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Postby Tex » Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:18 am

anyone have a guess as to how long it takes for sandbars to build up after dams come down????
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Re: Dams

Postby grizldoldfk » Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:54 pm

couple minutes or less.
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Re: Dams

Postby Critter » Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:44 pm

Too dam many variables to calculate. You could just pray your dam @ss off and hope sooner than later. Or just drive your dam @ss out to look at the dam progress you dam fool :)
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Re: Dams

Postby Tex » Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:55 pm

Exactly Critter, I am going to check that dam next month, give it a few more weeks to build the bars =)
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Re: Dams

Postby Doc » Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:43 pm

I would think sand bars would be more subject to specific river events...i.e heavy rains deposit a great amount of sediment resulting in a bar that works for a time then degrades and is replenished by the next event. I think I recall a great article in TSJ on just this type of episode a few years back.

Of course I could be wrong...don't tell my wife.

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Re: Dams

Postby Critter » Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:08 pm

What Doc said. I have an intimate relationship with a certain large creek that shall remane unnamed. Over many years of tromping this creek it has been amazing to see the scope of change that comes from a high water event! Average levels of flow seem to do nothing but erode the topography but high water events of a day or two can move many many many dumptruck loads of silt and gravel to and from a certain spot.
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Re: Dams

Postby bluesilver » Thu Nov 01, 2012 3:10 pm

What a dam debacle!
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Re: Dams

Postby SooLoo » Wed Nov 07, 2012 5:03 am

Looks like it's getting to be time to gas up your rigs and hit up your super secret spots that no one knows about. Get some!!!
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Re: Dams

Postby Tex » Wed Nov 07, 2012 7:54 pm

I will be surfing my favorite secret/no public access spot for three days next week....gonna get mine!!!
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Re: Dams

Postby McDing » Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:43 pm

What a flocking pipe dream. Those dams are staying bro. The idea that they are coming down is nothing more than Govt. propaganda to appease the uber left enviros. Those dams are run by the Army Corps of Engineers. IE------ the friggin' Govt. All the Govt bureaus involved are making money hand over fist off those dams. "Beware the military industrial complex". Eisenhower. That's like talking about tax reform. Patronize me a little. The IRS, H&R Block and all the Corporations with all their tax attorneys and CPAs have too much to lose. "Your Govt. is only as good as your propaganda" (Himmler or Goebels can't remember, some Nazi anyway).
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Re: Dams

Postby Tex » Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:56 am

Actually the one I was talking about came down almost a year ago now.
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Re: Dams

Postby McDing » Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:26 pm

And which one would that be?? On the Columbia?? The Snake?? One small dam in Washington State Not gonna make any differance in a local break. Point is; that dam came down for reasons other than fish, endangered whatevahs etc. Serious dams on the Columbia or the Snake will never come down precisely for the reason i stated above. The flip side is there will never be another dam of any consequence built anywhere in this country.
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Re: Dams

Postby Chief Smackaho » Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:42 pm

Whitey can suck it.
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Re: Dams

Postby ladbag » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:00 am

Critter wrote:Too dam many variables to calculate. You could just pray your dam @ss off and hope sooner than later. Or just drive your dam @ss out to look at the dam progress you dam fool :)


spelling errors lol or are they?.. :o
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Re: Dams

Postby Tex » Wed Feb 27, 2013 11:21 pm

All I know is that the tribes were stoked it came down.
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