ca-city city hall urgently needs to develop basic water and electricity services in unbuilt areas, but it already has new owners of plots, they are eager to live there, let's hope in 2024 there will be more Urban development, many acres with owners but without services basics, it would be very interesting since the city would grow faster.

The problem with this website no Log-out button not user friendly

The amount of sediments trapped behind the damn would have prevented coastal erosion. All dams are guilty of contributing to coatal erosion.

It's funny how america is rich and powerful, yet it takes so many different groups to pay for something of so little cost

Just a scam for a politician photo op to the community they never give the turkeys out in their own Water utility service area to the unfortunate who needed the most in there backyard!

Work no more than 5-years at a private utilities and run to a water district and you will you get paid tons more for the work you do with proven experience, you will pat yourself on back when you get to retire 55 and that's what any position from the bottom to the top! 😂

San cClemente Dam

Best for Cal Am to just pack up and leave Monterey

Please help Serbian Rivers from Death

Instead 1 dam they builded 30 more, all these steps for fish is same as 30 big dams

This sucks. No matter what excuses whacks come up with with their fascist corp partners, this is destruction of America…. So say we all.

This was a perfect way to replenish California fresh water needs for both a fresh water reservoir for drinking water and watering down forests fires

After so many years this was now recommended

8 years later , how you doing now .good luck

River will do what it wants regardless of all your meetings opinions and schemes and endless talking.

Looks really natural !

I'd like to know the cost of dredging vs. dam removal and river restoration.

what an ugly fucking sight that is, the manmade dam like crap, is there any life there? down with dams, take them all out!!!

Video 2013. Now December 2021, have the salmon/steelhead returned to the river?

Crikey, that massively tall dam, and the lake is only a few feet deep. Mostly just holding back the mud.

Dam removal for the win!!

0:55 if you weigh 150 kg you don't get to claim being an authentic native American.

The pipes about forty feet down were spilling water after the dam was empty ?

Wow, look at all of the sediment behind this dam!

My town had excellent tasting water when I was young. Now, American Water has gotten their greedy hands on our water supply and it tastes lousy. Undrinkable without filtration. Plus, instead of wells, they supply our water from surface sources, so when the ambient temps go up and you really need cold tap water, the water is luke-warm. After any decent rain you can smell the chlorine in the water.

What this video seems to be about is: Can you believe we got this project done in California. I mean we are talking red tape coming out your ass, for years and years, and tens of millions of dollars, before you can even get a feasibility study done.

Im here after reading how to do nothing by jenny odell!

A good jop.

How long is it going to take to reopen your office. I've being waiting now for almost two months to see if I can get water on my property. After making several calls I'm still waiting to see if I can get water. What is it going to take??? If there were another water company to go to I would but there is not. Please give me a number to someone that can help me, please. 916 568-4229 does not answer. 916 275-3540 still has not helped. Again, what does it take to get costumer service?

It's a manufactured river.

Looks like a freaking amusement park ride, terrible, let nature carve the riverbed.

It's actually a beautiful serene dam. Sublime.

Now there are 5 other major dams that need to go. Eel River, Klamath, et al.

What a great success story.

As lot of California BS going on here.

They could have made it look natural not fricken retarded looking oh sonatural

Leave it to government employees to make a dumb useless video.

If I were a fish I would love this river..

To many people

thx! this helped alot!

Cool video. Time-lapse let you down. It was so bad it made me angry because it would have actually been cool to see rather than having an epileptic fit

historical note: environmental protection around 2018 when i was trying to get an authoritative, government job (like with those groups he names @ 5:20), FROM MY EXPERIENCE from southern california (maybe i was on a special list?) appeared to be environmental protection against MEXICANS, or others trying for a "better life" migrating to the misguided/demonic USA that tried to ensure demand for living in this country.. and not protection against our OWN civilized yet immature and harmful activities on our shared environment (as this video shows otherwise obviously)

very good video caamwater, especially in light of some of the other videos on your channel. this is the kind of video that can be easily shown in school to children too (even though they may not care as much / be able to relate the importance to THEIR lives, as they likely continue benefiting from overly-controlled/-built environment such as dams and the like that effectively weaken them in their supply of water, food, energy..)

am i getting this right? there was of course other reasons from some to remove the dam, like Nature-balance, but it sounds like (around 3:30) the main impetus to remove the dam started with the "water supply was insufficient" (so built another dam).. then the evaluation in early 1990s of the dangerisk posed to the community below... yes, this can be a great model for others in the world, but/and need other governments/responsible authorities wait until such dangerrisks build up like that!?

Wonder I’d they found Drew and the local hick at the bottom?

I have watched about 50 dam removal videos, so I feel I have the expertise to quarterback this thing post-mortem. If we have to remove every dam like this we won't be able to remove more that 50 dams a decade. Between all the talking heads and the placement of every single rock and pound of sediment, this thing is a great example of too much money and too many people.

Everytime a dam is removed in California, a water pipeline from the water shed of another state needs to also be removed. California's dependance of out of state water needs to be removed. The only new habitat is the new developers that will move in and destroy the enviorment wit new housing developments. Money drives California!!!

Indians and conservationist, both living in the past......

I'd like to see how it's looking in 2020. Hopefully the river made a few corrections during flooding and riverine vegetation has taken hold.