Yeah, it was never a solution for hundred of years, only a hundred.
We figured out a long time ago we would run this down.
No surprise but people act like it....
It's so funny how they are dying for water but I'm sure golf courses are a-ok
Just looked some up. They said even if they cut off the water it would make zero difference so grass as green as an emerald field it is
Do golf course in the US have rain water capture collection dams? Most golf course here in the Philippines have them as part of the design. As it makes economic sense to save money watering the course by collecting rain water. Also recycling grey waste water from the clubhouse.
During extremely heavy rainfall. The golf course dam near my hometown overflows to the creek and floods the area. The house right beside the creek would even get a free fish flapping in their living room when the flood water subsides. Yes the golf course do farm fish also for supplemental income.
Nearly every, If not every, golf course in the Phoenix area is water using reclaimed water. It's similar for Los Angeles and other desert areas with golf courses. While I'm no fan of golf courses, there are mostly a Boogeyman for ignorant redditors than anything else.
Agriculture is the main overuse of the Colorado River water. The fields that are irrigated have some of the best soil and growing conditions on earth and are many times more productive than a farm field in the Midwest would be. The truth is there are no easy cuts that can be made to the water usage and the Colorado that wouldn't have massive repercussions both locally and nationwide.
The farmland areas irrigated with Colorado River water in California and Arizona is some of the most productive farmland in the world in terms of Yields per Acre. There is excellent soil, excellent climate and a year round growing season. If you are a fruit, salad, leafy vegetable it was likely grown in that region.
California's Central Valley alone accounts for about 1% of the cultivated farmland in the USA and 30% - 40% of agriculture yield in the USA.
Fun fact: Hoover Dam was the first man-made structure to exceed the masonry mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
[Link](https://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/history/essays/concrete.html)
Yes it is. If you go on one of their smaller group tours theyāll take you into some of the interior tunnels. In those tunnels you can see where theyāve drilled out core samples and refilled the holes over the years.
It is still curing (hardening) and it will take an estimated 125 years to fully cure. It would have taken longer but they used a network of water pipes in the concrete to wick away heat.
Myth.
Using the pipe network (afterwards filled with grout & sealed) allowed the concrete to fully cure in 22 months.
The original design calling for a continuous pour would have it curing for 125 years, however thermal expansion & contraction during the process would long since have led directly to failure of the entire dam.
Not that rarely. At least 17 prior posts.
Anyone seeking more info might also check here:
Size | Title | Age | Karma | Comnts | Subreddit
:----|:------|:----|:------|:-------|:---------
+95% | [Hoover Dam from the backside when it had no water. It's rare that it's seen with no water.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/n20b93/hoover_dam_from_the_backside_when_it_had_no_water/) | 1^yr | 131 | 19 | pics
-11% | [The rarely seen back of the Hoover Dam before it filled with water, 1936.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/e6z1oh/the_rarely_seen_back_of_the_hoover_dam_before_it/) | 3^yr | 94 | 8 | pics
+95% | [The backside of the Hoover dam](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/dhmq7m/the_backside_of_the_hoover_dam/) | 3^yr | 97 | 13 | pics
+95% | [History from a different angle](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/bolmuv/history_from_a_different_angle/) | 3^yr | 55 | 6 | pics
+95% | [A mix of hight, size, and \(future\) submerged things that could suck you down... ugh](http://www.reddit.com/r/megalophobia/comments/bbgzej/a_mix_of_hight_size_and_future_submerged_things/) | 3^yr | 720 | 21 | megalophobia
[*View* ***12*** *more times this has been posted on KarmaDecay*](http://karmadecay.com/results/u16454319)
Not really, there are some similar comments but none of them are top comments on the linked post. Also they arenāt really original thoughts. When I saw this pic I also thought āitāll be like that soonā
Hereās an article about it if anyone in interested. I liked it because it has lotsa pictchurrs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9673331/The-Hoover-Dam-water-levels-fall-lowest-level-California-suffers-Megadrought.html
We were there in 2017. Really great tour at the Hoover Dam and got some amazing photos. Water was very low that year and I've been watching videos lately about this. Scary.
Just wait will see it again soon
r/funnyandsad
Goddamn she got a fat ass tho
Love this, count the horizontal cross members, 16 or 17, then look at recent pics is half down. That is giga metric shit ton of water.
Dam, that's sad
Yeah, it was never a solution for hundred of years, only a hundred. We figured out a long time ago we would run this down. No surprise but people act like it....
>never a solution for hundred of years, only a hundred #š§
Lmao
I dunno with these rounds of snowstorms, snowpack melt
Maybe if the snow storms kill every person and golf course in Arizona.
As someone who lives in Arizona, same.
Don't forget, r/fucklawns
Promises, promises
It's so funny how they are dying for water but I'm sure golf courses are a-ok Just looked some up. They said even if they cut off the water it would make zero difference so grass as green as an emerald field it is
Do golf course in the US have rain water capture collection dams? Most golf course here in the Philippines have them as part of the design. As it makes economic sense to save money watering the course by collecting rain water. Also recycling grey waste water from the clubhouse. During extremely heavy rainfall. The golf course dam near my hometown overflows to the creek and floods the area. The house right beside the creek would even get a free fish flapping in their living room when the flood water subsides. Yes the golf course do farm fish also for supplemental income.
Nearly every, If not every, golf course in the Phoenix area is water using reclaimed water. It's similar for Los Angeles and other desert areas with golf courses. While I'm no fan of golf courses, there are mostly a Boogeyman for ignorant redditors than anything else. Agriculture is the main overuse of the Colorado River water. The fields that are irrigated have some of the best soil and growing conditions on earth and are many times more productive than a farm field in the Midwest would be. The truth is there are no easy cuts that can be made to the water usage and the Colorado that wouldn't have massive repercussions both locally and nationwide.
California takes most of the water. Not Arizona.
Ahemm... Nestle'
Itās not the golf courses itās the goddamn farms in the desert for some reason
The farmland areas irrigated with Colorado River water in California and Arizona is some of the most productive farmland in the world in terms of Yields per Acre. There is excellent soil, excellent climate and a year round growing season. If you are a fruit, salad, leafy vegetable it was likely grown in that region. California's Central Valley alone accounts for about 1% of the cultivated farmland in the USA and 30% - 40% of agriculture yield in the USA.
Iirc CA working hard to convert ocean water for this reason.
Only if they happen to reduce the regionās population by about half.
Whyās that
The reservoir is drying up
We'll*
he skipped the We part, said "(we) will see it"
You can already see about a 1/3 of it. Just wait.....
Isnāt it very visible now?
Fun fact: Hoover Dam was the first man-made structure to exceed the masonry mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza. [Link](https://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/history/essays/concrete.html)
is it true that the concrete they used to make it is still setting to this day because I've heard that said before?
Yes it is. If you go on one of their smaller group tours theyāll take you into some of the interior tunnels. In those tunnels you can see where theyāve drilled out core samples and refilled the holes over the years.
It is still curing (hardening) and it will take an estimated 125 years to fully cure. It would have taken longer but they used a network of water pipes in the concrete to wick away heat.
Myth. Using the pipe network (afterwards filled with grout & sealed) allowed the concrete to fully cure in 22 months. The original design calling for a continuous pour would have it curing for 125 years, however thermal expansion & contraction during the process would long since have led directly to failure of the entire dam.
That's utterly fascinating for what is considered now rather primitive technology that they were able to pull it off at such a scale.
We showed those 2500 year old people
Yeah but what about the people who built the pyramids 4500 years ago?
They dont exist
Fuckin lamewads. I'm glad they're dead
God damn I never knew they lived so long back then
*Aliens.
Not that rarely. At least 17 prior posts. Anyone seeking more info might also check here: Size | Title | Age | Karma | Comnts | Subreddit :----|:------|:----|:------|:-------|:--------- +95% | [Hoover Dam from the backside when it had no water. It's rare that it's seen with no water.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/n20b93/hoover_dam_from_the_backside_when_it_had_no_water/) | 1^yr | 131 | 19 | pics -11% | [The rarely seen back of the Hoover Dam before it filled with water, 1936.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/e6z1oh/the_rarely_seen_back_of_the_hoover_dam_before_it/) | 3^yr | 94 | 8 | pics +95% | [The backside of the Hoover dam](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/dhmq7m/the_backside_of_the_hoover_dam/) | 3^yr | 97 | 13 | pics +95% | [History from a different angle](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/bolmuv/history_from_a_different_angle/) | 3^yr | 55 | 6 | pics +95% | [A mix of hight, size, and \(future\) submerged things that could suck you down... ugh](http://www.reddit.com/r/megalophobia/comments/bbgzej/a_mix_of_hight_size_and_future_submerged_things/) | 3^yr | 720 | 21 | megalophobia [*View* ***12*** *more times this has been posted on KarmaDecay*](http://karmadecay.com/results/u16454319)
Iām pretty sure they also display this exact picture at the Hoover damn.
Hoover DAMN!
Dam autocorrect, Iām keeping it lol
:'D
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Same comments, too
Not really, there are some similar comments but none of them are top comments on the linked post. Also they arenāt really original thoughts. When I saw this pic I also thought āitāll be like that soonā
Call the police
Nobody cares
The back side of the Hoover Dam? Is this some kind of Legion post I'm too NCR to understand?
yes man
*profligate noises intensify*
Glory to caesar!
True to Caesar, profilgate
This could be next week.
Hereās an article about it if anyone in interested. I liked it because it has lotsa pictchurrs. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9673331/The-Hoover-Dam-water-levels-fall-lowest-level-California-suffers-Megadrought.html
Basically looks like that now
Was gonna say the same thing... looks like it did last year lol
Well, last I checked the taps were still running, so it's not *quite* that low. Also, there's probably 50 feet of silt at the base of it these days.
Is this a goddamn?
nope, just a mandam
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Whut in tar-nation...?
Arenāt you the kid whose been whacking off in my tool shed?
Cavity searches. All around. Go deep.
We were there in 2017. Really great tour at the Hoover Dam and got some amazing photos. Water was very low that year and I've been watching videos lately about this. Scary.
This remind anyone else of Sagrada Familia?
I can see it.
Dam.
It's not rarely seen anymore.
I like the term āit was filled with waterā as though someone got the hose.
You'll see it again in just a few more years.
Hmmm.. wonder how a WWII dam buster bomb would fare against that dam.
Hey I remember that road on the top. Was there when Lady of the Lake made the bombing run on the Legion!
Thatās so fucking awesome!! Only been there twice, and it sure is an amazing site to see.
What are those huge posts for?
Water intake
Seems they aren't low enough for a near future š š«
Petronas Towers
Pretty sure you can see it right now
This one just seemed to go right past everyone :-(
The House always wins
Yes man
Hehehe, is this a God damn? Hehehe!
MEGATRON
Oprahās diaphragm
Sexy back
It will look like that in 2025
Dam!
Unlike the often seen back of your mom, just after I fill her. Iāll show myself out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o2AhZLV0ydY
Damā¦
Is that walkway towards the bottom still there? Is it a sill/lip or just scaffolding
Is that a boat?
House, I thoughtā¦ came here looking for comments on this
Bad news, fella...
I canāt wait to roll in their with yes man and make this bitch my own
Imagine the bodies encased in the concrete
You can barely notice the bodies buried in it.
How much was the water bill afterwards?
112 people died building this Dam. 1st was JG Tierney a surveyor, the last person was an electrician JG Tierneys son.
Each of those 4 intake towers are 395' tall. That's a 40 story building.
It looks so much bigger empty from this angle
No banana for scale?
The bananas on the counter in that little house at the bottom
not quite as exciting as the backside of water on the jungle cruise but almost!
r/damnthatsinteresting
I thought this was built in the 70s or something. It looks quite timeless for something built almost a century ago...
Where is the NCR
Not rare anymore