Jun 20, 2024: Lava breaching Northern berm wall that protects Blue Lagoon, Power station

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8 күн бұрын

Lava is currently breaching the northern berm that is protecting the Blue Lagoon and the Svartsengi power station. Local firefighting crew and berm builders are working to contain the lava with water and new berms.

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@bodaciousbiker 6 күн бұрын

Those guys building and maintaining the berms are truly the unsung heroes in this since day one!

@Brommear 6 күн бұрын

Not if you are the volcano!

@AE-sy1pn 6 күн бұрын

They are wasting time and money.

@busydadscooking001 6 күн бұрын

theyve been doing a great job. im not sure theyre unsung but they deserve credit.

@user-ft8hv7fu7i 6 күн бұрын

Agreed! They are tirelessly working in the face of danger and in that heat! My heart goes out to them ❤

@bodaciousbiker 6 күн бұрын

Amazing to consider just how much those flows have raised the ground surface outside the berms. Those earth-moving machines look like Tonka toys in comparison!

@tyamdaly 6 күн бұрын

Honestly we are just toys on this earth. I wish them the best but nothing can stop the advancing lava.

@bodaciousbiker 6 күн бұрын

@@tyamdalyAs the output from the volcano has diminished considerably, I suspect even without the reinforcement work being carried out here, these tongues of lava wouldn't get far enough to actually endanger the power station(of course, nobody's willing to take that risk of complacency). I believe the real risk is with the next eruption. The current flows in many places are already at the level of the berms, and as in this instance, have overtopped them in several spots. Any future flows will override the current ones, and unless the berm height is raised yet again, Grindavik and the power station(and yes, the Blue Lagoon) could still be in real danger.

@RegebroRepairs 6 күн бұрын

It's partly a question of perspective. The lava flow is maybe 5 meters or so, it looks a lot more here. Closer to the cone it's more of course.

@thecollierreport 6 күн бұрын

Much appreciation for the responders, you folks are awesome! I pray this works.

@muslee1 6 күн бұрын

Bless those workers and keep them all safe. Nature is truly awesome.

@nnonotnow 6 күн бұрын

We've watched this volcano flow. Lava for weeks. But it didn't seem to be going anywhere. Evidently it's been flowing under the existing lava and raising everything else and now it's higher than the retaining walls and so it's flowing over. Best wishes to the crew trying to keep those walls maintained

@asbisi 6 күн бұрын

As an Icelander, I think they should use the money and energy on building a new power plant elsewhere. I truly and honestly believe that both the power plant and The Blue Lagoon are doomed.

@jackiehornsey1340 6 күн бұрын

I think they are.

@bodaciousbiker 6 күн бұрын

I can't remember where I heard it(maybe 'Just Icelandic'), but it seems they have had success test drilling around the Keflavik airport for a new powerplant. It makes a lot of sense, but of course, it will likely take several years before a new station can be completed. In the meantime, let's just hope this station holds out!

@areareare9953 6 күн бұрын

Just Icelandic said they had found a very good source of thermal heat, but it still takes time to build the plant. You have to remember that this part of Iceland was pretty dang quiet, until one day it woke up mad and stayed mad.

@busydadscooking001 6 күн бұрын

eventually. just question of how long. two hundred years? two months? weeks? bc they dont know it makes sense they try to keep redirecting. my personal belief is they should (and are) making contingency plans for winter. power is a less major issue hot water is bigger.

@debbiefox6846 6 күн бұрын

Absolutely agree. This is a waste of money and resources. They could have rebuilt the power plant and peoples homes by now. Still don't understand why they wouldn't pay the people out on their honestly paid insurance premiums specifically for this purpose. It's a lot of suffering. This has been going on since November last year? Right? They could have built safe homes, a new power plant, and a new fish processing plant in these last 6+ months. So sad.

@CheryleBrooks 6 күн бұрын

Bless the brave souls who are doing there best at containment. You are amazing! Please stay safe!

@juliefreeman5834 6 күн бұрын

These road workers are so brave and do great work 👏

@loriebolton980 6 күн бұрын

I think that lava is gunna go where it wants. They are just slowing it down a little 😮

@davidburke709 6 күн бұрын

I wish that I could disagree with you - but if anyone can make these flows behave, it is Icelanders.

@Mrrich3 6 күн бұрын

I really admire the valiant effort the People of Iceland are putting up to save their infrastructure. This is an example of of a government preventing an Invasion,,,of Lava!

@DavidPrice-ml2zv 6 күн бұрын

Not surprised this has happened. The lava has been moving underneath, pushing up the crust above and it’s now higher than the barriers so can flow over them. The problem will be the next eruption as the lava is higher than the barriers at both Svartsengi and Grindavik now

@allenra530 6 күн бұрын

The airport fire tankers are having only limited success at slowing the lava advance. When water was sprayed on the lava at Heimaeyjar, in 1973, to prevent the flows from closing the harbor entrance, they were using large pumps and irrigation sprinkler pipes that ran 24/7, pumping sea water from the harbor to spray onto the lava. That constant application of water was what it took to slow and finally halt the advance of the lava. The same action here would require either pumping from the Blue Lagoon or laying several pipelines from pumps on the shore, several miles to the site of the lava flow. I don't think that the airport fire trucks can hold it back and the new berms that they are building will have to be much higher than before.

@busydadscooking001 6 күн бұрын

yes and also just spraying didn't help heimaeyjar much, the lava was lucky to stop when it did iirc. a better solution is laying pipes for constant high flow of cold seawater, remove heat faster than it goes in, but much more tricky.

@Bit01 6 күн бұрын

They are laying large diameter pipes. The firetrucks are a stopgap.

@Seattle_Kiwi 6 күн бұрын

Sadly we look like the little Dooziers on Fraggle Rock from the ‘80s

@cycleoflife7331 6 күн бұрын

We’re gonna need a bigger Berm!

@Ozzygirl953 6 күн бұрын

Have been watching this since start from Australia, to most of us Aussies we don’t know what it’s like to be near active volcanoes. Please everyone stay safe and hopefully this will end soon 🦘🇦🇺

@schoolingdiana9086 6 күн бұрын

Crafty Icelanders!

@brettlee-2112 6 күн бұрын

Wow that accelerated from yesterday fast.

@ChrisT-jv2qm 6 күн бұрын

Thank you for sharing ❤

@kahnfu-zhin8627 5 күн бұрын

I’m just SFG, but i have reason to believe that sufficiently large quantities of cooling water applied to strategic areas of the breach can help yo ameliorate the amounts of material that gets through. I know that there are an abundance of the very best engineers available, but iI am surprised that this tactic is not also being deployed.

@buckrowley1506 6 күн бұрын

this is in iceland a few years ago they protected the fishing industry pretty much the same way by spraying water on the lava near the bay

@vickielewis3848 6 күн бұрын

This makes me think of the beautiful QUEEN'S BATH on the big island of Hawaii where I swam in the 70s before the lava buried it. There is something inevitable about the lava progression. 👋👱‍♀️🇺🇲

@asbisi 6 күн бұрын

Yes. They need to figure out a placement of a new power station. This situation is way too volatile. This power station provides heat and electricity to 33,000 people.

@philodowd8080 6 күн бұрын

Great catch

@BellaVita100 5 күн бұрын

I live in Hawaii...You can't stop lava.

@addisoncoleman9571 6 күн бұрын

They should be building a berm a little further back I think

@susandavidson1691 6 күн бұрын

Nature ❤

@poppawolf26 6 күн бұрын

I'm surprised that this is happening, because the eruption seemed to have died down a lot.

@KimBouchard 6 күн бұрын

Looks like Mordor.

@DontCallMeGarage 6 күн бұрын

cant stop mother earth, you can only slow her down.

@lydiafife8716 6 күн бұрын

Yes - hard at work and heroic I suppose plans for a new location for a power plant would be useful… I was surprised a contingency plan wasn’t made when Fagradalsfjall erupted in 2021

@HankHillspimphand 6 күн бұрын

oh god. i have been thinking how the hell with lava reach that tall berm, i thoguht the berms were overkill. shows why im wrong. a few weeks of this eruption rate could threaten the plant right?

@flyingeagle3898 6 күн бұрын

The current output rate is slow enough that the Earthmovers can probably keep up with it and prevent any damage. The real problem is the next eruption. Some of the newly arrived Lava likely needs to be moved to be prepared for the next one and that is extremely difficult when its still arriving and will be partly molten underneath for some time due to how thick that flow is.

@paul4715 4 күн бұрын

Wowzer it's still causing problems

@johnJones_ 6 күн бұрын

My PRAYERS ARE WITH EVERY1

@DawnDavies-ln3nn 6 күн бұрын

No matter what, all working so hard to save this do keep safe

@darbysackett3162 6 күн бұрын

They have an awful big hill right there the lava is flowing around. Why are they not pushing it over to create one huge berm? 6 dozers can move a lot of earth in a single day.

@magnepg3758 6 күн бұрын

This do not show up on any other streams???

@magisworthsnaklepass5183 6 күн бұрын

oh, that does not look good. They may create another wall but that will just fill up like a pool and then spill over again. Maybe it'll buy time until they can get some pumps going and spray it with tons of water to maybe cool it down and stop the flow.

@archangelrevelations9532 6 күн бұрын

Nature must take it's course

@youtubeaccount931 6 күн бұрын

I hope everyone is ok

@Cookie_mookie1345 6 күн бұрын

Wow

@ThatOpalGuy 6 күн бұрын

oh man....

@norcaljb2649 6 күн бұрын

🙏🙏🙏

@glenn5903 6 күн бұрын

Not going to stop nature!

@snowmiaow 6 күн бұрын

Looks like ants

@DebbiesJoy 6 күн бұрын

Oh No!

@Thatpersonanon 6 күн бұрын

Those gasses are sneak previews.

@billmulkins3217 6 күн бұрын

At least the magma is moving slow.

@russell7489 6 күн бұрын

I saw lava top those berms nearly 2 weeks ago, and sort of stop, guess the workers did too. I've seen these dozers going 2 days, along with dump trucks and one payloader building a new road. GET IT TOGETHER 100'% of effort to lava wall until it's 20 feet higher than lava flow and 20 feet thick at base where it hits lava and 10 at crest, with every piece of eqipment running 24 x 7 THEN you get to play build roads that will be swept over in a few weeks, again. DOUBLE UP THE EQUIPMENT duhhhhh If you don't have it rent it in Germany charter a ferry and get it to site in 3 days, if there is a site left. When done with the first wall, build another 100 feet inside with bottom sloping to run lava out to low end of site into wilderness, if you need to cut a channel 10 miles through the wilderness, GET AT IT, get 4 x as much equipment and men in. The only road to maintain is the one FURTHEST FROM LAVA no matter how many more hours it adds to travel for crews At furtherest end of site create 20 foot tall helipads for 4 copters at once and keep two parked there at all times for emergency evac Bring in 50 gal fuel drums on pallets and dot 10 feet off roads 50 feet apart then cover with planking and soil to prevent embers from landing and igniting them, keep a weeks supply of fuel for 24 x 7 operation, along with food and water for two weeks. DO YOU WANT THAT POWER STATION TO SURVIVE

@Bit01 6 күн бұрын

The problem is where to get the money for all that. That's multimillion dollar project already. They reopened the roads because Blue Lagoon generates tons of money as a tourist destination. Also they had to relay the pipes from the power station over the lava two or three times now, so they needed a road for that anyway. That's one of the cheapest and easiest things they've been doing.

@carlaeskelsen 5 күн бұрын

Or, maybe it's time to take a page from Hawai'i.

@user-ph7lt7wu6k 6 күн бұрын

Czytalam,ze duzy zbiornik magmy znajduje się pod blou lagoon,jak wybuchnie,zadne okopy nie pomogą,a chcą ja jeszcze powiększać, przynajmniej raz tyle,

@bodaciousbiker 6 күн бұрын

I disagree. Aside from a few smallish flows which originated from fissures within the berms(and something no one can predict), they have been an overwhelming success! They might not be pretty to look at, but without them, Grindavik and the power station would've been inundated several eruptions ago.