Lake Powell Glen Canyon Dam High Flow Experiment 2023 Before and After
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- čas přidán 4. 05. 2023
- This video will show the before and after of the Colorado River prior to the High Flow Experiment of 2023. This video explains the data provided by the Bureau Of Reclamation and the USGS. You will see new sand bars the river has created during peak flow of 39,000 ft.³ per second. Also an explanation of sediment and how it is measured. Scenic views of the Vermilion Cliffs, Echo, Cliffs, Lees ferry in the Paria beach. Information will be provided in this bio.
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USA TODAY
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
USGS
www.usgs.gov/news/featured-st...
Environmental Assessment Development and Implementation of a Protocol
www.usbr.gov/uc/envdocs/ea/gc...
ADMP
www.usbr.gov/uc/progact/amp/i...
High Flow 2014 Results
grandcanyon.usgs.gov/gisapps/...
USGS Sand Bar Monitoring
www.usgs.gov/apps/sandbar/
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Filming this must have involved a lot of hiking and here I am watching it for free.
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Thanks for the visual! You did a lot of walking for this one,Thanks for the history!! ✌️
Thanks for watching! More to come.
Amazing video! Love the drone shots and the old footage you have shown.
Thanks for taking the time to make this!
Thank you for the feedback!
Great video! So good to see the cottonwood trees planted there.
I agree. They have been doing a restoration of Paria beach. Back in 2022 they burned down all the tamarisk trees.
I was on the atkins trip when this took place. Lee’s ferry to Pearce ferry(21 days)
How was the river? Hope you got some footage !
Great job on this. I look forward to these videos
I appreciate the feedback. Thank you I will try not to disappoint.
@@DesertRatExploration don’t worry no chance of that 😀. We houseboat every year and it’s great to know status and conditions. Plus love to learn more about the health of the river and how the experiment is working. Thanks again
Nice one, Ratty. I always enjoy your videos.
As you say, these HFEs just release sediment-free water downstream to rearrange what little deposits there are in Glen and Grand Canyons.
Meanwhile, for the last sixty years, the trillions of tons of crap, so vital to the Colorados ecosystem, have been settling out miles away in the Hite area and up the San Juan etc. At the mouth of White Canyon the sediment is over 140ft deep. The river continues to carve down through this stuff (your Hite video suggests the cliffs of mud stand 30-40 feet above the river) which just sends it further downstream. The next time Powell gets extremely low, the river delta could well appear in the Good Hope Bay area.
These HFEs are worthy but ultimately futile.
Keep up the good work, sir.
Fabulous video.
This took some time and effort. Very nice job it's amazing the difference .I love the Before & After's. exciting Video. Hey why is the water so green it almost looks like the Chicago river on Saint Patrick's day. thanks for a great video.😎
Thank you! It’s mainly green because the water this clean and clear. You can see all the way to the bottom of the river at some points and make out the underwater plant life. The green can be attributed to algae.
From NZ. Amazing video. thank you for your work. As the first of the two major dams Lake Powell must be accumulating an extremely large amount of sediment. even in NZ we have some major water issues.
Do you guys have any hydroelectric dams?
Excellent series of videos-thx from an Az transplant to Seattle-Cheers!
Thank you!
Looks good! They should do this every spring
Makes more sense ecology.
When you go down into the Grand Canyon and see the river and the cliffs and the overall size and scale . . . you can sense the passage of Time . . . you feel small . . .
and come out a different person.
Beautiful
nice
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So, were more sandbars produced? Improved?
The USGS should release there study soon. Based on what I captured from the bridge and also from what I have seen personally, yes.
The experiment came about from a mud trout that thrived in the muddy Colorado River that went extinct in the clear water . They tried too reinduce the fish cant remember the proper name of the fish.This video was great explanation of what is going on with the releases
Humpback Chub?
It was an ugly trout humpback was definitely part of the name that's when powel lost a lot of water just before the drought
Greetings from the BIG SKY.
Montana?
@@DesertRatExploration Yup.
So, are they able to get above damn sediment to pass through?
Must be a tonne of sediment settling before it…?!?
Unfortunately, a system hasn’t been implemented. I’d assume unless there was a major breakthrough in technology, I don’t see anything feasible
So what was the point? I see no difference.
No points just observations. If you find a point, let me know. 🙂
So how much sediment made it to Lake Mead?? Can't be zero...
That’s a great question. I don’t have a answer for that.
Hu
WHAT A WAIST!!. THINK OF THE ELECTRICAL POWER LOSS. WHY NOT JUST OPEN UP ALL THE TURBINES?.
It will be utilized in Lake Mead.
Good chance the experts know what they are doing.
The environmentalist want to dry out the lake and put in solar and wind power!! What's going on with the news and the governors in Utah. I thought they were conservative.