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| 3 Gorges dam suspends filling due to floating garbage, landslides & stranded ships |
| 2008-12-05 |
| I received this in an email newsletter, but the link goes to the source. Mountains of floating garbage, geological problems, and stranded cargo ships prompted China’s Three Gorges dam authority to suspend filling the dam’s reservoir to its final height last month, according to the popular magazine South Weekend (Nanfang Zhoumo). In early November, with just two metres to go before reaching a final reservoir height of 175 metres, the State Council’s Three Gorges project construction committee ordered a stop to the trial filling that began in late September. The decision, according to South Weekend, was prompted by three serious problems – a massive surge of floating garbage on the reservoir surface, hundreds of landslides and subsidence problems along the reservoir’s unstable shoreline and, most importantly, stranded cargo ships downstream of the dam caused by low water levels during reservoir filling. Story continues at the link. |
| Posted by:Whomonter Slaving8286 |
| #17 *sigh* He wouldn't take me with him to Moscow back in the '90s, either, for fear I'd get myself kidnapped by the Mafiya. He has this odd idea I wouldn't recognize bad people, and would be devastated to see true poverty in action. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-12-05 23:53 |
| #16 submarine races? Mr. TW has sheltered you.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-12-05 23:35 |
| #15 No, I haven't. What races? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-12-05 23:34 |
| #14 haven't you seen the races, TW? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-12-05 23:25 |
| #13 Enlighten my ignorance, please. How could a submarine get all the way to the dam undetected? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-12-05 22:56 |
| #12 Now you know why the major corporations are pulling their factories out of the Industrial Delta zones, lest they lose them all in a flood. Why the CHICOM "Economy" is sinking faster than the Titanic. Funny, did the CHICOMS go and steal US geological data the way they have nuclear stuff, economic data that was clearly disinformation, and like from the downed spy plane? That they used to build their own, that fell out of the sky on 6/6/6? Well, that's what the CHICOMS get for being corrupt thieves. At least real thieves had a code of honor. |
| Posted by: Rick A Hyatt 2008-12-05 20:18 |
| #11 You guys in India & Pakistan should do something to radically drop the population of Red China, you know what I mean? |
| Posted by: Rick A Hyatt 2008-12-05 20:15 |
| #10 Since you seem to be a surfer, what would think of the ULTIMATE? When the dam goes, surfing down the big tsunami past all those high-rises of the Pearl Delta Industrial Area, and hopefully out to sea? |
| Posted by: Rick A Hyatt 2008-12-05 20:13 |
| #9 cement subs, flyash dams, dammit |
| Posted by: Flyash Liberation Army 2008-12-05 19:06 |
| #8 cement subs, cement dams whats the world cementing into? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-12-05 17:30 |
| #7 Yep. That big asset can also be a big liability. Nice garbage trap, though. 40,000 metric tons is a lot of garbage. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-12-05 17:26 |
| #6 PAKISTAN/INDIA > appears that both nations are complaining about the ALARMING MEASURABLE DROP IN RIVERINE WATER LEVELS [e.g. INDUS VALLEY], as perceived to be mainly caused by CHINA's NEW REGIONAL DEV CONSTRUX PROJECTS, INCLUD DAMMING. Also, WORLD MIL FORUM > threads strongly indic that, among other methods, CHINA FEARS COVERT SUBMARINE = UNDERWATER SAPPER ATTACK ON THREE GORGES + OTHER MAJOR DAMS. It suppors what myself and other Netters had argued back in the mid- and late 1990's. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-12-05 17:20 |
| #5 This dam won't last ten years. Six Pack of your choice on it. Any takers? |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2008-12-05 17:00 |
| #4 that is a lot of banks collapsing, they need a bailout. |
| Posted by: bman 2008-12-05 16:39 |
| #3 Then surf's up and government's down. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-12-05 16:04 |
| #2 How long before those 4800 landslides start to impact the shore-line AT the dam? What happens when seepage around or under start? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2008-12-05 15:51 |
| #1 According to a joint report by the Nanjing Institute for Geography and Lakes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Changjiang (Yangtze) Water Resources Commission, landslides and bank collapses have been identified at 4,719 places in the reservoir area. Of these, at least 627 are associated with filling the reservoir. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-12-05 15:19 |