Here is a link to the live feed of them breaching the Condit Dam today at Noon Pacific time. (3 PM Eastern)
http://www.americanrivers.org/our-wo...the-river.html
Removal of the 95-year old, 125-foot Condit Dam will restore access to 33 miles of habitat for steelhead and 14 miles of habitat for chinook salmon.
Following the blast, the reservoir is expected to drain in six hours, kicking off one of the biggest dam removal and river restoration efforts our country has ever seen.
This oughta be fun. Thanks for posting.
Thanks Mato. I forgot they were going to show the breach live. An amazing effort put forth by many groups over decades. Today they will see the fruits of their labor.
Jeeze...................when they blow that horn you best haul arse out of that valley.
That was a wall of water................
I would have liked to see what happened downstream.
DuFf
That was neat, to bad some worker forgot to get the extension ladders they had been using to get down into the canyon , new orange ones got washed down the river...:) how dumb was that...
How cool is that? Wonder how many trouts are desperately hiding behind that big rock. lol
Jerry
Very intense! And very cool!
Now THAT was COOL!!!!!!!!
Those were steps built along the slope and painted orange. Nobody forgot anything. These breaches are planned right down to the very last detail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Molcsan
Wonder how many fish will die because of that blast and a release of all the silt.
Video of blast. Go to bottom of page: http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories...ls-from-condit
I'll bet far fewer fish are harmed because of the breach than what the dam itself has harmed in the 95 years it blocked fish passage to 33 river miles worth of spawning grounds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Bad Wulff
Same video now on YouTube.... http://youtu.be/-gJtvLnLJhU
You would have thought they'd blow out part of the top that way so much silt and mud wouldn't have covered everything downstream
There is not a lot of river below that dam, only about 3 miles, and some of that is backwater from the Columbia anyway. The winter rains will likely wash much of the fines down into the lake, and the coarser sediments might not be a bad thing after 98 years of nothing coming down the canyon. And while the sediment will undoubtedly have short-term impacts, the long-term benefits seem to me to be more than the short-term losses.
What? No white water rafters? :)
Larry ---sagefisher---
Larry, I think they were hidden by the kayakers.
Ed
Wonder how much of the dam structure will remain when they are done. It would be cool to leave part of it as a historical marker/reminder for future generations, much like what they've done with some of the mill dams around here.
When the dam first blew, there was a lot of silt thrust out the hole. I wonder how much of that silt was black sand, and how much gold was in the black sand.
Really nothing more than a ripple by the time it hit the mouth of the river. Some nice debris got flushed out. Some folks in boats corralled up the larger logs and let the smaller stuff float down the ColumbiaQuote:
Originally Posted by Duffin Boy