2005 - 2010
Bradford's Hoover Dams arrived on the scene in 2005 sharing … Read Full Bio ↴2005 - 2010
Bradford's Hoover Dams arrived on the scene in 2005 sharing their early stages with the likes of Bad Beat Revue, The Playmates and Forward, Russia.

Winners of Channel 4's Harvey Goldsmith Presents series winning the prestigious title of Harvey Goldsmiths (Legendary Live Aid promoter) Entertainers of the Year and regular gigging up and down the country gained Hoover Dams a reputation for blistering, unpredictable live performances managing to blend pop songs, distorted guitars, a diy mentality and entertaining live performance to create catchy scuzzy pop tunes.

Hoover Dams were signed to several different labels during their existence including Band Republic and Belle Records

What they said -

Cool Noise Website - 'Intense and claustrophobic music from Bradford. Extra proof, as if anyone needed it, of the Leeds/Bradford axis of musical accomplishment. More edge than a very edgy thing.'

Vibrations Magazine - 'The Hoover Dams create refreshing indie Rock'

Frantic Corduroy Website - 'What is this low-fi loud guitar love-in and where has it come from? Bradford, apparently. it's catchy, it's interesting, it's a little dark and it sounds like the track was recorded on an old Memorex cassette found under the passenger seat of someone's car - but the lo-fi feel goes well - it's a bit dirty and you want it to be that way. Who wants to feel all shiny after some gritty loud guitars? More like you need a shower and a good scrub. But hell, you're alive' 9/10

Mono Magazine - 'Hoover Dams swirling unison riffs engulf the whole club - its fucking loud and its fucking good ... there's depth, intrigue and more importantly DANGER here ... Go and see the Hoover Dams soon.'

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Rich Payton

2y↑6

REGARDING THE OROVILLE DAM AND LAKE OROVILLE DILEMMAS
Following the release of water from the very heavy "atmospheric river" of storms and record lake levels, the main spillway was damaged, precluding (at least for the time being) it use.
The "emergency spillway", which was not a spillway at all, but rather a large hillside, was soon wiped out. When water for the first time cascaded over the retaining wall and took out huge sections of the adjacent unstable rock structure, the heavily damaged main spillway then again had to be used to reduce the lake's level. This soon led to its near total destruction.
This disaster came so close to causing the complete failure of the dam that millions of downstream residents feared for their lives, and rightly so. The ensuing death and destruction would have been unimaginable.
I've heard it stated that the project's surveyors, geologists, and engineers "didn't know this, didn't understand that" regarding the geology of the mountains the dam was built across.
You don't even have to be a scientist or civil engineer to look at the characteristics of the rock and see that the location's geology was not stable enough to support a dam.
On top of this, corners were cut, contracts went to low bidders, funds were mismanaged, and timelines were pushed for political reasons.
It is a perfect storm, nearly destroyed by a record storm.
And it's not over, many more billions of dollars may have to be spent on it to keep the band-aids current and effective. Meanwhile, the threat ever remains.
Not man, but rather Mother Nature may well be its ultimate arbiter in the long or not so long run.

Sagar Ullas

Hi,

I had a new topic for you. "DAMS WHICH WILL FAIL IF NOT DECOMMISSIONED IMMEDIATELY".

There is a dam called "Mullaperiyar" in Kerala which is in India. It's 126 years old. The life expectancy was only 50 years old, I personally think God is holding back the dam without failing.

The breaking of this dam will most probably trigger in breaking of further larger dams beneath it. Just like the Banqiao dam failure in 1975. It's almost 2900ft above mean sea level.

If it happens almost 5million people will die/disappear.

Please check about "mullaperiyar dam", you will understand that this is not a scam. Hope you will make a vedio of it and let others know about it worldwide. I also hope your vedio might help save many lives.

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Scootermom

3y↑201

I'm really surprised you didn't include the Grand Teton dam break in Idaho in 1976. The 305 ft. dam wiped out complete agricultural towns and cost 11 people their lives. It had a huge impact on Yellowstone's trout and the snake river habitat. To make matters worse, logs that had been stored around the dam broke loose, rammed into a gas storage tank which exploded and sent flames along the racing water. The flood and resulting fires nearly destroyed Rexburg and Hibbard. Government claims were filed well into the 1980s totalling over $300 million. (Source: Wikipedia)

Rusty Smith

2y↑6

They didnt say they were going to show EVERY single one

Quinn

2y↑8

I like how you gave us your source. That’s legit 🤙🏼

imho

2y↑1

Because he had so many other bits of side info to throw in.

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Vincent Mulinge

4y↑25

It's very spectacular to see water flowing with such magnitude

Mickeyislowd

4y↑74

Standing next to the water jetting out like this looks incredibly dangerous. Also standing next to a flood with all that soil and mud flooding everywhere.

kleetus92

2y↑2

looks and are are two different things.

Mel Taylor

2y↑2

Beat me😈

2y↑1

I have never in my intire life a daaaammmmm before

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Robert Schott

3y↑4

Near my hometown northwest of San Antonio, TX is a dam on the Medina River. It was completed in 1918 with the primary purposes of flood control and agriculture irrigation. In 1919 there was a rain event created by a dying hurricane over its watershed. It filled the damn to near capacity, saving property and countless lives. It was estimated that approximately 50"+ inches of rain fell over a 3 day. When it opened it was the largest dam West of the Mississippi. It's over 100 years old and is stronger than when it first due the continued curing of the concrete

Jean Kutzer

Did you get the book written a few years ago about it? Next edition will have updated info. Those bodies from the settlement remain in the lake bottom. Only the headstones were moved.

Luiz

@Jean Kutzer bodies? You mean bones, right. I don't think anything would not decompose inside waters

arribafication wineho

Shouldn’t floodgates of that dam be open during potential flood stages?

arribafication wineho

I might be misreading…..one would hope gates were open during flood potential

Outdoorsygal O

That was a well done video. Thanks for showing us all the dams around the world.
Quite the history!

Al Moody

4y↑19

I live about 35 miles downstream from the Oroville Dam. Been through floods in 1986 and 1997 and the spillway disaster in February 2017. We are about 4 miles from the Feather River with a couple natural barriers between here and there, so we always stay dry

BRAIN TIME

4y↑45

Enjoy the video, dear friends!

Gavin Rodriguez

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Mufiz khan

4y↑1

Lil Leo

Hi!!!

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Diane Greene

4y↑5

Hoover Dam has an interesting visitors center. The builders were so confident of the dam's longevity that there is a plaza showing where the major constellations were in the sky at time of building. You can also take guided tour and see honkin' great turbines. The tour has been scaled back since 9-11-01 but still very worthwhile.

Tandi Parent

Interesting information about it... thanks 🙂

Walter Fink

4y↑30

Oroville Dam went through a massive rebuild, and by 2019, it was one of the best earth dams in the world. It's now, 2020, with no problems seen. You will be amazed at what was done, in this total rebuild. More like a miracle.

Jessica ✨✨

3y↑1

You must be smart

Mike Fowler

@Jessica ✨✨ Yeah he is, look at the southwest of America no new reservoir or source of since 1980 and they wonder why there's no water now?

BryanJ

California has had a deep drought since Oroville was fixed so it hasn’t really been tested yet by being filled to capacity.

Lone Wolf

The dam was not rebuilt. They didn't do anything to the dam itself. They tore out and replaced the main spillway and concrete stepped the auxiliary spillway. The replaced spillway has been inspected numerous times since replacement and it is full of cracks....

P.J. Maloof

2y↑8

As a Vegas Local, I really appreciate you being respectful by saying how many died on site while building Hoover Dam

Karin Oshea

4y↑93

Great video!

Although it wasn't a hydroelectric dam, people should look up the Great Johnstown Flood. A poorly maintained earthen dam let loose early in the morning of May 31, 1889. It swept into the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, crashing into steel mills and picking up huge bales of barbed wire and demolishing everything in it's path. In the debris and tangles of barbed wire 2200 people perished. You can still visit the dam, it's now a very pretty but somber park.

22Pachanga

3y↑2

WOW.

Joey B

2y↑2

It is a very scary story. When I visited Johnstown I was very surprised.

The Villain in Glasses

2y↑9

Not just Johnstown, but every single town and community along that river valley for 30 miles. My hometown was one of the ones affected. Apparently there were entire communities along the river and factories. All destroyed and buried. Nothing has been rebuilt along the river either since it is now a flood zone. If you walk through the woods down there you can find foundations for buildings or staircases leading nowhere.
Very sad tragedy indeed. The biggest loss of life in the history of the USA until 911.

99 whole families died, hundreds of kids, town leaders, all so some rich people could have a nice lake by their golf course.

Karin Oshea

2y↑3

@The Villain in Glasses my mother's family was from Holsopple and Davidsville and the men either worked in the local coal mines or the steel mills in Johnstown. Mom also spent time working on a farm near Shanksville before going to nursing school. I only mentioned the Memorial specifically to hopefully pique interest in the area. Exploring the area is incredible! The toll on the area can still be felt, all for the vanity of rich folk. Much love from Oklahoma!

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Uvais p

3y↑59

There's a dam called "mullapperiyar" In southern indian state "Kerala" (It's made on 1896 at that time it was the biggest dam in the world.
The engineer made it certifies it's lifespan is 50 years but it's been 126 years
It have many leakages in the structure
If it fail it will break idukki dam (biggest dam in state, second biggest arch dam in the World) and it'll kill around 50 lakh people

#savekerala
#decommissionmullapperiyar

Vexor ff⚡

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blackpiston

3y↑1

Njn athil pedum

South side

@visweswaran dam പൊട്ടിയാൽ ആരു സമാധാനം പറയും 35 lack ആൾക്കാരുടെ ജീവനും സ്വത്തിനും,

blackpiston

@South side athe

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I Can't Play

4y↑93

The emergency water discharge wasn’t the solution in the Oroville dam crisis, it was the problem. The spillway formed a hole and it began eroding the soil beneath in the direction of the dam.

Rich Payton

2y↑6

txpacket

As a Butte Co resident the majority of my life & living though this.. I too HATE when these channels get this wrong. Do some blasted research, right?

Harry

2y↑2

@Rich Payton One of the contributing issues was the design of the spillway and the lack of effective inspection. The concrete was poured in such a way that none of the concrete slabs were interconnected or had an overlap to prevent water from getting under the slab and lifting it. They need to rebuild the entire spillway system and ensure the geology is factored into the engineering.

Several very good videos are located here on YouTube which explain the entire problems with this dam. Do a search so you can understand all the things they've identified so far.

DragonSlayer

46w

Come play the game is just getting exciting 😭 this was an attack on Europe why? Because of Interpol? 😭

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FireStar Gaming

4y↑12

I remember the 2017 dam over flow. I live in the central part of California but closer to the southern part of California that even caused river water levels to rise down here we thought they would have shut down a few bridges because the water was so high and part of that dams spillway broke because of the amount of water and the pressure on the drop at the end of the spill way.

Christy Stewart

I learned a few years ago about a dam burst in Southern California in 1928. The dam was in the mountains north of Los Angeles and the resulting flood reached the Pacific Ocean somewhere around Ventura. The dam was called the St. Francis Dam and is considered the second biggest disaster in the state after the 1906 quake.

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Chris Brown

4y↑4

I'm glad you're showing this because everyone should know the hazards of producing a dam.

PESCADOR CHANNEL

3y↑8

There's always a disadvantages and advantages in constructing a huge damn!

GHAROCK STUDIO

4y↑9

Amazing human made dam. Great construction / achievements all over the world.

Akhil K S

1y↑1

There is a crazy dam in Kerala, India. Mullaperiyar dam. It is 126 year old dam which is made with limestone and surkhi. And it's still standing. God Grace.

63jeepj20

2y↑3

The emergency spillway on the Oroville Dam actually almost caused a complete failure. When it was constructed it was done with the thought that it would never actually be used so they skimped on ensuring it was built to withstand water rushing over it. The bedrock that they thought was there was just dirt and clay and it became very obvious that it would fail as soon as water started flowing. It forced them to continue dumping through the spillway in hopes it would hold long enough to get the water to a safe level to do repairs.

Lone Wolf

The dam itself was never in danger of failing... the auxiliary spillway was showing signs of failure with undermining.... It could have completely failed and not damaged the dam itself.

63jeepj20

@Lone Wolf due to the way it was constructed, which didnt even meet standards in the 70s, the main spillway and emergency spillway both were at severe risk of complete failure. It became apparent pretty quickly that there wasnt enough rock or erosion control built into either spillway and had the reservoir continued to fill, failure would have happened.

Lone Wolf

@63jeepj20 no there was never any danger to the dam itself. Both spillways could have completely failed and no damage would have happened to the dam itself because of where they are. They are not part of the dam itself.

63jeepj20

@Lone Wolf the spillways failing would have caused billions of gallons of water to flood the valley. I lived in the area and most of my family still lives in the area. They didnt evacuate everyone from Oroville to Yuba City for nothing, they weren't frantically flying boulders in with helicopters because they just wanted to play in the water. It was a very real possibility that was confirmed after reviewing how the spillways were constructed by an inexperienced engineer.

Lone Wolf

@63jeepj20 but again the dam would have been fine.... The dam was in no danger of failing... again for the 3rd time... Both spillways could have failed and the dam would have been fine. No damage to it at all... Not saying that had the auxiliary spillway been allowed to fail wouldn't have resulted in large amounts of water being released but the dam wouldn't have been damaged... I really don't care where you lived at the time. I lived in Oroville at the time. Did not evacuate and still live in Oroville.

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Mohammad Ali

4y↑2

That is why if I were to be designing the dam, I would not just build them wide (both in width and thickness) and tall enough to prevent breakage, but I would design them to be wider to make them stronger, yet durable with very strong elements in the history of science. I would also design them to be built back to back to control water levels and increasing the pathway width to make traffic even less. Water pathways that reach the other side of the dam would also be a design priority to create as few bridges possible. Fewer gaps in gaps can probably cause catastrophe and less control of water levels, including water pressures.

keith mounts

2y↑2

thats why you aren't designing them or building them because you don't know WTF you're Talking About...

Mohammad Ali

2y↑1

@keith mounts as a matter of fact I do know what I am saying. I also have been on dams and bridges. You know absolutely nothing about my identity to say if I know what I say or not. Better if you spoke to someone else you know that doesn’t do such a thing rather than trash talking like this.

keith mounts

2y↑1

so now I guess you want a medal or maybe a trophy for Participation?

Mohammad Ali

2y↑1

@keith mounts l am recognized for having this character as a part of my nature every time I meet and be with anyone (99.9% of the time literally, and that 0.01% is only out of loss and grief which not even close to bad, severe and horrible). I do have trophies for a fact on showing the best attitude of being kind. I don’t ask for any trophies or medals. Kindness is what builds a person a better opportunity (based on my experience) and draws positive attention. It also makes a person be positively recognized as it does play a big role in good character. I don’t expect earning anything from anywhere nor anyone whether if it is given or not.

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Al Butterfield

4y↑1

Most modern dams are made to survive over topping which is caused by heavy rain falls for a prolonged time thus exceeding the dams capabilities to safety release the water. Orville dam was designed to be over topped, this is better then having the dam fail

136 outdoors

4y↑2

I feel bad for those who had to work on the dam.

K.C.

Listening to this guy you'd think dams costs outweigh their benefits. Countless lives & properties have been saved from flooding by their proper use!

R VW

3y↑1

They aren't designed for flood prevention. There for irrigation and hydroelectric power.

Henry The Mechanic

3y↑11

Ok, so you are telling me I grew up DIRECTLY next to the river that powered the HOOVER DAM? Ok, everyday I feel like I was a luckier kid than I realize

Immortal SoFar

3y↑2

Better than being downstream from it!

Skitzochik

@Immortal SoFar ive lived downstream from it my entire life...its well designed so i dont worry

Skitzochik

if the river you speak of is the Colorado then yes your next to the river powering good ole Hoover Dam

lk mayhew

4y↑149

The tragedy in Brazil was a tailings dam failure not a release. They’ve had more than one of these failures due to poor maintenance and just plain not caring about the environment or the people who live below these tailings dams.

Hopping H

3y↑3

lol it was at 69 likes, I changed it

K9OfficerFT

3y↑1

@Jullie T Ragsdale ok

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Jean Kutzer

What about Canyon Lake Dam in Texas? Designed by the same group that built the levees in Louusiana that gave out during Huricane Katrina, Army Corp of Engineers. This is a rolled earth (dirt) dam on the Guadalupe River. Ask an engineer (not working for the government) what happens to them. 'They break.' Eventually, not if but when. In 2002 a flood carved out a gorge below the spillway that would have taken nature 5000 years to create. Looking at close up pictures taken afterwards you can see how little time was left had it continued. My Uncle was an engineer who was hired to work on its construction. He cursed about from the beginning and afterwards sold his property down river, as did my parents. He said when it fails Seguin and New Braunfels downstream would be under 28 feet of water. Not to worry taxpayers, Texas will not be held responsible as they created the Guadalupe Blanci River Authority as a corporation (dummy) which is responsible for its upkeep and maintenance (which they do none of ) as well as older dams downstream, two of which have failed due to rusted out floodgates. And those are concrete dams. Note: It took 6 years to build this dam. In 1912 on the Medina River a concrete dam was built designed by one of the top architects of his day. If was the 3rd largest concrete dam in North America when completed 12 months later. Yeah a year. No machines just the sweat and blood of over 2000 men equipped with picks and shovels and mules which my Grandfather provided. Oh and 19 men died during construction and are entombed in it.

Gkm Haider

2y↑1

I always wonder what's the pressure under the dam

cokemachine

I was told as a child and while visiting multiple times in youth
that Dorshack Dam in Idaho " sorry for spelling " if bursted would take out every day to the pacific ocean. via the Columbia River. it's an awesome day, can you talk about it sometime?

Karen Arteta

3y↑1

Very informative video dam has advantage and disadvantage in our community or in our environment.

Duke Sutherland

4y↑4

My great grandfather died building the hoover dam. He died from a collapse in the tunnels.

johnverney

4y↑2

Most dams are built for hydroelectric power generation, not flood control

Upsonian/ Mechanian

4y↑12

The water spill over the dam but the italian dam didn't break and was still functional ! Italian engineering ! ❣👍

remplante

1y↑1

Wasn't the problem with the Oroville dam the spillway and not the dam itself ?

Soule

4y↑21

I used to live up in the mountains, not far from Oroville and all my family members had to evacuate to my house and there was so much people. And yeah thats my experience.

brody schneider

4y↑1

My family was in Oroville when everyone was evacuated and we live just north of Oroville so we didn’t have to evacuate

Danny Holt

3y↑1.7K

That was dam interesting

Not Greem

3y↑127

Dam that was a good one

AzD1

3y↑30

HAHAHHHAAAA 😭😭😭😭😭😐

Morten

3y↑44

Dam son

The American

3y↑21

DAMMMMM BOII

Armaandeep Singh

3y↑15

It was so funny that I forgot how to laugh

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Michael Quirk

4y↑5

This is one of the best dam videos around. It's so dam interesting.

Aiden Newman

3y↑1

Everyone's complaining about the video explaining what happens later in the video, but he literally said he would be explaining the biggest dams, how they are made, and what happens when they break

Joseph Rood

Well Orville also had a failure of it’s water slope causing a bunch of issues.

Sergio Avelar

Triple frontier Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay has the huge Itaipu dam. The reservoir ate some also huge waterfalls.

Sagar Ullas

Raul Osorio

4y↑11

I'll remember this site from now on. They always start with this guy giving a big lecture on whatever the theme or issue is and then showing little or less than you expect.

imho

2y↑1

Seems like the half researched essay of a 12 year old.

Tim

4y↑6

1975, 2 dams in China failed (Banqiao and Shimantan) and killed up to 240,000 people. It's the same river system as the 3 gourges. Few people ever heard of it.

Philip Jones

4y↑1

I've seen no mention of the recent dam collapse in Michigan except via YouTube. The media here in Europe seems more interested in what style facemask the Kardashians' are wearing.

johnverney

4y↑1

The Russian dam failure was caused by poor maintenance on the units. A critical piece called the head cover failed, blew apart under high pressure and created the catastrophe. I have a co-worker who saw the report.

Jean Kutzer

Yeah socialism works great right?

Marlena Forbes-Reidy

Awesome video, thank you for sharing 👍

Alexander Fretheim

We can really trace Californias water woes, and the subsequent overuse of the Colorado River, to the failure of the Saint Francis Dam in 1928. The LA River is called a river for a reason - it can in fact carry truly incredible amounts of water when the rains do fall, but most of it washes out to the ocean due to a lack of effective reservoirs. The only feasible way to build a truly massive reservoir is to dam a river in front of a canyon - the tributaries of the LA River have many canyons, and Mulholland did in fact try to dam them, which would have stabilized the flow of the LA River and possibly even eventually turned LA in to a picturesque riverfront town, but when the St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito Canyon failed catastrophically in 1928, taking at least 431 lives and obliterating a vast area of land, not only did LA stop building dams, they actually ended up draining and eliminating some of the reservoirs they had already built. This also required LA to take more from the Owens Valley, and eventually, the Colorado River.

Harry

I guess they want the danger to be located in other locations. The problem now is the water from some of the other places may be needed for people to drink. The Colorado river is running out of water due to poor snowfalls in the Colorado Rockies.

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Over Watch

4y↑65

When I look at the dam, I get anxiety at how deep it is on the other side..

Michael Norris

3y↑3

Just remember, the depth is the same on BOTH sides.

4th NC Cav- Noah

3y↑5

@Michael Norris actually no

Chris-Ann Witter

3y↑1

Sameee

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Ginger Snape

There's a dam not far from where I live. Some time in the 90s, a freak rainstorm dropped ten feet of water in like an hour. My city, along with many others, were declared a disaster zone. I watched the news, and saw my city on CNN. The scariest thing though, was seeing water flowing over that dam.

Mayangone

4y↑4

I remember New Orleans in 2005, the levee (or dam) failed, and over 1200 people died.

some camera

4y↑36

"The copious amounts of rain that fall in California" as a Californian, that's a myth.

Mrs. Reed

Dumbo's Bizarre Adventure! 😂

OSTAP BENDERVAN

Ok.california a big space
The biggest IN

william Thomas

I live in California yolo county, I can assure you that we can get rains that are epic almost as our long term draughts. Our designs on infrastructure only took into account the 150 years most recent weather patterns and they are all at risk of being useless due to extended draught or over topped by an extreme atmospheric river. Only two types of dams int the word, those that have failed and those that have yet ro fail

some camera

@william Thomas do you live in NorCal or SoCal?

william Thomas

Yolo county is between SF and Sacramento 15 miles west of Sac. Watch the documentary on the 1850's flooding and the weather patterns that cause this type of flooding

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Arne Sahlen

3y↑1

Vajont dam not damaged!? Not the structure itself, but the reservoir behind it was massively filled with earth etc.

Bodhraj Bodh

4y↑1

I love nature🌿🍃🌿🍃🌿🍃

Cadence

Copious amounts of rain that falls in California? What? We’ve been suffering a drought for the past 20 years. The day of that incident at the Orville Dam was a freak accident. 40 years and the dam had never seen that much water entering the reservoir. 40 years of its existence and that was the first time the emergency spillway was used.

To be fair, the Feather, Sacramento and American Rivers not only have to hold back rain water, but snow melt too. Our biggest threat is a huge dumping of snow in the cold winter followed by a warm rainfall in the spring that melts the snow and sends torrents of water down river. Add to that years of drought draining the reservoirs causes the levees to weaken, topped with poor infrastructure management due to government ignorance and it makes for…well what we saw this year. Record breaking rainfall caused several of our levees to fail. The governor blames climate change rather than himself for not ensuring our infrastructure was up-to-date. Says “it’s clear that this flooding is a result of climate change. Carbon emissions are a leading factor in climate change. To prevent this in the future we need to reduce our state’s carbon emissions”. That’s funny you see because that’s what he said the previous year about the drought.
Mr. governor - “it’s climate change”
Me - “you keeping using that phrase. I don’t think it means what you think it means”.
Truthfully. Yes, this is climate change, but from a far more natural source. We have Etna to thank for all this rainfall. And we should be very grateful to receive it, not crying over the spilled waterways. The only human to blame for that is you. You should have been making sure our infrastructure was in good condition. Don’t gamble at all, but if you are going to gamble, don’t gamble with lives. And also, next time a massive disaster happens, don’t wait so long to issue a state of emergency. Local fire departments don’t have the resources to handle such huge disasters.

patrick Zink

3y↑1

Oroville dam. Not large amounts of rain. Its the snow fall from other areas that flow down the feather river

Quaxky

4y↑123

Brain Time: This is how the dam failed
Me: Damn those dams

shorty Short

2y↑1

Love how the superman move is always the go to clip for a dam bursting

Momo

Ok this video is great but it didn’t answer my question, after the water is released from high elevation from inlet to outlet, what happened to the (releases) water and where does it end up ?

Chris Lister

4y↑7

My dad used to work at the Hoover dam as a chief of police and saved dozens of people from jumping off

Vex

3y↑1

Your dad is a good man

Charles Silver

1y↑1

I hear it's a popular spot.

Chris Lister

@Charles Silver surprisingly, it is lol

Chris Lister

@Vex thanks, I hope I can even accomplish something close to as good as him

Michael Davis

4y↑108

"In 2017, local authorities had to evacuate 230,000 citizens in northern California because of alarmingly high water levels in a reservoir that was created as a result of the DAMN (ah-hum, excuse me, "dam") construction."

praestant8

4y↑1

No, they were evacuated due to an aging structure that wasn't well designed.

Lawrence Haguewood

4y↑7

Michael Davis The dam itself was not the problem.... The spillway structure, which was physically separate from the dam, is what started to fail that caused the evacuations

Michael Davis

4y↑1

@praestant8 Dam, you're very much correct! My bad ;)

Michael Davis

4y↑3

@praestant8 Well, it looks like my usual source of "reliable" information was DAM-nably incorrect; I reiterate: DAM! ;)

Anthony Hardin

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Gary Kirkpatrick

What about the Teton dam in Idaho that failed in 1976 because they built it in a pumice canyon?

Madia aria

4y↑6

My grandpa designed the Folsom dam with some other people I think we are now hella far away from there because we was so scared but we visit sometimes

Nunster's Place

4y↑1

Orville has been fixed beyond what it needed. Then when Orville dam was flooding and if it did fail it would of been a slow failure of the hill side washing away and the dam it's self remaining.

Gene Lomas

4y↑3

Also, the death of those 2500 Italians was not due the failure of the dam at all, you said yourself that the same withstood the overtopping event..
It was a natural disaster, and those people chose to live under an unstable mountain range, landslides are inevitable.. if anything, the dam probably held back much more of the sludge and slurry which would have otherwise moved even further down the valley..

pahtar

The deaths resulted because they built the dam at a location known for landslides. In the past the landslide would block the river for a time before being slowly eroded away. The dam provided the huge quantity of water for the flood.

Philip Jones

The builders had full knowledge of the risk and scale of the landslide risks. They were also warned that a body of water would increase the risk. The local people were very vocal in their protests but got ignored. There were some high-level prosecutions with one director committing suicide over it.

And the people affected were not living in the unstable valley but outside of it.

Zeldafa Defear

fun fact the river image he showed in the beginning of the video if you were someone who had to drink direct river water you would prob die drinking that river and at first it looks normal right? its really blue and of course all water is blue but that river is not thick enough to be that blue if you find a river that's really blue but its really a think amount of water then you should not drink it or if it is purple or pink you still should not drink it

Harry

Most water is colorless. If blue, it has some type of mineral in it. The ocean looks blue since the deeper the depth the less sunlight penetrates. Also, the ocean reflects from the sky above it.

Mark Greiser

Someone should show this to the People in California. This is how Dams work. They are very helpful.

rcv

They will never open that dam in the thumbnail. But in the future that dam will be grown out by water.

nyx

4y↑5

The one in Brumadinho, Brasil. I live in Brasil, and my cousins have told me about that, they said that they watched it on the news ofc. I'm forever grateful that here we dont have hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, and also flooding (mostly) and also.. #stayhome be safe everyone.
Btw, the 11 bodies are still being investigated and/or found.

amorevlious

rosy I have heard about this too in England! Hope you had a great day and stay home ❤️

Matt Cash

The Oroville Dam and emergency spillway have been modified and repaired, well before the publishing of this video.

LittleRLittleR

4y↑6

Curious to see Taipei city view when you mentioned evacuees from Three Gorges Dam

Nicolas Uy

Amazing

THE FISHERMAN OF THE EAST

VERY INTERESTING ABOUT
THE GIANT DAM ALL OVER WORLD.

Diane LovesALotofLife

3y↑1

I escaped Laughlin, Nevada 2 years ago. At that time, Nevada and the Hoover Dam could no longer supply electricity to those useless moochers in California, because Lake Mead was 160+ feet down. It is almost 200 feet down according to a friend of mine who stills resides there. The Colorado River is a "mud flats" area near the CA border, thus CA can no longer mooch water, either.
If Gov. "Moonbeam" Jerry Brown hadn't began dumping fresh water into the Pacific, CA might have been able to survive.
Niw, Newsom is wasting been more resources as CA residents are escaping in droves. Well....at least when CA hopefully falls into the ocean, along with Portland, the only people living in CA are the corrupt, useless, druggies, pedophiles, worthless & corrupt politicians. Good riddance.

ynbenzie

Bro huhhhh

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Suma Seeman

2y↑1

Very nice dam it's very dangerous dam in the world

Seth Winters

4y↑16

Imagine what the water bills look like

Heather M

At the end of Oroville Dam (8:44) the narrator states, “ If the government doesn’t improve the dam, then next flood might be catastrophic.” Perhaps working that to say the “Californian government” or “if the dam isn’t improved...”.

Pro. Logic

4y↑1

Shasta Dam in northern California , Shasta County near Shasta City is a Dam with a very interesting history .

MxC Chung TV

2y↑1

Những con đập khổng lồ ... rất là tuyệt vời ... Nó mù sập là quá nguy hiểm

Darth Vader

That was Dam impressive.

Danny J

Half the way in and I still didn't see what happens when a huge dam is opened!!!!

Midel Tuazon

4y↑24

I've been thinking of working on dam constructions in the future after taking up civil engineering... jeezzzzz no way I would dream it again... I'll rather choose buildings or bridges then 🤣

Carbon

@Jutt padda edits no

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Tom John

Mans monumental achievements are only exceeded by his catastrophic failures, nature is best left alone to operate as intended by natural design...when will we ever learn, when will we ever learn....

Santosh Sundar

4y↑1

Brilliant video.. lots of good information. We are waiting for such disasters to happen in India. MullaiPeriyar is one such dam in India. Due to politics people forget the safety of hundreds of thousands of people living in the region. Once the disaster hits, people will realize to keep politics away and work towards improving.

David Smith

What I want to know is how did you get the footage of the prehistoric man?

Shem Lopez

Tells people how a dam can prevent catastrophic flooding, shows a scene where flooding comes from a broken dam.

Snowy Life

I want to go on the dam tour now

N H

4y↑7

The first person to die and the last person to die making the hoover dam was a father and son. They died doing the same job.

Jane Prescott

And there wasn't a dam thing anyone could do about it.

Akeem West

I learned a lot from this video

Linda Agwaraonye

4y↑1

Amazing I didn't even know I love it

TowardOneTrueGod

The dam is so cute.. i wonder how many year it will sustain from that thicknesses.

neroquin

4y↑3

Yeah dude like just imagine what would've happened in Frozen 2 if Elsa didn't make a gigantic magic ice wall. That's a whole ass kingdom right there!

Rick Bullock

If the engineers say your safe then who are we to question them?😳😮🙄🤔😬

Iliketurdles

4y↑24

7:35 it was not a dam that broke is was a land slide caused by explosions

Mateusz Mat

4y↑4

By rain, not explosions

Michael467012

4y↑3

@Mateusz Mat I think it was more to do with the high level of water in the dam soaked into an unstable mountain side causing it to soften and collapse.

Philip Jones

4y↑2

@Michael467012 That is true. The constructors had been repeatedly warned about the instability of the mountains around and that presence of a body of water would only weaken them further. That is what happened. There were a number of high-level prosecutions with one director committing suicide because of the scandal.

Samuel Lancaster

3y↑1

This was a damn good story

Bruce Le Smith

I haven't seen an editing style like this before! "brain time" 😂

Wee Mental Davy

Well, I guess correctly, I said all the water would come gushing out , and I was right . 👍

Bill H

A great guy video! loved it!

Andrew Jackson

3y↑2

YouTube has a documentary on how the Hoover Dam was built. Check it out.

Kathrina Joyce Lauren

3y↑3

It just happened in the Philippines where the 7 gates of the Dam opened.

Thirdeey III

There’s nothing special with that. Opening of dam gates are normal lmao. They opened 7 gates because the dam was near its full capacity.

Michael Mejia

4y↑13

The Oroville dam experts got lucky 😂 they didn't do routine maintenance on the emergency shoot and thats what almost cause the over flow to happen

Lady Grinning Soul

3y↑2

Not exactly. The not very well maintained main spillway one day developped a BIG hole during heavy use, then they closed the gates, water was rising and going over the (never used in the 48 years the dam existed) emergency spillway. That caused back cutting erosion threatening the emergency spillway to fall over. That's when they decided to rather use the damaged main spillway instead of causing the emergency spillway to collapse and A LOT of lake Oroville to blast down the hill and into the Feather river flooding towns downstream.