Francis didn't have these strain monitors. Perhaps that disaster motivated these to be invented.

[@larrybruce4856]

Our Southern Borders need "stress monitors".

[@CraigFThompson]

Now only if KCAL9 would do a story about an even OLDER flood control dam: Devil's Gate in Pasadena....

[@Shredinsocal]

They did! It's farther down on this playlist :)

[@nannerz1994]

Oh if it's that old it might need to be replaced

[@mineown1861]

Chemists gave us forever chemicals , much to our dismay . Engineers have as yet to create forever infrastructure, more to our dismay . So when I look at these great dams I wonder what's their best before date .

[@jodybanks5344]

God save the Salton Sea

[@SteveJohnson-r2y]

So they have a plan.😅

[@clwomble]

What does a fish say when it comes to a wall? Dam.

[@the5thmusketeer215]

Yep! And the Titanic is unsinkable….. ⚡️⏰⚡️ Revelation 16:17-21 (NASB1995) [17] Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, “It is done.” [18] And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty. [19] The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath. [20] And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. [21] And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, *came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague *was extremely severe.

[@jamesvengren5316]

In 1929 the goverment followed a budget and did things right not like today

[@Drobert882-ix3zf]

Dredge and barges

[@Jaime190]

Gta 5 dam

[@tonybochiano]

They don't build them like they used to

[@Wolfcamp555]

That's some ugly terrain. Looks miserable.

[@boblatkey7160]

Yeah, stay on your couch.

[@Torrque]

And thank the gasbags taking up space who have caused the fires above this dam… the natural brush and forests have been decimated in the last few decades… there’s a reason it is now so dry and void.

[@edwardknierim5899]

know you people are the problem for damming that water greed greed greed jealousee not for me

[@boblatkey7160]

No the real problem is your lack of education.

[@Erik-rp1hi]

Yeah, a dam holding back silt is not very useful.