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

couple minutes or less.

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

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

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.

Doc

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.

What a dam debacle!

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!!!

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

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).

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

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.

Whitey can suck it.
Dam you all.

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?..

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