What is this?

[Gravdigr]

I have a what is it. The catch is, I don't know what is it.

I think I know where is it. I'm assuming it's in or near Albuquerque, New Mexico since it's a screen grab from "Breaking Bad". Please, no spoilers, I have the last two episodes left to watch yet. I've roamed around Albuquerque via GoogleEarth a little, with no luck.



It looks to be a monument, or memorial, or maybe an art installation of some ilk.

If it helps, and if you know the show, this the place Jesse was supposed to meet the man who was to give him a new identity. Walt later meets the same guy at the same place after everything turns to shit in the third-to-last episode.

So...What is it?

[Carruthers]

...people don't understand what they are looking at when looking at the tombstone-like concrete projections on the dam face. What the heck are they?

If water flows over the top of the dam (which, in these years of extraordinary-drought, occurs almost never) the concrete projections break the flow of water, so it can't gain too much speed and kinetic energy, and thus blunts water's power to undermine the dam and cause damage downstream. They look like a very-clever engineering adaptation to solve a problem that is particularly acute when dealing with water flow in the unconsolidated sand and gravel that compose much of the soil on the mesas bordering the Rio Grande Valley.

"Breaking Bad" Filming Locations - Season 5b

Yes, Dwellars assembled, you're right. I do have too much time on my hands.

[glatt]

11 minutes is hardly a lot of time

Well done with the Google Fu.

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by glatt

...Google Fu.

I had to look that up!


By Google of course

[glatt]

Here's the view from the air, if one can't be bothered to follow Carruthers' link. Interesting that they build houses directly in line with a spillway.

[Gravdigr]

Holy smokes! How's this for a match?



It's almost the same exact frame!!

I have seen Carruthers' Google Fu, and it is strong.

Good job! And thanks!