Sediment Removal Techniques for Reservoir Sustainability

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Sediment Removal Techniques for Reservoir Sustainability

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6 жыл бұрын

Reclamation and its collaborators are launching a new prize competition seeking new or improved techniques for reservoir sediment removal and transport of the removed sediment in a cost-effective manner that preserves and sustains the operational objectives of the reservoir. Reservoir sedimentation has become a significant problem with the aging of water storage facilities. Sediment deposition in reservoirs limits the active life of reservoirs by reducing reservoir storage capacity for water supply or flood risk reduction. Sedimentation also impacts dam outlets, reservoir water intakes, water quality, recreation, upstream flood stage, and downstream habitat.
To learn more about this prize competition and other competitions Reclamation has hosted, please visit www.usbr.gov/r...

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@jzwillows Жыл бұрын

Ease up on the restrictions on hazardous materials in the sediment.

@JohnMarler 5 жыл бұрын

This rocks!

@SuerteDelMolinoFarm 7 ай бұрын

Greetings from the LooseNatural farm in Andalusia Spain where we currently live through a drought and we are creating swales

@earlallnutt 3 жыл бұрын

I have a solution. I have to prove my theory first, so be on the look-out for my research in the next few years.

@kutie216 3 жыл бұрын

I’d be interested to read it, even though I have no formal education on this subject. I find the potential, and inevitable, long-term consequences of dams fascinating, and would love to see potential solutions for transportation of the silt and sand to the beaches where they eventually end up. One academic paper I read stated that many of the coastal beaches are eroding from the lack of sand transported by the rivers because it is getting trapped by the dams. Rivers are amazing, I wish we had more rivers in the US that haven’t been dammed! The only river I’ve seen, in my life, that didn’t have a dam was in New Zealand and it was amazing.

@nicamotpan6851 4 ай бұрын

Hi! Have you tested your theory? :)

@nathr9996 5 ай бұрын

Place a huge number of buckets all along with width at the bottom of the reservoir at various intervals to collect the sediments. Pull up the buckets when full. Empty them and place them back for the next round of collection. By this method desilting can be done daily to maintain the water level.

@hawks9142 4 ай бұрын

Whose going to collect all that sediment

@uncertaintytoworldpeace3650 9 күн бұрын

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@Trizsolvervn 2 ай бұрын

I has an idea!. Do you know anchor ice! If I had a magic wand, I would command: "That mud(sediment) should rise to the surface of the water and go to shore." So our problem is solved. And here is a scientific problem that needs research: Mud(sediment) only floats when it is lighter than water, with only air and ice. The mud (sediment) is wrapped in ice, floats, flows to the gathering place, moves the ice onto the truck, waits for the ice to melt, we have dry mud on the truck, transported to the cropland. We will save energy if we make it in winter!

@roscocostco8586 3 жыл бұрын

Sedimentation is the least of the problems we're passing on to future generations.

@user-mb8dl1sl4z 6 ай бұрын

Where all those sediments will be borned?

@bobrushton5428 5 жыл бұрын

Ive read the challenge, and I do have a couple of good ideas, but you are only thinking of paying £11,330 max so why would i consider helping you? its far too prescriptive an amount.

@MarkGongo 5 жыл бұрын

Hello Bob, May you consider a collaboration? Looking forward to your response. Marc G.

@Cjwyo 5 жыл бұрын

Marc Góngora I would like to collaborate please email me at croger23@uwyo.edu

@bing4126 4 жыл бұрын

oh no , what will they ever do without your help.

@TPWW3CAP 3 жыл бұрын

What about using yellow line techniques??

@partyY2Hard 4 жыл бұрын

I have an idea, not tested but feasible I believe. a filtration channel at the mouth of the reservoir/dam. the water entering the reservoir will pass through this waterway in such a way the sediments will be distilled/separated from river basin leading to a water layer that contains more sediments and lower sediments. the sediment heavy water will be on the bottom layer and as it passes through the channel, a mechanism at the bottom of the channel will let the bottom layer sip through the channel bottom along a passage extracting it from the rest which flows into the reservoir.

@olafelsberry9271 4 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking you might be able to to mix it with compatible material

@mikealpha6633 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Can't this stuff be used as an additive in something? There must be a use for fine grain aggregate in construction...🤷‍♂️

@MrWhylie Жыл бұрын

I've seen it with my own eyes. River channels are gone that were distinct, viewable structures. In 40 years I've seen miles of top-end lakes silted. Game fish can't nest and spawn in mud. carp and garr are OK.

@thefinal5233 4 жыл бұрын

What is the method name shown In 2.29sec

@robcarlmark1949 3 жыл бұрын

What ever happened with this competition?

@therainmaker3847 3 жыл бұрын

Sediment removal, we manage to control it by using how a septic tank works.

@mikefoster6127 Жыл бұрын

Sedimentation in bodies of water other than the ocean are one main contibutor to rising sea levels

@Ryantrock8888 Жыл бұрын

Sedimentation would be better managed in a natural way. When there were millions of beaver dams sedimentation wasn’t as much an issue. Beaver ponds reduce sedimentation, and expand the water table. They also provide pristine wildlife habitat for migratory birds, and also other aquatic critters.

@pinshapemandle716 2 жыл бұрын

Your music is too loud and distracts from the presentation.

@macman30331 2 жыл бұрын

what you need to do is process that sediment into sand suitable for concrete

@fosterkennel649 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, well, now we're dealing with the Klamath River dam removal and millions of cubic yards of sediment full of toxic chemicals

@crawford323 2 жыл бұрын

Captain Obvious, pretty much zero information. Wonder what this little video cost the taxpayers? Basically the engineers threw up their hands and begged the public to come up with ideas. Move along nothing to see here.

@uncertaintytoworldpeace3650 9 күн бұрын

Uh oh guess YOU don’t have a solution!