Radial gate with flap clearing debris

[BiggestRedditor]

Oh this is in Laos. All the dams around where I live have giant pushers and chain link catch nets and push the debris into the backs of dump trucks. It’s pretty cool to watch

[Pihnes]

That's how i clean my appartment. I just throw my trash to my neighbours.

[TheMagnificentRaft]

The perfect example of making it somebody else's problem

[joecoolchicago]

Feel like I’m watching the quarter pushing machine

[beck]

That six minutes just negated all the recycling I’ve done in my 55 years.

[cskillet]

It's like the ultimate Post10 upload.

[wimsoetaert]

perfectly wasted opportunity to clean it up in an easy fashion. Well done! Now it's all on its way to the ocean

[ezyrdr]

That’s what called the trash gate. Most dams have one or two that all the trash and debris are designed to channel to. You will see these open up usually after major floods where everything upstream is flooded downstream.
I’ve seen whole boats, jet skis piers and docks as well as whole humongous trees get washed thru when they are opened

[Urbicide]

Most of the debris appeared to be woody vegetation that was washed into the river from surrounding jungle & forested areas. In some places, the debris would be primarily plastic waste like from water bottles & various containers.

[SanchoPanza-wgxf]

Thank you for posting this video. Every armchair Tom, Dick, and Harry, and his dog dumped on you, but I'm glad that you showed how things work in practice. It was really impressive how the pressure built up behind those logs and finally washed them all out! 👍🏻

[sdvten]

The dams in my area have areas at the dam where they can push and then remove debris like that. The debris just causes more problems down river especially if there are more dams.

[gravelydon]

We used trash rakes and removed it from the water. After enough was piled up, it would be hauled to the dump or one of our dump sites. No need in leaving it in the water.

[michaelnaretto]

Large dams have always freaked me out. I remember my first time going to the Hoover dam and peering into the spillways. I thought they were the scariest things ever. Then I looked over the edge of the dam itself and felt nauseated.

[mikemichaud]

Wow just moving all that trash from one centralized location to scattered along miles of the river/lake/ocean
Way to go good job

[justlookin]

Interesting redesign of the top of the pivot gate to allow the debri to be passed over, now to design a sluce to transport the litter out of the water, or a vaccume extraction system prior to debri gate.

[reimundboxhammer]

why no crane to dig this debris out?
you can dry the wood to fire it and take out all the plastic so it dont go all the way to the oecan.

[swishmaster]

I c all the comments about cleaning the trash out of the debris pile but initially it starts with us not letting it get there... At 54 it seems that over the last 15-20 years the amount of trash that was thrown out of the window or blown out of the backs of pickups has gotten worse in my area. We camp quite a bit and to pass time during the day i take my bucket, trash pick and clean up our little hideout camp ground. Every time it yields 3-4 buckets of trash left behind to wash into the lake, the respect for our land seems to have diminished.

[brandonbelk]

They could sift that off to remove plastic and grind the wood up for fire pellets instead of just sending it down stream.

[jokervienna]

When everything finally breaks, it is like taking a really good dump in the morning. Very satisfying! :)

[mnmike]

What a missed opportunity to remove this debris from the river and keep it out of harms way for boaters.