Marmot Dam Removal

[@DED_MEEM]

Get you a partner that loves you like that hydrologist loves his job.

[@juliezaremskiy3635]

That one guy is too excited to see a dam burst xD

[@aleu650]

"release the river !!!"

[@FSIlenini]

Always loved the Ents saying that.

[@mrbeaverstate]

You tube really screwed up the comments by taking them out of order, responses make no sense.

[@OnlyTheEd]

Is the Narrator Danny Harmon? Sounds like him from some of the Train Watching videos I've seen...........

[@ryansta]

Whos the loon in the yellow mac ? the local 'special' ? "Hey, Dwayne, go pull yer brother Cletus back. He be getting all muddy". "Ok, Ma, Cletus you 'tard get over here next to the Chevy afore I come whip yer arse, and for godsake put it away and pull yer britches up".

[@debravalreyes2033]

Ruined fishing spots all over the river :(

[@12345678981010]

ahahahahhahaha

[@patriciaguenzler9150]

Great video thanks

[@irahkondji4471]

Nice Marmot man!

[@ripscuds4467]

Us humans think we're so smart, but mostly we don't know shit when it comes to how the Earth works.

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

I caught a 24# steelhead just below marmot damn 15 years ago.

[@major600]

It seems that 62 dams were removed in the U.S. in 2015.

[@F4587356784]

Damn now this YT video is 7 years old

[@carldea]

Maybe they should use it to build the wall.

[@Bonzi_Buddy]

Put one from Washington State down to the bottom of California too. Keep those libtards there instead of ruining places like Texas, Montana, Idaho, etc.

[@masterbaiterkev3964]

No, leaving the sediment isn’t “unprecedented.” The Elwha dam removal did the same thing years before this removal.

[@robertcalamusso4218]

Not sad at all. It served a purpose. At great environmental cost. And now it’s useless.

[@p_noc]

Nice Marmot

[@Syrnian]

That is a telehandler, not a forklift.

[@user-sw2er4bv1r]

How can beavers even compete

[@ljprep6250]

The fact that the top hydrologists and geologists can't judge the result of a dam break leaves me cold. I'm below an earthen dam near Grants Pass, and estimates put me 37' underwater if it breaches. The science the top guys learned is apparently =vastly= lacking substance, depth, and experience.

[@PacoOtis]

Do you want some cheese with your whining? Best of luck!

[@Mopar-Pioneer]

I am not a geophysical engineer, but wouldn't it be quicker and cheaper and easier to simply dynamite the dam thing out of existence ?

[@TheSonic10160]

+Mopar Maniac 64 The concrete dam or the coffer dam?

[@monion9898]

Probably has something to do with ecological regulations on concrete/steel sitting around in fresh water supply. I dunno if anything super harmful leaches from those, could be. Might also upset water chemistry, affecting the river community for decades. If I had to guess

[@Mopar-Pioneer]

Thanks Madeline. Dynamite chemical reaction with water was something that sailed right past my consideration. Good one girl.

[@danielrose1392]

Bunkers and dams are very difficult to demolish by explosives. With a lot of concrete, there isn't enough space to collapse and gravity doesn't really help. Typically you end up with large chunks remaining.

[@halfpipefreak]

awesome

[@pddpup7767]

amazes me how the experts are mostly wrong in their predictions,,,, all "experts"

[@SocietyUnplugged]

These are self claimed experts, if they had done some proper research and looked at other studies globally it would be quite obvious for them this would happen.

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

0:47 Is that firing device lighting up inside or are those camera flashes from people out of view?

[@TheSonic10160]

+jmr1068204 That's the detcord firing

[@boahneelassmal]

"No-one alive could recall what the river looked like before the dam, but the river remembered" oh boy... "yo we need a deep line at the end to finish this story" "Agottcha"

[@LuckyFlanker13]

That would have been a perfect ending...

[@samuelrs5138]

I don't get it, what does agottcha mean

[@testy462]

Rofl exactly.

[@johnbowen2963]

DID HE SHOOT HIS LOAD

[@Nderak]

The notch becomes a full fledged waterfall… and the forklift operator is off to one side changing his trousers and hosing off his ass and thighs.

[@Mrbfgray]

Yeah he was beyond useless some time prior, just a liability.

[@oBseSsIoNPC]

One of the coolest damn removals I have seen so far. Very interesting approach, well done!

[@robert3302]

I didn't even know marmots built dams. Looks a lot more solid than a beaver dam.

[@jumpingspider7105]

good one.

[@normandavies7649]

Robert Coates

[@t.t.miller7329]

Oh yes...and Marmots are also irrelavent as well...that name however..."marmot"...that sort of sounds like some kind of pest or critter that me as a farmer would really WANT to get rid of, eradicate and kill off completely...

[@ww.x0]

they are amazing creatures. i love them

[@mhenhawke5093]

Never met a dam beaver i didn,t like. Lol. Mark.

[@tramachi7027]

The genuine excitement someone can have is lovely to see :D

[@melted_cheetah]

Growing up near a river (not nearly as powerful as the Sandy) I noticed as a kid how sediment and rock and rip rap would change in less than a day. Never under estimate the power of flowing water.

[@jim.h]

I like to see dam breaking videos and watch nature return to normal. Just like man used to think that forest fires were bad, they thought that river flooding was bad as well. Well, just like forests need to burn, rivers need to flood as well.

[@KingThomasArthur]

Lame man. I thought this was about how marmots can make dams and humans came in to clear it. I was like, "Whoa, marmots are like beavers?" Nice marmot.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

I like how existed he got. Obviously they have small models but seeing it in real world is always better. Assume it's a first for him.

[@andrewhansen4179]

Just think how happy those fish are finding their new but ancestral home. We need to support and step up the pace of dam removal for the health of our environment.

[@hyperionsound]

I caught a nice wild above the dam a few years back. They are liking it

[@EasyModeFishing]

That lake was completely silted in anyway. Manmade lakes are only good for about 80 years.

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

The sandy river never had a lake. 🤔. I used to fish this dam for steelhead. It was slower moving water but never a lake. The dam was basically a waterfall and fish even sat jumping trying to get past it. It didn’t have a ladder either it had a lift trap that fish got caught in and they would lift it up and over the dam.

[@Vinegaroon]

Look at all the experts in the comments.

[@SafeTrucking]

The coloured smoke isn't "special effects", it's nitric oxide generated by the incomplete combustion of the ANFO used for the shot.

[@fordrestored4646]

That was loose soil. Of course it would wash it out. It’s like taking a garden hose to an ant pile

[@ТамерланИ-е5п]

С Лёвой стороны 2 экскаваторами за 3 часа прорыть канал !!! Река дальше промоет сама !!! 3 суток и 1000 & все стоило бы ))) Умеют осваивать деньги в Дженирал электрик ))) 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💪🏿

[@AquaDamInc]

Nobody heard about the Clean Water Act on this job? Avoidable discharges of earthen fill material? Hello?

[@nathandean1687]

they need to let the loacol miners and gold sifters in there first.

[@StereoSpace]

That was very cool. Shows the power of water as well. Fascinating how quickly it cleared that sediment.

[@bilgeratjim]

No Marmots were harmed during the filming of this presentation.

[@Darkmatter2134]

Ohhhhh so it's ok for the government to release 1,000,000 cu yds of sediment and rock but I would get a $70,000 fine if I remove 1 yd of material to rebuild my creek crossing.

[@testy462]

That's government for ya

[@littlegoobie]

I doubt i was the only one who clicked to see little rodents building a damn. Oh well.

[@testy462]

Guilty...I was thinking...marmots build dams?

[@sharonolsen6579]

When we were young, we did the best we could with what we knew. When we knew better , we did better. .... (paraphrasing Maya Angelou )

[@YusefDeeb69]

Any self-respecting fluvial geomorphologist would have easily predicted the entire sediment load would be washed away promptly. These doofuses are just putting on a show

[@davidturk6301]

This has been done before in Southern California; letting the new flow wash away sediment downstream (after damn removal).

[@killmimes]

I saw the title...and thought...."MARMOTS MAKE DAMS?"

[@Swarm509]

If this is what a small-ish river did I can only imagine what an outburst mega flood must of looked like and how fast it must of carved away the land. I'm think something like the glacial lake outburst floods.

[@Mattie_LIGHT]

Anyone thought of running that sediment through a trommel? There’s has to be a build up of gold over the century the dam was there

[@jimfree0]

Good thinking, but there are no mineral deposits in the area.

[@patstokes3615]

It's good to see humanity doing the right thing. For the longest time our countries highest goal was to "master nature" those are the words they used. To make nature work for us. It was what is call, "Hubris, excessive pride or self-confidence" Nature will have her way whether it is to our collective destruction or is allowed to be the tender mother that provides all we NEED. I used the word need in caps to draw our over use of Want.

[@cataclysmicnothing]

A solid blend of engineering and geology porn

[@danielsestina6457]

"He.. hey man, this is a private residence.... nice marmot."

[@misterx1978]

Nice marmot! ,Uhhh ahhh far out mannn, fcking faaar out!

[@smitty2868]

The engineer is getting his cookies off - what a jerk!

[@superdutyzack]

Water is powerful and dangerous. Cool to watch!

[@s0012823]

Great project! Good to give it back to nature.

[@blancolirio]

Great show thanks for posting!

[@ECsponger2]

Sometimes it really is amazing how quickly the Earth will fix itself once humans stop fucking around with it.

[@CynicalDad81]

Just shows that we aren’t really messing anything up too bad by our activities. Tree-Huggers all upset about nothin.

[@upfrontgaming8889]

How m@ny fish did the sediment kill though and change their habitat that they adapted to

[@samfrancisco8095]

@@upfrontgaming8889 Who cares ? Are these the only fish in the river ? Stop the predators from eating the fish of you are so concerned about the numbers. Ever heard of "restocking."

[@Murtagh653]

@@CynicalDad81 the problem is that while this river is returned to a natural state, most places are just getting worse because we just keep building and polluting everything, a river that hasn't had toxic chemicals and other things of a similar nature poured into it will be fine but a lot of places have been used as dumping grounds for waste and other crap. people are messing shit up

[@stoirmslw7195]

@@Murtagh653 the only issue with your argument is that we really can't do much more about it, the western hemisphere is the cause of less than 20% of the overall pollution on the planet like 80% is China and India and the remainder are the remaining countries around the world, its all well and good to care about the environment but you're preaching to the wrong people if you want sources it'll take me some time to find them again

[@TheYungApollo]

Colorful special effects for the TV news cameras Its called dirt and dust. WTF was he talking about???

[@ModernGentleman]

Thay explosion didn't loosen anything up. Great publicity stunt though.

[@ironmantis37]

Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.

[@jonathangreenawalt5724]

The calculations probably assumed the sediment was naturally compacted, but behind manmade dams its not really compacted at all allowing for easier flow.

[@davidriley8590]

THAT GUY IS SO EXCITED, LOVE TO SEE HIM AT A STRIP CLUB

[@tonquinb]

cool dam removal...the "expert" is a bit cringe...nothing about this would have been a surprise if they had studied the Condit dam removal

[@quacksmack7449]

Nice :) River back to natural quite quick. Lets hope it remains wild and pure a very long time!!

[@siliconvalleyengineer5875]

I fished that section of the Sandy for decades, caught more sucker fish than salmon or trout. with the dam gone those sucker fish can swim all the way to the new spawning grounds, nothing improved for the salmon.

[@DD_Dietriech]

These guys study the flow of water. . Are surprised that a flood of water wipes out a dam in a number of hours. They should go check out mount Saint Helens, that canyon happened in a couple of days.

[@caricue]

It makes you wonder if maybe this "clean" energy was a bad idea in the first place. There is fossil fuels enough to supply our electricity for hundreds of years or more, with the added benefit of releasing the trapped carbon that can now be used by plants and algae to green the planet. Maybe it's time to free all the rivers!

[@davidoldham1946]

What a collection of platitudes and nonsense. An actually renewable that is cost effective must go because they would not build a fish ladder....years ago.

[@hornetscales8274]

When Mother Nature wants something, she'll get it, even if it takes her awhile.

[@shockingguy]

That was pretty neat to watch thanks

[@Golden-dog88]

6:01” the last heavy machine happens to be a forklift” so the 2 excavator’s must have been light weight toys

[@samwisegamgee289]

this just goes to show how limited so called experts are...you are an expert only 1% of the time when you get it right the other 99% belongs to nature

[@bulletscreenprinting]

Sad to see its removal. Destroyed an upstream eco system and thousands of fish were killed not to mention the down stream destruction for the silt.

[@DavidHuber63]

You lie, it was not profitable to put it back where it came from

[@dbzssj4678]

all these hippies so happy for the fish, they even saved some from "drowning". Not a reason to destroy a dam. what a waste.

[@franklinhernandez683]

This is just awesome my paycheck is going to be big after this cancel that matters

[@garlandremingtoniii1338]

The fella that is doing all, All the high volume excitedly talking, is happier than a pack of 10 year olds turned loose in any mall and told, “TAKE ANYTHING YOU WANT. AS MUCH AS YOU WANT FOR 6 HOURS.”

[@louisliu5638]

I had no idea marmots were dam builders, but we have a few grizzly in Canada we could send down. They LOVE those furry little chunks of meat. Crunchy on the inside, fluffy on the outside.

[@mwnciboo]

When the Expert says "What disappeared in a night, i expected in a whole winter in flood"....I would be fucking petrified of what winter will do. At best its ill-thought through at worst whole sections of land/ road / Infrastructure could be under cut.

[@mattrockman1028]

go to 6:57 and turn the playback speed to .25

[@Lillith1941]

Silly Environmentalists. There was a real earthen dam on Quail Lake Utah that went out like this. They might have looked for other occurances instead of modeling? Oh well?

[@poogan1239]

Gonna assume that dude with the chubby over the dam collapse is single...

[@nick5226128]

The model shows the coffer dam washing out from below, so where do they put the forklift? Hey the dam might wash out under me, but don't be silly I'm still gonna send ittttt.

[@oldfarmer9004]

Awesome until the guy in the forklift gets swept downstream!

[@dsnicker9719]

All these so-called "experts" with their fancy, expensive MODELS.... useless!

[@samfrancisco8095]

Good determiner of the conditions if a land slide occurred somewhere along the river. There was a very large landslide in the American river along Highway 50 in the Sierra Nevada mountains years ago. Seems that nature will just compensate as well as the creatures. Humans get all bent out of shape when nature happens and are determined to study it for whatever reason. There was a 80 yo dam removal in Italy or Spain on KZbin that they just let the river wash the sediment away.

[@kennethwikert2841]

Just like the Grand Canyon. Not millions of years.

[@KamuiPan]

Imagine the amount of gold accumulate in those gravel and black sand!

[@matthewdebonis126]

Now capture the water before it spills into the Pacific, and redirect to natural aquifers inland. Fresh water is gold.

[@iron60bitch62]

As usual the people who don’t do this for a living guessed wrong ask one of the guys run and the bulldozer he’ll tell you it probably down within moments how long it’ll take to clear out the silt

[@buggerlugz6753]

Felt very sorry for the marmots watching this......... :(

[@keithnoneya]

Nice to see the river flow free for boaters and fishing. I fully expected the whole dam to go is less time than it did. I expected it to liquefy and go all at once after the initial overflow. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

[@jwstanley2645]

The battle goes on and no matter what, earth is huge and earth will win.

[@jamieclarkson9026]

0:48 that should have been me

[@lmklogistics9717]

the most interesting thing was that the model really works, it happens the same way they predict, good job

[@stevecarter8810]

8:05

[@blackburn1111]

this would be really fun to do and watch. It's like playing in the creek x1000

[@markrobson2559]

and me being a placer miner can't use a 2 ft. hand sluice in a river for possible damage to fish habitat.

[@kthompso43]

A good example of how the Missoula Floods eroded so much so quickly.