I used to fish in the late 1950's at Lee's Ferry before the Glen Canyon Dam was built and the water was always beige with sediment. There were coves where the sediment would settle and the water would be clear and refreshing. Loved it!
@@waterbug85 I now live in SE Arizona but am always trying to get to Lee's Ferry to fish. Best month for fishing is January (I think) as there are very few others there fishing and the campground is empty.
@@peteh5862 I'd like to say I'll meet you there in 6 months for breakfast, fishing and new friends. But it's getting hard for me to get anywhere these days. I live over here in Riverside, Ca. My days are pretty simple now and really would like to meet up for fishing in the Lee's Ferry area if I just could.
@@dianahoward2717 Young whipper snappers need to have half the ballpark Ed and Ken had and question authority, the same authority that told us Glen Canyon was a good place to dam, and came this close to damming the grand canyon in the 60's, and thanks to the dirty long hairs was narrowly averted. Look it up you don't believe me.
This is basically a public service propaganda film, trying to convince people that the creation of the artificial Lake Powell hasn’t done any ecological damage. Notice no mention of the silt that’s prevented from moving downriver by the dam, nor any explanation of how they prevent the dam from becoming clogged... oh, wait, maybe that’s why they have to open all four vents together.
Originally they calculated the dam's life at ~100 years before sediment backed up behind it to make it useless. Hopefully they are drawing the water for these massive releases from the bottom of the dam thereby drawing out lots of sediment.
Lovely video and voice! Also you sounded very happy whenever you said 'this is after' and hearing the joy you had for aiding in the health of the ecosystem made me smile.
I don't understand the disappearing limited resource aspect of water, virtually every molecule of water that has ever been on earth or their constituent atoms of Hydrogen and Oxygen are still here from billions of years ago. That is like saying that Iron or Silicon are disappearing.
@Michael Clark It's not water in general that's disappearing but usable water. Sure there is a lot of water in the oceans but making that usable is very expensive. And other elements can "disappear" in a similar way. There are actually thousands of tons of gold in the oceans but extracting it would be far more expensive than its actual value.
They don't take the fish out of the way, so yes, fish are in this high flow water. If your wondering do fish go through the dam during high flow water. I believe the answer is yes, but only baby fry fish have a chance at surviving high flow through the dam. The bigger fish below the dam are stocked by DF&G. imho
Good question. Wondering whether design included preservation of fish stocks, as is done in salmon rivers in Scotland. They have “bypass” channels for big salmon returning to spawn upstream.
What the hell kind of question is that ? Are you kidding ? Have you seen the Grand Canyon ? Do you know how many years that river has run to carve a canyon of that magnitude ? Me neither.
This country lost the greatest treasure so many generations never got to know by flooding Glen canyon to create Powell. Thousands of side canyons, natural grottos, hundreds of petroglyphs, and so much more. Really such an increadibly rare and unique natural and national treasure lost forever so a bunch of floating RV's can temporarily house drunken kids making great decisions on the "lake". Oh and a few rich swine can become that much filthier stinking rich for killing an entire ecosystem. Tear down the damn and free the river and all those beautiful geological and historic treasures, after letting 70 years of sediment run down river and cleaning up all the beer bottles, styrofoam coolers, and plastic line and lures of course.
I feel your pain from 5000 miles away. How TF are they going to extract all those floating palaces from an ever shrinking reservoir with no access to it?
It’s not all about California in Nebraska we use the water from reservoirs to water crops. If we did dam it up it would all flow to the Ocean. It’s a thing of Beauty to see how the hard working people of the 40-50 design this without computers and all of the high-tech equipment we have now days.
0:26 Why is there a pipe in the middle of the water flow? Doesn't make much sense. The same with others at 0:40. Why put it right in the middle of the stream?
Navaho Nation marina at antelope canyon marina is a major employing job, the national park service has been trying to destroy the Marina, never gave any money for the land flooded, never any electricity from the dam,
That's where it ends up, this is Glenn Canyon, Utah and that released water flows through the Grand Canyon until it hits Lake Mead hundreds of miles downstream. The problem with Lake Mead isn't just that there is less water coming in, thirsty California is taking it out faster than it comes in. Even if they completely emptied Lake Powell into Lake Mead, what would you do next year?
They do. But sometimes you just can't use all of it, as the turbines aren't designed for high-volume flow. The dam system in the American west generates plenty of electricity. That's partly why it was created.
I can't speak to ecological damage - I acknowledge it happens - but most of the large cities of the SW US would not exist if not for dams like this one. The area would be mostly uninhabitable.
Reclamation - the process of claiming something back. So you’re going to restore Glen Canyon? To the Department of Reclamation, “I do not think that word means what you think it means...”
Not fake, but possibly levels over-corrected in PhotoShop. That sand is bright and the greenery around it is darker. Plus, the lighting in those canyons can be tricky.
It's not "wasting water." They move a certain amount downstream in a year. By doing this they just bunch some of it up into short periods of higher flow, in return for lower later on. The biggest reason to have the dam is to provide irrigation water for the food we all eat. The dam will not be removed. The lake will not be drained. The water level in the reservoirs continues to drop even in record snow years. Not because of "global warming", but because of the hordes of Democrats who choose to live in southern California. Nature is not capable of providing that much water even when we cheat through dam building.
water goes to the highest bidder. since california is entirely run by the corrupt democrat party they tax the hell out of its citizens and buy water 'rights' instead of creating their own water storage system. but ... people still keep voting for democrats. go figure
@grumpy old fart wyoming is beautiful indeed. just not too fond of the winters. az wont be much of a change for me. daughter lived in fountain ... have thought seriously about joining her when she goes back
If they drain this lake I'm sure down stream will mess it up somehow. Just like they destroying the beauty of the land an building buildings an roads. They need water to have water displays n Vegas, golf courses, pools 8n middle of deserts, I can keep going on n on with all ways u guys just screw it up
We dont use the dam water. Our water is from a well an m just saying, no matter how much water is given, somehow some way, they will misuse it, or waste it. Shame....
That's nice, mother earth is doing this all over the planet and DR thinks they have discovered something new and now it has to be "studied". Our TAX dollars at work, what a joke Leroy.
Trees on sandbars, preventing the creation of an artificial lake? Isn't that what is supposed to happen? Or did they build Lake Mead just so you could water ski on it.
Lake Mead has a capacity of 31 million acre-feet. Lake Powell has a capacity of 27 million acre-feet. That would be 58 million acre-feet. That's a small ocean. There's just no room. Plus, Lake Powell allows the upper Colorado River Basin to store or bank water that it owes the lower basin according to the 1922 Compact, so that it is available just in case we run out of our own supply. It's planning for the future. If Mead and Powell and all the other reservoirs on the Colorado River and its tributaries were not full in 2000 we would have felt this drought 10 years ago or more. My concern is the lack of ways to store and reservoir water in California and other Western states. How much of that recent rain and snowfall ended up in the ocean and is now unusable. The end.
I live in Arizona, we are constantly faced with drought conditions, throwing the water away in this fashion is irresponsible. For sandbars? For beaches? What about the People???? We need water.
No water is wasted on high-flows. Reclamation is required to move certain amount of water from the Upper Colorado River Basin to the Lower, every year. By varying when and how much we send in our monthly "payments" we can store up and release a larger amount of water than normal, which imitates the natural surges of an undammed river. The same amount of water is released every year, it's just split up into volumes that are not the same every month.
High flow released water only two years ago, now lake Powell is at 34 capacity, environmental activists who want a free river, depriving 30,000,000 people of electricity and water
2022, and the level of the lake is historic at less then 3525 (or less than 25% full). Tragic what they did to these rivers.
"they?"
@@DugrozReports yes, they, the ones who damned up all of the rivers without any regard to the unintended consequences of Their actions. They.
@@anditravels_ what is your point?
@DugrozReports My guess is , I could never convince you of anything wrong with the Glen Canyon Dam or any other. Have a good day. Be kind.
You might be surprised. 🤷♂️ Up to you.
2021, Kinda wish we had kept this water.
Yup
Thanks for this narrated video, it was nice to watch/listen to
I used to fish in the late 1950's at Lee's Ferry before the Glen Canyon Dam was built and the water was always beige with sediment. There were coves where the sediment would settle and the water would be clear and refreshing. Loved it!
Pete H I loved Edward Abbey’s book “The Monkeywrench Gang”.
Wow, You must be as old as dirt Pete. I'd love to buy you breakfast sometime and talk about the good ole days.
@@waterbug85 I now live in SE Arizona but am always trying to get to Lee's Ferry to fish. Best month for fishing is January (I think) as there are very few others there fishing and the campground is empty.
@@peteh5862 I'd like to say I'll meet you there in 6 months for breakfast, fishing and new friends. But it's getting hard for me to get anywhere these days. I live over here in Riverside, Ca. My days are pretty simple now and really would like to meet up for fishing in the Lee's Ferry area if I just could.
@@dianahoward2717 Young whipper snappers need to have half the ballpark Ed and Ken had and question authority, the same authority that told us Glen Canyon was a good place to dam, and came this close to damming the grand canyon in the 60's, and thanks to the dirty long hairs was narrowly averted. Look it up you don't believe me.
i liked the video right up to the end...what do you mean we can help nature achieve balance?? I dont think nature needs that kinda help from us at all
This is basically a public service propaganda film, trying to convince people that the creation of the artificial Lake Powell hasn’t done any ecological damage. Notice no mention of the silt that’s prevented from moving downriver by the dam, nor any explanation of how they prevent the dam from becoming clogged... oh, wait, maybe that’s why they have to open all four vents together.
@@lindaj5492 Those releases do nothing about sediment behind the dame, they only flush the river below the dam.
Amen to that ,GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF IT.
I've learned so much today compared to long ago. Ty.
Fantastic video! Very informational and educational.
No floods no more better keep all the water you got. Mr science man
Hey, why does it say USSR on those release "caps"?
Another history of Glen Canyon DAM--> @Infra Hub
What are you going to do about the sediment backing up behind the Glen Canyon Dam itself???
I think when they open the dam it moves it downstream
Originally they calculated the dam's life at ~100 years before sediment backed up behind it to make it useless. Hopefully they are drawing the water for these massive releases from the bottom of the dam thereby drawing out lots of sediment.
@@peteh5862 Ya, I'm sure they got that figured out.
@@cristinafultz2378 Or not ...
@@lordmopton, ya probably not 🤫
Damned music! I want to hear the water flow.
This is incredible to see
…and they wonder why the lake is at record lows 3 years later.
"Studying the impact on fishes" but it is BEFORE building the dam that the fishes should be taken in acco. unt
bet they wish they had that water back today 2021?
😮 Great presentation
Nature is always “in balance “. It’s the people that are out of balance.
that includes yourself? or are you morally superior?
dam good video.😀
How much silt is behind that dam?
I was thinking that myself. If there was some way they could stir that up before they release the water, it would flush Downstream too.
Lovely video and voice! Also you sounded very happy whenever you said 'this is after' and hearing the joy you had for aiding in the health of the ecosystem made me smile.
Could you imagine not having the dam what a disaster it would be
I don't understand the disappearing limited resource aspect of water, virtually every molecule of water that has ever been on earth or their constituent atoms of Hydrogen and Oxygen are still here from billions of years ago.
That is like saying that Iron or Silicon are disappearing.
giggleherz that is correct, every helium atom that is released will escape the earths atmosphere pretty quickly.
@Michael Clark It's not water in general that's disappearing but usable water. Sure there is a lot of water in the oceans but making that usable is very expensive. And other elements can "disappear" in a similar way. There are actually thousands of tons of gold in the oceans but extracting it would be far more expensive than its actual value.
@Craig F. Thompson I don't know the exact numbers but in principle, yes.
Are fish going through that flow?
They don't take the fish out of the way, so yes, fish are in this high flow water. If your wondering do fish go through the dam during high flow water. I believe the answer is yes, but only baby fry fish have a chance at surviving high flow through the dam. The bigger fish below the dam are stocked by DF&G. imho
Good question. Wondering whether design included preservation of fish stocks, as is done in salmon rivers in Scotland. They have “bypass” channels for big salmon returning to spawn upstream.
Yes...really dam fast.
Nobody asked them.
Is there water still there?
What the hell kind of question is that ? Are you kidding ? Have you seen the Grand Canyon ? Do you know how many years that river has run to carve a canyon of that magnitude ? Me neither.
@@cpcattin So that's not where the water shortage is? OK.
Make up your mind. You want to move material or have it for your beaches...
Alrighty
Let the water go from Powell down to Mead and after mead is 80% or so then use Powell for that extra storage is was built for !!
Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell was designed to store water AND provide electricity to California.
There ya go ,some one has some smarts not the California nuts
DAM!!
This country lost the greatest treasure so many generations never got to know by flooding Glen canyon to create Powell. Thousands of side canyons, natural grottos, hundreds of petroglyphs, and so much more. Really such an increadibly rare and unique natural and national treasure lost forever so a bunch of floating RV's can temporarily house drunken kids making great decisions on the "lake". Oh and a few rich swine can become that much filthier stinking rich for killing an entire ecosystem. Tear down the damn and free the river and all those beautiful geological and historic treasures, after letting 70 years of sediment run down river and cleaning up all the beer bottles, styrofoam coolers, and plastic line and lures of course.
I feel your pain from 5000 miles away. How TF are they going to extract all those floating palaces from an ever shrinking reservoir with no access to it?
Humans are a large part of that ecosystem. Give water to us
Legit? According to who?
It’s not all about California in Nebraska we use the water from reservoirs to water crops. If we did dam it up it would all flow to the Ocean. It’s a thing of Beauty to see how the hard working people of the 40-50 design this without computers and all of the high-tech equipment we have now days.
Planning for this dam was started in the 1930's. The first surveyors at the time determined this was the best site for a dam.
6.7 million gpm. And I get excited about 2,000
AMAZING 10TH AUG 2019
It's pronounced Pa-ri-a. Both a's make the same sound.
None of that water is wasted. It all get stored in the next reservoir down stream.
0:26 Why is there a pipe in the middle of the water flow? Doesn't make much sense. The same with others at 0:40. Why put it right in the middle of the stream?
J R that little pipe is a for sensor that shows how much water is flowing.
Mast🙏
Sediment is vital
Tabourba The health of the river, the sediment carries all the nutrients.
@@aaronthomas5666 Some people do not understand why river front property is so fertile.
SegoMan some people are just as thick as pig shit
Wish this could happen now to save the West.
Navaho Nation marina at antelope canyon marina is a major employing job, the national park service has been trying to destroy the Marina, never gave any money for the land flooded, never any electricity from the dam,
Creeper aw man
Geek heaven.
so many nice words about messing up with nature !!!!
😨
That reminds me ......I gotta pee. You cannot “return” water to a place it never left.
Like from Clouds or the Air.?
why release so much water if you complain about low water levels in lake powel?
After the water was released it reminded me to go to the bathroom. Just to say something funny but all for science go do it..
Stewards not stewarts.
That's funny
Too bad they couldn't send that water down to Lake Mead behind the Hoover Dam.
That's where it ends up, this is Glenn Canyon, Utah and that released water flows through the Grand Canyon until it hits Lake Mead hundreds of miles downstream.
The problem with Lake Mead isn't just that there is less water coming in, thirsty California is taking it out faster than it comes in.
Even if they completely emptied Lake Powell into Lake Mead, what would you do next year?
Too bad you couldn’t use that stored energy to generate electricity.
They do. But sometimes you just can't use all of it, as the turbines aren't designed for high-volume flow. The dam system in the American west generates plenty of electricity. That's partly why it was created.
LMAO!! 🤣😂😂
There can never be true "balance" as long as there is a dam present.
You could also say there never will be a true balance as long as liberal human beings exist!
I can't speak to ecological damage - I acknowledge it happens - but most of the large cities of the SW US would not exist if not for dams like this one. The area would be mostly uninhabitable.
This vid didn't age well. Its currently projected (May 2022) that the dam wont have enough water to make power in 2023.
the world's a better place with those beaches replenished
In my opinion the world is a better place after I eat a Hershey bar with almonds.
Reclamation - the process of claiming something back. So you’re going to restore Glen Canyon? To the Department of Reclamation, “I do not think that word means what you think it means...”
What on earth is an “acre foot” .... ?
A measurement, but .......
Think about it "a acre foot" you get one guess
think of a sheet of water, one acre in area and one foot in depth.
The standard measurement for ponds :)
About 325,851 gallons.
Public School?...Right Comrade?
Bureau of Reclamation
@4:13 why a fake photo?
WTF? I was completely with you... then a fake?
Not fake, but possibly levels over-corrected in PhotoShop. That sand is bright and the greenery around it is darker. Plus, the lighting in those canyons can be tricky.
Bet they wish they could get that water back……..
X
Who else is here for Biology?
IM GOING TO THE DAM DAM TO SEE THE DAM WATER AND CATCH SOME DAM FISH
Good video, but the narrator sounds like he's sitting in a closet.
Soo wrong to cover the ancient history behind the dam 🖕🖕 I thought they were draining that timebomb.
The "ancient history" you refer to has now been destroyed and cannot ever be restored.
@@peteh5862 yea thanks to a bunch of dickwarts great NOT we need to speed up the removal of EVERY SINGLE DAM globally.
@@petenikolic5244 So just how do you propose to replace all the electricity produced by the dams?
@@peteh5862 Atomic Necular call it what you want i would also remove ALL wind farms
@@petenikolic5244 Now I agree with you totally.
It's not "wasting water." They move a certain amount downstream in a year. By doing this they just bunch some of it up into short periods of higher flow, in return for lower later on.
The biggest reason to have the dam is to provide irrigation water for the food we all eat. The dam will not be removed. The lake will not be drained.
The water level in the reservoirs continues to drop even in record snow years. Not because of "global warming", but because of the hordes of Democrats who choose to live in southern California. Nature is not capable of providing that much water even when we cheat through dam building.
water goes to the highest bidder. since california is entirely run by the corrupt democrat party they tax the hell out of its citizens and buy water 'rights' instead of creating their own water storage system. but ... people still keep voting for democrats. go figure
@grumpy old fart
but until the wall gets built far more illegals come in (and vote) than good folks leave. still a huge net gain for the corrupt party
@grumpy old fart
love the springs. but im movin to az. will join the fight there. internal and external
@grumpy old fart
wyoming is beautiful indeed. just not too fond of the winters. az wont be much of a change for me. daughter lived in fountain ... have thought seriously about joining her when she goes back
@grumpy old fart
my thoughts exactly
NO MUSIC
We could taken water without affecting the fucking salmon
If they drain this lake I'm sure down stream will mess it up somehow. Just like they destroying the beauty of the land an building buildings an roads. They need water to have water displays n Vegas, golf courses, pools 8n middle of deserts, I can keep going on n on with all ways u guys just screw it up
Very little of the water goes to Las Vegas. It goes to allowing liberal pinheads to waste water in Los Angeles. But above all it FEEDS your sorry ass.
It's also your drinking water, and water for farms! You need to research what it was like in the early days before the dams where built!
We dont use the dam water. Our water is from a well an m just saying, no matter how much water is given, somehow some way, they will misuse it, or waste it. Shame....
Most of the water in municipal golf courses is processed affluent.
Stop it you fools. We need that water
That's nice, mother earth is doing this all over the planet and DR thinks they have discovered something new and now it has to be "studied". Our TAX dollars at work, what a joke Leroy.
Simple minded comment.
Those newly re-created sandbars become occupied with thirsty trees that guzzle water needed for lake Mead!
Trees on sandbars, preventing the creation of an artificial lake? Isn't that what is supposed to happen? Or did they build Lake Mead just so you could water ski on it.
There's always that one special stupid person in every conversation. YOUR IT in this one buddy.
All the water in lake Powell can be stored in lake mead. Tear it down.
Lake Mead has a capacity of 31 million acre-feet. Lake Powell has a capacity of 27 million acre-feet. That would be 58 million acre-feet. That's a small ocean. There's just no room. Plus, Lake Powell allows the upper Colorado River Basin to store or bank water that it owes the lower basin according to the 1922 Compact, so that it is available just in case we run out of our own supply. It's planning for the future. If Mead and Powell and all the other reservoirs on the Colorado River and its tributaries were not full in 2000 we would have felt this drought 10 years ago or more. My concern is the lack of ways to store and reservoir water in California and other Western states. How much of that recent rain and snowfall ended up in the ocean and is now unusable. The end.
I live in Arizona, we are constantly faced with drought conditions, throwing the water away in this fashion is irresponsible. For sandbars? For beaches? What about the People???? We need water.
No water is wasted on high-flows. Reclamation is required to move certain amount of water from the Upper Colorado River Basin to the Lower, every year. By varying when and how much we send in our monthly "payments" we can store up and release a larger amount of water than normal, which imitates the natural surges of an undammed river. The same amount of water is released every year, it's just split up into volumes that are not the same every month.
You have to improve your speech and you must write script before you speak.
High flow released water only two years ago, now lake Powell is at 34 capacity, environmental activists who want a free river, depriving 30,000,000 people of electricity and water
Foolish waste of water!
African children could have used that water!
Leave it to the government to come up with ways to waste precious water resources.
remove all the dams
No Electricity for you Dip-Shit.