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Baffled Spillway • John B Robert Dam, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2023 08-27
For those who don't know: John B. Robert Dam (on a w i d e view from across the street) is a famous location from Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and (tangentially) El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Sadly, the two pathetic cottonwoods at street level, where Ed the Disappearer would pick you up to escape your old life, are now gone.
This is near the top of the baffled spillway – that's what all those standing concrete structures are: baffles for water flow. Though nobody recalls water ever getting to the point of raging over the top to be baffled. Is the spillway 'baffled' to have never served its purpose...?
On the other side is a spillway-long, maybe 40-ft wide concrete platform that neighborhood kids love to ride bikes on, and where folk congregate on summer nights to play & watch sunsets. Beyond that is massive Bear Cañon Arroyo Open Space, a valley really, where rain channels off the Sandias to a culvert on the southwest corner into the City's flood diversion system.
On this day two little girls came up & showed me a baby lizard they'd caught and were happily petting.
Baffled Spillway • John B Robert Dam, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2023 08-27
For those who don't know: John B. Robert Dam (on a w i d e view from across the street) is a famous location from Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and (tangentially) El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Sadly, the two pathetic cottonwoods at street level, where Ed the Disappearer would pick you up to escape your old life, are now gone.
This is near the top of the baffled spillway – that's what all those standing concrete structures are: baffles for water flow. Though nobody recalls water ever getting to the point of raging over the top to be baffled. Is the spillway 'baffled' to have never served its purpose...?
On the other side is a spillway-long, maybe 40-ft wide concrete platform that neighborhood kids love to ride bikes on, and where folk congregate on summer nights to play & watch sunsets. Beyond that is massive Bear Cañon Arroyo Open Space, a valley really, where rain channels off the Sandias to a culvert on the southwest corner into the City's flood diversion system.
On this day two little girls came up & showed me a baby lizard they'd caught and were happily petting.