Kaikoura's Lyell Creek: Opening the river to the sea

Check out how the Lyell Creek is opened out to the sea.

[@allenpeck8239]

You couldn’t have shown us the moment the water broke through? Damn, that’s always the best part...

[@bybluechip]

Got to love nature.

[@andrewkirwin6629]

Just a suggestion ! Place a long pipe there with high flow to keep it draining and let the sea pile up stones as it wants Or do you get paid to clear it out each time it seal up ?

[@Dloweification]

Agreed, they should install a drainage pipe, or a spill way with a gate if they don't want it to always drain out. Costly now, but less costly than renting that giant excavator several times a year indefinitely. With a gate set at the proper depth and distance into the sea, even if the sea piles up rocks infront of it, the pressure and water movement would clear that out upon opening.

[@snoofyair4744]

Dloweification The river naturally breaches, it just takes longer no need for pipes or anything. They simply help it out

[@indusvalleycivilization5597]

Great video

[@TheGuyNobodyReallyLikes]

So where is this? Nude Zealand?

[@nonaurbizniz7440]

Could they have found a smaller bucket to use?

[@MrAndrewFarrow]

Great vid. Krap music.

[@ivanivonovich9863]

Funny how the excavator was on the other side of the trough at the start of the video, then somewhere it gets moved to the left side. Of course, they don't show the move but you can see the tracks from where it crossed the flow. I would have had to laugh if they had to wait for the flow to stop if they had waited too long.

[@ZrjunahondamodrHonda]

Ikannye banyak tuh.

Love these videos

[@KENKENNIFF]

Why is this set to porn music ?

[@4seeableTV]

I like it. Not ideal for THIS video, but I like the music.

[@ollieeeee706]

Hey dude, I'm from kaikoura. And you can see my house at the start.

[@wogol]

What is the back ground music

[@siriosstar4789]

The background music was created by the CIA to be used in their torture/interrogation facilities .

[@mollymackenzie3307]

In that last shot, how did the excavator get to the other side of the break??

[@caktus5]

Yep ?? Probably across the water ?

[@hectorwillis9703]

probably drove

[@geoffbeyer1873]

Helicopter picks it up and moves it

[@silvershelbygt5006]

Teleportation

[@christopherort2889]

Need to install a culvert. If not, it will just silt back in.

[@Arrica101]

No shit, they literally say that

[@MarkMarconi]

Every childs dream

[@dejs1529]

Porque eles tem que contratar uma escavadeira? Não bastava pagar uns caras com umas pás para fazer, ia ficar mais barato😁👍

[@robertchinnock8017]

I would of used a dozer with part of it

[@Bramon83]

Ain't gotta be done in 12 seconds mate.

[@tippyc2]

Youre gonna pay a whole day on the equipment whether you get it done in 8 minutes or 8 hours. No point in renting 2 pieces of equipment for the day, just rent the one that can finish the job.

[@AquaDamInc]

No thought about work area isolation, turbidity containment? Where's the protective device to isolate earth fill discharges from the greater body of water?

[@wompbozer3939]

AquaDamInc fuck off.

[@gggreggg]

so, why was construction allowed in the flood plain in the first place???//

[@JJ-si4qh]

These generally aren't constructed; they happen naturally

[@ZBritt92]

Because the land was more valuable than keeping the mouth open cost?

[@pleabargain]

I for one would love to hear the arguments at the local town hall over who pays to keep the river mouth/open closed...

[@jeffreythong8508]

wright gregson 9

[@tipthetube3219]

wright gregson Good point

[@russcrawford3310]

Is this a new thing or did people willingly build where it floods all the time? ...

[@Arrica101]

People have been building on flood plains the world over for hundreds of years

[@agentx7138]

Nice flat land close to river lovely untill you stop and think about how that land was formed oops now you may like to rethink that riverside location.

[@BubbaWarbucks]

Where are all the surfers?

[@hopeshealthnz9704]

Bubba Warbucks in Mt maunganui .. down where this beach is. Is pretty much freezing water from antartica.

[@BubbaWarbucks]

Just commenting that in other videos where these sorts of coastal estuaries have been opened, the water rushing to the sea creates stationary waves that surfers love to ride.

[@MrDrewthat]

I dont understand......what is the purpose of opening the river to the ocean?

[@Vivianfernandesroy]

Yes that is what i am thinking 🤗🤔

[@mountainreborns2814]

Drain it to stop it flooding again :)

[@arterkarakhanyan2931]

А зачем он это сделал? / Why hi it do?

[@chadtheartist5081]

I'm here just to read the experts comments on how to do it better.

[@jamielacourse7578]

Talk about flushing the crapper....

[@catacv9]

HA,HA,HA, static river, good joke :)

[@russe19642]

Free free, from the river to the sea😂😂😂😂

[@gardenia24sugarfoot.36]

good job crane driver

[@feramliramli4782]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@au69miner]

so.....your building material is right there....build a wave break in front of the creek mouth....should never close again....

[@myrlewulf6256]

au69miner How would they do that?

[@user-cd6sg4xu4x]

2:04 Как они экскаватор уберут?

[@filmmade6214]

Yea sounds messed up xd

[@JesseMartinez-cm7tl]

I'm off to watch giant bull dozers

[@skeets6060]

I like the 60s porn music

[@TeganBurns]

Water quality issue sounds like more of a shitty people issue than a too much water issue...

[@gary63693]

Why not just add a tunnel? that way, you never have to dig again

[@NevrrPresntt]

It'll take away their job i guess

[@soccernerd200]

Because that would destroy the whole lagoon ecosystem.

[@Damoinion]

Because it will get blocked with shingle even faster than the open channel. First decent storm.

[@andr0oo820]

Breaking: the river was a paid actor.

[@mavisv6010]

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[@Pianoguy32]

Just put in a pipe to keep the flow, so much cheaper

[@DaveDexterMusic]

It would need to be a huge pipe to equal the normal flow of the open river mouth, and would eventually get silted up just as the river has been unless a shitload of money was spent to extend the outflow far out to sea.

[@macronsmoke]

It would drain the creek

[@vanessaparker6232]

The problem is sir man kind trying to play God, if you do that the saline content in the river will get far to high.Your best bet is to enforce some conservation measures.

[@paulmavric887]

Fast forward the excavator next time please👍

[@tinjarir]

Anticlimactic.

[@sonjatheierl1]

All I can say is hope high tide or swells dont come back up the river and leave yall with a stinky mess in the summer. And that my freinds is what appens when you think your smarter than mother nature. I could be wrong but lets wait and see what happens.

[@vanessaparker6232]

What you are doing by breaking open your rivers is slowly but surely going to be the death of the river itself. Let the breach occur naturally and your rivers will slowly start to improve.

[@_lak3rs_211]

What are you talking about? The death of the river itself? LOL, the river will be just fine, and it would breach naturally by itself eventually, just could cause flooding in the nearby houses, so they clear it so that doesn’t happen....”death of the river itself” can’t get over that

[@vanessaparker6232]

If you open the river mouth to often manually you will start destroying your river. I thought New Zealanders would have known better. If left alone when the river does break through it will cut deep and there for clean the river out properly.

[@steveparker4510]

Lol

[@ClayLoomis1958]

You offer water porn, but don't show the money shot? You should be ashamed.

[@theodeslewis5261]

Less than 3 mins...now i see why my sister be complaining about her brother and she went bout a vibrater it's over before you get started good😂😂😂😂😂...now i see why see call him 7/11 because he be in & out quick like he was paying for gas...

[@josephastier7421]

Kids in Africa could have eaten that excavator.

[@martingoodef811]

Once the river mouth is opened water pours into the ocean, fuksake ! Really !

[@scootsmcgoots]

What's with the porn music? Distracting and obnoxious AF.

[@kismoricz84]

Too much of how to make it flow, and too little of the flow...

[@123TauruZ321]

Boring, and the filming made me dizzy.

[@123TauruZ321]

Must be nice to have such a positive outlook on life ^^