Feel like I’m watching the quarter pushing machine
@joecoolchicago Жыл бұрын
They need to combine it with a claw machine that picks up the big pieces before they let it go downstream.
@natehill80693 ай бұрын
Was gonna say this!
@c.s.51772 ай бұрын
@@natehill8069yes then drop the big pieces at any time they want.
@SPUDHOME2 ай бұрын
That six minutes just negated all the recycling I’ve done in my 55 years.
@beck13656 ай бұрын
could theyopening up have not cleaned out the top of the spillway before opening
@johnceyesdaby3 ай бұрын
Don't feel bad. Most of what you recycle ends up in the landfill anyway.
@jeffer11013 ай бұрын
@@jeffer1101 Plastic isn't really recycled much, but about two thirds of aluminum and paper are. A third of glass is recycled, even though it is the easiest material to process. We should do better with glass, but plastic is an almost impossible nut to crack.
@E3ECO3 ай бұрын
@@E3ECO Yes, the metals and glass are managed well. Unfortunately, there is so much plastic though and almost none of it is recycled (even if you put it in your bin). That said, I do see a lot of companies moving to more paper/cardboard type containers to reduce plastic, which is good.
@jeffer11013 ай бұрын
Recycling is bad for the planet tho soooooo ♻️ 😢
@anthonysmith40723 ай бұрын
The perfect example of making it somebody else's problem
@elie5006 ай бұрын
The ideal place to filter out polluting plastics, but no. Kick it downstream. Let someone else deal with it. And you wonder if regulation is a bad thing.
@lairddougal38332 ай бұрын
@@lairddougal3833 If you can come up with a method of filtering out plastics at that point then do be sure to patent it, because you are likely to make money from it. Plastic pollution is caused by people who dispose of it irresponsibility. Until everyone learns and applies that, then no number of grand schemes to clean it up will ever succeed.
@PhilJonesIII2 ай бұрын
Regulation would be to not have it there in the first place. Why is it their responsibility when it was created by others being lazy and not properly throwing away the trash they created.
@swizlstik2 ай бұрын
@@swizlstik Not sure how often they do this but certainly not more than every six months. Likely yearly during times of high flow. The plastic accumulation therefore represents the total for the entire length of the river/catchment area for that period.
@PhilJonesIII2 ай бұрын
@@lairddougal3833 : So, you go there and clean it up.
@wrongfullyaccused71392 ай бұрын
Im glad others in the comments noted the missed opportunity to collect and recycle the trapped debris instead of multiplying it and passing it to the next generation.
@mr.stately92052 ай бұрын
Oh this is in Laos. All the dams around where I live have giant pushers and chain link catch nets and push the debris into the backs of dump trucks. It’s pretty cool to watch
@BiggestRedditor7 ай бұрын
Large dams have always freaked me out. I remember my first time going to the Hoover dam and peering into the spillways. I thought they were the scariest things ever. Then I looked over the edge of the dam itself and felt nauseated.
@michaelnaretto34098 ай бұрын
I have vertigo.
@npcperson21585 ай бұрын
"Nauseated" is my new favorite word
@JerseyAir3 ай бұрын
I don't care for heights, It would take a lot for me to look over the side. I felt dizzy looking over the edge of a local one... it would not set any height records, but it was certainly pretty tall. At best, you'd be Stephen Hawking without the brilliant mind if you fell.
@EliChristman2 ай бұрын
Heeeeh. Quite the experience isn't it? Been there myself. Was fun actually.
@Nalothisal2 ай бұрын
The dams in my area have areas at the dam where they can push and then remove debris like that. The debris just causes more problems down river especially if there are more dams.
@sdvten11 ай бұрын
dam the dams
@redwarf811810 ай бұрын
seeing all that garbage just pisses me off, they could have removed all that..
@debe.186810 ай бұрын
but it wouldn't be nearly as exciting to watch.
@MrTimeless10110 ай бұрын
I had to read that first sentence 5 times
@SavageWhiteBread3 ай бұрын
It's like the ultimate Post10 upload.
@cskillet2003 Жыл бұрын
They could sift that off to remove plastic and grind the wood up for fire pellets instead of just sending it down stream.
@brandonbelk5559 Жыл бұрын
"They" sure could!
@Vzw-dj9rf Жыл бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking. Why just open it up when you could at least clear the crap out first. >.> A little preventative might also stop this building up in the first place.
@Kalamain Жыл бұрын
@@Kalamain you should get into water management
@GhostScout42 Жыл бұрын
But this is WAY more fun!! 😃
@jlucasound Жыл бұрын
They'd probably have to redesign the dam. Wonder if it can be down further downstream though with less infrastructure involved.
@DRTMaverick Жыл бұрын
amazing microplastic production!
@carlakaffeeschlurfer97986 ай бұрын
all the beavers be like, DAMN!
@joerarey8496 Жыл бұрын
why no crane to dig this debris out? you can dry the wood to fire it and take out all the plastic so it dont go all the way to the oecan.
@reimundboxhammer1447 Жыл бұрын
ask yourself how long it would take and how much it would cost to hire people with the appropriate licenses and to perform all concrete steps of the process involved of transporting an island of trees and natural debris plus plastics and separate everything. How would the separation work, would it be mechanical and require human operators? How long would it take? What would the energy costs of drying the separated wood? What would be done with the leftovers and how much would it cost to dispose of it? And various costs involved. You'll find that it will be very expensive firewood, and why it isn't done.
@AxionSmurf Жыл бұрын
@@AxionSmurf ok and the reason why you pollute the debris in the river and later in the ocean is it cost money and manpower. sorry, this is thinking of the 19th. century.
@reimundboxhammer1447 Жыл бұрын
It needs to be cleared out of the dam itself. It's clogging any mechanisms there, and puts extra stress on the dam. If you want to capture and recover the debris, better to do it immediately downstream where there's better access and more room to work.
@SenileOtaku Жыл бұрын
@Reimund Boxhammer Which century it is has nothing to do with it. Things cost money, jobs cost money. Money is about the exchange of resources. It's just obvious, basic stuff. Do the math.
@AxionSmurf Жыл бұрын
Cool. I'm happy to see your solution implemented provided you pay for it. Whatever amount of money it would cost to do as you propose it would almost certainly be more beneficial to the environment to take that money and use it earlier in the "timeline" of the waste getting to the point it has by the time this video was filmed. @@reimundboxhammer1447
@Nambawan1238 ай бұрын
Thank you. I’ll see it at our coastline in about 5 years.
@cermisanАй бұрын
Most of the debris appeared to be woody vegetation that was washed into the river from surrounding jungle & forested areas. In some places, the debris would be primarily plastic waste like from water bottles & various containers.
@Urbicide4 ай бұрын
Look how muddy it is too probably from flood waters washing away everything on the banks.
@jordanalexander6154 ай бұрын
4.08 the money shot
@dwrowley Жыл бұрын
We used trash rakes and removed it from the water. After enough was piled up, it would be hauled to the dump or one of our dump sites. No need in leaving it in the water.
@gravelydon707211 ай бұрын
Maybe next time clear all the debris especially plastics from re-entering the waterway?
@BIBIWCICC10 ай бұрын
Maybe next time just dont throw in garbage in the water?
@none-id3lj7 ай бұрын
You volunteering to get in there and do it?
@EATSLEEPDRIVE20026 ай бұрын
We only have to do that in the west. Cuz you know….privilege.
@Whickedlee2 ай бұрын
I agree all them tree limbs and downed, by nature logs, they need to be cleared so they don’t enter the waterway. DAAAAAA
@SPUDHOME2 ай бұрын
I c all the comments about cleaning the trash out of the debris pile but initially it starts with us not letting it get there... At 54 it seems that over the last 15-20 years the amount of trash that was thrown out of the window or blown out of the backs of pickups has gotten worse in my area. We camp quite a bit and to pass time during the day i take my bucket, trash pick and clean up our little hideout camp ground. Every time it yields 3-4 buckets of trash left behind to wash into the lake, the respect for our land seems to have diminished.
@stacyrethman9532 Жыл бұрын
people who drive those large trucks in this day and age are assholes anyway (professional workers who really need one excluded)
@Blackadder75 Жыл бұрын
stop preaching, ya self-righteous ass. One problem does not mean the absence of another. Just because people litter does not make t OK for them just to release all that trash downstream.
@cassidywest553911 ай бұрын
I cant think of a way to prevent a dead tree from getting into a river.
@SPUDHOME9 ай бұрын
It's ironic how the trash barely gets any attention while "climate change" grifters are going to save the planet from less than a 1/4 of a degree over a hundred year time period, at the cost of trillions of dollars to the consumer.
@Urbicide4 ай бұрын
absolutely!! we need to collectively understand the value in reusable packaging, storage, and other mass-produced items!! reduce, reuse, recycle, REFUSE single-use plastics!!
@holliegould34634 ай бұрын
Yep, no need to collect it, just send it down stream, thats good foreward thinking right there 👍
@Prestonesfpv10 ай бұрын
Great system. Send all the debris down stream then it is someone else’s problem.
@SPUDHOME9 ай бұрын
Ah yes, let's not clear the debris here at the dam, just wash it down stream and make it their problem. Don't be responsible, shove the problem on someone else.
@Carstuff1114 ай бұрын
They call that job security ehh If there's no problems to fix, we won't need someone to fix em 😅😆
@BurchellAtTheWharfАй бұрын
perfectly wasted opportunity to clean it up in an easy fashion. Well done! Now it's all on its way to the ocean
@wimsoetaert3806 Жыл бұрын
they literally could have taken the trash out in a few hours!!!! but I guess human decency doesn't exist in business....
@maxwalsh234 Жыл бұрын
@@maxwalsh234 A few hours? I think that might be a bit unrealistic. I think the answer is for people, on an individual level, to be responsible for keeping their debris out of our rivers, lakes, and oceans. I mean how hard is it for you to pick up after yourself and make sure you trash is disposed of properly? Everybody blames government and businesses but then, if they take the time and money to clean this up, their costs go up and it all ends up back at the consumer level. We, the consumers, need to take care of this problem at the most fundamental level. Pick up after yourself!
@kerrydowning5374 Жыл бұрын
I have been on a lock and dam and the equipment to lift it out and dispose of it involves getting it to shore one excavator bucket at a time and the infrastructure to accomplish that needs to be built into the dam and gates most of which were built many years ago Just sending it down river to a place where it can be removed is often the only option and most if it ends up in the gulf Cleaning up Rivers and the ocean should be our main priority but instead we spend time and money discussing drag queens and paying off prostitutes and how many tanks and bullets to send overseas
@michaelyankasky5656 Жыл бұрын
@@kerrydowning5374 one thing you’re missing is alot off this debris is from floods. Aka garbage cans full of trash floating away, house sheds yards with debris getting swept away. It’s not all just littering…
@Live2ride2live54321 Жыл бұрын
@@kerrydowning5374 Environmentalists have seen how industry is in favor of shifting the burden for responsibility to the individual. Away from the major aggregate contributors which are the monied interests. We all share a responsibility of caretakers of the environment. If industry is to be a good neighbor, then how about the area that profits the greatest takes the lead in being a responsible member of the community.
@mostcom Жыл бұрын
Interesting redesign of the top of the pivot gate to allow the debri to be passed over,now to design a sluce to transport the litter out of the water,or a vaccume extraction system prior to debri gate.
@justlookin20101 Жыл бұрын
Exactly. Why don't they funnel the debris onto a conveyor and have the conveyor dump it into a dumpster?
@rael5469 Жыл бұрын
It's a dam stupid! Conveyor belt are you nuts there is barely any trash it's all wood and sticks, make the humans who put it there in the first place take their lives at risk removing it
@lyndavincent665911 ай бұрын
Because 95+% of it is biological. Meaning plant debris. Why waste fuel on natural detritus?
@One_Bar11 ай бұрын
@@rael5469 +1, I've seen a small hydropower plant in Sweden equipped with remote-controlled robot arm to clear debris out onto a conveyor.
@u1zha11 ай бұрын
😂 cry harder
@lonewolftech10 ай бұрын
Can’t clear that crap? Why send it downstream?
@brianwalker6159 Жыл бұрын
Can clear that crap, and *newsflash* it costs money.
@u1zha11 ай бұрын
Can you imagine the people downstream fishing they’re like what the fuck!!!! where did all this debris come from?
@greggreg22632 ай бұрын
Wow just moving all that trash from one centralized location to scattered along miles of the river/lake/ocean Way to go good job
@mikemichaud5578Ай бұрын
Thank god those guys had their hard hats on.
@pyroboobysmith359 Жыл бұрын
How is this considered "clearing debris" if it's not being removed from the water? Seems as this would do even more harm than good, especially for the folks downstream getting all this muck.
@juliejulie154510 ай бұрын
This video should be called “How To Pollute A River.”
@BackyardBeeKeepingNuevo Жыл бұрын
Let's waste a perfect opportunity to clean the water way up. Let the guys down river deal with an extra amount of wood and garbage.
@thehillbillyhilton3557 Жыл бұрын
What "extra" amount? Sticks were there in the river already, they were not created by tourists or hydroelectric turbines.
@u1zha11 ай бұрын
@@u1zha lol. There's probably already wood and debris below the dam, so now with this debris flowing over the dam there's extra debris for the guy down stream.
@thehillbillyhilton355711 ай бұрын
When everything finally breaks, it is like taking a really good dump in the morning. Very satisfying! :)
@jokervienna64338 күн бұрын
Nice to see they cleaned the land fill! Maybe we can see the dam next time!?
@Bluhcops5 ай бұрын
It doesn't get any worse than that! Why isn't the plastic removed from the river? Hundreds of people watch and rejoice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@alfredtruchsess7605 Жыл бұрын
are your hands painted on
@ivanolsen796611 ай бұрын
@@ivanolsen7966 I do not know what you mean.
@alfredtruchsess760511 ай бұрын
There has to be a way that this stuff can be shredded, recycled, and sold or donated to help clean up out water systems.
@YoursTruly1576 ай бұрын
Thanks, Alex, for the wonderful video.
@MultiFeelove10 күн бұрын
The lower dam won in softball last week. So let's send them thier prize, open the upper flap Bob. Let's get this done before the EPA gets here this afternoon.
@79mini Жыл бұрын
Then they wonder how all the plastic got in the ocean
@mikemacek4470 Жыл бұрын
go clean it up if it bothers you so much
@westernsavage2313 Жыл бұрын
It comes from 3, 3rd world countries
@ohandanotheronebitesthedus6247 Жыл бұрын
That was what I thought
@dwightpickens2895 Жыл бұрын
Who’s wondering?? We here in the developed world see what’s known as wood or branches. Plastic is not even natural in nature like the organic debris you see in this clip. And this dam doesn’t appear to be releasing into the ocean as much as it is a river. Maybe take a little time to research before making uninformed comments.
@back9trucktrailer313 Жыл бұрын
@@ohandanotheronebitesthedus6247no it really doesn’t 😂
@kozomi_ Жыл бұрын
A big vacuum to pull off the expanded Styrofoam and plastic bottles would have been nice. Much better to do pull it off now rather than the ocean going ships. OR maybe we can educate people, to not throw trash or stow materials better...
@wadewoehrmann2835 Жыл бұрын
You cannot stop that from getting in there. Needs to start with people with trucks not putting crap loosly in the back of their truck or open bed vehicle. It all comes from everywhere. I do agree though while it is bound up here and just sitting there why is there not a method of a back hoe or something that can reach in there and kjust pull it out. It is going to get pilled up in the bottom of the catch basin, so just get it out now and be done with it
@tomcole4736 Жыл бұрын
Don't worry it's getting shredded into a million peices so you'll never see it
@dougm7111 Жыл бұрын
Yep, that's like me tipping my garbage in my neighbours yard. Now it's their problem. 👌🏻👌🏻
@davidcurry44336 ай бұрын
Ведь можно пока все в одной куче вытащить чем потом собирать по всему водоему
@user-zp5ce6mq7s Жыл бұрын
Pretty satisfying! But wouldn't they want to perform this more often with smaller batches, so that they wouldn't waste so much water waiting for the mountain to get unstuck?
@u1zha11 ай бұрын
That was accumulated within a couple of days non stop raining in the Northern part of Laos.
@jrain67811 ай бұрын
waste water??? it's literally water in a river
@theimmux303410 ай бұрын
@@theimmux3034 In hydroelectric dams, the water upstream is routed through turbine generators within the dam. If water is allowed to flow through the spillway, that water cannot be used to generate electricity and is therefore a loss.
@lukedean176910 ай бұрын
They usually wait to do this when they have to release such water
@XMayhemX6 ай бұрын
me, after eating taco bell.
@jakecoachsnodgrass Жыл бұрын
It's like one of those coin pusher arcade machines!
@cinnac0n Жыл бұрын
SMH, y'all could've cleaned that up.💯 #SadTimes
@cashisclay8474 Жыл бұрын
That's not cleaning, that's effectively fly tipping
@jonathanweir8480 Жыл бұрын
Am I the only one missing the "clearing* part?
@c2h7 Жыл бұрын
Clearly they said. “Not our problem, let downstream deal with it”
@ryanm9318 Жыл бұрын
That was one hell of a giant beaver.
@robertjohnstone88457 ай бұрын
During his training, Luke Skywalker challenged Master Yoda to watch this video without pressing the right arrow key and skipping five seconds forward, not even one time. Master Yoda accepted Luke's challenge. Master Yoda failed. The most powerful Jedi who ever lived lacked the willpower to watch this video at normal frame speed from beginning to end.
@Nambawan1238 ай бұрын
I fail at Jedi.
@josephastier74218 ай бұрын
Damn! I must be better than Master Yoda...
@kobusdowney52915 ай бұрын
Be a great place to practice your standup paddle boarding skills
@user-fn5id5tt9j11 ай бұрын
US men love looking at this stuff.
@PaddyIrishmanАй бұрын
Reminds me of playing Pooh Sticks, (Winnie the Pooh chucking sticks off a bridge into a stream), with my kids when they were small!
@Highland_Moo Жыл бұрын
this is how all that plastic comes in to the ocean
@rarepepe2572 Жыл бұрын
Seems a shame there isn't a way to remove the debris while it's trapped in the dam, instead of just sending it downstream.
@jimmy_kirk10 ай бұрын
Even more of a shame that the trash gets to the river in the first place. The natural debris should be allowed to run down stream but the rest shouldn't be there at all.
@rickmiller142510 ай бұрын
@@rickmiller1425so just ignore what the beavers do?
@chango.-.7 ай бұрын
And all of that debris heads down river and eventually to the ocean. Nice.
@Procrastinator19485 ай бұрын
Problem shifted downstream Thanks.
@u9Nails2 ай бұрын
Feel bad for anyone living downstream. They will have a mess to clean up. Maybe that was their plan, to let someone else deal with it.
@73Shakes Жыл бұрын
They have a dam downstream just for that. Wood gets shredded and used. The garbage is pulled out and either recycled or burned.
@x808drifter Жыл бұрын
Here’s some food for thought, China is damming up all their rivers for two reasons. Hydroelectric power, and the ability to take control of bordering country’s food supply
@treydogg77 Жыл бұрын
How does that differ from living on a riverbank anywhere at all? Mess that gets carried by river does float by you, yes. It's not like the dam created more mess than there was in the river...
@u1zha11 ай бұрын
Some countries have small trash collection nets that are retracted with motorized pulley systems down stream after the damn 😂 and some have it before i personally think we should have managed/mandatory large collection before the damn for logs and large debris that would help keep the turbines and structures safe and small trash collection for small trash and debris after the damn for environmental reasons but they won’t because it doesn’t have an immediate cost effectiveness but long term the cost of cleaning up stacks compared to if they just did it at the damns lol
@michaelhorn-ge8rj Жыл бұрын
I'm on a roll lately, I get every "dam taking a crap video" suggested to me.
@captainobvious91882 ай бұрын
That’s a lot of dam debris, get it 😂😂
@howardmr909 күн бұрын
*Some 10 miles downstream, a volunteer cleaner looks over their stretch of the river...* _"Where the fu(k has all this rubbish and detritus come from?"_
@thezanzibarbarian5729 Жыл бұрын
Homeless people
@sandervanderkammen923010 ай бұрын
That looks like an island that could have been towed away and cleaned up! 😮
@tyhogue8316 Жыл бұрын
Not only is our precious water wasted, it gets a big does of trash as it goes down the river.
@PeterBooher Жыл бұрын
It would seem the geometry upstream of the gate needs a little more work.
@railgap8 ай бұрын
When you finally figure out how to use the plunger correctly.
@quiteindeed6809 Жыл бұрын
Missed the gate dropping... sad.
@larcoal2963 Жыл бұрын
So much plastic trash and aluminum cans ! Horrible for put in the nature! I hope one day we all pay the price for this 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@chrisfinta49419 ай бұрын
where did they clear it too....
@TheGhost570Ай бұрын
They could do hydraulic gate system to catch that stuff
@treydogg77 Жыл бұрын
post10 would love this !
@boatmanshuzz4030 Жыл бұрын
The moment of release is missing. What was the reason for that? You didn’t feel like filming that part?
@mikeholler5142 ай бұрын
So you collect it just to release it in bulk got it
@shacklifecustoms84303 ай бұрын
I'm pretty disappointed that, this year, workers (edit:) WERE NOT on the debris piles, jumping up and down, placing bets on which side or what part would go first. Darn. I guess that was last year's crew, huh?
@RoSaWa386-3311 ай бұрын
Like a BIG version of Coin Pusher Arcade machine
@plumberman4u Жыл бұрын
How is that clearing debris??
@robertbate57904 ай бұрын
So all that trash ends up in the river?
@akamoroff11 ай бұрын
Todays Driftwood tomorrows campfire.
@janeordway4841 Жыл бұрын
driftwood pellets too.
@rearspeaker6364 Жыл бұрын
When the debri is collected why not pick it aside and do something good of it? There's lots of wood that could be dried and used as full.
@Stefan_Boerjesson Жыл бұрын
It's a dam, the trash being stuck there is a side effect. If you want the wood, you could paddle back and forth upstream and catch it before it gets there.
@Vzw-dj9rf Жыл бұрын
Of course it can be done but that's volunteer work. You know drying wood costs (space and time, even if you ignore heating). What's profitable to do to regularly shaped high quality timber, is not necessarily profitable to do to driftwood.
@u1zha11 ай бұрын
How can you mess up the angle at just the right moment?
@mallarysangel3 ай бұрын
I hope there no boaters around there, all that floating debris, potentially dangerous if hit at speed
@jfk64kennedy95 Жыл бұрын
Oddly satisfying but now the detritus is spread over hundreds of miles rather than a few metres.
@slap_A_flamingo Жыл бұрын
WHERE ?? Does all that stuff go now ??
@happycamper744011 күн бұрын
Should be under a "Not My Job" title... Thanx 😮
@georgeriffle415611 ай бұрын
Insane waste of an opportunity to clean up lower river. This facility needs examination as well as the people in charge.
@davedave6404 Жыл бұрын
To clean all that up under a bridge. Man power and time. Plus heavy equipment that needs to be brought to the site. Talking good 100 to 200 thousand dollars.
@merica255 Жыл бұрын
Does anyone know why there's a plastic island the size of Rhode Island in the Pacific Ocean....I'm still trying to figure it out.
@chrisheisserer8 күн бұрын
Gives the boaters downstream a chance to play log dodge
@lathamarea14373 ай бұрын
Employee: "Hey look; we actually by default gathered trash! What a great opportunity!" Company: "Definitely the last guy in the flows problem.."
@ronaldayers6661 Жыл бұрын
Wasting water to dump trash in the ocean? Or am I not understanding this?
@danallison8745 Жыл бұрын
If they let the naturally occurring sticks to flow over the dam _constantly_, then that'd mean even more water wasted.
@u1zha11 ай бұрын
It’s absolutely disgusting how people just throw trash anywhere. I keep the trash picked up at my local city park.
@richardcrouse90743 ай бұрын
Going to need the big high boots for this one.
@haydenalbreyАй бұрын
Ahh yes. Nothing like inadvertently trapping tons of plastic debris - and then releasing it all directly back into the river / ocean. Gotta love humans..
@flight11010 ай бұрын
would've gone downstream anyway... what would you have them do? skim off the hundreds of tons of lumber and trash off the top of the dam by hand?
@Jacksonflax9 ай бұрын
Where did the debris go when it fell into the water? 🌞
@kellyjoiner4418 Жыл бұрын
Down stream.
@danajohnson4480 Жыл бұрын
@@danajohnson4480 Guess I'm just confused then, what "clearing debris" in the title means. Clearing it from where? 🌞
@kellyjoiner4418 Жыл бұрын
Greata is down the bottom with a net to pick it up.😂😂
@xuejiaoxu6778 Жыл бұрын
@@xuejiaoxu6778 Poor Greata has a job and a half 😂. 🌞
@kellyjoiner4418 Жыл бұрын
I tried going fishing downriver on a day a dam on the Snake River did a big spillway dump like this... well I didn't know but I did learn it doesn't make for good fishing at all...
@jimvick8397 Жыл бұрын
The whole time, jrain is thinking, "Phone Don't Die, Phone Don't Die....."!! 😂
@jlucasound Жыл бұрын
Only a bunch of Civil Engineers and hydrologists would lean over a railing and cheer when a swing gate dissipates backed up debris… ( I cheered, a little) 😂.
@jimseviltwin12 ай бұрын
Why not just get a solids convayor like they use in sewage and lower it down into the gap between the cement and top of the gate? put an assembly over each gate, making sure to stay clear of their swing, and you can scoop most of the soilds and trash out over time slowly, and then open the flap to clear the logs and heavier stuff. It'll clear all the little sticks and trash that are making up the worst of that beaver dam
@seldoon_nemar Жыл бұрын
Awesome! I could watch these kinds of videos all day.
@Runehorn Жыл бұрын
So much debirs. Were all the debirs frum?
@mattalley433015 күн бұрын
I agree Dams are giant scary biscuits better on KZhead than in-person it is a magnificent thought truly breathtaking
@Jarial78 ай бұрын
I am guessing a lot of the debris is pulverized into nothing from the drop and power of the water at the bottom.
Feel like I’m watching the quarter pushing machine
They need to combine it with a claw machine that picks up the big pieces before they let it go downstream.
Was gonna say this!
@@natehill8069yes then drop the big pieces at any time they want.
That six minutes just negated all the recycling I’ve done in my 55 years.
could theyopening up have not cleaned out the top of the spillway before opening
Don't feel bad. Most of what you recycle ends up in the landfill anyway.
@@jeffer1101 Plastic isn't really recycled much, but about two thirds of aluminum and paper are. A third of glass is recycled, even though it is the easiest material to process. We should do better with glass, but plastic is an almost impossible nut to crack.
@@E3ECO Yes, the metals and glass are managed well. Unfortunately, there is so much plastic though and almost none of it is recycled (even if you put it in your bin). That said, I do see a lot of companies moving to more paper/cardboard type containers to reduce plastic, which is good.
Recycling is bad for the planet tho soooooo ♻️ 😢
The perfect example of making it somebody else's problem
The ideal place to filter out polluting plastics, but no. Kick it downstream. Let someone else deal with it. And you wonder if regulation is a bad thing.
@@lairddougal3833 If you can come up with a method of filtering out plastics at that point then do be sure to patent it, because you are likely to make money from it. Plastic pollution is caused by people who dispose of it irresponsibility. Until everyone learns and applies that, then no number of grand schemes to clean it up will ever succeed.
Regulation would be to not have it there in the first place. Why is it their responsibility when it was created by others being lazy and not properly throwing away the trash they created.
@@swizlstik Not sure how often they do this but certainly not more than every six months. Likely yearly during times of high flow. The plastic accumulation therefore represents the total for the entire length of the river/catchment area for that period.
@@lairddougal3833 : So, you go there and clean it up.
Im glad others in the comments noted the missed opportunity to collect and recycle the trapped debris instead of multiplying it and passing it to the next generation.
Oh this is in Laos. All the dams around where I live have giant pushers and chain link catch nets and push the debris into the backs of dump trucks. It’s pretty cool to watch
Large dams have always freaked me out. I remember my first time going to the Hoover dam and peering into the spillways. I thought they were the scariest things ever. Then I looked over the edge of the dam itself and felt nauseated.
I have vertigo.
"Nauseated" is my new favorite word
I don't care for heights, It would take a lot for me to look over the side. I felt dizzy looking over the edge of a local one... it would not set any height records, but it was certainly pretty tall. At best, you'd be Stephen Hawking without the brilliant mind if you fell.
Heeeeh. Quite the experience isn't it? Been there myself. Was fun actually.
The dams in my area have areas at the dam where they can push and then remove debris like that. The debris just causes more problems down river especially if there are more dams.
dam the dams
seeing all that garbage just pisses me off, they could have removed all that..
but it wouldn't be nearly as exciting to watch.
I had to read that first sentence 5 times
It's like the ultimate Post10 upload.
They could sift that off to remove plastic and grind the wood up for fire pellets instead of just sending it down stream.
"They" sure could!
Exactly what I was thinking. Why just open it up when you could at least clear the crap out first. >.> A little preventative might also stop this building up in the first place.
@@Kalamain you should get into water management
But this is WAY more fun!! 😃
They'd probably have to redesign the dam. Wonder if it can be down further downstream though with less infrastructure involved.
amazing microplastic production!
all the beavers be like, DAMN!
why no crane to dig this debris out? you can dry the wood to fire it and take out all the plastic so it dont go all the way to the oecan.
ask yourself how long it would take and how much it would cost to hire people with the appropriate licenses and to perform all concrete steps of the process involved of transporting an island of trees and natural debris plus plastics and separate everything. How would the separation work, would it be mechanical and require human operators? How long would it take? What would the energy costs of drying the separated wood? What would be done with the leftovers and how much would it cost to dispose of it? And various costs involved. You'll find that it will be very expensive firewood, and why it isn't done.
@@AxionSmurf ok and the reason why you pollute the debris in the river and later in the ocean is it cost money and manpower. sorry, this is thinking of the 19th. century.
It needs to be cleared out of the dam itself. It's clogging any mechanisms there, and puts extra stress on the dam. If you want to capture and recover the debris, better to do it immediately downstream where there's better access and more room to work.
@Reimund Boxhammer Which century it is has nothing to do with it. Things cost money, jobs cost money. Money is about the exchange of resources. It's just obvious, basic stuff. Do the math.
Cool. I'm happy to see your solution implemented provided you pay for it. Whatever amount of money it would cost to do as you propose it would almost certainly be more beneficial to the environment to take that money and use it earlier in the "timeline" of the waste getting to the point it has by the time this video was filmed. @@reimundboxhammer1447
Thank you. I’ll see it at our coastline in about 5 years.
Most of the debris appeared to be woody vegetation that was washed into the river from surrounding jungle & forested areas. In some places, the debris would be primarily plastic waste like from water bottles & various containers.
Look how muddy it is too probably from flood waters washing away everything on the banks.
4.08 the money shot
We used trash rakes and removed it from the water. After enough was piled up, it would be hauled to the dump or one of our dump sites. No need in leaving it in the water.
Maybe next time clear all the debris especially plastics from re-entering the waterway?
Maybe next time just dont throw in garbage in the water?
You volunteering to get in there and do it?
We only have to do that in the west. Cuz you know….privilege.
I agree all them tree limbs and downed, by nature logs, they need to be cleared so they don’t enter the waterway. DAAAAAA
I c all the comments about cleaning the trash out of the debris pile but initially it starts with us not letting it get there... At 54 it seems that over the last 15-20 years the amount of trash that was thrown out of the window or blown out of the backs of pickups has gotten worse in my area. We camp quite a bit and to pass time during the day i take my bucket, trash pick and clean up our little hideout camp ground. Every time it yields 3-4 buckets of trash left behind to wash into the lake, the respect for our land seems to have diminished.
people who drive those large trucks in this day and age are assholes anyway (professional workers who really need one excluded)
stop preaching, ya self-righteous ass. One problem does not mean the absence of another. Just because people litter does not make t OK for them just to release all that trash downstream.
I cant think of a way to prevent a dead tree from getting into a river.
It's ironic how the trash barely gets any attention while "climate change" grifters are going to save the planet from less than a 1/4 of a degree over a hundred year time period, at the cost of trillions of dollars to the consumer.
absolutely!! we need to collectively understand the value in reusable packaging, storage, and other mass-produced items!! reduce, reuse, recycle, REFUSE single-use plastics!!
Yep, no need to collect it, just send it down stream, thats good foreward thinking right there 👍
Great system. Send all the debris down stream then it is someone else’s problem.
Ah yes, let's not clear the debris here at the dam, just wash it down stream and make it their problem. Don't be responsible, shove the problem on someone else.
They call that job security ehh If there's no problems to fix, we won't need someone to fix em 😅😆
perfectly wasted opportunity to clean it up in an easy fashion. Well done! Now it's all on its way to the ocean
they literally could have taken the trash out in a few hours!!!! but I guess human decency doesn't exist in business....
@@maxwalsh234 A few hours? I think that might be a bit unrealistic. I think the answer is for people, on an individual level, to be responsible for keeping their debris out of our rivers, lakes, and oceans. I mean how hard is it for you to pick up after yourself and make sure you trash is disposed of properly? Everybody blames government and businesses but then, if they take the time and money to clean this up, their costs go up and it all ends up back at the consumer level. We, the consumers, need to take care of this problem at the most fundamental level. Pick up after yourself!
I have been on a lock and dam and the equipment to lift it out and dispose of it involves getting it to shore one excavator bucket at a time and the infrastructure to accomplish that needs to be built into the dam and gates most of which were built many years ago Just sending it down river to a place where it can be removed is often the only option and most if it ends up in the gulf Cleaning up Rivers and the ocean should be our main priority but instead we spend time and money discussing drag queens and paying off prostitutes and how many tanks and bullets to send overseas
@@kerrydowning5374 one thing you’re missing is alot off this debris is from floods. Aka garbage cans full of trash floating away, house sheds yards with debris getting swept away. It’s not all just littering…
@@kerrydowning5374 Environmentalists have seen how industry is in favor of shifting the burden for responsibility to the individual. Away from the major aggregate contributors which are the monied interests. We all share a responsibility of caretakers of the environment. If industry is to be a good neighbor, then how about the area that profits the greatest takes the lead in being a responsible member of the community.
Interesting redesign of the top of the pivot gate to allow the debri to be passed over,now to design a sluce to transport the litter out of the water,or a vaccume extraction system prior to debri gate.
Exactly. Why don't they funnel the debris onto a conveyor and have the conveyor dump it into a dumpster?
It's a dam stupid! Conveyor belt are you nuts there is barely any trash it's all wood and sticks, make the humans who put it there in the first place take their lives at risk removing it
Because 95+% of it is biological. Meaning plant debris. Why waste fuel on natural detritus?
@@rael5469 +1, I've seen a small hydropower plant in Sweden equipped with remote-controlled robot arm to clear debris out onto a conveyor.
😂 cry harder
Can’t clear that crap? Why send it downstream?
Can clear that crap, and *newsflash* it costs money.
Can you imagine the people downstream fishing they’re like what the fuck!!!! where did all this debris come from?
Wow just moving all that trash from one centralized location to scattered along miles of the river/lake/ocean Way to go good job
Thank god those guys had their hard hats on.
How is this considered "clearing debris" if it's not being removed from the water? Seems as this would do even more harm than good, especially for the folks downstream getting all this muck.
This video should be called “How To Pollute A River.”
Let's waste a perfect opportunity to clean the water way up. Let the guys down river deal with an extra amount of wood and garbage.
What "extra" amount? Sticks were there in the river already, they were not created by tourists or hydroelectric turbines.
@@u1zha lol. There's probably already wood and debris below the dam, so now with this debris flowing over the dam there's extra debris for the guy down stream.
When everything finally breaks, it is like taking a really good dump in the morning. Very satisfying! :)
Nice to see they cleaned the land fill! Maybe we can see the dam next time!?
It doesn't get any worse than that! Why isn't the plastic removed from the river? Hundreds of people watch and rejoice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
are your hands painted on
@@ivanolsen7966 I do not know what you mean.
There has to be a way that this stuff can be shredded, recycled, and sold or donated to help clean up out water systems.
Thanks, Alex, for the wonderful video.
The lower dam won in softball last week. So let's send them thier prize, open the upper flap Bob. Let's get this done before the EPA gets here this afternoon.
Then they wonder how all the plastic got in the ocean
go clean it up if it bothers you so much
It comes from 3, 3rd world countries
That was what I thought
Who’s wondering?? We here in the developed world see what’s known as wood or branches. Plastic is not even natural in nature like the organic debris you see in this clip. And this dam doesn’t appear to be releasing into the ocean as much as it is a river. Maybe take a little time to research before making uninformed comments.
@@ohandanotheronebitesthedus6247no it really doesn’t 😂
A big vacuum to pull off the expanded Styrofoam and plastic bottles would have been nice. Much better to do pull it off now rather than the ocean going ships. OR maybe we can educate people, to not throw trash or stow materials better...
You cannot stop that from getting in there. Needs to start with people with trucks not putting crap loosly in the back of their truck or open bed vehicle. It all comes from everywhere. I do agree though while it is bound up here and just sitting there why is there not a method of a back hoe or something that can reach in there and kjust pull it out. It is going to get pilled up in the bottom of the catch basin, so just get it out now and be done with it
Don't worry it's getting shredded into a million peices so you'll never see it
Yep, that's like me tipping my garbage in my neighbours yard. Now it's their problem. 👌🏻👌🏻
Ведь можно пока все в одной куче вытащить чем потом собирать по всему водоему
Pretty satisfying! But wouldn't they want to perform this more often with smaller batches, so that they wouldn't waste so much water waiting for the mountain to get unstuck?
That was accumulated within a couple of days non stop raining in the Northern part of Laos.
waste water??? it's literally water in a river
@@theimmux3034 In hydroelectric dams, the water upstream is routed through turbine generators within the dam. If water is allowed to flow through the spillway, that water cannot be used to generate electricity and is therefore a loss.
They usually wait to do this when they have to release such water
me, after eating taco bell.
It's like one of those coin pusher arcade machines!
SMH, y'all could've cleaned that up.💯 #SadTimes
That's not cleaning, that's effectively fly tipping
Am I the only one missing the "clearing* part?
Clearly they said. “Not our problem, let downstream deal with it”
That was one hell of a giant beaver.
During his training, Luke Skywalker challenged Master Yoda to watch this video without pressing the right arrow key and skipping five seconds forward, not even one time. Master Yoda accepted Luke's challenge. Master Yoda failed. The most powerful Jedi who ever lived lacked the willpower to watch this video at normal frame speed from beginning to end.
I fail at Jedi.
Damn! I must be better than Master Yoda...
Be a great place to practice your standup paddle boarding skills
US men love looking at this stuff.
Reminds me of playing Pooh Sticks, (Winnie the Pooh chucking sticks off a bridge into a stream), with my kids when they were small!
this is how all that plastic comes in to the ocean
Seems a shame there isn't a way to remove the debris while it's trapped in the dam, instead of just sending it downstream.
Even more of a shame that the trash gets to the river in the first place. The natural debris should be allowed to run down stream but the rest shouldn't be there at all.
@@rickmiller1425so just ignore what the beavers do?
And all of that debris heads down river and eventually to the ocean. Nice.
Problem shifted downstream Thanks.
Feel bad for anyone living downstream. They will have a mess to clean up. Maybe that was their plan, to let someone else deal with it.
They have a dam downstream just for that. Wood gets shredded and used. The garbage is pulled out and either recycled or burned.
Here’s some food for thought, China is damming up all their rivers for two reasons. Hydroelectric power, and the ability to take control of bordering country’s food supply
How does that differ from living on a riverbank anywhere at all? Mess that gets carried by river does float by you, yes. It's not like the dam created more mess than there was in the river...
Some countries have small trash collection nets that are retracted with motorized pulley systems down stream after the damn 😂 and some have it before i personally think we should have managed/mandatory large collection before the damn for logs and large debris that would help keep the turbines and structures safe and small trash collection for small trash and debris after the damn for environmental reasons but they won’t because it doesn’t have an immediate cost effectiveness but long term the cost of cleaning up stacks compared to if they just did it at the damns lol
I'm on a roll lately, I get every "dam taking a crap video" suggested to me.
That’s a lot of dam debris, get it 😂😂
*Some 10 miles downstream, a volunteer cleaner looks over their stretch of the river...* _"Where the fu(k has all this rubbish and detritus come from?"_
Homeless people
That looks like an island that could have been towed away and cleaned up! 😮
Not only is our precious water wasted, it gets a big does of trash as it goes down the river.
It would seem the geometry upstream of the gate needs a little more work.
When you finally figure out how to use the plunger correctly.
Missed the gate dropping... sad.
So much plastic trash and aluminum cans ! Horrible for put in the nature! I hope one day we all pay the price for this 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
where did they clear it too....
They could do hydraulic gate system to catch that stuff
post10 would love this !
The moment of release is missing. What was the reason for that? You didn’t feel like filming that part?
So you collect it just to release it in bulk got it
I'm pretty disappointed that, this year, workers (edit:) WERE NOT on the debris piles, jumping up and down, placing bets on which side or what part would go first. Darn. I guess that was last year's crew, huh?
Like a BIG version of Coin Pusher Arcade machine
How is that clearing debris??
So all that trash ends up in the river?
Todays Driftwood tomorrows campfire.
driftwood pellets too.
When the debri is collected why not pick it aside and do something good of it? There's lots of wood that could be dried and used as full.
It's a dam, the trash being stuck there is a side effect. If you want the wood, you could paddle back and forth upstream and catch it before it gets there.
Of course it can be done but that's volunteer work. You know drying wood costs (space and time, even if you ignore heating). What's profitable to do to regularly shaped high quality timber, is not necessarily profitable to do to driftwood.
How can you mess up the angle at just the right moment?
I hope there no boaters around there, all that floating debris, potentially dangerous if hit at speed
Oddly satisfying but now the detritus is spread over hundreds of miles rather than a few metres.
WHERE ?? Does all that stuff go now ??
Should be under a "Not My Job" title... Thanx 😮
Insane waste of an opportunity to clean up lower river. This facility needs examination as well as the people in charge.
To clean all that up under a bridge. Man power and time. Plus heavy equipment that needs to be brought to the site. Talking good 100 to 200 thousand dollars.
Does anyone know why there's a plastic island the size of Rhode Island in the Pacific Ocean....I'm still trying to figure it out.
Gives the boaters downstream a chance to play log dodge
Employee: "Hey look; we actually by default gathered trash! What a great opportunity!" Company: "Definitely the last guy in the flows problem.."
Wasting water to dump trash in the ocean? Or am I not understanding this?
If they let the naturally occurring sticks to flow over the dam _constantly_, then that'd mean even more water wasted.
It’s absolutely disgusting how people just throw trash anywhere. I keep the trash picked up at my local city park.
Going to need the big high boots for this one.
Ahh yes. Nothing like inadvertently trapping tons of plastic debris - and then releasing it all directly back into the river / ocean. Gotta love humans..
would've gone downstream anyway... what would you have them do? skim off the hundreds of tons of lumber and trash off the top of the dam by hand?
Where did the debris go when it fell into the water? 🌞
Down stream.
@@danajohnson4480 Guess I'm just confused then, what "clearing debris" in the title means. Clearing it from where? 🌞
Greata is down the bottom with a net to pick it up.😂😂
@@xuejiaoxu6778 Poor Greata has a job and a half 😂. 🌞
I tried going fishing downriver on a day a dam on the Snake River did a big spillway dump like this... well I didn't know but I did learn it doesn't make for good fishing at all...
The whole time, jrain is thinking, "Phone Don't Die, Phone Don't Die....."!! 😂
Only a bunch of Civil Engineers and hydrologists would lean over a railing and cheer when a swing gate dissipates backed up debris… ( I cheered, a little) 😂.
Why not just get a solids convayor like they use in sewage and lower it down into the gap between the cement and top of the gate? put an assembly over each gate, making sure to stay clear of their swing, and you can scoop most of the soilds and trash out over time slowly, and then open the flap to clear the logs and heavier stuff. It'll clear all the little sticks and trash that are making up the worst of that beaver dam
Awesome! I could watch these kinds of videos all day.
So much debirs. Were all the debirs frum?
I agree Dams are giant scary biscuits better on KZhead than in-person it is a magnificent thought truly breathtaking
I am guessing a lot of the debris is pulverized into nothing from the drop and power of the water at the bottom.