Breaching of Gamtoos River Mouth - Jeffreys Bay, South Africa

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Video clip of the breaching of the flooded Gamtoos River Mouth on 11 September 2018.
So it happened!!! The Gamtoos River Mouth has been manually breached. Earlier today the Kouga Municipal Manager finally obtained permission from the EC MEC after an intensified effort. The farmers suffering from flooded pastures were given permission to breach the mouth and they stepped up to the mammoth task with their amazing staff. In a matter of three hours, they dug a deep channel by spade. The channel might seem narrow and small at this stage, but the river is filled with millions of cubic meters of excess water and by late this afternoon flood water from the Groot River has been expected to reach the top of the Gamtoos River, pushing more water into the already flooded system. By tomorrow morning that channel will look somewhat different than now... Hats of to the team of workers of Mondplaas who saved the day!

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@jimdevlin2138 4 жыл бұрын

Beaver dam busting , Drain clearing, Flash floods, and now river breaching , I think I need some Professional help

@moving.quotes 3 жыл бұрын

No idea why the fuck I want to keep seeing these as well.

@ClayLoomis1958 3 жыл бұрын

Now you have laser metal cleaning, river ice jam breakage, and overgrown yard clean-up to add to your list of things that satisfy for reasons we can't quite explain.

@prunedfingers 3 жыл бұрын

look up post10

@Bramon83 3 жыл бұрын

I think you at this point could call yourself a professional that can help.... In specific scenarios 🤣😂😅

@barbeerian 3 жыл бұрын

@@prunedfingers I imagine being a fan of post10 is what led me here...

@johannolivier377 4 жыл бұрын

Spent many of my childhood days in that lagoon. We used to have a house up on the hill to the left, as you face the sea. Such wonderful memories of that place....

@jonnywatts2970 2 жыл бұрын

Any colords in your hood?

@joatmofa0405 Жыл бұрын

@@jonnywatts2970 🤣

@ajo3085 3 жыл бұрын

Are you sure they were really farmers? They look more like they're on the government payroll. A dozen blokes doing the work, 3 dozen standing around watching. 😊 Great video, thanks.

@kaladwarakanath5503 Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@firemanfred9471 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent cinematography...👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

@ashwinnmyburgh9364 4 жыл бұрын

my home! I live at the Gamtoos River mouth and am so impressed by the work our community has done!

@wannabecarguy 4 жыл бұрын

I did this once by myself with no tools. I just thought it would be fun to see the river run into the ocean. It's not that hard to do.

@raremajor 4 жыл бұрын

There's so much beauty in ordinary things.

@kevinv.m.94 4 жыл бұрын

I agree! If you have an IG account, you may follow @ordinaryphotographer_.

@debraolivier2147 3 жыл бұрын

This was very important for the farmers.

@nicktrow7605 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video and good luck to those farmers who sure need it.

@nicktrow7605 Жыл бұрын

@@redimixofmd Rather be a fool than a tool!!😂 C.U.Next Tuesday.

@josephastier7421 4 жыл бұрын

"We moved thirty yards of dirt by manual labor only to discover that it wouldn't flow".

@shubh4793 3 жыл бұрын

Coz people are dumb.

@kenea3226 3 жыл бұрын

It will flow and end up with waves big enough to surf. The problem is that this is illegal in many places, for a reason.

@veronicasmyth3830 2 жыл бұрын

Your being so extra careful. So I can't sense Who You Are.

@GusMac6129 4 жыл бұрын

I went from a tsunami video to this. Well that was a let down.

@nathansimard6916 4 жыл бұрын

Bruh Chinese cyanide explosion to seniors day at the beach

@mariosantibanez3518 4 жыл бұрын

Dude was it the one where you thought the glacier was the tsunami.lol

@truetalk5023 3 жыл бұрын

waterFALLS. seaLEvEL . Still Waters always LEvEL, Dr.🌏ip 👀☔ exAMEN 🌈 FirmAmenT

@jovandyparkins578 3 жыл бұрын

Lmaooo me too! I was watching tsunami videos and ended up here lol

@Superkuh2 3 жыл бұрын

Don't let this breach video fool you. Most of them get raging. This was the least exciting coastal river breach I've ever seen.

@llaurita2 4 жыл бұрын

My 5YO daughter does a 1/10 scale version of that every weekend at the beach.

@Snowstar837 3 жыл бұрын

A future hydrologist?

@toomuchinformationforu9919 4 жыл бұрын

looks like someone got a drone for christmas and cant stop playing with it

@talentlesscommenter1329 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, lol

@CrusherFitter 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone see there was a much closer bit to dig at up the beach?

@stevenopolis3155 4 жыл бұрын

Great video! Good job.

@effervescentrelief 3 жыл бұрын

River in South Africa. Used heavily for agriculture which is probably why it periodically stops short of draining into the ocean. Depending on the year and seasonal rainfall the outlet into the ocean varies over time especially since it drains through a sandy beach.

@TheJhtlag 3 жыл бұрын

makes sense.

@flashpoint8909 3 жыл бұрын

Why?

@masterok3978 4 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍 Классное видео!

@BlackCeII 3 жыл бұрын

Ive dug out a bunch of rivers around the world dozens of times. Heres a HUGE tip that will save a lot of effort. Dig from the river side toward the ocean! I have dug out channels by myself that were this far away from the ocean, as you go, the river water keeps the sand wet and softens it and makes it easy to just scoop out of the way, so that gravity can take over. You only need a little bit of water, and gravity does the rest. This video shows such a waste of effort digging from the ocean to the river.

@danrodrigues3531 4 жыл бұрын

So how long did it take to lower the level of the river?

@billrobbins5874 2 жыл бұрын

That took alot of hard work. It looked beautiful while it was flowing. ♥️🌊🌍♥️

@davidvanniekerk3813 4 жыл бұрын

Baie mooi. 'n bomel ("drone") is beslis op my wenslysie!!!

@anotherjuan 5 жыл бұрын

please upload a part 2 🙏🏼

@anjalinabobby9293 4 жыл бұрын

Great job

@marcelinoramos4580 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@danielnorman8595 3 жыл бұрын

way more work than necessary, the water would move that sand once you get the flow started.

@harveysmith100 3 жыл бұрын

I thought that after watching lot's of these videos but at the end I think it was due to the river level not being much above sea level. Not much flow at all. Maybe they did it early before the heavy rains to prevent the farmland flooding.

@danielnorman8595 3 жыл бұрын

@@harveysmith100 I have a trout farm and a dam in the Creek that subverts the water to my ponds, that I have to clean out on occasion. The trick is to get the water flowing even a little bit and then work your way back up the stream moving the sand with a hoe once you loosen it the water does the rest. It's literally a small fraction of the work involved in these videos.

@harveysmith100 3 жыл бұрын

@@danielnorman8595 Yes, Point taken. The channel was too wide to get a fast flow started, Bernoulli's principle and all that.

@BruceSeesall 4 жыл бұрын

It is amazing what we can do together.

@Filmwithpurpose 4 жыл бұрын

Bruce Sees all there’s like ONE dude doing it all wtf are you talking about. Half the people in the video were standing around.

@sbmusicvideo9143 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@Mark-yb1sp 4 жыл бұрын

A beautiful community doing a beautiful thing. 🇺🇸❤️👍🏻

@s1e_dm 3 жыл бұрын

finally a lovely comment :)

@none6352 4 жыл бұрын

why does this seem so amazing

@shannonhondo260 4 жыл бұрын

The teamwork part of it makes me happy especially with the way the world is these days

@Catstew 3 жыл бұрын

It’s not

@senormystery721 Жыл бұрын

Can we see an updated video from the same spot?

@rubencampher2788 5 жыл бұрын

Pls keep updating on the gamtoos rivier mouth🙏

@Scott-cw9kj Ай бұрын

Reconnecting mother nature. I love it🎉

@ronaldoferreiramuniz1199 3 жыл бұрын

Great jobs, comunity, excelent !

@paulstack3015 4 жыл бұрын

I remember digging for fun.

@svengalil 3 жыл бұрын

Nice flying!

@brt-jn7kg 4 жыл бұрын

Well that's three minutes I can't get back to life

@redwarf8118 4 жыл бұрын

then just go outside

@markhwlett 4 жыл бұрын

4 by the time you've made your comment...

@111yashrajsingh9 3 жыл бұрын

why do they breach it? i have seen several videos of doing the same act but what's the ultimate goal of doing this???

@dunruden9720 3 жыл бұрын

Ask your mother to read you the description of the clip.

@georgemueh3273 3 жыл бұрын

@@dunruden9720 👍🤪🤣😆😝

@jameshaberkamp5927 2 жыл бұрын

Just curious. What's the purpose of doing this?

@user-gh8wt2zi2n 4 жыл бұрын

Do they not have backhoes in South Africa?

@stasyaksa1411 3 жыл бұрын

Just two questions. 1. What for? 2. There is excavator?

@SundipanBhowmickk100392 3 жыл бұрын

Is that rainfed river or backwater?

@EdinnsonRamirez 4 жыл бұрын

par que se hace eso esta bonita las imagenes del dron

@paytugamer771 3 жыл бұрын

1:24 wowwww what a beautiful scene of nature

@danp7463 2 жыл бұрын

What's the reason?

@jkh26 4 жыл бұрын

Nice work

@kheavmady8780 3 жыл бұрын

what for?

@pkgamingofficial4206 4 жыл бұрын

So how long it will take down level of the river!thats it..

@goldfishdoc1999 3 жыл бұрын

why is it done actually? is there a reason? or just fun?

@cpe1704tks. 3 жыл бұрын

How come all these rivers in South Africa cannot find their way naturally to the ocean. What is man doing? I'm confused.

@rudirahman8843 3 жыл бұрын

Wooow beautiful scant , like

@marvinmartinsYT 3 жыл бұрын

By hand. Determination. Kudos.

@marvinmartinsYT 3 жыл бұрын

Oh. A couple quick shots of after two days.

@LogicSword3675 4 жыл бұрын

if only there were machines to do that...

@colinm2056 4 жыл бұрын

@@mucsalto8377 race card.

@rRobertSmith 4 жыл бұрын

By the time you find the equipment and the trailer and get it there they have been done for 2 hours......imagine that.

@Filmwithpurpose 4 жыл бұрын

LogicSword3675 they are called bulldozers

@benjaminmairs9302 4 жыл бұрын

Then those people wouldn’t have to get any pesky exercise

@darrenkastl8160 4 жыл бұрын

Are you the guy that drinks all the alcohol at the party by 8:00 pm, and they just stuff you in the corner with a 5 gallon bucket?

@misanthrope9258 3 жыл бұрын

WOW!!! A lot of time and energy. I bet 80% of these people have a child at home glued to a smartphone.

@steven2212 4 жыл бұрын

Backhoe?

@rickkkclunk9799 3 жыл бұрын

how come South Africa has so many rivers like this?

@varinderldh6367 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I could be there some day

@WildlifeObsessed 3 жыл бұрын

What was the point of that ..... ?

@johnmartell807 4 жыл бұрын

VERY good selection of music for this

@grande521 4 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing not Det cord available....

@Zenas521 4 жыл бұрын

Good work people.

@robbass1521 4 жыл бұрын

My kingdom for a backhoe!

@adrianboulter1906 2 жыл бұрын

was there a point to that?

@jamesfazio6383 3 жыл бұрын

What was the accomplishment ahead?

@-Gadget- 3 жыл бұрын

Besides the fact that, given enough time, mother nature would have made her own path.... Without their help 🤷🏻‍♀️

@s1e_dm 3 жыл бұрын

@@-Gadget- read the description you waste of braincells

@franklinbrooks9506 3 жыл бұрын

...for what...exactly?

@howardmurphy2841 3 жыл бұрын

So natural thanks humans

@davidfourie5719 3 жыл бұрын

Why cant it be done at St Lucia

4 жыл бұрын

100% of human intervention in nature prooved lomg-term distructive. This is a tiny trench dug in the sand. It would had happened naturally maybe in a few weeks, but still, the full implications were never thought upon by no one.

@michellebyrom6551 4 жыл бұрын

In that few weeks crops and homes could be lost to floods. Sandbars shift and grow. Digging a trench to help nature along is goid husbandry, along with dredging to prevent too much silting up at the river mouth. Flood plains provide good soil when correctly mabaged.

@brazillady5119 3 жыл бұрын

OK, but why?

@user-sk4yn5bv9d 3 жыл бұрын

Смысл какой ?

@jeffmclaughlin8564 4 жыл бұрын

Was the point of this excersize to pollute the ocean?

@richardclay 4 жыл бұрын

READ the description provided.

@joesottilare609 3 жыл бұрын

The point is?

@toobored54 4 жыл бұрын

Why??

@bluvespa 4 жыл бұрын

To show you how humans are stupid!! Always to destroy the beauty of our wonderful planet!

@burtrat4851 3 жыл бұрын

@@bluvespa Or maybe you can read the video description about flooding further upstream.

@alansilverio4467 2 жыл бұрын

But why?

@vineshnaidoo9402 3 жыл бұрын

J Bay is always beautiful

@johnconner8901 3 жыл бұрын

How is it there was no one surfing that

@NoogahOogah 3 жыл бұрын

Nature: *doing its thing* People: HURRY UP

@marierandall2824 3 жыл бұрын

Why do they do this what is the purpose for it

@daveschwartz5893 4 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing machinery wasn't an option?

@daveschwartz5893 4 жыл бұрын

@@mucsalto8377 I get it man. It's social media and everyone can say whatever unfortunately. But considering the vast majority are white you wanna try again?

@jeradweeks 5 жыл бұрын

What was the point of this?

@motherofone1 5 жыл бұрын

If you had read the description, the farmland was flooded. So they got permission to open a channel between the river and the ocean to allow the river to drain.

@brianmck7363 4 жыл бұрын

Point was nunya

@jameshiggins3742 4 жыл бұрын

His reply 😂😂😂

@flashforensics 4 жыл бұрын

@@motherofone1 you need permission to play on the beach now?

@alloneword7427 4 жыл бұрын

@@flashforensics looking at the history, the residents did this in 2015, but without permission, and the illegal bit is breaching the river mouth, not going on the beach. The local office of the Department of Environmental Affairs apparently filed a complaint with the police. This time (2018), they got permission.

@EricBraun100 4 жыл бұрын

Wow overkill on the trench! They could have just scrapped a small path with one shovel. Half hour job, one man.

@kaladwarakanath5503 Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@scotthorton7786 3 жыл бұрын

When tree and bunny huggers come up with a plan. WAAAH WAAW

@kadaluzhavan4150 3 жыл бұрын

Super 👍

@williamchristian8705 4 жыл бұрын

I can dig this idea.

@s1e_dm 3 жыл бұрын

Yooo an actually funny comment :D

@brunomelo2163 5 жыл бұрын

Já não tem muita água potável no mundo aí faz isso ai é foda

@larrilarri1081 3 жыл бұрын

У меня только один вопрос...

@larae117vh 4 жыл бұрын

Are they pouring fresh water into the ocean?

@bill3641 4 жыл бұрын

You mean like every river on the planet ?

@kenmurray8476 4 жыл бұрын

Flood water

@thesunsetreptiles 4 жыл бұрын

And what was the point of that

@richardclay 4 жыл бұрын

READ the description provided.

@lumpdawg419 4 жыл бұрын

Whats the point in doing that

@marcusjohns2041 4 жыл бұрын

So cross contamination of 2 water masses?

@xxjahelixx2602 4 жыл бұрын

0:17 WW1 flashbacks

@vishalSharma-ol9fl 4 жыл бұрын

The fuck

@josephastier7421 4 жыл бұрын

@@vishalSharma-ol9fl Filling sandbags.

@Exedus20 3 жыл бұрын

Africa?

@Tauraco00 5 жыл бұрын

This is so needed for the marine life - thank you to everyone that helped with this - good job!

@sosweetbaby4 5 жыл бұрын

Marine life🤔 So the life that was in the river got dumped to ocean salt water tooooo die 🤔👌✌

@michellebyrom6551 4 жыл бұрын

@@sosweetbaby4 you do realise fish can swim and instinct directs them to theur best environment? Also other life forms have their own methods of staying put/regenerating cyclically.

@eyeofthetiger4214 3 жыл бұрын

Video too short. Didn't show how wide the pathway went

@suryadixl9410 4 жыл бұрын

Why? Dont u need water?

@s1e_dm 3 жыл бұрын

Read the description.

@supergoober1021 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like most construction work. More than half are standing around watching the others do the work! (Yes, I know that’s not happening. It just fits into that narrative. I supervised underground construction and I would limit how many supervisors, assistant managers, managers, support crews, parts runners and any other people not immediately needed to be on a job site because the crew doing the work were one crewleader and two laborers. Only one laborer was actually digging and the other keeping the spoils away from the excavation. The crewleader was responsible for the two laborers. It definitely looks bad to the public and adding another couple for traffic control didn’t help the visuals, either.)

@geoffallen1331 4 жыл бұрын

Why didn't they bring in a digger?

@Hurst6969 4 жыл бұрын

They had 100 of them

@stevelamperta865 4 жыл бұрын

Its so sickening that the people need permission for something like this ! The people around here would not have even asked and would not have waited either . Government has become a cancer to all ! I wonder if the people will ever do anything about it ? I doubt it....