Hiker here, thank you for showing this. I’m always looking for places to explore and I loved your video showing how it is from top. Got my sub. More like this please 🙏

I hope you visit and do another video in the near future. This video appears to have been 2 months ago. Presently it is 3/28 and So-Cal has gotten a lot more rain. I’m curious to see and would love a vid if the spillway is being used 🤘

I hike down to the little lake and this year it was full the water going in is clear clear but because it’s in the sun all day the algae grows. It’s so nice to swim in it though from the back area. I might get a raft and check the island out now. 😊 cool video though

Flood mitigation dam… there’s several in the San Gabriel mountains. There’s another East of there above highland oaks. A large one was built in San Bernardino years back

I grew up in the area and rode my horse in the area of Hansen Dam in the late 70’s early 80’s. Big Tajunga Dan was just seismically retrofitted and it was drained the sediment was removed from the bottom of the lake. Hamden Dam is, as it was explained to me long ago, the last line of defense if Big Tajunga fails or must do a massive emergency release. Hansen Dam is flow through but the gates can be closed if massive flow comes down the wash.

Hey thanks for the follow up - great video!

This video is great! You should cover Hansen Dam/ lake as well!!

Hope you have more fly overs of the creepy dam now that we're in April. Just would like to see your view of it.

Quite an interesting video.Thanks.

I've gone out to the Big Tujunga Wash several times during the summer time and there's always been at least a bit of water downstream.

No haters in the comments this time. Cool.

Cool videos. I grew up in the S/T area and spent many hours in Big Tujunga Canyon. Never knew that the dam held that much water behind it. Are the baseball fields still at the bottom? Many Memories of that area. Thx

It would seem that the operators don't want the reservoir filled above where it is, or the outflow could remain the same as before, and the water level would rise. I am impressed by the dam myself. It looks like it would handle a lot and survive.

I would suggest the area is not that trashy, it is some of the visiting people who are trashy. Well done as this place has an aura about it that is so desolate and very strange to see. I wonder if this dam was built to help replenish or stabilize groundwater tables underground for the area below since most of the water submerges downstream?

Well done, again, note it's the first effort in CA to recharge aquifers.

They should call it “Mocha Lotte Lake”

Thanks for the info… and video. Definitely creepy lake. But I believe it is for flood control..

I prefer the brown water...the green makes me nervous

Why hasn’t this area been turned into a major reservoir for Los Angeles? Give me the topology shown in your videos. This looks like it could be a much larger reservoir with a higher dam. What would prevent that? Considering how much water Los Angeles needs and how frequently drought has appeared in the past few decades, it would seem to be a no-brainer, that if this could be in large it would be.

Hella interesting. Hope you find out some info about it.

Looks as if the depth of that lake is as deep as where the water-outflow is landing on.

The catwalks around the gorge below the dam are crazy. It isn't clear where some of them are going.

Sure hope you make a 3rd video after all this rain - maybe even film it spilling! But I know it’s a big ask

I hike to the back of the dam and spooked a deer that was drinking.

So creepy, brackish, And mysterious, Just buzzwords I'm sure you're not trying to bash this damn. All dams are for the benefit of mankind and are surroundings.

This area looks like something you'd only see flying around in a helicopter.

You should go back one last time. Since rain season is basically over.

How did they get all that concrete down there to make the dam

as a kid I would fish behind Creepy Dam çÔ¿Öp V

It will definitely spill this spring if it hasn’t already.. the water is used by the municipality. This dam was retrofitted some years back to upgrade it seismically, as were all the flood mitigation dams in the San Gabriel mountains.