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Tobin
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   Topic: Condit Dam Blow Out - White Salmon River
Posted: 25 Oct 2011 at 12:31pm |
Tomorrow @ noon the dam goes bye bye!
Wet Planet and a few local businesses will be playing the live footage, but if you are unable to get to the HR area and want to watch
Live Feed
The URL is not set right now, but will be listed by 11am tomorrow.
Here
If anyone is interested in heading down, I am leaving the Tacoma area @ 7am and we can car pool, I am coming back home tomorrow night after a spaghetti dinner and seeing a few friends.
tobin.dailey@gmail.com
Woo Hoo! It is happening!
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Tobin
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Posted: 26 Oct 2011 at 8:48am |
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JoesKayak
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Posted: 26 Oct 2011 at 1:14pm |
A river, buried for 100 years is being reborn as I type this. Happy day!
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pottert
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Posted: 26 Oct 2011 at 1:25pm |
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Looks like there's gonna be some good river booty down stream of the dam... Anyone need a couple ladders?
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JoesKayak
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Posted: 26 Oct 2011 at 1:28pm |
I think you can kiss those ladders bye bye.
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up4air
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Posted: 26 Oct 2011 at 1:53pm |
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In case, like me, you were wondering.. "Dismantling the rest of the dam will begin next spring, and is expected to be complete by the end of August 2012." I was hoping for some more explosions..one thing at a time I guess!
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More water, please.
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up4air
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Posted: 26 Oct 2011 at 1:55pm |
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Also what was moving around upstream of the dam on river left (right side of the screen)? Sometimes it looked like people, other times it looked like buoys. The resolution was just fuzzy enough that it was hard to tell.
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More water, please.
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Big Boofer
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Posted: 26 Oct 2011 at 2:06pm |
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There were some buoys up on the river left (screen right) bank. Also looks like there's a new waterfall right at the bottom of the screen for the northwestern lake camera. Can't say for sure, but it's been pretty stable for a while now, there's a good chance that'll stick around.
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BRoss
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Posted: 26 Oct 2011 at 5:01pm |
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That canyon downstream sure looks cool
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"That boated a lot better than it looked." "It always does until it doesn't."
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Big Boofer
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Posted: 27 Oct 2011 at 2:45pm |
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After seeing a higher res video looking upstream from the dam it appears that the "waterfall" from the feed yesterday is actually the remnants of the coffer dam that diverted water during the construction of Condit. Hopefully they remove that too, otherwise it'll be one nasty hole.
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okeefe
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Posted: 28 Oct 2011 at 6:44am |
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Yes that waterfall is the coffer dam. They will be removing.
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Thomas O'Keefe
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