What Happens When You Remove a Dam

I love on copco lake. Your “facts” about the salmon are laughable.

Dams are catastrophic for rivers and their ecosystem but they're far from the only reason salmon populations are plummeting. Chinese factory fishing vessels in the Pacific are vacuuming up every migratory fish their advanced fish finding electronics can find, biomass depletion be damned. Dammed or damned, we humans are self destructing our own world.

So happy that they are restoring the river. :) Those minerals need to reach the ocean guys.

The green communist vision is to use "renewable energies" to power the society. If they tear down dams...How do they want to generate electricity.?
Californa faces a regular draughts. Why not pumping the water to California?

I am so happy how they blew up all that green energy and did it whit big trucks!!

damn’t

Fish ladders are weird, aren't they? I mean, are they intuitive to the fish or is there a little human help required?

Within the next decade salmon populations in the Klamath river will cease entirely .

Damn!

wouldnt multiple smaller dams, built with the local ecology in mind, be better anyway?

Sooooo we are going to remove the renewable energy damns, without a reliable cost effective green substitute potentially leading to a higher dependance on fossil fuels furthering global warming and killing the now saved fish population. Makes a whole lot of sense

While are taking out these hydro power dams? Where is the make up electricity for the region come from and make up for the ever growing electricity demand? It’s estimated by 2050 50 million will be living along interstate corridor/ Cascadia region?

A lot of dams where built for flood control. Unless they are silted up and the silt can't be removed then removing the dam is correct? But then flood control is lost?

Was one of the biggest salmon populations until it got fished out with nets. And they sold all those salmon on the side of the road.

Morons

When you said officials you mean the Klamath tribe is taking these dams down

I would rather have the water storage, then the fish.

I think it’s too late, there will be no water anymore what comes down from mountains😅

I am happy to see salmon enjoyers get their way over electricity fans.

Damn tree huggers

Mankind is funny.

"Build dams, use that "natural energy" nature gives us!" the PAST.

"Tear down that dam, restore nature!" today.

You see when your world view has no footings, popularity not reality becomes important.

The problem with popularity is that, well, it is infected with ignorance.

I stayed by the Irongate damn.

The real problem is that they always try to maintain a high water level.

For water to stay fresher without algae.

The levels should lower over the season to let the smaller stagnant pools empty.

The reservoir should be close to empty by the end of the season.

That keeps water fresh.

The problem is the idiots controlling the flow.

Will Power from other states be needed to replace the Electrical Power lost in California or will wind and solar make up the lost?

dam thats expensive.

For a country that is far from reaching zero net emissions to remove hydropower dams makes little to no sense. I get the idea od restoring watercourses but the damage is 100 yyears old and tiny in comparison to the complete cockup that is climate change and which needs to be dealt with now. The US has very limited resources currently prioritizing this sort of infrastructure divestment especially eith the carbon footprint both of the deconstruction AND the carbon footprint of the alternative energy sources is a strange idea.

it's not hard to remove a dam. also we are going to need more due to the lack of electricity.

Just send the BLM protestors to the dams

Well done

Going through a drought “let’s take the dams down” make sense to me

how are they replacing those 70 000 homes worth of electricity?

many dams have bypass for fish...

nothing like demolishing dams in a region struggling with water supply...

On one hand, you have indigenous groups who's land was stolen from them for profit as well as environmental groups who are bringing up scientific concerns about animal die-off, ecosystem harm, algae blooms, etc

On the other hand you have a bunch of white NIMBYs who are worried about paying slightly more in taxes and losing property value

Gee, I wonder which one is more important to consider, the environment and the rights of indigenous people, or white yuppies who want line go up?

It's a bloody mystery!

I'm pretty sure the obvious Answer to this. It's simple. The water returns to the way that it originally Used to flow. After destroying everything that got in its path, originally in the form of a jagged Flood of hate. Then after about three years it returns to its original state.


This is just my hypothesis however. I don't think anyone has ever actually tried to do this until recently. And I don't think we're ever going to figure out the results until a few years later Once the excess water drains away.

Except it seems like a certain country in this world Is more than happy to test this in real life.

And there is another country on the other side of the globe that did not need to test this because nature itself decided it would just make it happen.

The large flowing dams arent the issue. Its the ones that reduce water to a trickle or stop it that need to go. We had it with the Murray river here. Absolutely destroyed.

It's already done. Why the hell do you want to remove it? A bunch of idiots.

Well replacing small days with better engineered ones to allow fish to survive would be the preference, but leave it to big corporations to decide if they would rather continue operating or not. Cause it seems like the energy from these dams wasn't particularly large in the first place.

we don't owe shit. the gov't does. not it's citizens.

Why dont they leave the dam wall in pllacw and blow a hole in the bottom to create a water flow then only remove the power plant

Honestly, these are the ONLY reasonable dam removals that should ever happen.

Love the channel, but Masterworks is a pretty suspect company, some say that it’s something of a Ponzi scheme.

Lake Tulare enters the chat.

We should be building new dams we need the free poultion free energy. We don't need the fish. We can seed any type of fish in the lakes

This is all envio nonesence.

Why not put a missile when the water is gone?

Great less water
Hippies will be ecstatic but will just move to mess up other states
Happy for the fish but we don’t live on hopes and payers

Taking a Dam down is easy. It's doing it in a controlled and safe way for everyone downstream that is the hard part.