Call in the Rasta Blasta.
Call in the Rasta Blasta.
The Rasta Blasta would be the first one to walk away from a job like this. A surface shot would do very little to get the water flowing again, and would take tons of explosives placed inside the debris field, with stemming on top, to be effective. Myself, I hope that the pooling water will force a channel through the slide to relieve the pressure and prevent a wall of water from scouring the river bed and perhaps causing another slide. JMO
CranePete
Too bad about the steelhead - it will be sometime for the river to carve a new channel through the landslide area . Could be years if left to natural forces .
I expect the government will choose to blast a channel, drop timed charges from a helicopter or plane ? Seems like a rare event in a human lifetime but no doubt is normal over millennia . Looks like plenty of dead trees will be floating in the river and may be an issue at bridges and choke points.
Sure beats listening to politics
I say resurrect a dozen of those old monitors used along many BC creeks and start washing that slide material to make a channel sooner than later
Heck that hay field already has some serious pump capacity, start washing gravel
Glad to say I have hunted Northern BC
Simon Fraser had pretty good judgement on what he found in BC
First Nation chief says B.C. landslide doubled in size, sparks concerns
The chief of Williams Lake First Nation says a landslide of debris that has dammed the Chilcotin River in British Columbia's central Interior has nearly doubled in size since Wednesday.
Chief Willie Sellars, who toured the slide site by helicopter Wednesday and Thursday, says the water is continuing to build on one side of the dam, while the other had "completely dried up" for about two kilometres.
Officials have said the water collecting behind the slide south of the city of Williams Lake could reach a level where it will start flowing over the debris, or it will erode the material, setting off a release.
They have estimated a release could come Friday or Saturday, and could set off dozens of evacuation orders and alerts downstream.
Evacuation orders span 107 square kilometres along the Chilcotin, and officials saying the slide poses an "immediate danger to life and safety."
The nearby Tsilhqot'in National Government has declared a state of local emergency and warned people to stay away from the river.
The state of the river also has Interior Health relocated 21 patients out of a hospital and long-term care home in Lillooet to alternate areas.
Sellars says his community is about 45 minutes away from the slide, so an evacuation of the community likely won't be necessary.
However, he says the region is of "massive cultural significance" to First Nation communities in the region, noting the slide will also affect navigation channels for salmon.
"(There's) a lot of history, former village sites, burial grounds, and we need to make sure that we're doing everything we can to document and protect those," he says.
Sellars says "it's hard to describe in words how massive this slide is, and how devastating it is," adding he hasn't received updated projections yet on when the dam may break.
"We want to get more information out and you know, our team is on it, and working collaboratively with the (Cariboo Regional District), the province and the federal government and I'm feeling very confident that we're going to have that information soon."
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/first-nation-c...erns-1.6987305
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVNNhzkJ-UU&feature=related
Egotistical, Self Centered, Son of a Bitch Killer that Doesn't Play Well With Others.
Guess he got to Know me
Crappie news updates. Same pics, videos and numbers since it happened. It sure seems to be a lot higher than 30 meters to me.
No one on their death bed ever said; I should have spent more time at work.
However, he says the region is of "massive cultural significance" to First Nation communities in the region, noting the slide will also affect navigation channels for salmon.
Get out your check book.
PAPERS! Show me YOUR PAPERS!!
I don't think crotch is the stealthiest scent for deer hunting. (Surrey Boy)
so are you gonna stop spreading it on your nuts for your dog to lick off? (monasheemountainman)
You weren't there and you didn't get a moose hoof to the balls. (300rum700)
I'm pinning the blame on their spirit bear. They should be paying us. As for what the chief says. He is not educated in geology so his opinion is all it is. The area is mostly sand. Sand and water make troublesome dams. I also saw the ministry news conference that says water is seeping through. If it wasn't 175 miles away. I'd take a motorcycle ride up that way.
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