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Was everyone down stream warned??

There is a better video of this event taken by homeowners that lived on the reservoir. They had a neighbors party and filmed the bittersweet event from their deck so you see the entire lake as it drains out.

Will we stick to one view of the action for more than 5 seconds? Spoiler: no

Just ignore all of the Mercury built up above the dam, the natives will be Okay

Man you just killed the fishes

Thank you for your video. It brought back so many memories watching it. I lived in Great Falls from 1964-1969. My best friend’s aunt lived in Hamilton and we would spend a couple of weeks there visiting her when we were 15 years old. Her aunt Helen Carruthers was the county clerk for Ravalli County and took us all over the area around Hamilton to see the historic places. We went to Stevensville and saw the Jesuit mission that was established in 1841 (if I recall correctly). She showed us the Marcus Daly ranch that was built by him when he was the Copper King of the Anaconda copper mine. He lined much of his ranch with Eucalyptus trees he imported from Australia. She introduced us to Mr. and Mrs. Prescott. Mr. Prescott used to be a guide who traveled mostly on horseback all over the valley. Aunt Helen owned two houses. One in Hamilton and a little farm outside of town across the highway from her friend, Glenn Hackney. He owned a small horse ranch and used to be a guide that you could hire to take you camping by packhorse into the Bitterroot Mountains. Glenn would let my friend and I ride a couple of his horses and we would ride the backroads of the farms and ranches. I loved the great times we spent there. It was a great way for a couple of girls to grow up. I miss it. It was so beautiful.

Before there were drones there were radio controlled helicopters that required skill and training. Lots of weekends were sacrificed to gain such a skill. Great video BTW 😀. Watching dams get blown away is always cool 😎

I sure hope there wasn’t anyone swimming down stream! Would’ve really been cool if someone was in a kayak upstream, and came shooting out of that hole! 🤣

would like to see downstream a mile or so

2021

Somewhere, perhaps someone still has the original footage of this and could make a decent video.

I wonder how many fish got slammed against that rock...

The stupidity of a video is not indirectly proportional to the speed at which you play it.

I’ll take a dam break over a jail break any day...LONG LIVE MOTHER NATURE

I miss the River, I remember sitting there with her and praying that she could run free again. kutsyyaya!

Wont that have washed a lot of fish eggs Away the very reason the dams coming down was to due to the company not wanting to build a permanent salmon tunnel. Scandalous and reckless drain.

It will continue to dump mad amounts of mud and sand. It wont be breeding river for years. Itll smother eggs

The sound of a power grinder in the background is really great.

OK OK I learn to read the video description before I ask stupid questions like what happened But what happened

I'm like bro dude I saw a miniature helicopter. Then I'm like, Bro you're just high. It wasn't a miniature helicopter It was a giant sign with the 1' diameter steel cable stretching 300 or so feet across the Grand Canyon now that make sense

why dont you just let it play normal? i wouldve been more than happy to watch this without the speed up and slow down. very unnecessary and totally lame.

Apparently nothing was held back

I got a headache with all the fast camera changes.

Circle saw user is not impressed.

Who is cutting lumber?

Should have keep your inspections in check but you failed !!!!

2020

this would have been great in real time.

Video game me a headache... it could have been really cool..

Whoever put this together really ought to take it down. It’s poorly done. Really poorly done. The main plot line involves the draining of the lake and that doesn’t mean repeating the same two shots of the outflow and the water splattered lens over and over.

Looks like the dam was holding back more mud than water........What does it look like today....??

Where in the world is the White Salmon River?

2019

Like an anal evacuation after eating from the street taco truck.

And just how many spawning grounds did that wreck in the name of salmon? That's a million more times the silt that a few gold dredgers could provide in a lifetime.

any 1 up for a swim ^_-

1) This isn't a breach, this was the dam being emptied ON PURPOSE in-order to remove it. 2) The footage is a timelapse that was done by National Geographic, so unfortunately there is no normal speed version :(

someone filmed it, dont believe a minute of it...........never heard of it before now.

Stolen videos aren't worth watching. After they hide their theft by altering the picture and sound, the video is worthless.

2011 video quality ftl

this is not a breach. This is an eco- oligy at work

I would say there are many different aspects to study. Hope they had a baseline. Wish I had the time (lifespan and other) and ability to study the succession that occurs, aquatic and terrestrial. From the looks of the exposed stumps, some of the sediment has already washed down to original valley floor. Tat big fan at the mouth is bound to make some local changes for some time . . . good and bad.

Sediment transport ought to be interesting over the first 10-15 years.

OMG how did these muppets get away with releasing so much silt into the water course , I suspect they probably killed all the animal and plant life for miles downstream!

That was amazing. I think it takes longer than six minutes for my bathtub to drain!

Gnarly mud flows and log jams at the end :-) Why wasn't the dam kept as a bridge? Looks dam solid built.

On my 7 year plan to make a home in the valley.

wow why did they have to speed it up would look alot better if they didnt

Anyone see the helicopter (R/C) at 3:58?

21st century? We could have learned that such fast draining of reservoirs eliminates allmost every life in the "White Salmon River". Great USA...