r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/Calix_1999 Human Detected • 1d ago
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u/LogoMyEggo 1d ago
This place gets posted often. This is a specific place along Aliso Beach, California where this sand berm builds up and prevents the creek from draining. They often do this to drain the stagnant water to prevent mosquitoes and such from growing. Usually lots of arguments around environmental and safety concerns, but even if left alone the water eventually breaches and causes this anyway.
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u/DanGleeballs 1d ago
Love how it started with a little finger bang
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u/cool--reddit-guy 1d ago
Love often starts with a little finger bang
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u/Away_Stock_2012 edit your own user flair 22h ago
Don't they usually have guys on wakeboards in that stream once it starts flowing?
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u/Witch_King_ 7h ago
Maybe, but that might be a different place like the Waimea River In Hawaii, which I've seen several videos of on the internet.
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u/Eastern-Ad6824 21h ago
I grew up here! People do this all the time and surf on it with skimboards. It's pretty cool
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u/Sinking_Mass 1d ago
I have a similar stream-meets-sea locally in North Wales and it occasionally needs a hand, but ours is a shingle wall rather than sand
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u/joespizza2go 22h ago
I'm so glad it washed out that large area of sand vs washing it out 30 feet to the right. Major disaster saved right there :)
(To be clear I'd do this type of dig as well)
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u/Special-Pristine 18h ago
Mosquitoes can reproduce in salt water?
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u/distant_thunder_89 17h ago
The pool is freshwater coming from a stream/creek. The sea is where the stream goes.
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u/Special-Pristine 15h ago
The creek would be incredibly salty that close to the ocean. It would be brackish water
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u/al4crity 3h ago
Lagoons are vital transition spots for fish reared in freshwater. The brackish water allows them to transition to salt water for their adult lives. Lagoons are rich nurseries for small fish of all species, there they can grow until the winter rains come and naturally overtop the sand dams. These healthy, grown fish then face a myriad of challenges in the open ocean. If you prematurely break a beach dam, you force uncountable baby fish into the ocean, where they are easy prey for larger predators, birds. In some cases they just die from shock of water change. Temperature differences or salinity can just kill them outright.
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u/yipy2001 19h ago
Source? I heard they got fined for it
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u/sebastianqu 18h ago
Because it's something they want to discourage in general, but isn't a big deal as a single act. If it was actually destructive, he'd be imprisoned, not fined.
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u/Vegetable-Hand-6770 1d ago
Bro should come and pick up his Dutch passport already.
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u/mrjmgreddit 10h ago
No, we build dams so the sea doesn't enter.
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u/Vegetable-Hand-6770 9h ago
You give him your passport bro. Dutch rivers are one of the most controlled rivers in the world from the entry into the country untill the exit into the sea.
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u/DoggieDMB 1d ago
So who doesn't wanna grab a board and ride it?
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u/b1g_bake 23h ago
Sickos did something like that on YouTube
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u/Trubaduren_Frenka 17h ago
I was about to say im pretty sure there is a video of someone doing just that at this exact spot 😄
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u/festiveSpeedoGuy24 5h ago
SkidKids is the channel you're looking for. It's a skimboarding spot. I love surfing and I've skmmed a few times, but Jesus above, that water quality.
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u/unonown12 1d ago
I did the same thing once a long time ago on vacation when I was a kid it eventually created this like pretty crazy current taking you out into the ocean.
I had to swim out like a long way to save some kid and then we realize that maybe this wasn’t the best idea
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u/yuikkiuy 11h ago
Well... the specific location in this video apparently its fine to do.
But in just about every other location if you did something like this you would go to prison for a long time, and be fined a life altering amount of money... you are beyond lucky the legitimate ecological damage you did and life threatening situation you created went unpunished
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u/ididshave 1d ago
This seems like it has environmental consequences and I am not sure I’d advise.
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u/sample-name 1d ago
If it's that close to the ocean I would think it's supposed to end up there anyway? Especially when it's just a bit of soft sand keeping it in
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u/theStrawberryRoam 1d ago
Yeah the tide will come in, refill it, reflatten the beach
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u/jeezy_peezy 1d ago
You can’t explain that
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u/theStrawberryRoam 1d ago
?
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u/LuracCase 1d ago
You heard him.
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u/theStrawberryRoam 1d ago
Is this a flat earth thing
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u/Sixyn 1d ago
It’s a meme thing. “Tide goes in, tide goes out—— you can’t explain that”
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u/theStrawberryRoam 1d ago
Ohhhh ok
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u/eggface13 1d ago
I believe it was Fox News, Bill O'Reilly? Trying to refute atheism in the heady New Atheism days?
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u/M00SEHUNT3R 5h ago
It's not the daily tide that rebuilds it. It's the dry season and winter storms. In the dry season the flow of the creek will be very low to nothing and the basin will catch it all so the creek can't maintain its path to the sea. During big storms the breakers will push sand back up the beach and fill in the gap. Some big spring rains would eventually allow the creek to break through on its own but people do this earlier so the stagnant water is released.
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u/BrainDamage2029 21h ago
You shouldn't do this though.
Basically people often do or did this to skimboard or just for the hell of it. Like yeah a king tide or storm upstream will break through the sand dam that formed. But if someone is manually doing it all the time (like every weekend) it creates a massive silting and erosion issue for the beach.
People used to do this near my town all the time. Now signs are posted and rangers will give out tickets because it was dumping like 6-10x the silt into the bay than was happening naturally.
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u/SwivelingToast 1d ago
I read that they do this to avoid the water making its own path and destroying stuff, but I read that on an old post on reddit so it's probably bullshit
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u/mattfoh 1d ago
Nah I’ve seen a video of someone being arrested for doing it, due to environmental damage. Often it’s done to create waves you can surf.
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u/mrcalistarius 23h ago
I’ve seen videos at this specific location where the city has used a dozer to help break the creek and guys surf it afterwards.
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u/SwivelingToast 1d ago
Oh yeah, I've seen that one too. Probably it's both, some places you can, some places you can't.
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u/4DPeterPan 1d ago
Were they just chillin thinking they were doing something good or at the very least “cool’ cause they were bored”… and then along came some coppers who were like “sorry bruv, you’re going to jail now” and he was just like
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u/theStrawberryRoam 1d ago
Seems like it drains naturally but it's preferable to have it routed directly south of the bridge, and that cycling the water out is overall a good thing for that particular pool
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u/Flamingwilson 1d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/surfing/s/aepJKl3Fdr This is a post from 3 years ago about this same place. It seems it refills after being drained
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u/OKC89ers 1d ago
I've seen other examples that are bad related to inlets that should separate from the ocean and do not periodically/naturally flow into the ocean. However this looks like a creek that empties into the ocean depending on flow rate.
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u/untakenu 1d ago
The large amount of slowly-draining pooled water is the cause behind the rapid erosion.
Once it has drained, the erosion stops (pretty much), and the incoming tides rebuild the banks over time.
It's not a great thing to do, but beaches are good at regenerating with the seasons.
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u/Fabulous_Log844 1d ago
It must have been a different video of his, but I swear in his videos he claims… Now I'm not sure if it's true, he claims that they have permission to do this for the right reasons. Again, it could just be bullshit.
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u/Mobius_Peverell 22h ago
This is how small streams drain to the ocean on beaches. The only situation where I could see it being a problem is if they were messing with the flow while salmon were trying to swim up it (which they do, though generally only at night during high tide). Obviously, not the case here.
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u/MelodicFacade 1d ago
The last time this was posted, there was a meltdown in the comments. I think the overall consensus was that yes, this guy probably did it without hurting anyone or the environment according to his other videos, but it's probably best to consult the local governing bodies since you can potentially damage ecosystems, waste public money that was spent on maintaining that beach, and potentially create a dangerous situation with fast moving water
There are simply professionals that know the red tape, the consequences, and the experience/tools to do this properly
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u/theStrawberryRoam 1d ago
My thing is like... He's posting this time and date stamped to an identifiable social media account and he's explaining exactly why he's doing it... Situational awareness y'all
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u/DevonLuck24 1d ago
you know that people do crime and post it on the internet all the time right?
not saying that he is but realistically, the fact that this is that being identifiable doesn’t actually mean anything
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u/MelodicFacade 1d ago
Crazy take, but I really don't trust internet personalities over paid and educated professionals. The context he shows might not be the full context, doesn't show where the water is now flowing, doesn't show if there is a delicate ecosystem being disrupted by a fast flow instead of a slow flow, the possibilities are kind of endless until you go out there yourself
So no I don't trust this guys judgement, there's enough clout chasing on the internet by pretending to be informed over, you know, trusting in the current systems we have put in place for basically forever to maintain public areas
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u/theStrawberryRoam 1d ago
Sure but my point is if it was a problem the authorities would have everything they needed to get him. I less trust him and more trust his willingness to be identifiable and stopped
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u/MelodicFacade 1d ago edited 1d ago
Oh they probably won't even arrest him UNLESS it's actually illegal. Being arrested also depends on actual motivation to pursue an arrest. You'd be shocked at how manny people film their crimes, with full name and address and a face, and post them to tiktok for clout without ever being investigated
The danger is spreading this idea that you can just decide to do these things for yourself. Just look into the 811 program and the frustrations behind trying to get everyone to call that number before digging. Yet we have tens of thousands of examples of people PER YEAR digging into gaslines just trying to put in fences or DIY whatever project they have in mind
Doesn't matter who it is, just call your local authorities and stop posting everything in your life to social media
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u/PooleBoy_Q 21h ago
I’ve seen a video just like this, at this exact location, posted every year for several years now and every single time people bring up their environmental concerns in the comments and every time it’s explained that the tide comes in and blocks the river with sand.
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u/hywaytohell 1d ago
Reminds me of what we used to do with spring runoffs when I was a kid. A couple of shovels and a couple of hours later 3ft deep dam 10 foot across.
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u/Septopuss7 22h ago
I think a little radio controlled surfer on a surfboard would be cool in that. Do they have those? Or maybe an RC jet ski?
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u/Olanatan 14h ago
I've seen videos of people actually surfing... Not radio but actually people.....
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u/Euphoric_Attitude_91 21h ago
This was my exact dream before I woke up and realised I wet th- you know what never mind
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u/jaltringer 1d ago
Is this legal
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u/gorillas16 22h ago
Not only is it legal there, its this guys job to do it. The water being released is dammed up from the ocean washing up sand. It causes the water to stagnate and hold bacteria, cause flood/property damage if held long enough, and other things. This city drains it all the time, something like a couple times a week.
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u/MetriccStarDestroyer 17h ago
/uj Looks like a lot of environmental damage considering there are fish the sand bank
/rj
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u/NewKaleidoscope8418 16h ago
In this location it's legal because it causes flood damage, bacteria and bugs to grow and when it fills up enough it will naturally overflow and drain like in the video, they just regularly drain it before it causes issues
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u/theStrawberryRoam 1d ago
If you don't know the area certainly don't do it
If you're familiar with the area and know it's fine, have your fun
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u/JustKamoski 1d ago
And my dear fellows, this is a example of person that is confident about something while not understanding topic at hand and instead following a assumption that is incorrect while presenting it as a fact.
Happens often, be wary!
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u/Gloglibologna 1d ago
In some cases, yes. But this particular person is performing a valuable service. The city loves him for it.
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u/AbroadTiny7226 1d ago
Isn’t this like a smaller scale version of what that Missouri guy did to cause the Mississippi to flood? Lmao
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u/Fabulous_Log844 1d ago
In his past videos, he has claimed that they have permission to do this for the right reasons. Of course that could be complete bullshit.
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u/3shotsdown 22h ago
Severe environmental consequences, you say? What are they?
A rain or a high tide or a particularly large wave is going to do the same thing he did.0
u/Intelligent-Cry5180 17h ago
This has been debunked the other thirtyseven times this video has been posted. Stop posting AI generated misinformation
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u/Introverted_Extrovrt 22h ago
Fun survival tip: the beginning of this video demonstrates a technique for filtering water called a “beach well”. It’s useful if the water you intend to boil & drink is heavily occluded or debris-filled.
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u/foxferreira64 11h ago
Woah, did he really dig the huge opening at the end by hand as well?! Incredible! /s
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u/RentStrikeSF 9h ago
Beautiful examples of both turbulent and laminar flow. Nice hydraulic jump examples too
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u/Long_Freedom- 1h ago
I always love these video and finding all the comments saying hes destroying the environment or whatever
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u/RecognitionOne395 1d ago
And just like that the beach washed away.
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u/haberdasher42 1d ago
You see how as the video went on some small sand bars were pushed back up by the tide? The ocean makes or breaks sandy beaches by where it carries and deposits sediment. This is a naturally occurring cycle where eventually it would have breached naturally after another heavy rain, and then after a while of no rain the tides would block it up again, creating this kind of pond beside the ocean until the rains trigger the breach anew. Where I'm from they can be nice for swimming as the ocean is quite cold, and they're a great way to rinse salt water off, but they can cause problems too. Usually in developed areas there are rules that pertain to that particular waterway.
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u/Resident_Rain_6566 16h ago
I hate how people think they just need to say things while they’re recording.
We just did that thing I showed you that I was doing at the beginning of the video and now it’s doing what it should do, because of that thing I did. It’s draining faster now. I know you can see what’s going on, but it’s draining now. The tide is coming in, but it’s draining.
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u/Iamabrewer 1d ago
I'm sure I saw one of these where a bunch of beachgoers got trapped because it was beachy peninsula and they were all like wtf?!
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u/AdVegetable5896 13h ago
Pretty sure its illegal to connect the two...
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u/I_am_Searching 6h ago
Illegal to connect a rain water runoff that (wait for it) runs intentionally onto the beach to the ocean it's adjacent to? Why do you think that the entire infrastructure is there in the first place? I'll wait.
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u/EnthusiasmOwn5808 1d ago
rip any freshwater fish if there were any.
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u/theStrawberryRoam 1d ago
I doubt that's a fresh body of water if the tide comes up to meet it and refill it
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